Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-04-19
GeneraI Religious Items,

OhuoulAu heluOuSn ptOPoocs " OstAo
lIsh church extension and relief fund.
The pope has created soven new cardi-
nails. among whom Is Archbishop McCabe
Of Dublin.
Up 10 March 2lst there lad been one
thousand twenty-throe conversions IN The
Cincinnati revival.
The Newark NJ. E. Conference has paid
seventy.seven thousand dollars of church
and parsonage debts during the pas, year.
The home missionary society Of the
New England southern conference has
raised seven hundred dollars the past
year.
The Philadelphia convention Of the NJ.
f. church reported four thousand dollars
increase Of the missionary collections over
last year
Beekman Hill NJ. Z. church, New York
city, held jubilee April I'd to rejoice
over the raising OF fifteen thousand dollars
on its debt.
The Protestant Episcopal church Of the
United States has given over seventeen
thousand dollars for the support of its
missions In Mexico.
Mrs. Frances Grant of England has
given five hundred thousand dollars for
the relief of the deserving poor without
regard to sect or creed.
w. +. Whitchcr has been found guilty
OF immoral conduct in lying and stealing
and has been expelled from tho New
England southern conference.
The Boston Y NJ. c. U. have already
received thirty-four thousand dollars In
subscriptions. or nearly half. toward the
erection of their new building on Boylston
street.
Over ninety per cent Of tho large num-
Der of conversions at the NJ. Z. church,
Ann Arbor. Mich, during the pastorate of
DR.. Alabaster, have united with the church
in full.
Phillips Brooke of Trinity church, Bos-
ton, has been granted by his parish a
years leave of absence for foreign travel.
James Freeman Clarke will also spend
the summer in Europe.
During the last twenty years the New
England educational society of the NJ. l..
church has raised forty thousand dollars
and has assisted two hundred and fifty
young men in Obtaining preparation for
the ministry.
The Reformed Episcopal church, now
eight years old, has one hundred and ten
clergymen, seven thousand communicates
and nine hundred and fifteen thousand
dollars worth Of church property exclusive
of membranes.
Easter was very generally observed
throughout the country. Most churches
we're decorated With flowers, nearly all
had special scrmens and some had Sunday
school concerts. In many churches Eas tor
offerings were made for various benevolen,
purposes.
| Seventy years ago New Zealand was a
land of csnnibals. To-day, out of pop
ulation Of over four hundred thousand,
thcro arc less than five thousand heather
and one OF the many churches there has a
membership of one hundred and seventy
six thousand.
The Earl Of SALISBURY, Earl Cairns
Earl of Aberdeen, Snmuel Morcley, NJ. p,
Canon Farrar and G. II. Sturgeon, with
three hundred others. have signed q me.
mortal requesting Moody and Sankey to
spend not lsss than twelve months oil
labor in London.
D. w. Carter OF the Ilolston conference.
NJ. E. church, soath, contributes an article
to tho New York Methodist, In which he
pleads for union between the two great
branches of Episcopal Methodism. If DR..
Scarith's plan is not to be accepted he
pleads for organic union.
The Boston Y. NJ. C. A. has received
% new members during March, has given
employment to 81 young men. has given
away among non-church- going people
1921 papers. IS Testaments and 10 Bibles
besides doing large amount of miscclla.
neous work Of special benefit.
The American Sunday school union has
during the past year. organized 521
schools in the southwest, gathered 90, POS
scholars, aided $50 weak schools, distrib.
uted by donation and sale Sl,160,03 worth
OF literature and placed over 1000 Bibles
and Tes amcnts in the various schools
The general conference Of the NJ. f.
church, south. will convene at Nashville
Tenn, May Sd. Besides the election OF
secretaries and editors, several bishops
will be elected and important questions
will come before the body, not tho least Of
which will be the project Of union with
tho NJ. +. church
In their way the Chinese are an odu
Gated people. Al Ichang. Foo city O
fifty thousand inhabitants, three thousand
students lately gathered for the triennla
examinations for literary degrees and dis
tinciions. The studies Of the schools con
sist very largely of the sacred writings O
Confucius and his disciples.
During the last ten years the Church o
Ireland and tho Roman Catholic church il
that country have each decreased AS pei
; per cent, the Prosbyteriaus have decreased
"a per cent, but the Methodists have in
creased 81 per cent. A part Of this in
crease, however, is due to the absorption
Of ono Of the smaller Methodist bodies
hitherto .classed under the head of " Otbe
Denomina tons"
According to DR.. &. r. Crooks Drew
theological seminary is IN need of money
For that matt.r what institution does no
need ali tho money 1t can got and goo,
deal moroP But there have becn SOM