New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-04
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
NOTE AND CONNIE.

NOTE AND COMMENT OF THE CHURCHES
careful relis OF Pittsburg and Allegheny
County, has inst been taken And as the facts
revealed probably trnc for other places, they are
worth noting the Protestant church members only
g. per cent are males and p per cent females In
Geel the only clergyman who preached to consrega
ton in which the males In majority is the chaplain
of the Pecn larry. Fifteen per cent OF the male me'n-
bers and 10 per cent of the female members are uner
tveutyonc Two persons ont OF every nine outside
OF any church membership an one person out Of every
four is n Roman Catholic. OF the whole population %
Per cent a-e I,regious % per cent are Roman Cath
ocs. and 55 per cent are noninaly Protestant a
slightly larger percentage OF religious people Is found
in the cities in the country although the general
impression is that it IS other way Nearly thirds
the Clerical profession AMI business classes OF
population aro nd in the Protestant churches while
only one ninth the abons classes found 10 thee
chrches: or. put n another nearly NV" hr@ of
the aims in Professionalism. wnie nearly @isnl-
ninths Of the Drawn are OUTSIDE OF frotes+ans iAge
Christian Chnrch substantially includes the whoe popu
latiOn Of this country.
~The Baptist Weekly" OF this city has bean cousol-
dated with Gospel Age, un Ter the name OF The
Christian Inquirer" The Rev. J. Il. Calvert is the
Editor.
An interent layrnln calls attention the fact tbat
RELIGIONS papers often through exava-Ance or state
ment Tho m,st ordinary effort OF q clergyman or
church is referred TO grand" work, or a grand
movement with the result that when really important
referred to there is no aeqnaie description o. IL
possible ne thinks that religious eIioss almost mora
any other class OF mcu are apt 10 DO wanting IN
sense OF proportion.
The Ep.scoDal City Mission Society appeals to the
public for hal-worn clothing for women and chill
dren.
Mr. John D Rockefeller has subscribed $4,000 to the
Ju son Memorial Fund condition that within SIX
mDnths 100000 shall be raised
More than twenty two hundred Young men aad womsn
in the colleges AMI theological seninarie OF this cou.y
/ Law sal To
Mr.. surgeons down grale Theology article in The
sword and Trowe will doubtless be fully discussed at
the April meetings in London IL seems now to lie TIE
opinion that will out OF tho controversy win
dlnnution OF influence TIE Rev. Dr. P1ttson IN iHe
National Baptist" probably expresses the opinion OK
most Baptists in this country when he says that MI
spurge0n has been hurt by his Success. No man." a.
George Eliot slys. whether prophet statesman or pep
uar preacher ever yet kept prolonged hold over a
mixcl multitude wiinOut neing In some measure de
Ea,,i@r denomination OF England VIII 10 FAR to plaeate
r spnrgsOn; bat 1t will never commit ite 10 Ills CAST
irOu views VI theology.
Mr. Joseph Cooks new religious monthly. Onr Day..
starts out we'll II is fag to LOOK uPon typog raphicay
AMI Us articles are able AMI timely. Its associa
editors are Miss Frances T. Willard, temperance, Pro-
! fessor Edmund J. James, Phi d. labor reform; Pro-
/ fessor L. r. TOWNSEND D. D., el1eatoa Anthony Com
stock prevention OF vice; the Rev C. > Boy mise Ons;
the Rev g. f. Pentecost. church WORK Our Day VIII
I undoubtedly become tn unofficial organ OF New
England orthodoxy, Just The Aniover .ryiew mas
become the moulhpsce ol the progressive theology Oh
/ New In gland.
century ago the Pre-. byteran Church in this country
numbered I6 presbyeres, 1si minister's and i3o con-
glrgAtions Nos there are Sc presbyteries sj5j ME
listers ana 1872 congregations While the oopalat'n
of the country has increased fifteen foi' the pres
byteres have increased tweniytour fod "e ciuFcns'
Tcptysix fold AMI the ministers forty foii lac
co-n,,ticsn.s a hundred years numbered 1900:
! uog they nalnler 992.3)j. church that mas grown
Ike thi. has good TO celebrate the cen'ehn Oh
It's existence especially IL IL raises the million dollars i9i
vermont n.nisiprs which u has aet Ant 10 40 tc"s' :
,..tq me centennial state Prc,OYJrr inlsH Las
alreaiy pledgei itself 10 rise onegdd Ter % ln's
Otber large cities assessing t1rulselFrs LOT
suns, 50 taat prospect for raising tie amount -
! good.
New Eng will send very strong delegation 10 INC
coming General Conference OF the Methodist Eliscop1
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