The Evening critic., 1883-06-30
RELIGIOUS NEWS
OF Personal and Miscellaneous
Character,

Character,
There are at present three Bible societies
at work In Japan.
An effort is making to build church for
deaf mutes in Philadelphia.
A Presbyteria university is to be estab-
lished at Pierre, in Southern Dakota.
The Rev. George Gladstone, brother of
the English premier, is travelling ia Cali.
fornia.
An outline of the temple at Jerusalem,
traced on glass, has been found In the Cata
combs at Rome.
A weekly paper is now published in con-
nection with the Jerry McAuley mission at
Five Points, New York.
The Presbytery of Utah has under its
charge three candidates for the ministry who
are converts from Mormonism.
The Baptist statistics for last year in the
United States show an average OF somewhat
over 1876 baptized on each Lords day.
The Empress Eugenie is about to build a
a ,c cost Of from $500, 900 to $4,000, at Farm.
borough.
The Catholic Bishop of St. Paul, Mimi,
has, in q circular, requested priests to refuse
sacraments to Catholics singing In Protestant
churches.
The Free Masons of Tolouse propose to
erect a monument to the memory OF jean
Calas, the Huguenot, who was put to death on
the rack.
The old parsonage of the Moravian
Church at New Dorp, Staten Island, is to be
removed to new site at the expense OF VIM.
II. vanderbilt.
Grace Church, in New York city, will
have marble spire $50 feet in height, and on
it Will be an illuminated cross, which Will be
seen far out at sea.
There are at present in this country
about seventy Welsh Baptist churches, with
an aggregate membership not exceeding one
thousand persons.
The temperance reform is making rapid
society organized in 1881, with twenty y.seven
| members, now has more than 700.
A sermon will be preached tomorrow, at
II a. M, at 81. George's Hall, 51O Eleventh
street northwest BY Reformed Episcopal
| Union Theological Seminary, New York,
| has property worth $1,730, 900. which is an
| increase of nearly a million dollars as COM
pared with what 1t possessed ten years ago.
Mrs. VIM. II. Harts, of Troy, has given
100000 to the Rensselaer, Polytechnic Insti-
| tute to endow a chair OF rational aud technical
mathematics in honor Of her deceased hus-
| band.
Canon Farrar has been appointed to the
| archdeaconry OF Westminster, which is worth
rector OF ST. Margarets, for which he receives
$500 year.
Peter Coopers children, at the recent
commencement of Cooper Union, announced
amount bequeathed to the institution in their
fathers Will.
The woman's missionary societies now
in successful operation number forty-eight
| OF these thirty-seven are In the United States
four In Canaca, four In England, two IN Ger
many and one in Sweden.
Rev DIR. t. G. Matlock, leading minis
ter OF Delaware, is dead. He was born In Bal
the war, and was chaplain and colonel in tn,
| Seventeenth Illinois Volunteers.
At the recent session of the Genera
Council OF the Reformed Episcopal Church
Bishop Cheney and Rev. W. II. Barnes wer
| appointed as fraternal delegates to the Gen
eral Conference of the M. +. Church.
At recent meeting of the Army of Sal
walton, In Exeter Hall, London, England, Gen
eral Booth stated that the association number
491 corps, 100000 officers and soldiers. Tn
receipts for the year had been about $7o0,0
Rev. Theodore G. Williams, of Winches
ter, near Boston, has accepted call TO b
DR.. Bellows successor In All Souls Church
New York lie is about so years OF age, an
was the orator Of his class at Harvard Uni
| versity.
In New Zealand there is a movement OF
foot for the union of all the various Methods
bodies, including the Primitive, the Free an
! Weeleyans. Committees OF conference TO pre-
| pare the way for union have been appoiatet
| and will meet in July.
Even in Italy efforts are now making 70
a better observance of the Sabbath. Man
| places OF business are closed on the Lord
day, with the notice posted, CLOSED all SUI
day on account OF adhesion to the humanitl
rian principle OF Sunday repose."
According to the Missionary Reuie0 tn
Hindoos ''not only believe In probation In on
state OF existence after death, but they b.
lieve in S,400,000 successive periods OF o.
istence, each beginning with birth and endin
with death, and probation continued In eac
| and all OF them"
The report of the Rutzen farm, nea
Rhlnebeck, N. Y, where the home for worn-ol
Methodist minister's was established, show
\ the floating debt paid and 5000 In the treai
| ury. A. V. Stout and j. b. Cornell have col
tributed two cottages, already erected, an
Mr.. shuckley, the donor OF the farm, has give
| $1,000 for chapel.