New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-04

OF the meeting was temporary split in the
church which, when added to similar troubles
IN inc church in other States, may end III
total breaking up OF the sect.
The canvass OF the agent Of the Connecticut
blDle Society III Hartford has developed the
following facts There are some 400 more
FAMILIES OF the Roman Catholic denomination
than any other, and the COngregatlOnallst
FAMILIES are more numerous by some 100 than
any other Protestant denomination, yet the
congregational churches dismissed more mem
ners than they received last year. OF the 5000
families In the city whose religious condition
has been inquired into ;. 80 are American and
S'ZDO OF other natlOnalites 6S2 OF these
Iamilles never attend church, and $50 children
Oh Protestant parents are not in any Sunday
school.
Nj. John T. Belts, of London. Baptist lay
man, has published TRANSACTIONS of some Of the
tracts by Juan de Naldes, the Spanish Protest
ant writer Cf the sixteenth century, recently
disco yered by Professor Boehmer among the
collected papers of the Emperor MACMILLAN in
the falatlne Library at Vienna. Mr.. Belts
was ut one time "a member Of Dr. Brock
church and the intimate friend and helper OF
Benjamin Nflcn, Quaker who gave twenty
years OF labor, IN concert with his Spanish
trend sOZ Rio, to the recovery OF the works
OF Spanish PrOtestauts.
Professor Henry Smith, OF Lane Seminary,
has written an article III Tie Presbyterian
''ti't" approving bllc pilHfl'l'' vi INC ldit0l
and Il 0st absurd form of German ratiOnalistlc
Biblical criticism" On the other hand, 1t is
stated that the Rev. Or. IIerrick Johnson was
| elected moderator of the Presbyterian General
! Assembly largely because OF his OutspOken
! hostility to such opinions those advocated
| by Professor Smith.
! The mission field of the Moravian Church
comprises at the present time sixteen provinces,
! with over 100 stations and 800 missionaries.
| They have 2lj schools, with about $1,000
! pupils and a total OF nearly 10000 converts
! from among the heather. All this work Is car
ried on and supported by church which has
! scarcely 10000 COMMUNICATE members at
| home.
Some years ago Mrs. Anna Richmond placed
in the hands OF Henry Il. Kidder sum OF
! money, OF which 800 was to be paid every
| year to support professor IN the ancient
| Unitarian College ut klausenburg in Hungary.
! OF that fund = LOCO remains. IL Is now pro
posed to increase il to $4,000 and TO make Ii
u perpetual endowment
The rrepressbe and irresponsible Shipherd.
! The Congregdt0nGiSt is informed, has varied
! his public performances recently, by preaching
! in Virginia church. He Is reported to have
! shown great facility in the use OF language,
! especially OF slang, gilt IN winch he certainly
| exccls He i representative OF class who
exercised similar gifts little less than two
! thousand years ago.
! 1t is believed that at the next Consistory,
which l. to be held early in June, the name OF
| the last of the Cardinals reserved IN pettO will
! be published. He Is generally supposed TO be
! NorsiynOr Blanche, NunciO ut Madrid and II is
| thought that on the same occasion the Arch @
! bishop of Cologne will be raised TO the purple.
The English Presbyterians are about to have
| a now hymn-b book. Ii Is sad that about 700
OF the hymns in the present collection vii, be
replaced by Others that about sixty suited to
! children will be added, and that there VIII be
an edition containing the unmetred Psalter
| spaced tor chanting.
Monsignore Vaughan, the Bishop of the Papal
| diocese Of Stafford, England, recently de-
| nonnced Garihaldi and MaZzini as Italian
| Fenians, and asserted that these two great
patriots. were "cutthrOats belonging TO secret
| societies.
The Religious Tract Society of England dis
| The futaI III. iliutiUm irUm TIE nome depot has
! reached over $1,000. 900, and the issues from
| foreign depots are estimated at l4,OOOOOO.
The one hundred and fftieth anniversary Of
the foundation of Trinity Parish, NewtOwn,
| Conn. and the conservation OF the new church
recently freed from debt will occur on June ,.
The PRESBYTERIAN Church in Texas, according
10 the census of 1850, tOots up $1,000 menu
bcrs the Methodists have $4,000 the Cath
ollcs 100, 600, and the Baptists l2o,ooO'
The number of COMMITMENTS Of the EpiSco-
nal Church in Massachusetts is nearly $1,000,
| OF a Gain of over 30 per cent since lS'j.
The Rensselaer, County Sundav-schOol Union
conmcmoratcd the hfticth anniversary OF Its
! foundation in Troy OF May >.
The next convention OF the Minnesota state
Sunday-schoo Association viii Ge held IN
Rochester Oh June Is, : and :.
\ society has been formed in England for
the preservation of ancient sepuchial monu-
! ments in churches
Mr.. Harrison Is conducting 4 series Of sue
ces,ful revival meetings in st. Paul.