The National tribune., 1882-11-09
FOR SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
A Little Something About What is Going On In the
Religious World.

Little Something About What is Going On In the
Religious World.
Bishop Talbot, of Indiana, has resigned his
charge.
The Rev. Mr.. Green, who was SO long i'm
prisoned in England, has at last been released.
There are 92G53 Protestant churches in the
United States, with =, 6G2 ministers, and 9,OO3.
O30 members.
The Church Union says that one smoking
clegyman carries with him more devastation to
boys than thousand street loafers.
A movement has been started in England for
the erection of a chapel or some suitable me-
mortal to John Wesley, at Epworth, his birth
place.
General" Booth, of the Salvation Army,
has given an order for several thousand pairs
of leggings, which will, in future form part of
the army uniform, and will be called "SaIva-
ton" leggings.
The United Brethren Church was organized
by Otterbein in 1774, in Baltimore Md, and
the first conference was held in Baltimore in
1889. The latest statistics would show the fol-
lowing: Organized churches, 400; members,
157,712; church editices, $3.50.
The Sandwich Islands have more varieties
of religion than any other territory of equal
extent outside of the great cities and their i'm
mediate surroundings. To add to the variety
already in operation, two native evangelists
have now commenced work. One of these has
quite gift in singing, and therefore the pair
have acquired the name Of the Hawaiian Moody
and Sankey. They draw large audiences.
In British Guiana there are three missions of
the Church of England for the coolies. The
coolies are laborers from the East Indies. of
whom there are about $4,000. Each coolie mis-
sion is superintendent by a clergyman. who has
catechists and teachers under him. These as
sistants are in the habit of preaching to the
coolies in their native language. Missionaries
are now to be stationed along the Pomeroon
and EssequibO Rivers.
The treasurcr's report of the Women's For
eign Missionary Society, read at the meeting of
the executive committee, held in Philadelphia
November ID, showed that the total amount
raised by the society in the last eighteen
months was $l9567S. This amount was con-
tributed by the various branches, as follows:
New England, $27 1921; New York, $37. So
81; Philadelphia, $21 ,183.4s; Cincinnati. 800
377.06; Northwestern, $37,95098; Western.
$26,35s.42; Baltimore, $14,305.32
A curious old gentleman in New York has
been collecting sermons until he now has about
twelve thousands Of all sorts. He began nearly
thirty years ago. He laid up bound volumes
at first, but later he preserved the sermons he
found in pamphlets or fully printed in period
icals. In order that he might arrange his ma
terial he learned book binding and for all these
years he has given his nights and holidays to
the work of arranging, indexing, and SYSTEM
atizing his material.
The Baptist Theological Seminary at Rama
patan, in India, is doing great work in train
ing young men for the ministry Last wear
thirty-one out of forty-seven of the senior class
remained for fourth years study and a new
class of forty-fve entered. During the vaca-
ton many of the students visited the Telugu
villages in the neighborhood and preached with
great acceptance. The Telugu mission field has
yielded more converts in proportion to its size
than any other mission field in the world.