The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1886-10-06
FOREIGN CHURCH NEWS.

DEATH OF DR.. w. F. STEVENSON "A
despatch from Dublin announces the death on
the 10th of the Rev. W. Fleming Stevenson, y.
D., one of the leading ministers OF the Presoy'
terrain Church and chairman OF the Committee
OF Foreign Missions OF the General Assembly, In
the interest of which he visited all the mission
stations in India. He also visited this country
and refused calls to several leading pulplts.
His death was quite sudden after twenty min
utes sickness, Mr. George II. Stuart informs us.
The paper which DR.. Stevenson read TO the Bel
fast council was a stirring one.-Ffesoyterldn
Journal.
"A very interesting missionary meet
ing was held in Kinning Park Free Church,
Glasgow, few days ago, to bid farewell to Rev.
DR.. Dalzel and three young men who have
since left for South Africa, there to engage In
missionary work in connection with the Gordon
Memorial Mission. DR.. and Mrs. Dalzel will
resume their work among the Zulus. They are
ACCOMPANIED by Mr.. w. r. Noodle, who Is to
take charge OF the boys and girls schools, asd
by Mr.. and Mrs. Mundell and family who
will manage the farm. Thanks to the llberali-
ty of Mr. ]. Campbell White of Overtoun, who
bears the whole cost of the establishment OF
branch of the mission, DR.. Dalzell will be able
to begin another work such as Is being carried
on at the Douglas" Station, founded by the
Glasgow Free Church students. The branch
will be named "Overtoun," and be under the
care of Mr. and Mrs George Bruce, who went
out by the same steamer. The Earl of Aberdeen
and his mother have promised $1,000 for the
building of a mission church for the Gordon
Memorial Mission above referred to-N. Y.
Evangelist.
The Holy Synod of Russia has Just
decided that Russian soldiers must observe Lent
in the most rigorous way. They will have to
fast not only during the four g great Lents'
yearly but also every Wednesday and Friday,
and the six great days of prayer and repentance.
This is the calculation: The Great Lent (of
Eastern 70 days; Petrofki Lent, 20 to So
Usspenski Lent II; Filippoffski Lent, 80; six
days of prayer and repentance, 6 81 Wednes-
days and 81 Fridays, 81; total, 10 to 200 days.
on which dates neither meat, nor hsh during
the Easter Lent, nor eggs, nor milk, nor even
sugar are allowed. The officers assert that the
physical strength of the soldiers must inevitably
suffer from the new regln en-
SABBATH REST ON THE CONTINENT,
AT Berlin 1000 carpenters and joiners have
petitioned the Reichstag to pass law to secure
rest from labor on Sunday. This would not
only ensure rest for the petitioners, but would
give employment to a larger number of work.
men. At Dresden large glass mandatory
recently dismissed about 1000 men for refusing
10 work on Sunday. The managers required
them to work at least half the day. In the
Canton OF st. Gall, the Council has decided that
henCeforth all places for the sale OF intoxicating
drink shall be closed on Sunday mornings, and
in several towns of Canton Vaud the druggists,
hair-dressers, and BARRIERS have agreed to close
their shops at noon on Sunday.-Bulletin Do
nlinicGl.
Ministers seeking churches and can
didating are not peculiar to this country A
foreign exchange says: " There upwards of
100 applicants for the vacancy at Parton, and
the congregational committee has recommended
that the following candidates be heard viz.
Messrs. A. H. Mathers. l.. L. D., Edinburgh
Harvey Nichol, B. D, Inverness James B.
Nicoll, Largo, Andrew Haldane B. D.. assistant
Lady Yester's Edinburgh and George Murray,
3. D., assistant st. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh"
CHRISTIAN PROGRESS IN WESTERN
TURKEY.-Rapid progress, and a normal and
promising growth in nearly every direction, has
attended the evangelistic efforts of Christian
missionaries In western Turkey. At the Marso-
van Station, during the last ten years, the num-
Der of Protestants has increased from l076 to
2,012; the Sunday congregations, from pa to
1890; the pupils in the schools, from $40 to l :
1856 the Church members, from 207 to 4S8 the
contributions from EST to 9503. At the Ire
bizoud Station, during the past year. the Pro.
testants have increased from 236 to 285, more
than 20 per cent the scholars in the schools,
from 10s to 140 nearly 30 per cent the at
tendance on public worship, from 2l0 to 80,
nearly 48 per cent. and contributions from
1923 to $407 or &c per cent