Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-03
RELIGIOUS EVENTS.

The Rev. Louis c. Newman, for many
years an Episcopal missionary to the Jews,
died in Philadelphia recently.
The Reformed Episcopal Synod of New
York has resolved TO apply for consolida-
ton with the Philadelphia Synod.
The one hundred and fftieth anniversary
of the Congregational Church, at Trum-
bull, Conn.,, was celebrated November 18th.
The Church of the Moravian Indian mis-
sion, at New Westfeld, Kansas, has been
burned, and the missionary has published
an appeal to friends of the work for $500
with which to replace it.
The Baptist Theological Seminary at
Louisville, KY, is busy place. Three of
preached at different places in and about
Louisville few Sundays ago.
DR.. Ephraim Epstein, born in Russia
and formerly Professor in the German
Reformed Theological Seminary at Tiffin,
O., has been appointed Baptist mission
airy to the Russians of the Northwest.
Three missionaries have just sailed to
reinforce the Indian Mission of the Lu-
theran General Synod. One of them, Miss
Katherine Boggs, is sent out by the Wo-
mems Society as its first missionary.
A movement has been started among the
Disciples of Christ to build a church at
Washington. 1t is proposed to lay the
corner. stone ON the 9Th of March, the day
after the Inauguration of President Gar
field.
The Cumberland Presbyterian mission
aries in Japan report the baptism of two
young men, both of whom will prepare for
the ministry. One of them will graduate
from the Osaka medical schools next Feb
ruary.
The committee on the &C country week"
of the Boston Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation travelled more than $4,000 miles on
railroads during the last season, conduct
ing children to and from where they spent
their vacations.
The Methodist Episcopal Church at Salt
Lake City is thriving twenty-five men,
bers were added November l4th, and the
attendance at the Sunday school has in
creased SO per cent. in a month. The
seminary also enjoys Upright prospects.
The Baptists have seven churches for
whites in Washington with about 1000
members, and 33 colored churches with
more than 1000 members. The women
have established Women's Baptist Home
for Needy Women in the churches.
Mrs. Bertha Sigler, of Osceola, Iowa,
has given $1,000, and promised to give
50, 900 more before this LIST of January, to
the Weman's Foreign Missionary Society
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, for
building boarding.school for girls at
Budaon, India.
The American College and Education
Society has no money in its treasury, its
officers are anxious as to whether they will
be able to pay the next appropriations,
which will fall due in midwinter, with
nearly 800 students in 80 institutions
partly dependent on them.
The Hungarian Lutherans number 70l
pastors and 500. 303 souls. The Slavonic
language is used in 234 congregations, Ger
man in l2S, Hungarian in I'D, Swedish in
., and l23 congregations require several
languages. Connected with the churches
are l, 543 parochial schools.
The one hundred and fiftieth anniversary
of the first church of Concord, N. H., was
celebrated few days ago. The church has
had only five pastors, and the pastorates
of four of them covered l37 years. Three
churches have been colonized from it, to
which it has dismissed 1919 members.
A Presbyterian church of 90 members
has been organized among the Nez Perces
Indians at Oakland, Indian Territory.
Jim Horn, Jay Gould. and Red Wolf have
been elected elders. More than two thirds
of the tribe were present at the admins
tration of the Lords Supper, November
Dist.
The President of the English Church
Union has written, in the name of the
Union, to the Archbishop of Paris express
ing to the Roman Catholics of France the
with which its members are in
spired by the proceedings which have been
taken in France against the religious or
ders.
Lincoln University, Of Oxford, Pa,
Presbyterian institution for the liberal ed.
ucation of colored youth, has given in.
struction to 400 young men, and has
graduated 1873 from its collegiate depart
ment Most of them are teachers or min
been ordained ministers. The school now
has ll3 students
Severinghaus Lutheran almanac, for
1881 gives for all the Lutheran churches in
the United States, SIT ministers, 1868
congregations, and 703, 3S2 communicates.
The largest body, the Synodical Confer
ence, has l,206 ministers, 2,072 congrega-
tions, and 29l, GIG communicates. The
Independent Synod have altogether so, AIS
communicates.
The Presbyterian mission among the
Chippewas. at Odanah, Wis, has church
with IS members, and native pastor and
a school of bright-faced Indian boys and
girls. Two young men were lately exam
ined and received as candidates for the
and third is licensed to preach,
and is engaged 100 miles in the interior as
a missionary.
The Presbyterian mission in Formosa has
20 congregations, with 800 members, and
several thousand interested persons. The
missionary, Mr.. Mackey, has to do consid-
cradle medical work, and has drawn lO,-
900 teeth from Chinese mouths with his
own hands. He anticipates the conversion
of the 5000, 900 inhabitants of the island
with twenty years.
A camp-meetlng, projected and con-
Quoted by native Christians, was held on
the borders of the Uyeno Park, Toxic,
Japan, on the 18th and 18th of October.
The services, excepting few English
hymns, were all in the japanese language.
Sermons were preached by native and for
eign missionaries. Five thousand persons
were present ON the second day, among
them some officers of the Government and
Buddhist priests.
The Rev. G. H. Stokes, of the Ocean
Grove Record, has recently paid a
visit to Bishop Scott. the senior Bishop
of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
now retired from active service, at
Odessa, Delaware. He lie feeble, with his
left side partly disabled from paralysis, but
cheerful. His daughter and son-in-law
live with him. The log house, over 100
years old, in which he was born IS years
ago, stands on his premises still in good
preservation.
The language of the Thanksgiving
proclamation of the Governor of Pennsyl-
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