The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-14
CHURCH NEWS.
Doings of Preachers and People Throughout
Christendom.

There is only one Congressional church
Ia Baltimore.
Moody and Sankey begin to-day a series
of meetings in Paris.
The Salvation army holds in different
parts of the British Islands $500 services
every week.
The Mormons continue to send missiona-
ries to Europe and to make converts to
their doctrine by the hundred.
There are on Manhattan Island seventy
nine Episcopal churches, with total of
35, 275 communicates.
There are 610 names of Cinnamon on
the rells of Sabbath schools in New York
and Brooklyn and the average attendance
is 331.
The Presbyterian church of Canada is
raising 100000 to build churches for
the immigrants who are pouring into
Manitoba.
During the past century the population
of the United States has increased eleven
fold and the churches have increased
thirty seven fold.
The Protestant Evangelical churches of
this city have now about 1870 mission
rooms where Sabbath schools and Gospel
meetings are held
There are 5000 Swedes in Worcester,
Mass, and philanthropic Christians are
devising means for the erection of a
church for them.
The United Presbyterian Foreign Mis-
sion Board has directed its missionaries
who fed to England to return at once to
their work in Egypt.
The death of Rec. George T. Dedds is
announced from Paris. He was the SON
in-law of DR.. Horatius Bonar and an indie
fatigable worker in the McAll mission.
The CAurchman proposes that the COM
ing centennial year of the Episcopal
Church in this country be observed by re-
moving all debt from 8, 200 parishes.
At Rheinfelden, Germany, the Catholics
offeced the use of their church to the Prot
estants for the installation of new pas
tor, and many of them attended the SER
vice.
Mr.. Won Schluembach, who was sue
cessful as an evangelist among the Ger
mans in New York and other American
cities, is on tour of evangelization among
the lower classes in Germany.
The young people of the South Church
of Springfield, Mass, turn their church
parlors on Sunday afternoon, from 5 to
7:30 o'clock, into free reading room sup
piled with religious papers.
Woman has too long been mere
camp-follower of the Chris
tian host" says Mrs. Melissa A Stanley,
who favors wider field of work for her
sex in connection with the church.
The revised edition of Luther's Bible.
which has just been completed in Germa-
ny, is to be subjected to public
criticism for two years. when sec
ond revision win be made and an author
lied version printed.
When DR.. j. V. r. Ta1lmage went to
Annoy about forty years ago there were but
two Christians in that great city When
he left it last year there were over dozen
Christian churches with membership of
over a thousand.
ITO morrow is Sunday, isn't it, mann
mar '.Yes, dear" ''Mayn't / play with
the cards and build castles with them?"
Certainly not, dearp But. mamma,
you know, if l built church with themT'
Rev. DR.. Chamberlain says: There is
a tremendous upheaval gong on all
through India at the present time, and
fear that Hinduism is going to fall to
DC1OIC bLC Vi 1AIiSt IGdU1
to seize the fragments of the ruins
and build up the temple of the Lord"
Pastor Geyser, of Elberfeld, a man of
great learning and a champion of the
evangelical faith in Germany, is dead. So
great was his interest in the Free Univer-
sity of Amsterdam that he came to Holland
to attend its opening and recited
a Latin poem on that occasion.
The Census Commissioners In their re-
cent publication of the statistics of county
Antrim and the Borough of Belfast, north |
Of Ireland, thus classify the religious |
Presbyterians, 43 6; Epis |
oopalians, 80 8; other Protestant denomin- |
atoms, 10.4 Roman Catholics, 227.
A famous North Carolina clergyman |
while preachin G a few Sundays ago from |
Ihe text, ''He giveth his beloved Sleep" |
stopped in the middle of the discourse, |
gazed upon his slumbering congregation |
and said: Brethren, it is hard to reali re |
she unbounded love which the Lord ap- |
pears to have for a large portion of my |
auditory"
The decennial missionary conference |
assemble at Calcutta in December |
viii be organized under the presidency of Sir |
Harry Ramsey, who is good friend of the |
Missions in India. A special interest pre-
7ails at present in the various Indian |
Missions on the subject of united prayer |
inr Christian work in that land