The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-09-06

synod has twenty -four congregations and over
5000 souls. Several new congregations In
Minnesota Joined this year. A mission has
been started in Utah. where there are . num-
Der OF ~lcelanders who have been led by de-
ceptiye Mormon missionaries.
e.
A decision has been rendered in the long,
contested equity suit between the liberal and
radical factions Of the United Brethren in
Christ. arising out of the adoption of a new
constitution at tho general conference in
1889. Judge Stewart gives his decision in
favor of the liberal party, affirming that their
course Is legal. and that they have O right to
hold the property. There will be- an appeal
70 the supreme court.
A novel plan for extinguishing a church
debt has been hit upon in Melbourne. Aus
tralia. The church committee or vestry, as
the case may be. divide the total debt among
themselves, and each man insures his life for
the amount that falls 20 his share. Tbs poll
cies are transferred TO the church and the an
nual payments on them are made out of the
collections. Then. Of course, as the members
OF the committee drop on" tho sum in
sured on their lives drop in, and later, when
the only survivor dies. the last instalment Of
the church debt is paid.
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The Christian Intelligencer has a good word
TO say for the jew in this country. commend
ing the liberality and wisdom with which
they manage their institutions for the relief
OF sickness. suffering, poverty and ignorance.
1t says. Their hospitals and industrial
schools are among the best in tho country,
and within q few years they haze been carry
ing 10 an increasing efficiency schools and
methods for the benefit of the large
body of Jews which has been coming
- the republic from Poland and
Russia In New York. in Philadelphia and
gtlar Ott-ao tLa.-L loo 60 ~ $500 -
ployment fOrtheso immigrants, assisting them
as has been necessary until work was obtained,
and have maintained day and night schools
for adults and children, in which instruction
in English and elementary branches of know
ledge has been given. But what this para
graph is especially intended 10 notice is that
q prime motive in all these efforts has been
70 ft the immigrant Jews for an intelligent
and proper discharge Of their duties ns citi-
zens. To attain this, instruction Is given in
various forms in the principles on which our
free government is founded, in the manner in
which the government is organized, and in
what Is essential to Its perpetuation.
In Moscow a conference of missionaries
was recently held for the purpose of discuss
ing ways and means Of bringing into the fold
of the Orthodox Church the hundreds Of
thousands Of Dissenters in the Empire. and
especially the Stundists. or Bible Christians.
NbO III Itccub years nave AuCIthbtu III u TO-
markable manner. 1t is characteristic of the
spirit OF the Russian Church, and a testi-
monium paupertatis of a most lamentable
character for the spiritual weakness
Of that communion, that the result
of the deliberatiOn was an appeal to
the brute force of the State to suppress
these heretics, whom the arguments and
appeals Of the ecclesisstics will not convert
or pervert. The methods and manners EN-
ployed in the suppression Of Professionalism in
the Baltic provinces in late years appeal
strongly to these unsuccessful missionaries.
In the midst Of this dreary outlook it ls
pleasant TO note that these mission methods
meet with the condemnation of at least a
few Russian papers. The Russkaja Shisu
(Life Of Russia has protested against this
of cruelty. 1t condemns the pro-
posals of the Archbishop Of kief. that the
Stundists be forced out of the factories and
the railroad services that guardians be placed
over their children: that they be forbidden TO
have schools Of their own; that they be de-