The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-06
RELIGIOUS AND EpuCAy1oNAL.


Out of population of over 1000,
600 in South Carolina only 1000 are
Episcopalians.
chair of Ecclesiastical History in the
Theological Seminary of the Northwest
to which he was elected, and will be
present at the opening of the next ses
sion.
The Archbishop of Taurida, which
See includes the Crimea, who was foI
many years head of Russian missions in
China, and prepared some valuable
works in the Chinese, is dead at an ad-
vanced age.
One of James Freeman Clarke's
parishioners, a lady of great wealth,
sent him a present of $4,000 on the eve
of his departure for Europe. Heis now
more than seventy years of age, and
hopes to preach until he is seventy-fiVe.
Socrates, Aristotle, Gnosticism,
Platonism, Christian Mysticism, Philos-
ophy of the Bagavad Gita and Fichte's
works, are the subjects of some of the
lectures to be delivered before the Con-
cord school Of philosophy next summer.
I'm the great work of foreign mis-
sions, the Moravian Church is the pio-
neer of the Protestant churches. II
sent its first missionaries to st. Thomas,
in the West Indies, in 1882. The 150th
anniversary of this event is to be cele-
brated on August p.
The following statistics are from
the recent annual address of the Bishop
of Nebraska: Confirmed, 170 persons:
baptisms, 40; marriages, 8; sermons
preached, 1877; addresses delivered, 81;
miles Travelled, 1000; corner-stones
laid, 2; church consecrated, 2.
"A Sunday-closing movement has
been started in Russia under the
auspices of Archdeacon BogoyavlensBy.
Most of the clerks in ST. Petersburg
have signed a petition to the Emperor
asking him to enforce a cessation of all
mercantile business on Sunday.
The new French version of the
Bible, by Prof. SECOND, has attained a
great success, and copy of the New
Testament at three half pence has been
published, of which 100000 were sold
of the first edition. OF the second 50,-
600 copies were sold in three weeks.
"A flood of manuscripts has beer
pouring into Rome in response to an
offer of four gold medals as prizes fol
the best eulogium upon Leo XIII. They
were reduced by selection to seven fol
final decision. Two of the winners are
American, snd not one Italian. The
Pope has, however, rewarded all with
the decoration of his benediction.
The American Baptist missionarie:
speak well of the Telugu converts. Ir
recent letter one of these missionarie:
says: "Three years have passed since
then-years of persecution and trial tc
a great many of the new converts and
of sitting the chaff from the wheat
Some chaff has been blown out, but
only enough to show the genuineness oi
what remains. Nowhere are there any
indications of n collapse, unless it is il
the interest of friends at home. During
tie last year 2,757 were baptized, and
about 1,S00 so far this year-a number
which will probably reach 1000 before
the end of the year, and perhaps more
than that. In fact, there is no one who
can tell what might not be done if the
missionary force were what it ought tc
be in this field. l have baptized with
my own hands converts who have come
from villages ninety to one hundred
miles distant, and who came all that
distance on foot, through mud and rain,
entirely at their own expense, merely
for the sake of being baptized. Out Of
two hundred candidates for baptism
there are seldom more than ten from any
one village, often only one or two; and
they tell of great numbers at home who
are believing, but who cannot come SC
far.n