The Evening critic., 1882-03-13
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Messrs. Moody and Sankey, it is said, are
meeting with great success in Glasgow. Their
meetings seem 10 take even greater hold OF
the religious public there than In Edinburgh
Rev. j. H. Tillinghast has resigned the
parishes Of Zion and st. Johns, Richmond,
and 81. Matthew's, Orangeburg, s. c., and ac-
cepted n call to st. Johns Chapel, Charleston,
s..
The Rev. A. d. Heffern, of Hillsboro, o.,
has accepted call 70 the rectorship Of Trinity
Protestant Episcopal Church, Southwark, Pa,
and will enter on his duties on Sabbath,
April2.
At arecent session of the Queens Uni
vcrsity, Dublin, the honorary degree OF d. Lit.
was conferred upon the Rev. James McCosh,
d. D., Ii. D., president of the College of New
Jersey.
The Rev. Stephen Gladstone, rector of
HawaIden, son OF the premier, has been or
derod abroad by his medical advisers. His
condition OF health causes his friends much
anxiety.
Bishop Titcomb, Anglican missionary
bishop OF Rangoon, Burmah, has been COM
PEELED to resign by reason Of chronic spinal
weakness, caused by an accident last year in
the Kassan Mountains, in Burmah.
union is proposed of the Canada Meth
odist Church, which was formed a few years
ago by the consolidation OF two or three sepa-
rate bodies, with the Methodist Episcopal and
Primitive Methodist Churches of Canada.
At the Episcopal Missionary Conference,
held in New Orleans recently, Dr.. Nelson, late
of Shanghai, China, said in regard TO the work
in that Held that the members Of other de-
nominations We're going ahead Of the Episcopal
Church in every direction
The Archbishop of York recently felt
constrained TO say in reference 10 an approach
ing confirmation: "Thc female candidates
should be encouraged To dress with simplicity,
so that 10 constrainmess Of unusual nnery
may tend TO distract their attention from the
service"
There are three millions Of Israelites in
Russia. The theatre Of the prosecutions which
has been raging against them for the past
nine months is said 10 be ga tract Of country
equal in area TO the British Islands and France
combined, stretching from the Baltic 70 the
Black Sea-"
The adheIents of the Scotch Church num-
| Der ,0d3, 900; those Of the Free, 100000; and
| those OF the United, -T4,OOO- Other nOn-es-
| tablished churches havo $4,000 and. ab-
| sentees from all 100000. The population OF
| Scotland is 1894, 600 the Established Church
| can claim only n third Of It.
The announcement that the Holy Father
proposes TO create seven new cardinals will be
read with interest by Catholics I'm this country.
| Several years ago the Pope made gratifying
| impression upon the Catholic Church In Amer
| lea by eleyating 10 the dignity Of a cardinal
| the venerable and illustrious prelate who
now presides over the Catholic hierarchy Of
| New York. II would he an advantage, We
| think, 10 the Church, and asstill further recog-
| milton Of the zeal OF the Catholics OF America
| If Pope Leo would follow the example Of his
| predecessor and create another cardinal foI
| the United States, The New York HeF0ia says
| IN this connection; "BaltimOre II the leading
| city OF the Catholic demo inatiOn, and II would
| be only lifting to confer upon the Archbishop
| who there resides the dignity Of a cardinal"