The National tribune., 1882-10-19
FOR SUNDAY AFTERNOON
A Little Something About What is Going On In the
Religious World.
ITO be continued

Little Something About What is Going On In the
Religious World.
There is only one Congregational church in
Baltimore
There are on Manhattan Island seventv-nine
Episcopal churches, with a total of 25,275 COM
municants.
There are go names of Cinnamon on the rolls
Of Sabbath schools in New York and BROOKLYN.
and the average attendance is 81.
During the past century the population of the
United States has increased eleven-foId. and
the churches have increased thirty-seven fold.
The CLurc5naa proposes that the coming GEN.
tennial year of the Episcopal Church in this
country be observed by removing all debt from
5000 parishes.
The California Methodist Episcopal Confer
ence, which recently met at Oakland, COM
mended the Republican party of the State for
upholding the Sunday law.
"To-morrow is Sunday, isn't it, mamma?D
eyes, dear" "Maynt | play with the cards
and build castles with them?" Certainly not,
dear" But, mamma, mightn't 1 play with
the r-books, you know, if built church
with them?"
Rev. DR.. Chamberlain says: "There is a tre-
mendous upheaval going on all through India
at the present time, and l fear that Hinduism
is going to fall to pieces before the Church Of
Christ is ready to seize the fragments of the
ruins and build up the temple Of the Lord"
"Moody in Paris!" exclaims the Christian
I,teTigencer- The Paris of Clovis and Louis
Quatorze and Napoleon III; of Abclard and
Votaire and Eugene Sue; of Mirabeau and
Philip Egalite and the Commune; of Richie
lieu and Coligny and McAIl; of the Bastile, the
barricades and the Bois De Boulogne"
"The bOrderland of the creeds is widening
every day." says the Je1cisb Messenger at is
beginning to be understood that the universals
of honesty, virtue, purity cement men more
firmly and kindly than the particulars of doc
trine and Itany, which drive men apart and
produce q vast number of meeting houses for
the nlisinterpretation of the Bible and the carl
cature of the Divine"
An old negro professed to be Indifferent as to
afuture state, believing that dey'u make mig
gers work eben in heaben." A clergyman tried
to argue him out of his opinion by representing
that there was no work for him or any one else
to do in heaven. "You go way, massa," was
his reply, 81 know better! If dere's no oder
work for culled pussons up dere, dey'n make
'em shub de clouds along."
The Hatehman indulges in a blast against the
use of tobacco by the clergy, and notes re-
form in this matter at Martha's Vinevard:
"The groves and hotels have presented a
marked contrast to former seasons. The air
has been breathed as God made it, unpoIluted
by the tobacco nuisance. Preachers have not
descended from the heights of pure precept to
the depths of impure practice, wrapped in d
cOnceaiing cloud; weak cOnsciences have not
been offended; the cause of Christ has not
been scandalized by His priests ministering at
the DEVILS altar in the service of God"
4 correspondent of the London Times SAYS
that on the whole Christian missions in India,
especially Protestant missions, have been fail.
ure. Conversions to Christianity" says he,
"have neither been numerous nor satisfactory.
There are 100000 nominal Christians in India,
or less than one-half per cent. of the popula-
tiOn. OF these more than half are in the
Madras Presidency, and are nearly all what
may be called historical Catholics. OF the re-
mainder in the rest of India probably one-half
are also Catholics, which would reduce the num-
Der of non Catholic Christians to about a quarter
of 4 million all told, or One-eighth per cent. of
the whole population. In China the case is
somewhat similar, though there are no trust
worthy statistics-5OOOO historical Catholics,
and such a small number of other sects as not
to yield an appreciable percentage of the popu-
latiCn."