The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-03-08
FOREIGN CHURCH NEWS.

rOp6AGN Ca N Jews.
The Aberdeen u P. Presbytery
have resolved to invite Messrs. Moody and
Sankey to visit Aberdeen, and to petition the
House of Commons in favor of Disestablish-
ment.
Once again the Senior Wrangler at
Cambridge is Noncomformist. Mr. Herman,
his father, Is deacon In a church at Bath his
uncle is the minister of one at Reading
According to the Irish Church Direc-
tory for the current year there are now .7OS
clergy in the Protestant Episcopal Church of
ireland. In the census of 1861 there were
2'26o, and the decrease, therefore, in the twenty
years has been $50.
As many as seventy-four ahiurations
of Popery have been made during the last three
months at Queret, France, and it is added that
the mayor and municipal council of another
commune in the Grouse, all non Catholics. have
attended the Protestant chapel in a body.
Mr.. Macphee, of Oban, has signifed
his intention to give 81 900, to the Tain Free
Presbytery, the annual interest to be used bv
each minister in succession for the purpose of
taking holiday. Mr.. Macphee lately gave a
similar sum for the same purpose to the Free
Presbytery of Lorn.
The Roman Catholic population of
Asia is estimated at 1O,l23,S45. Of this nun
Der 523, 900 are IN Turkey, / ,481 ,291 in India
100000 in Persia and Arabia, and 81 .634
In China and neighbOring kingdoms.
The International Presbyterian Con-
ference of Australia which is held every other
year meets IN Sydney in April. The meeting
OF the General Assembly of Australia will not
therefore, take place till March, 1888
1t is proposed to raise 100000 for
the endowment for Robert College. Constantine
pie. Some 1920 has bsen pledged in Bos.
ton, End 1t is expected THAI Sis, 900 more will
he raised in that city.
"A commission appointed by the Bish
op OF Gloucester and Bristol to INQUIRE into the
lack OF church accommodation in the latter city
has reported that there is pressing need for a
dozen new churches or mission rooms, and that
the incumbent of several parishes reuuire
clerical help. 1t was decided to raise sum of
zoo 600 for new buildings, and 81 900 per an
mum for additional clergy
The American missionaries who
penetrated through the jungles and fever strick-
en- country of Umzilas kingdom, in South
eastern Africa, to his capital report that the
King was delighted to see them, sent greetings
to America, and asked to have five missionaries
with their families sent to teach his people, The
King Is said to be the finest specimen of ROYALTY
In Africa. His face is full of intelligence and
genuinely pleasant He is tall and spare. but
well proportioned.
The dlsestablishment movement in
Scotland has met with a discouraging turn in
the pronounced opposition of DR.. Kennedy, of
the Free Church. DR.. Kennedy is regarded as
the Presbyterian Pope of the Highlands. and
where he leads the majority of the Highland
ministers are expected to follow. He has ex
pressed his views at great length, and they have
given the friends of the Established Church
great comfort. They know now that the Free
Church is divided on the question, DR. Kennedy
and his clan and Prof Bruce, of Glasgow. and
other influential men strongly opposing the
disestablishment movement led by Drs. Rainy
and Adam.
Prof. Bruce, of the Glasgow Free
Presbytery, writing of the efforts of certain Free
Churchmen to bring the Church into line in
favor of establishment, says "A new gen
Grafton has sprung up in the (Free) Church. of
men who had no share in the glory and have
no part In the passions of the disruption who
have no animosity against the State Church
who Judge of Churches not so much by abstract
principles as by results who are not indisposed
to see in the actual condition of the Established
Church, in its many able preachers in its more
tolerant tone in matters of opinion its esthetical
ly improved church service, &C., features of
attraction which they miss in their own
Church"
Here is an item from an Edinburph
religious journal The octogenarian head of
the firm of Bass has built two churches in
Burton. Mr.. Allsopp, his rival in business and
IN politics, Is at present putting up another
which promises to be the leading architectural
triumph Of the town"
AT Annoy, China, four natives have
been licensed to the ministry in connection with
the mission Of the English Presbyterian
Church, and were at once called to vacant
charges.