Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-15
CHURCHES AND MINISTERS.

j. L. @cCullough mas Deen appointed
missionary of the Southern Baptist Board
to China, and will sail this month.
The Piscataqua Congregational Associa-
ton, whose first recorded meeting was
held 100 years ago, celebrates its centen
NAL this month.
A new missionary society, called the
Evangelical Association on behalf of the
German Protestants in America, has been
formed at Barmen, Germany.
1t is proposed in Scotland to erect a
monument to Dean Stanley in Dunfermline
Abbey, close to the monument which the
Dean erected to the memory of his wife.
The London Hospital Fund movement
raised this year about Ell, 900, against
ESQ, 400 last year. Payments are recon.
mended to 40 institutions, or 10 more
than last year.
The Rev. Joseph Milton Greene, of Cal
vary Presbyterian Church, West Brighton,
Staten Island, has been dismissed from
his charge to go as missionary to Mexico
The Evangelical United Mennonites in
Pennsylvania and Canada are about pur-
chasing tabernacles to be used for the
holding of meetings wherever it may seem
desirable.
The New Testament has just been trans.
lated into the Corean language, and wo-
man of Glasgow promises to provide half
the salary of the first Corean evangelist
for the first Ave years.
The Congregational Church at Barn
stead, n, H, has had only two pastors in
rs years. The former pastor preached for
Sc years and the present one has been set.
tied for 20 years.
The Leipsic Missionary Society luther
am employs 20 missionaries in the Indies,
and has 1900 native members in its
churches. It received and expended last
year about S65, 900.
The Thuriugian Lutheran Conference
has requested the Duke of Saxony, who is
the patron of the University OF Jena, in
future to fill vacant Professorsilips with
men Of sounder orthodoxy.
The German and Switzerland Methodist
Episcopal Conference has 9,7l7 members,
showing an increase during the year Of
273, Notwithstanding 1874 deaths and
many removals to America. .
The household goods of the English ritu-
alist, the Rev. T. f. Green, of Miles
Plating, who is still in prison for his ritz.
alistic acts, were recently sold under dis
traint for the costs OF his prosecution.
A new Methodist church is to be built
at Chattanooga, Tenn, and the pastor pur-
poses to aid in the enterprise by selling
canes cut from the battle.tields of Chicka.
manga and Mission Ridge for 81 each in
the rough.
The National Christian Temperance
Camp.meeting was held at Old Orchard
Beach recently. The Hon. Neal Dow and
Edward Carswell, of Canada, were among
the speakers. The women had the closing
day and advocated prohibition.
D. D. s are thought more of in England
than here. At the recent meeting of the
Liverpool Presbytery, the fact that the
degree had been conferred on the Mod
orator was made the special subject OF
congratulations, which were duly recorded.
A suggestion has been made by the
Duke Of Westminster that a permanent
building be erected for che Nursing Home
and Training School for Nurses that was
founded by Lady Augusta Stanley in 1874,
as the most suitable memorial to Dean
Stanley and his wife.
L
has helped erect or keep open $50 churches
and chapels, and is now keeping open 3O7
rooms for worship. By means of its grants,
additional and more systematic pastoral
visitation is provided for population
amounting to nearly 1000, $50.
The Commission of the Free Church of
Scotland, at its recent meeting, adopted
resolution protesting against keeping the
international Electrical Exhibition at Paris
open on Sunday, and asking British and
American exhibitors to take care that their
departments be closed.
A Swedish Congregational Church of IA
members has recently been recrganized in
Worcester, Mass. This movement is in
sympathy with the reformation which is
by the Swedish Ansgawu and
Synod, who receive none to the
communion except on the evidence of re-
generation.