The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1882-11-16

A Little Something Abcut What is Going On In the
Religious World.

Religious world.
| In India there are $4,000 Protestants and
| 1872, 1000 Roman Catholics.
| A telephone has been added to the convent
ences of church in Olean, N. Y.
The Japanese believe that the first. man was
| not Adam, but Hu-Sing, who made his wife of
clay and baked her forty days.
The Rev. GOWN Langmuir, pastor of the
American Presbyterian Church at Rome, Italy,
died on the goth of October of consumption.
Rev. Mr.. Barnes, the mountain evangelist"
announces that he has q two-fold mission in
life" to glorify God and to worry the devil"
In Prussia there are 17,645, 1862 Protestants,
$685. 1856 Catholics 363,790 Jews, 4252S Dis
senters and 22,2O6 persons protesting Il reli-
gion.
The illuminated cross to be placed on the
summit of the spire to be erected over Grace
Church, New York, will be seen by mariners
coming into port.
The Young Mems Christian Association has
established branches at Cairo Beyrout, Smyrna,
Damascus, Jerusalem, Nazareth, Calcutta, Hong
Kong, and Yokohama.
Parisians who expected q sensational revival
lists uproar when Moody and Sankey appeared
have been surprised and disappointed by tho
sobriety and decency of the services.
The Presbyterian Synod of Missouri has re-
solved to commission two evangelists to labor
within its bounds. 1t expressed the desire to
see at least one evangelist in every presbytery.
A great revival is reported in Sweden, espe-
cially in the central portion, and in Stockholm
meetings have been held nightly since January
last. Rev. K. 0. Broadly, of the American Bap-
list mission at Stockholm, writes that 260 have
been baptised.
There are seventeen colored conferences of
the NJ. E. Church in the United States includ-
ing 1911 churches, worth 81 S43, 1888, with $780,
$40 members and having 2s5 parsonages, worth
$107, 5O4. In 1864 there were only six confer
ences, with 1864 members.
The Methodist Epscopalan mission has ap-
propriated the following sums for missions:
Arizona, $1,000; Black Hills, $4,000; Dakota,
$500; Indian Territory, $4,000; Montana,
$1,000; New Mexico, $l2, 500; Utah, $500;
Northern New York Welsh missions $500;
Norwegian and Swedish missions in California,
$4,000; Swedish and Norwegian missions in
New York east conference, $1,000, ard s., 900,
respectively.
The Examiner says that half the unhappiness
of life and half the failures that men make are
traceable to the fact that they do not follow the
cOmmon-sen rule to first find out if possible
what they can do best, and then do that with
all their might; but instead, they seem to fol-
low an Unsuitable desire to be forever doing
precisely the thing that they cannot do, the
origin of their troubles often being injudicious
praise from some well-meaning person.
The following paragraph from the Christian
Union gives an idea of a missionary's life for
seven months in Western Georgia: K" He has or
ganized twenty-five new schools, with 119 teach
ers and 903 scholars, besides aiding fifty-fiv
other schools, having 1924 scholars. He dis
tributed in the same time 124 Bibles and 2s0
Testaments, besides books papers, &C., by sale
or grant, to the amount of $379.74 also second
hand books and papers, travelling 1881 miles
in his own conveyance. The country he de-
scribes as delightful and healthy; the less set
tied communities far apart the people primi-
tive in style of living and manners; generous,
hospitable, and socable. In the newer sections
the houses are mostly pine log cabins of one
room and sometimes she'd for guests; set
tiers increasing, and work enough on his field
for a lifetime"
Many new sects have of late arisen in this
country, and yet our land has not monopoly
in this respect The latest sectarian novelty is
in Lapland. In this the women are elevated
to be head of the family, and also to occupy the
ministerial and pastoral Office With this they
combine some of the functions of the Roman
Catholic priesthood, particularly in regard to
the confessional. The other members, particu-
larly the husbands, are to come to the women
once week and confess their sins. The sect is
so new that the amount of progress it has made is
not easily reported as yet. But there is good rea-
son to believe that it will not be popular among
the male Laplanders. The idea of man going
to woman once week and recounting the sad
tale of all his lapses from the path of rectitude
is just cool enough for Lapland. Certainly it
would not take in any other quarter of the
woyId.