The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-07-05
FOREIGN CHURCH NEWS.

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There are twenty ministers in the
Irish Presbyterian Church who have been over
nifty years IN the ministry. The Oldest is the
rev. .. McCurdy, of Stewartstown, ordained in
1917.
1t was mentioned in the Moderator S
speech at the General Assembly of the Irish
Church, as a matter of congratulation, that while
the book of DIR. Robertson Smith on the Pen
tateuch was in its first edition. the reply of DIR.
Watts had come to a third edition.
The question of ecclesiastical discs
Enlistment in India will shortly come up in
the British Parliament, a petition for it having
been extensively signed by the natives in
Madras.
Six hundred and eighty-five mil
lions of the 1 400 ,O00, 900 of the people of the
globe are under Christian governments; 81. OOO.-
600 are members of the Evangelical Protestant
churches
The majority against the use of in
strumental music in worship in the Irish Assem-.
bly, was precisely 10, in a total vote of 7O5.
The majority is too small. The tendency of
opinion in the Church will reduce it soon to a
minority, and as the years go on the minority
will gradually grow small and beautifully
less"
The constant drain of emigration
begins to tell on the numbers on the communion
roll OF the Irish Presbyterian churches. This
Church has lost between seven and eight thou.
sand members since the year 1874 There has
been an increase in the same time in the Funds
OF the Church, and the average salary of the
ministers is now between 5000 and 81 900. The
Sustentation Fund has increased by small sum
this year.
When DR.. j. v R. Talmage went to
Annoy about forty years ago there were but two
Christians In that great city. When he left it last
year there were over dozen Christian church
es with membership of over a thousand. A
long white beard sweeps over the Doctors
breast; and the Chinese Christians call him
father.
Professor S. Wells Williams, of Yale
College, has given ST. 500 to the hospital in
Canton, China, under the care of the Presbyte
rams and the money will be used to build a
Preston Memorial chapel
The Baptist Missions in Burmah
date from 1914, and they have grown to com
prise about $50 churches with $4,000 members.
and all the needful appliances of college. theo
logical seminary, schools of every grade, and
mission press.
The Christian Woman's Board of
Missions at Cincinnati, Ohio, are sending out
missionaries to India on the faith principle
In May they adopted the following, " r esoZued
That we send tour ladies to India, providing
they are willing TO go without stipulated salary
and there is money enough to pay their passage
to the mission field" Miss Graybiel. of New
York, and Miss Ada Boyd of Harrodsburg
KY, have been selected to go out in September
next.
In Central Africa the slave trade
seems to be on the increase. The great trade
routes are thronged by gangs of slaves being
driven to the market, and about one-half of
them die In a Journey of 200 miles under the
effects OF their brutal treatment. Rev. Mr..
Hutley OF the African Mission of the London
Missionary Society says, So long as the onIv
method OF conveying goods into the interior Is
by porters' so long will the slave system con.
tlnue. a rail or team road would be the most
effective means OF suppresslng the slave trade,
and by bringing demand would also create a
supply" O' ''''0 o
The Chief Queen of Burmah has
lately been rivalling her husband. King
Iheebaw, In acts of wickedness She has
lately, under the influence of jealousy, caused
an inferior queen to be beaten to death with
clubs in his presence, and then, in order to pre.
vent the story of the murder being noised
abroad, ordered all who were aware of the crime
to be imprisoned Lord Ripon has refused to
receive the Embassy recently sent to Calcutta
from Burmah
"A Presbyterian missionary at Kama
zawa, Japan, writes, May 18th that the Budd.
hist priests attend his preaching. Once he
had an opportunity to give them hard raps dis.
coursing from Cor. /: %: mot for that we
have dominion over your faith" He was next
day to hold areligious meeting in his parlor for
ordaining new elder and deacon. He also
states that he has a class of dozen inouirers
seeking baptism, whom he pushes through
catechetlcal instruction for their better infor.
nation and his better knowledge of them.
The C0ngregationah8t gives the fol-
loving =" Prince Galatzin, young Russian
nobleman who had Bible given him at the
Paris Exposition and was led to accent its
truths proposes to travel for some months
through Russia for evangelistic work. He il Ia
build thirty Bible kiosks and fit up seven car
rlages for religious books and tracts. and will
be accompanied by Mr.. Clough, Of PARIS in the
tours tor dlstribution.-A wealthy oil rner
chant in Chin a Kha, China, has lately become
a Christian through a native preacher belong
ing to the Presbyterian Church of England mis-.
SION He shows his sincerity by putting awav
his concubines, and has offered any one of hi,
several houses for a chapel free of rent. III
has also promised to meet all other expense,
the mission will provide and pay for a
preacher
The Rev. Thomas Craven, Superin.
tendent of the Lucknow Press of the Nortl
India Mission of the Methodist Episcona'
Church, arrived in New York with his famiiv
on May 20. He agrees with others in believing
that there are strong indications of the early
ana general conversion of the whole Cbumat
caste to Christianity. He gives the following
distinct reasons for this belief" l. The in
I or IL