Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-07-10
RELIoroCs NOTES.

There are in the United States, Canada,
England, and Scotland, s. women's mis-
sionary societies, and they have ,307
missionaries in tho field.
The North Africa Mission has in all So
missionaries engaged in its field Of opera
tons, embracing Morocco, Algeria, Tunis,
TripoIi, and north Arabia.
The committee to revise the articles
of faith of the Methodist Protestant
Church has completed the work OF re-
vision, and the report will be presented
to the annual conference for approval.
The Brotherhood on the Sea- is the
name of new soCIe.y of 300 Norwegian
sea captains, who have pledged them
selves to have regular religious services
ON board their ships, and to conduct
everything there and ON shore in the
fear of God.
The Russian government, it is stated,
looks upon the movement of the Saliva
ton Army with great disfavor. 1t seems
that the army has done much successful
work in different parts of Russia, princi-
pally in Finland, and that it has even
dared to enter st. Petersburg. Energetic
measures are to be t ken, it is understood,
against the Army.
The necessity Of using common sense
in exercising generosity is emphasized by
the little paper called Church Work,
which states that the native women OF
India have rebelled against wearing the
articles sent to them last year from New
York. The list of rejected things in
cludes $4,000 pairs of corsets, 100 pairs OF
rubber carriers, and 3, 800 dresses ribbed
with whalcbone and steel. "-fChrL:oian
Register.
Benn Pitnan, Of Cincinnati, believes
that he is the only person in this country
who has shaken hand that SHOOK tho
hand of the great Wesley. The poet
Crabbe, he says, who was the rector OF
the parish in which | was born, who
christened me, and whose funeral at
to Wesley in his old age, and in the biog-
raphy of the poet, it is said, he vas re-
ceived by Wesley with benevolent po-
iteness.
October 2, 1899, the Baptist Mi sionary
Society WAS organized, the first society
in the world organized exclusively for
sending the gospel to the heathen. The
first offering amounted to about 500.
Now there are 223 evangelical NJ visionary
societies, 1854 foreign missionaries (ovel
5000 of whom are ordained 1ninisters}.
33, 543 native helpers, 6S1 SOB native COM
municants, and in 1890 the contributions
reached 81, 429, 5S5.-[ Missionary r.
view.
Jewish influence in America is on the
increase. The Hebrew population OF
New York is already sufficient to make
a large city. The contribution Of Sc, 400
eco made by Baron Hirsch to be used for
the education and Improvement anG
assistance Of the Jews IN this city wi,
stimulate immigration among this class
Russian persecution, which is driving t..
children of Jacob ont of that country.
will continue to send muftitudes of then:
to these shores.-[New York Christian
Advocate.
We have commented several times oHH
late upon the wonderful growth of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in til, 1
United States. "Whittakers Church
Almanac" for 1891 contains additiono7
Information. The increase of communi-
cants In the last decade was Al per cent.
just double the increase of population.
The increase last year was 81 per cent
In 1910 there were but So, 427 cOmmuni-
cants in the United States, with a popu-
lation of II ,069, 800; now there are "a
949 in Pennsylvania alone, With a popu-
lation of {, PAS, 574.-[Toronto Evangelical
Churchman.
The official Year Book of the Church G.
England" has lately been issued Durin
the last five years the voluntary Offering
Of the people for church building arc
restoration amounted to nearly $25, 0}0.-
600. During the same period the sul>o
contributed for the endowment of bere-
fees amounted to nearly s., o., 900. To,
the building of parsonage houses e.. $50
600 has been raised; and for buiaL
grounds, $4,000. In other words the
voluntary contributions Of the Clur p f.
five years aggregate nearly So 600, J.
This does not include the money gi>..r
for the annual maintenance of church
work at home and abroad, which would
veay largely swell the sum total.