The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-21
CHURCH NEWS.
Doings Of Preachers and Peop,e Throughout
Christendom.

4 Inc uO1NCaIlOu OF the McCQOOiSb Colleges
| in Iowa is proposed.
The Presbyterian board has opened q
mission in Guatemala.
Camp-meetings in the south continue
| throughout October.
The Baptist church in Paris is heartily
engaged in evangelistic work.
The Methodist churches in England
gained nearly 90, 900 members last year.
In New Jersey there are twenty-five
Presbyterian churches with vacant pull
pits.
Rev. Mr.. Green, of Raleigh, N. c.. re-
Gently baptized by immersion 140 persons
in seventy minutes.
Solemn high mass" is now conducted in
the Protestant Episcopal church of the
Ascension, Chicago.
Three Episcopal churches in Newark, N.
j., are without rectors-St. Johns, St.
Paul's and St. Phillips.
A church society has been organized
near Shan WI, in the interior of CHINA
section but lately opened to Gospel influ-
ences.
In Madagascar, out of a population of
$500, 900 there are 10000 Christians. The
first missionary visited the island less than
sixty years ago.
A Norwegian missionary in Zululand re
ports that he has baptized twenty Zulus
since the war and that many others are in
a hopeful condition.
OF the 100000 women and girls in
India, not more than one in every twelve
hundred has yet been placed under any
kind of Christian influence.
The generality of church goers like short
sermons, and clergymen who persist in
preaching long sermons are the ones who
preach to empty pews.
When Mr.. Spurgeon was asked how he
succeeded so wonderfully in keeping his
church full, he replied: II fiji the pulpit
and let the people fill the pews."
The old slave-market of Zanzibar, where
80, coo slaves were formerly sold annually,
has been transformed into mission premises,
with church and school.
The United Presbyterians are meeting
with much success in their efforts to raise
a memorial fund of $500, 0O0 Wealthy
Presbyterians are subscribing very liber-
ally.
The Baptist Weekly thinks the decline in
attendance in many city churches may be
attributed to the removal of many of our
city people to suburban residences.
Young Mems Christian Associations are
now established in Cairo, Beyrout, Smyr-
ma, Damascus, Jer usalem, Nazareth, CAL
cutta, Hong Kong, Yokohama and many
other foreign cities.
The Pioneer suggests that the Mahometan
soldiers o. the Indian armv now serving in
Egypt should be afforded every opportun-
ity of making pilgrimage to Mecca when
the wa is over.
At recent service in his church M. Hya-
cinthe Loyson eulogised the late DR.. Pussy
as the contemporary reformer of the
Church of England, and as one of the pre-
cursors of religious union in the future.
In view of the moral reforms and aggres-
sive action required of the church in every
place nowadays clergyman forcibly re-
marks that Christians might as well ex-
pend some of their prayers for grit instead
of grace"
DR.. Macarthur thinks there are in Chica-
60 enough church members not enrolled
with any of the city organizations to make
Fifteen churches above the average in
size, wealth, social position and Christian
activity"
Many half-craZy beings, men sud women
budding for madness arising out of inner
tied or physical causes, plunge zeaiously
into the stirring services of the salvation
army in England and evolve into full blown
luDatics.
The Presbyterians have eleven churches
with over q thousand communicates each;
Dr. Talmage's with 2,747 communicates;
Chicago CDR. A. E. Kittredge,) 1894; DR..
John Halls, 1907; Brooklyn CDR. T. L.
Cuylers,) 1,792; DIR. Crosby's, 1896; Ro-
chester Dr. ]. B. Shaw 1891; University
Place, N. 7, Or. Booth.) 1908; Bethany.
Philadelphia, /, 1870: New York, DR.. J. r.
Paxton's, 1,032; San Francisco, (Rev. John
1.024; Brick. N. Y, LOCI.
During the recent troubles in Egypt a
most ancient relic has been destroyed
tree which, according to Christion tradi-
ton, was the identical one under which
the parents of Christ sought rest and shell
ter on their fight to Egypt. Ii stood near
the ruins of Heliopolis, north Of Cairo,
and from time immemorial it was under |
the care Of the Franciscans in Cairo. and
an object of great vereration. During his |
sojourn in Egypt last year, the Austrian
Crown Prince visited the sacred spot and
Tee, which latter was cut down by the |
Egyptian troops while they were throwing |
up entertainments near Heliopolis.