The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-03-01
FOREIGN CHURCH NEWS.

\ MN. 0EOhCIE MI LDER IN PALESTINE.
| Wer Gently stated that Mr.. Muller had conducted
Jerusalem few details of these will be fol
| lowed with interest On November II he
preached at Jafla In the chapel of the German
colony. On succeeding days he gave addresses
(sometlmes In English at other times in Ger
Jnan) In various private houses at Sarona. little
way out OF alta, at the Dispensary (where he
| spoke to about one hundred Mohammedans
some Jews, and few members of the Greek
Church) at the American school room At the
last meeting at Jaffa the address was on the
second coming of our Lord
MIR. and Mrs. Muller travelled from Jaffa to
Jerusalem In an open Wagon, and were twelve
hours on the road, though the distance is only
forty miles.
Mr.. Muller held his first meeting in Jerusalem
on December l. when he spoke in German to
some ladies at a Dorcas meeting, engaged in.
making clothes for poor Arabs. At the Jewish
School of Industry he had a considerable mum
Der of hearers, and was greatly helped in adj
dressing them. Among the other places where
he proclaimed the good news were the Children's
Orphanage, two miles from the city; board
ing school, containing over one hundred Arab
girls; Bishop Gobats School; besides places for
public worship.
During their stay in Jerusalem Mr.. and Mrs
Muller met DR.. Cranage and the party he was
conducting through parts of the Holy Land.
Christian
-Nonconformist papers have gathered
up into formidable table the results of cen
sus OF attendance at public worship in cities
towns, and districts of England and Wales. The
statistics make havoc of the claims that the
Church of England is the Church of the people
The returns embrace great variety of cities and
6oroughs, from Liverpool, with a population of
o52 425, down to Marlborough, with only Gill
inhabitants, a number of still smaller places
md
and villages, with an aggregate population of
1928, 200. The total number of churches
chapels, and buildings used for public worsbin
enumerated is 1876 the accommodation thew
provide Statistics of which are in several cases
wantlng) is ], 242 $50 sittngs. The total morn
ing attendance amounts to 586,0S4 afternoon
attendance 52.305 evening attendance, $685.
73l making and aggregate of ,3O2,l2O A
careful estimate makes the number of separate
worshlpers ,O62, 52l. The Church of ENGLAND
provides 45l ,9S9 sittings leading the denomina
lions In this respect, and has of the aggregate of
attendance 5O3 800. The Anglican and Catholic
churches and the Salvation ARMY are the onIv
organizations which report larger attendance
than sittings. The Weseyans have 1853 1857 sit
tlngs and 1894 attendants. The general CON
cluslons drawn from the returns BY the Non
cOnfornist are:
" That, while the-religious accommodation is
on the average, equal to the wants of only one
ance at the most numerousIy attended service is
equal only to about one-half the sittings pro
vided P'O
That the estimated number of separate
worshipers during the Sunday is in the propor
ton OF 29.5 per cent of the population Is, 629-
THAT in about 100 small towns and rnral
parishes the total attendances were in the pro
portion of 42.2 per cent. Church of England
and BIS per cent. for all other religious bodies
" That In the places specified 1886 per cent
OF the aggregate worshipers attended the
churches of the Establishment, and 81 "a per
cent those belonging to outside religious bodies
That next In number to the Church of Eng
land are the Wesleyan Methodists, with rs per
cent OF the whole attendances the entire Meth
odlst family representing nearly one fourth of
the whole. Next in order come the Congrega
tlonalists, followed by the Baptists, who also
are strictly speaking, Congregationalists. To-
gether Baptlsts and Pedo- Baptists number 232..
2OI, or about one-sixth. The Salvation Armv
Wesleyans."
of the late Dean of Westminster DR..
Field says in the Evangelist "I once ask
Dean Stanley, Who is your ecclesiastical supe.
rlorF He answered instantly, The Queen.
de was not subject to the Bishop of London
nor to the Archbishop of Canterbury. This
puzzled me at first, till DR.. De Koyen afterward
| ca PIaiheu IL III d WOrd by saying that the Dean
oil westminster was virtually if not in name, a
mitred abbot, which made him the eoual of anv
bishop. The Dean told me that even had he
departed ever so widely from the faith of the
Church of England, yet no man in the realm
could touch him. The only one who could ever
bring charge or complaint against him would
be the Lord Chancellor, and then it would have
to go to the Queen. who (this he did not saw
but one could not help thinking, being his warm
personal friend, would not have been very
severe judge"
This is a nice commentary on State Church
Dean Stanley could say what he pleased and
nobody could stop him but the Lord Chancellor
aud the Queen EDS. C. p.
Though church and chapel attend
ance may decline, there is work going ON o.
which no census is taken. A year or two acc
an Invalid lady in an eastern suburb of London
began Bible-class with railway men. Two
or three weeks ago she invited twenty TO her
room to tea. After tea there were music and
conversation. On Monday week there was 8
second party, numbering sixteen. As it grew
late some left for night duty but some tarried
with whom close personal conversation wa,
held. One said, quietly but very firmly. a.
do this night take Jesus to be my Saviour anC
Master" His companion said Z" do the same
we have both been trying for some time" Tits
: hoped that these gave their hearts to Chris
that night.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey began
Evangelistic work in Glasgow with a meeting
IN St. Andrews Hall, on January 22d. Ions
before the hour announced for commencing
cr0'0ds 8urrOunded the doors eager to Obtain
admission. Every available inch Of room Vya,