The morning call., 1891-11-07
TIE RELIGIOUS, WORLD.
Items of Interest From the DIFF.
ferent Denominations.

Bishop Nichols will return to the South
next week to complete his visitation.
Thus far this year eight new Congrega-
tional churches have been dedicated in Ore
gon.
In all parts of the country junior societies
OF Christian Endeav0r are opening up. In
these the children from s to IA are taught to
pray, to do Christian work and TO give ut
teranees in an appropriate way to their love
for Christ. At suitable age they graduate
into the regular society. These societies
have proved exceedingly useful as training
schools, because in them instruction and
practice can be happily combined.
October 25th Dr. Gunsaulus of Plymouth
Congregational Church, Chicago, asked the
congregation for $500 for the City Mis-
sionary Society and $500 for the mis-
sion of the church. The amounts were at
once collected.
A Baptist missionary in Burmah is proud
to say that he numbers Buddhist priest
among his converts. 1t is very rare indeed
that priest Of tie Buddhist faith abandons
his religion. Twelve years ago this particu-
lar priest would not sit on the same level
with Christian nor take so much as tract
from his hands. A II things are changed since
his conversion. He has cast off his sacred
robes, taken a wife and settled down to
useful life as blacksmith while preaching
on Sundays.
The constitution of the Christian En-
deavor Society has now been translated into
German, French, Swedish, Norwegian SPAN
lsh, Chinese. Tamil and Fiji, and it is being
rendered into Armenian and Turkish and
other languages with which American mis-
SlonaTleS are cDnvarSaDt
The United Presbyterians of Scotland are
the missionary church next To the Moravian
Their SO churches with 1S5, 600 members and
10000 Sunday school children contributed
ME a
or one-fifth of their whole receipts. The
number of converts on their stations is
10000, with yearly increase of 600
Those who remember the difficulty with
which permission was obtained from the
Turkish authorities for the esta blishment of
Robert College, 1.-The Home" at Constautj
nople, and other educational institutions in
Turkey, will appreciate the significance of
the words used by the official sent to repre-
sent the Minister of Public Instruction at
the recent commencement of the Girls
College. He publicly thanked the Trustees
anu faculty Tor their labOrs in behalf of an
important interest OF the Turkish empire.
and declared that the Government recog-
nlZed the college as one of the Institutions
which is worthllY fulfilling the object for
which it was formed. These phrases were
written and approved by the Minister before
being read a. theirollege.
Christ Church at the Navy-yard. Washing
ton, celebrated its eighty-fourth anniversary
iCSchtiJ' Ii 10 the uiucSL CLUTCH IN the city,
the congregation still occupying the church
erected in 1907, in which President Madison
worshiped.
Some fifty or sixty of Mr.. Spurgeon's SER
mons are in course of being translated into
Medu by native catechist of the Punjab
The Baptist Missionary Union sends out
this year the largest number of mission
aries ever sent In single year. Forty-four
OF the sixty are newly appointed. The
largest band-eighteen-go 10 Burmah, that
field where Baptist effort has been so
greatly blessed from the beginning. Ten
go to the Teiugus of India, eight to Assam,
and the remainder are scattered in China,
Japan and Africa.