The Evening critic., 1882-07-29
Religions Notes.

In foreign missions among theological students
In Scotland Just at present.
The Rev. James ID. Eaton, of Andover,
ia TO 60 in October to chihuahua, Mexico, as q
missionary OF the American Board.
The Dean Of Peterborough, DR.. Perownc,
is holding outdoor religious services In the
Market place on Sunday evenings.
Rev. DR.. Burton, Of Hartford, has boon
chosen rs the Lyman Beecher lecturer In the
Yale Theological School for the coming year.
Tho Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, d. d., who
has been for many summers at Saratoga,
July 2.
There were two hundred and fifty May
meetings this year In London. At fifty of them,
Lord shaftesbury, now eighty.onc years OF age,
presided.
The congregation Of All Souls Church in
New York (Unitarian) has raised purse OF
$4,000 for Mrs. ii. W. Bellows, widow OF Its
late pastor.
The new Congregational Church ut High
bury, London, In which DR.. Bevan Will preach,
is completed. The building will scat sixteen
hundred people,
There are 210 churches and 30, 1000 church
members among the Indians OF tho United
States. Out OF seventy tribes, twenty-five arc
said TO DO selfsupporting.
The English Wesleyans will receive tho
noble sum OF sS5O,OOO, bequeathed to thom
his will have proved futile.
Mr.. McAll has established seven new mis-
sion stations In Paris and It's suburbs the past
year, the number now being thirty.two. He is
going TO plant some stations In Algiers.
Tho Pennsylvania Railroad dismisses any
cmploye who takes any intoxicating liquor
during his hours OF duty. 1t is not only
drunkenness, but drinking, which is thus pro-
hiblted.
Camp.meetings have begun in earnest
this week In all sections OF tho land. Others
will follow from week to week till the end of
August. They are principally confined to
Methodist people.
Amos Shenkle, of Cincinnati, Is building,
ut his own expense, q magnificent Protestant
| orphan Asylum in that city. lie is the chief
owner OF the Suspension Bridge across the
| Ohio at that place.
The corner. stone of the Peoples Church.
| Boston, Mass, was laid with imposing cere.
monies July Q. Bishop Foster, and other
! distinguished divines, with Mrs. Livermore,
| delivered addresses.
| The Rev. BENJAMIN Phelan, q prominent
| Baptist minister OF Rhode Island, who has
| been an invalid for several years. died in Provi-
dence July 10. He was pastor at Warwick, Il.
l., for twenty-one years.
The strike of the miners at Cumberland
is telling upon several churches, and II 1t con-
| tinues much longer, and old miners continue
TO leave, many churches Will DO ruined and
pastors Will got no salary.
A German priest, Father Schneider, has
| left the Catholic Church and connected with
the Methodlsts in Pittsburg, Pa. Bishop An.
drews, OF this city, examined him carefully
upon doctrines before admitting him TO mem
bership.
In the great work of foreign missions the
Moravlan Church Is the pioneer OF the Protest
ant churches. 1t sent It's first missionaries to
81. Thomas In the West indies, In 1882. The
| 1bOth anniversary OF this event Is to be cele
bratcd on August 81.
The Rev. DIR. Henry ]. Morgan, who fol
Afty.two years has been rector Of St. James
Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, Is, with the
exception Of the Rev. DR.. Sheldon, OF st. Pauls
Church, Buffalo, tho only clergyman who has
had 30 long a continuous service In one parish
Low Foo, Chinaman, converted undel
tho labors of DR.. Graves, at Canton, sold him
| self as slave that no might go to Demerari
and preach the Gospel to his fellow country
men there. He now has church OF 200 con
verted Cinnamon, who are supporting mis-
sionaries among their own people.
The Ministerial Union of San Francisco
composed of clergymen OF different denomlna
lions, have formally requested the Board o
Education OF that city to arrange for the ad
mission OF all duly qualified Chinese children
to the public schools. There are already
few japanese children In the schools.
Bishop Schroeder, Norwegian mission
airy, whose name was to Norway and Swedel
has recently died in zuluiand. He was a sor
Of prime minister to Umpando, and had tn
son, Co,ywayo, been less like Rehoboam of old
the Zulu war might have been averted.
Within the last eighty years great prog
ress has been made in biblical and missionar
work. In 1900 the Bible was translated int
about 80 languages, now about 2oO; then thor
were mission societies, nov there are 90
among the heather, now there aro abou
$500.
The Cincinnati Wesleyan College prop
erty was offered for sale on Tuesday, The st
Inst, at the courthouse, but there were n
bidders. The property as whole was al
| praised at $4,000. and that part OF It upo
which the college stands at s102 200; Tn
expectation Is that the property Will BIO r,
| appraised at q lower figure.
There are now in Japan rs married NAL
missionaries, 10 unmarried malo mission
I aries, dS unmarried female missionaries, 8
D stations, 81 out'stations, 8 organized churches
h. 3,d0S adult converts, 81 ordained native pa
tors and 166 unordained native preacher
I Last year 1000 pages OF the New Test
: ment and portions were sold for $4,000.
, The mission field of the Moravian Churc
comprises at the present time 10 provinces
with over 100 stations and 800 misslonarie
: They have 215 schools, with about 1900
from among the heather. All this work
!. carried on and supported by church whic
= has scarcely 10000 communicate member
at home.
|, Irish Presbyterian Church Of the mission st
= tion at Bonn, which has been for thirty yea
| centre for mission work among the Jews an
0 native Germans, has called forth an appe
from Professor Christlieb, OF that city, VII
= has for q long time been staunch supportt
}. OF the work. The professor appeals for SIC
. | OuU OF Sl<,UUU W sdNo tuo proiuioeo anu iudi
Il tain the work.
The Diocese of Maryland is agitated !
an exciting and almost bitter antagonism b
d tween the Singh Ritualists" and the high ar
o low churchmen. The Guardian says; ''rl
:, real Issues in Maryland are: Shall we autho
u lie habitual auricular confession2 Shall '
s. authorize prayers for the day2 Shall we a
thorize the Holy Communion as an ofrerir
t, for the departed2 Shall we authorize teac
1 ing tantamount TO transubstantiation2 Sha
!. We authorize tho changing OF our church
/. Into Roman mass houses?'
u Throughout the world there are vast, u
occupied fields, whore q population OF near
10 1O0O00000 have never heard the name
e, Jesus, "the only name under heaven wherel
st men can be saved" 1t is still night in MAJ
u OF these regions-dark almost unbroken nigl
/ "The crescent moon speaksof the faint lis
l. which begins to arise, and the Southern Gro
signals the coming salvation" But dea
s and darkness still reign on every side. VIII
- have you done, my sisters, TO scatter this dal
If ness and to carry the life which takes Il
IS place of this eternal death2
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