Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-02

way, are anxious for white men to live
with them. We arrived here in hum
dred marches, the marches averaging six
hours. Here my heart was overwhelmed
with the reception | everywhere got from
the Bashilange. Every hill dotted with
large and beautiful villages; the country
teeming with people who have abandoned
tetishiSm, and are waiting for what the
white men can bring them all anxious to
learn, intelligent, have now some idea of
God, want 10 know about everything, faces
| always smiling and every one polite. Go
anywhere over the country and great vii
lagos encounter the eve. The population
is enormous, and is marvelously thick.
Truly, The harvest is great, but the la
borerS are few Few one only. and that
one worth almost nothing. "-Baptist lis
sjoRdTy Magazine.
At the recent session of the New York
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, in New York City, two Young
men who applied for admission to the min
istry, acknowledged that they used tobacco
and were admonished to discontinue its
use. They were also informed that in the
event of their not doing so they would be
refused admission. They complied with
| the request of the Conference and were
duly received. "Stuart" in his New
York Letter" to the Chicago Standard,
says: " This is warning TO and an ex-
ample for many ministerial candidates out
side the Methodist ranks"
Rev. Arthur Richie, of St. Ignatius
Church, New York City, has founded a
| club of men known as the Catholic Club,
whose object is TO commend the forms and
| ceremonies of the Catholic Church as it
was before the Greek and Roman schiSm.
| DR.. Richie claims that the true form of
the ecclesia has been departed from more
widely by the Latin and Anglican COM
munions than by the Greek.
Rev. J. F. Clough says of the quarterly
meeting at Ninukonda: The old priest,
of whom | wrote a few days ago, gave a
clear and ringing experience, and he and
Others to the number of forty-two were
baptized during the meeting
In Great Britain last year 100000
copies of the Bible were issued. The St.
James edition is the most generally used,
the American and the revised" edi-
lions having a comparatively small sale.
The Baptists in this country have 1872
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property and endowments of nearly twenty
millions. The richest is Brown University,
with nearly three millions.
Rev. Charles Sturgeon the great Lon
don preacher, having been presented with
Sl25,0OO by his congregation, Immediately
gave 1t all away to the POOR.
South Carolina Episeopaliaus have eff
fected compromise on the color line, and
will admit the colored delegates on major
lty vote TO the Convention.
Among the Moravians about one in fifty
Is sent as foreign missionary, and the
converts outnumber the home members
three to one.
Hymns Ancient and Modern has
reached circulation of 100000 copies,
the largest of any hymn book published.
There is y. NJ. c. \. Association es-
tablished at Nazareth, the early home OF
| Jesus.
The forty-nine missionaries of the
Friends are doing good work in Japan.
About $500 new churches were estab-
lished in the United States last year.