Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-02-13
Religious.

Rev. Jno... Davis will conduct services al
Odessa next Thursday night.
Rev. A, A. Moore will preach at Edenvie"
tomorrow morning at II O'Clock.
There will be the usual services at the
Christian church to morrow morning anu
evening, Elder Swartz officiating.
There will be the usual services AT the
PRESBYTERIAN church tomorrow morning
and evening, Rev. G. l.. Leyburn officiating.
There will be services at the Methodist
church tomorrow morning and evening at
the usual hours, Rev. D.. c. Browne otficia-
ting.
Archbishop Corrigan of New York, receiv-
a cablegram from Rome Wednesday, stating
that Archbishop Gibbons of Baltimore, was
created a cardinal.
Daily services at the Catholic church, 81
O'Clock, q. M; Sunday services 81 and lot
o'clock, a. M, and q O'Clock, p. M, Rev. >.
J. Lilly, officiating.
Christ church, 9th Sunday after Epiphany.
| Sunday school, $50. a. m. Morning PRAYER
with sermon at IL a. IN. Evening prayer
with sermon, 3! O'Clock, p. m. Wednesday
evening service u o'clock, p. m. Rev. John
Davis, Rector.
A protracted meeting is in progress at the
| Baptist church in this city, conducted by
Rev. S. NJ. Brown. The audiences are very
large and attentive, and a great deal of feel
ing is manifested at every meeting. Many
additions have already been made to the
church; interest is undated. The meeting
will continue. Services at the usual hours.
The Holy Synod of the Greek church has
just voted the following sums for the MAIN
tenance of its foreign missions in 1SS6:-For
San Francisco, 90 ,057 rubles; for Varna,
1000 rubles; for Nice, $500 rubles; for
Jerusalem, 1900 rubles; for Pekln, 10 500
rubles, and for Japan, %. 695 rubles. Total,
127, 900 rubles, or $3.50, 900. This looks like
business, but one is tempted to ask-wha,
about home?
At a meeting held in Glasgow a few days
ago the Rev. DIR. Laws, of Livingstonia gave
an encouraging account of the progress OF the
Livingstone Memorial Mission in East Cen
trail Africa, and expressed his belief that the
work going on there was full of hope for the
church. A resolution was adopted in favor o
the appeal for S1OO 900 now made for thu
maintenance and extension of the mis- siol
= during the next five years.
, At the meeting held recently in Glasgow
r the Rev. DR.. Simon, principal of the Congre
g~ational Theological Hall, Edinburg, furnish
ed some interesting statistics regarding rellg
: ion IN Germany. Among the many encOur
n aging signs he instances the Young Men
a Christian Association, of which there al
= four-eastern, western. northern and Saxor
The Eastern Union alone embraces t
branches, and the members in Berlin are t
o. be counted BY hundreds. Next come Sunda
I schools, of which there are 1000, with 3O,W
"a teachers and 800 900 scholars. In Berli
r alone there are upward oil 80 Sunday school
with I. ZOO teachers and Is 900 children. 4
" compared with the great cities of Britain al
America these figures are small, but it Is
l. be remembered that TWENTY-FIVE years as
At there was not a single Sunday school In Be
lin, nor were there more than twenty col
At nected with the state church in the whole {
Germany. City missions. of which theI
" were none twenty years ago, have now
= recognized existence, and in Berlin alo
v. there are now not fewer that twenty-eig
id city Missionaries. Religious meetings
n New Years day for mutual eXhortation a
ID prayer. which have become common all oH
IN the land, are mentioned as presenting snot
err encouraging sign. Sunday association
III having for their object the moral and SPIRIT
welfare of servant girls. have becon
he numerous. The figures indicate a growi
he religious vitality.