The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-27
SUNDAY READING.
Religious News and Notes.


A. single Methodist college, the Ohio
Wesleyan university, is represented by
two missionaries in Japan, six in China,
three in India, one in Italy, two in
South America and one in Mexico.
The Methodist Episcopal mission to
the Chinese in California, employing
five missionaries and ten teachers, has
five stations, four native helpers, Ill
church members, and 500 scholars in
the schools.
English speaking Roman Catholics
have increased from 100000 to 49,
600, 900 during the last eighty years, the
increase of English-speaking Protest
ants during the same time being from
100000, to 74,000,00O. ..- ..-,.
A movement is on foot, set in motion
| BY the woman's executive committe of
home missions of the Presbyterian
church, to raise a subscription among
the women and children of America for
the purpose of establishing mission
churches in Utah in memory of Presi-
dent Garfield.
The Protestant Episcopal Society for
the Increase of the Ministry received in
the last year-its twenty -fifth-$34, 384,
and added seventy-one scholars, nine
teen of whom entered the ranks of the
ministry. A large share of the income
of the year has been added to perma-
nent or endowme ent funds.
The London missionary society issues
sketch of ten years work at Lifu one
of the Loyalty Islands. The popula-
tion of the island is now entirely
Christian. Out of the 6,576 inhahi-
tants, 5,636 are Protestants and $40
Roman Catholics. The nine churches
have membership of 1855. .-.
There are more churches in Phila.
delphia than in any other city in the
new world, there being over $50
churches and chapels dedicated to re-
ligious worship. OF these the Presby-
terians, Episcopalians and Methodists
have the largest number respectively,
or about one hundred each.
A missionary of the American Sun
day-school Union in Missouri writes:
''In eighteen days I have arranged for
organizing five new Sunday. schools,
addressed six old schools, attended one
Sunday school convention, preached to
three churches and visited several fam
lilies" .....
A joint committee of the Colored and
African Methodist Episcopal churches
is to meet in Baltimore next February
to discuss the subject of the union of
the two bodies. These are two of the
three leading African Methodist
churches of the country. The Colored
church is Southern and is an off-shoot
from the Methodist Episcopal church
South.
The statistics of the Protestant Epis
copal church for Long Island gives tn;
following figures for the present year
clergy, ninety seven; churches an
chapels, eighty-three; churches conse,
Grated, two; lay readers and catechists,
fourteen: deaconesses, seventeen; bap.
tisms, 1889, of which 251 were adult;
confirmations, 1,020; communicates
1880; Sunday-school scholars, Is, 255
total contributions, $472, ,48S.
In illustration of the taste of colore6
church members in the Southern State
for the ministerial career, Professor
Simm ms, of the Louisville Theoloe lea
seminary, recently remarked that he
, knew of one county in which there
were eighty colored Baptist ministers
licentiate and ordained, and some
churches in which half the male mem
, bers were in the same category.
The Rev. William Arthur, father O
> the President, was remarkable for hi
readiness in debate. Some years ago
, at a meeting of the old Hudson Rive
| Baptist association, the Rev. Mr.. Wal
J den, who had been settled in the Wes
, but had recently taken a church al
Troy, said: 81 can tell the brethrer
that if they think that any sort of min
} listers will do for the West they are
mistaken. 1t won't do to send secont
; or third rate men there" Mr.. Arthur
was on his feet in moment, exclaim
ing, "Mr. Moderator, never knew be
fore why Brother Walden came back"