The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-23
CHURCH NEWS.
Doings of Preachers and People Throughout
Chhristendom.

by the Salvation Army.
New York city has twenty Lutheran
churches and Philadelphia thirty.
Another attempt is to be made to restore
the old HISTORIAN church in Persia.
The Reformed church in America has
500 churches and 80, 1857 commandments
The sale of Bibles and other Christian
books in Japan is increasing rapidly.
The field of Sir Garnet Wolseley's opera
tons is in the celebrated Land of Goshen.
In Berlin, with population of 1.145,-
600, the church attendance is less than
80, 900.
The Christian at Work announces that it
does not believe in faith cures" So
called
Chapels for the exclusive use of colored
worshippers are growing in number in the
South.
The Pitcairn Islanders are very relig-
ious people, and are never tired of singing
Sankey's hymns.
The roll of membership of the Boston
Young Mems Christian Association con
tains 2, 72S names.
The 200th anniversary of the introduce
ton of Presbyterianism into America will
be celebrated next year.
At Bervick-on-Tweed during recent
meeting of the diocesan choirs there were
$40 voices heard in song.
Pennsylvania is the strongest Presby-
terrain state in the Union, having S95
churches, $40 ministers and $50, 1877 com
municants. New York state follows very
close.
Nothing, says the Examiner, ''is more
repressive of spiritual growth than the
state of rush which is so prevalent among
u.s."
''Some agency for affording Sunday
school teachers a suitable training" is
claimed to be one of the educational needs
OF the country.
Fifty years ago the foundation of Yves
leyan Methodism was laid in Germany, and
the event will be commemorated this year
by a jubilee.
The Central Christian A4dUocate attri
butes the familiar saying. AThe devil when |
sick a monk would be" to IAN old popular |
college song"
DR.. John Hall thinks that instead of |
preaching special sermons to children the |
ordinary service should be made level TO
children as well as adults.
The Protestant Sunday schools of Paris |
have formed an association and meeting |
with 1900 children present was recently |
held at the Cirque oliver,
The Baptist Weekly considers that one
of the imperative needs for the healthy |
and prosperous working of a church is a |
more diffuscd system of contributions.
There is church in Philadelphia whose
is composed principally of /
boys and girls. 1t seats about fifty per
sons, and is said to be the smallest church
i'll the country.
The portion of the old prison in London |
known as the Bishops Hole, in which
Cranmer Ridley and Latimer were impris-
oned prior to their martyrdom, is about |
to be torn down.
There is a marked increase of attendance
at religious services in Edinburgh Scot
land, since leading Pr esbyterian preach
er induced many employers of labor to
give mechanics half-holiday on Satur-
day.
On Wednesday next 4 retreat for the
Episcopal clergy will commence in St.
John, the Evangelist's church, Haverhill,
Mass, ending on the following Saturday.
This is a new idea in the Episcopal church.
During the visit to England of Ceta-
wayo, the captive King of the Zulus, a
former missionary in Zululand presented
him with handsome bible printed in the
Zulu language. He was much gratified at
the gift.
An English journal says that Mr..
Moody's evangelistic campaign will not
be forgotten while Scotland stands 1t
regards his work in that country as one of
5he greatest events in the history of Chris
DAINTY.
Rev Joseph Cook, who, during a storm
On his journey from Japan to Australia
was thrown down hatchway with such vio-
ence as to tear asunder some of the mus
lies and carriages of his ribs, has com
pletely recovered.
The late Rev. DIR. Geo. w. Musgrave. a
pastor of Philadelphia, be-
lueathed $50, 900 to Princeton College, to
Dc invested till it reaches $780, 00 to found
/ Musgrave Professorship, and $4,000 to
)ther Presbyterian institutions.
Christian work has been commenced in
Russia by noble of the empire, Prince
5alatzin. A Bible was given him at the
Paris exposition and he has studied it.
accepted its truth, and intends to distribute
many copies of its throughout Russia.
DIR. HI. L. Wayland, of the National
Baptist, in a paper on progressive spell
ng," shows that the ideal languages EN-
,race new alphabet irf which every dis
inct sound shall have its symbolic equiya-
emit. But he does not think the English
peaking world is ripe for such boon.
A woman forgot to send home some
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