The Lake Charles echo., 1885-02-28


notice being taken Of the compan,
they keep.
4 Tho Baptist churches in New Yorl
and Brooklyn are reported to hc no
only prospering, but growing IN mum
bers and influence.
/ Rev. D.lF. Head Of Arcadia, has ac
cepted the pastorate of the First Bap
ltistt Church at this place, and is on
lpected here in few days.
1 Rev. Theodoric Pryor, of Virginia
father of Roger a. Pryor, Of New
y ork City, has completed SO years oi
life, and breaches regularly with ai
most perfect yigor of body aud mind
Hew IEofk Observer.
Itis stated that a Methodist Uni.
versity is to be establislIedInW Western
Missouri or Eastern Kansas. Topeka,
Kansas, bids fair to be giventhe choice,
as the local church offers to furnish
the site, and wealthy citizen is said
to he willing to give 5000, ,OO0 toward
Hit, if it be named afterlllim.
English Baptists report, 1861
churches; Q 1874 chapels, with sitting
accommodations for $50 sos !; i ,434
pastors, and 3S4,ol3 Sumdav-school
scholars, with 39,035 teachers; an in
crease since last year Of 20 churches,
1897 members, l9 pastors, 29,2l2
Sunday school scholars, and 1887
Snnday-school teachers.
There is an Indian missionin Polk
county, Texas, presided over by Rev.
w. l., Gurrie and his wife, Presbyte-
rians, which has done great good "A
church was organized last fall, com
posed of fifteen of these Indians and
their venerable Mingo, or chief, John
Scott. Amy funds sent tito Rev. Thorn
as Ward White, evangelist Of the
Presbytery of Eastern Texas, Bean
mont, Texas, to aid in support Of the
work, will be thankfully received and
forwarded in the proper channel
From the Times we learn that the
Baptist church at Sabine Pass, Texas,
Rev. W.RgBriscoe, pastor, has preach
ing the lst, Bird and 4th Sundays, at
II A. NJ, and Z 7. NJ. while the Meth
.odist church, Rev IL. IL. Vaughan,
pastor, has preaching the end Sunday,
at II A. NJ and Up, NJ The Baptist
church has Sunday-school every Sun
day at $3.50 A. M., and the same paper
says: "The Methodist Sunday-sch00l
was largely attended last Sunday, there
being so persons present
The Jewish Messenger, with com
mendable liberality, says "We are
not called upon to defend our Chris
tian neighbors. But when Mr.. Inger-
soil challenged the Christian church
to produce a. man like -AleSaatier
Humboldt, he forgetss Alexander
Agassiz, who was a deyout christian
to the last. And Father Secchi was
not the less an astronomer for having
been a Catholic priest" Robert In
gersolI has signally failed to proge
the mistakes Of Moses, while his own
are patent to all. His im-
potent warfare against christianity, as
well as his puerile attempts to deride
both the Jewish and Christian by his
insane attacks upon the Bible, have
found favor with meme save with
cranks like nnto himself.
The past year in Japan has been.
one of continued prosperity in all
branches of Christian work. The
mass Of the people, heretofore so in
different about religion, now manifest
a general spirit of inquiry The ma
tive priests have become alarmed and
have organized concerted plan of
opposition to christianity, but heath
enism is nevertheless on the wane.
This is peculiarly encouraging at %
time when christianity is being so
persistently assailed in this country
by men who have failed to gettthc
notoriety they coyet in any other way.
1t is singular fact that while christi
anity, both Catholic and Protestant,
is spreading in heathen lands, that
men in cllristendom who have fiiIed
TO become famoas (l) in any other
line should become, in name, atliists,
deists, iHfdels, eyolntionists, and 80
on, forth sake Of gettinglnown.