The Evening critic., 1883-04-21
Religious News.

The Hindoos pray to 33O,0oO,Oo0 gods.
Professor Henry Bannister, of Evanston,
ILL.,. died on last Sunday.
The General Convention of the p. E.
Church meets In Philadelphia october 30,
The cornerstone of the new Hebrew Or
phan Asylum in New York will be laid onSthe
10th Of May.
Morocco, peopled by the finest Moslem
race in the world, is said to be wholly closed
to Christians.
A Protestant Episcopal Missionary Con-
ference will be held in Albany, beginning on
the 21th instant.
DIR. B. f. Cocker of Michigan Univer-
sity, died last week. He was q native Of Eng.
land and an able writer.
The Methodist conferences of Maryland
arc in need OF more ministers. SO are many
Of the Eastern conferences.
Recent discoveries of very ancient copies
of the Old Testament Scriptures IN Hebrew
have been made at Yemen, in Arabia.
Five new synagogues are now completed
or In process Of organization. Three In New
Jersey, one In Pennsylvania and one In New
York.
The Presbyterian Board of Missions have
purchased large and valuable building in
san Francisco, CAL, for SOC, 800 for q Chinese
Mission.
Dr. +. II. Newhall, of Worcester Mass,
died two weeks ago. Thus three of Method
ism's most gifted lights have gone out almost
at the same time.
Rev. George I. Moore pastor of Presby-
terrain Church, GAINESVILLE, Ohio, has been
elected professor of Hebrew In Andover Theo-
logical Seminary.
The Old Testament is to be translated
into Japanese for the use of the native Chris
tians by n committee consisting of four Jap
anese and four foreigners.
The General Assembly of the Presby-,
N.Y., and that of the. Presbyterian Church,
| South, at Lexington, KY, at same date.
Assurances have been given to the
| American missionaries by tho King OF Japan
that he will protect them in their missionary
| labors, and will tolerate the Christlon relig-
ion.
Strawberry Alley NJ. Z. Church, Balti-
I more, supposed to be the Oldest Methodist
| Church in the United States, ia to be improved
and made a memorial of Bishop Asbury's work
| in Baltimore,
| The Protestant Episcopal Church in the
| United States Is reported to have 100000
scholars in Its sunday-schools, with 3i,500
teachers, though this estimate Is based only
| on partial returns for the year 1882.
The senior and presiding Bishop of the
| American Protestant Episcopal Church, DR..
Smith, may be said to have been a citizen un-
was ave years old when General Washington
| died.
| The first contract for the establishment
OF mail route in Alaska has been awarded to
| representative of the New York Presby
terian Missionary Society. Tho service will
| be monthly, the distance being one hundred
and flve miles, by canoe.
A contractor is repairing the Presby.
terian Church, on the Indian reservation
near Brant Centre. The Indians are assist
ing him in the way OF furnishing good car.
| penters and painters. The church is noted
for Its magnificent proportions.
The committee is preparing a present
ment against Rev. Heber Newton, aud specln
cations and charges will probably be two, viz
| Violation Of his ordination VOWS ana preach
| ing doctrines that are inconsistent with tho
| articles. II Is believed that Bishop Potter VIII
pay no heed 10 tho charges.
The Passionist Fathers have opened
temporary chapel in Buenos Ayres, In the Ar
gentine Republic, The celebrated PASSIONS
priest, Father Fldelis, known in the world n,
DR.. Kent Stone, and formerly ylce-presiden
OF Hobart Protestant Episcopal College, &c
neya, n. Y, preached the opening sermon.
1t has been decided to close the Presby
terian Theological Seminary at Danville, KY.
at least temporarily, because of lack of funds
its endowment not being suflclent to main
tain even four professorshlps. The seminar.
was opened In 1855, and has instructed abOu
go students, over 100 pursuing the rul
| course,
Gold, Plush and Hardwood
| mOul dlnCs, at yeerlOff's, GIG Seventh street