The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-07-12
FOREIGN CHURCH NEWS.

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In January Of this year $50 Telugu
converts were baptized. Up to March 2S,97O
more were baptized, making the number for the
Grst three months of 1882 exactly 1900. On
i April the number was increased by AZ.
The numbering of the Methodists
of Great Britain has now been completed, the
net increase for the year being 1854. The
total membership in Great Britain is returned
at 393, $50, as against 3S0,956 last year.
Nearly fifty thousand members and
adherents of the Free Church of Scotland in the
Highlands have declared against the Disestab-
i, lishment of the Church of Scotland.
Mr.. McAll's mission stations in
Paris and Its environs have increased from
twenty five to thirty two the past year and the
work in the provinces increases also. He goes
to Algeria, to establish one or two missions in
Algiers. The new mission station, just opened
by Mr.. Gibson wesleyan Methodist, makes the
forty second now at work in Paris, including
those established by Mr.. McAll, Miss de Broen,
the Salvation Army, and Mr.. Armand Dellile.
There are several interesting items
of news from the Turkish missions of the Amer
lean Board. The Armenians are revising for
use the Armenian Testament, under the seal of
approval of the Patriarch, to the disgust of some
of that faith at the idea of having Protestant
Bible. The American Education Society, which
benevolent minded persons in England have
been ignorantly aiding is said to be really an
lnhdel organization and doing incalculable
harm to the Armenian youth. The probabilities
point to a reformed Armenian Church. The
present organization cannot bear up against the
lnroads of lnhdelity
: The Synod of the Reformed Presby-
terrain Church in this country is enlarging its
mission in Syria from which 1t has good reports
this year. At Latakiyeh and Suadea it has
thirteen missionaries, against eleven in 1880 :;
and l25 communicates, gain of ten Its
schools have been increased from sixteen to
twenty three, with 588 pupils, an increase of
seventy nine. The contributions of the native
members have advanced from 973 to 2,542
piastres The value of piastre is about three
and half cents.
-Ju-Ning-fuh, of the Province of
Honan China, has been the scene of serious
disturbances recently, and the missionaries of
the China Inland Society have been compelled
by the authorities, after year of good service.
to remove There was riotting for several
weeks and it was said by the mob that the APP
pearance of the ghosts and paper devils was
caused by prescribed sect, with which the
missionaries We're in league.
Here is fact of sad significance,
reported from Bombay by a correspondent of
the Christian World who is making a tour
around the word =" have not seen anywhere
even IN Turkey, Egypt or India, among the
Mohammedan or Hindu women a single 6appv
or hopeful face" There is nothing in these re-.
ilglons to make them happy or hopeful They
are not meant for women.
-Reveillaud, the French evangelical
orator, has been in Algeria, proclaiming the
gospel IN that colony. He writes that his ICON
ferences excited wonder at first and then in
dgnatlon. Scepticim Is so prevalent in Algeria
that the rudiments of Christianity are now
generally unknown. Men were amazed or
pretended to be, with the announcement that
christianity was living, abiding fruitful sys
TEN. The newspapers described NJ. Reveillaud
and his associates as " members of the Salvation
Army, reverend Fathers of the Protestant
Jesuits," etc. But the evangelists secured
nearing and at last the reluctant admission that
they might be right.
The difference between the recep-
ton given to Professor Robertson Smith in the
Free Church Assembly of late year and the AS
semDly this year was 50 great that 1t is very
APPLY expressed by one of our journals in the
Pithy phrase, AT the last meeting of the BODY
he was paraded as martyr, at this meeting he
was voted bore" He was so pertnacious and
dogmatlc that once he was fairly Kissed
The report is reiterated that the
Marquis of Butte is not satisfied with the Church
OF Rome. 1t Is said that he rarely attends mass
and some OF his most intimate friends 20 so far
as to say that were it not for the scandal he
would willingly seek his way back 10 the Church
OF England again" But he never was in the
Church of England. His mother was staunch
Presbyterian.
AS the result of his FIVE years worl,
IN China, DR.. Nevins counts one hundred vii
lagos which have become centres of Christian
work and IN these are thirty churches. His
parish extends over three hundred miles of
country. Although the numb er of conversions
has increased 20 per cent in the last few Yeas
Vnere are stlll whole provinces, containing an
average of 100000 Inhabitants unentered bv
missionaries y
The Communication Fund of the Irish
Presbyterian Church growing out of the sur
renoer OF the Regum Donum at the time Of tho
D,iistestablishment Act, amounts now 10 nearly
P9'VyO'oOO. Upon this sum there is charpeabie
az the present time annuities of the value If
ABOUT 9l $4,000. The surplus of assets over
iaDlilu9s amounts to over $l,56O.OOO Evi
ITouuy Cns IreSoyterlan Church of Ireland is. IN
this respect, solvent institution.
Father Gavazzi, the well-known
Italian patriot and orator. although savort-,
four years Of age. is once more in London nlasa
ing the cause Of the Free Church of Ttalv
Speaking recently in Dr. Donald Fraser
church, Father Gavazz stated that when n stt
dent more than half century ago. there was
but one foreign theological college IN Rome
Now there are English, Scotch, French and
american colleges representative Of different re.