The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-11-25
TILE DAILY Argus.
CHURCH NEWS.
DOings of Preachers and People Throughou
Christendom

Christendom.
Mrs. Van Colt is holding a series of yer,
successful meetings at Syracuse, N. Y.
Father Ryan, known as the poet prizes
OF the South, is to lecture in New Eng
land
In many parts of China and Japan there
is but one missionary to four millions OF
people.
The Siamese language is so poor that il
is found difficult to translate the Scrip
lures INTO it.
In forty years of labor Rev. DIR. Hill
trained 10000 girls in his famous school
in Greece
The expediency of establishing Ro.
man Catholic archiepiscopal see in the
North of England is under consideration.
Union Springs, N. Y, has /, 200 inhabi-
tants and eight churches. One congrega-
ton numbers one man and three women.
Sacrifices" for the repose of the soul of
DIR. Pussy have been offered in some of the
ultra ritualistlc churches in England.
DR. Blyden, the president Of Liberia col
lege, believes that the instrument for At
rlcan evangeliZation must be the African
himself"
who was the meekest mang" asked a
Sunday school teacher Moses" Very
well; who was the meekest woman?"
Never was any"
In the established church of Scotland no
fewer than eighty-six applications for the
vacant charge of Craigie parish, i'll Ayr,
shire, We're received
The new difficulties surrounding the
Church, according to the Archbishop of
York, are Darwinism Materialism. and
the democratic spirit of the age.
The Western Christian Adeocnte saws the
present pastoral term may BE- long enough
for country circuits, but it is not long
enough for towns and cities"
The first Monday in January has been
as day of general fasting and
prayer for the colleges and general interest
of the Methodist Episcopal church
Detachments of the Salvation Army are
at work in Baltimore. Philadelphia, Pater-
son, n. J, Allegheny City, Pa, and Tor
onto, London and Hamilton, Canada
General Booth writes to the St James's
Gazette denying that the line For He's q
jolly Good Saviour" appeared in the
War Cry, an organ of the Salvation Army |
The Evangelical Synod in Basic has
passed a resolution that baptism shall not |
AASSNESthA
of the Sacrament. This will necessitate |
an alteration in the Catechism.
The Methodists of the city of Mexico
recently granted the use of their church to |
Bishop Hernandez and several presbyters
Of the Church of Jesus who had been de
MED access to their own church
Rev. Mr.. Green, the notorious vicar of |
Niles Plating, England who has been so |
ono irreY9riCOnp5 for .ff
Ias resigned his benefce and will proba- /
ply soon be released from durance vile
The Rev II. o. Hiscock will preach in
Association Hall every Sabbath morning
md evening until the new church edifice |
low in course CT erection for the Stanton
treet Baptist church on Twenty-third
treet, corner of Lexington avenue, is COM
1leted.
A clergyman at Richmond, Va, while
conducting funeral service, prayed for |
he undertaken, and the Religious Herald
avs the novelty of the petition startled !
he audience and brought smile even to |
he deeply saddened face of the under
aker'
Arab has been faring rather hardly in
ne Scottish pull pit, if all stories are true.
me minister in Forfarshire is reported as
aving preached a war sermon in viii oh
G declared that ''if he could lay his han Dis
n the rebel he would, with the greatest
leasure, hang him over the precentor's
ulpit.
Miss Whately, daughter of the famous
has long carried on mission
y work of great interest in Cairo at her
WI charges The Khedive has presented
7r with land for her buildings and her
afro schools number 800 boys and 200
rls, more than two-thirds of the girls and
alf of the boys being Moslems. She has
branch school of ninety pupils at |
amietta.