Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-03
IN RELIGIONS REALM.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO MINIS
TIERS AND LAYMEN.
Expressions of Opinion by Newspapers
Representing the Various Denom-
nations, on Many subjects.

The RAMS Horn thinks it is risky tryiu
to get TO heaven on your wife's church
membership.
The Roman Catholics have organized il
Japan, with four bishops, at Toxic, Kiotc
Nagasaki and Sendai.
The new Catholic Cathedral in Phila
delphia has been consecrated with grea
ceremony. The cornerstone of the edifc,
was laid in 1916.
The baptisms reported in the Baptist de
nomination the past ten years have aver
aged 344 for every day of the ten years
making in all 1,256,375.
The last census in New Zealand reveals
the interesting fact of profession of re
llgion on the part of no less than 95 PEI
cent. of the whole population.
Rev. F. T. Whitman, of the Brighton
Avenue Church, Boston, Mass, has sailed
for Rangoon, Burmah, where he is to he
come pastorof the English-speaking Baptis
church in that city.
The Lutheran Annual for 1890 give.
the following statistics of the Lutheran
Church in the United States: Fifty Syn.
ods, 1912 ministers, 1911 congregations
and 1,0S6,04S members. An increase OF
about 1000.
The Moravian Church at Bethlehem
Pa, on the 22d of June celebrated its one
hundred and forty-eighth anniversary with
love feast and communion, at which
Bishops Levering and Bachman officiated
respectively.
! DIR. Peck, on returning from China, after
nine years of service, finds that he has q
record of 10000 cases which he has treated
including those who have come more than
once, and that fully $4,000 persons have
thus been brought under his influence.
Maria NJ. Honsington, of Springfield
Mass, bequeaths 81 900 to the American
Board, $1,000 to the New West Educa
tional Commission, $500 to the Woman's
Board, $500 to the American Missionary
Association and $500 to the Missionary
Society.
The Mccormack Presbyterian Theologi.
cal Seminary at Chicago, ILL.,, will send
seven of its thirty-nine graduates this year
at once to the foreign missionary feld-a
proportion of contribution probably not
exceeded by any other seminary IN the
United States
The estimate of the number of Chris
tians IN Ceylon is from 9 to 10 per cent. of
the total population, as follows: Total
population, 100000; Romanists, 100000;
Anglicans, $4,000, Presbyterians, I4OOO:
Wesleyans, $4,000; Baptists, 5000. Total
of Christians, 100000.
During the year 1889, Congregational
churches in fifteen States received SO min
listers from other denominations. as fol-
lows: Methodist Episcopal, 80; other
Methodist bodies, 3; Baptist, 5; Free
Baptist, 6; United Brethren, 8; Presby-
terrain, 5; Cumberland Presbyterian, So !;
United Presbyterian, 8; Lutheran, 8 Re-
formed, /.
The receipts Of the American Board for
the month of May amounted to $50. .255 SO.
indicating an increase over the same
month last year OF nearly $1,000. The
total receipts for the nine mouths of the
present year are S454, ,22S This shows a
gain over the same period last wear OF
Sl23, ,534. OF this gain S30,5 is in dona-
tions and S92,973 in legacies Christian
At Work.
eThe chief religions of the world NAV be
classified according to the number of ad-
herents as follows: Christianity, 45O. O.OOO.-
600; Confucianism, 100000, 900; Hinduism,
10000, 900; Mohammedauism, 1SO, ,O0O. 900:
Fetishism, 150,000,000. Buddhism, lOO.-
100000; Spirit Worship, 50,OOO,OOO; Shin
toism, 22000,000 Jews, 100000; Parsees.
100000. Total, LAS, 900, Mission,
arg Reeie,c.
1t is often true of human characters that
they are reduced in our estimate upon an
intimate acquaintance with them. 1t is
not so with Christ. The more we know of
HIM the more sacred, wonderful, peculiar
lovely. attractive, and divine he appears.
lie becomes more precious TO the heart as
acquaintance and experience more and
more disclose him to the eve of faith.
Such IS Christian experience on earth. and
doubtless such it will be in heaven
independent
The revival of the old Office of Superin.
tendent, formerly in use by the Kirk of
Scotland, the established church. has been
urged by some of the ministers and elders
of the Kirk as furnishing missing-link
between presbyteries and the churches
with the pastors. The project suffered a
very decided defeat in the late general
assembly of the church. 1t had squint
toward diocesan bishroprics, which put it
out of favor with the Presbyterian Scot
Presbyterian Observer
Teachers are seed-sowers. They must
not expect the harvest without previous
sowing of the Word. They must water
what has been sown, watch the germina-
tion, and care for the fruit as it natures.
We too often become impatient for re-
suits. We want the reaping Immediately
upon the sowing; but grace takes time in
bringing about the harvesting. We must
sow in patience, beside all waters. and at
the appointed period conversions and
will occur. As Gods work |
ers, we can afford to await spiritual devel- |
opments.-Church Of To-day.
The report of statistical secretary of II o
recent International Sunday 5 h ool Conye J. |
ton at Pittsburg shows the number of Snn.
105, 1894 in the United States: |
officers and teachers, l,12n,43S; scholars.
S,59S, SOL; total in Sunday schools. 9.179.-
2S4. In Canada-Schoo!s, 6,6S9; officers
and teachers, 55,706; scholars 52S. 800.
total in Sunday schools, 5S4, ,035. In New.
Foundland and Labrador-Schools. 3I4:
officers and teachers, 2,162; scholars. %
Sl7; total in Sanday-schools, 24.979. The
ootings show: Schools, 112,S9l; officers
md teachers, l, l,l7S.30l; scholars, 8, ,149. .997:
otal in sunday-schooIs, lO,S2S, ,29s.
t. B. Lamb, who has been engaged in
work in China for number of
7ears, says the result of the labors of the
Missionaries there is far from discouraging.
There are about 600 Protestant Chinese
onverts in Pekin now. One-fourth of
hem are Presbyterians English is taught
n only one school, as the Bible has been
translated into the Pekin dialect. The
low progress made at first among the Chi
ese has been more than counter balanced |
y the gratifying results during the last
hree years. He believes there are now /.
bout 10000 Protestant and 100000 Cath ..
lie converts in the Chinese Empire.
The statistics of the Congregational
'hurches in Connecticut present the fol-
,wing figures: The total membership up
, January 1st was 5S,905, while there 7
ere 1902 removals for various causes 7
nd 3,205 additions. There were settled h
astors over Ill churches, SO had pastors 7
ithout settlement, 5S had ministers who a
ere not pastors, had licentiates, l .
lyman, l Baptist minister. 8 had Meth I
list ministers, Presbyterian ministers ,o