The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-05-15
Church News Items.


Church News Uems.
The Bishop Of Maryland has thirty-four
Young men in his class preparing for ordina-
ton.
Congregational ministers are asking the
London religious journals not TO put "Reye-
rend" before their names.
At the 7 a. NJ. celebration in ST. Georges.
New York. on Easter day, 1885 persons re-
ceiyed the Holy Communion.
Bishop Thoburn writes that over 1900
persons were baptized in 1891 In the missions
Of the American MethodiSts in northern
India.
At the last annual meeting of District As
sembly No. 40 Of the Knights Of Labor, j, was
decided that all officers Of the Assembly must
be total abstalners.
1t is said that Senator Stanford. Of Caltoi-
MIA, Will devote the $4,000 received from the
sale OF one Of his valuable uotiers 10 the
education OF l25 young men at the Leland
Stanford, Dr., University.
New York, New Jersey, ohio and Ken
lucky, through their Legislatures, have re-
quested that the Columbian Exposition be
closed on Sunday.
-.
The Bishop of Madras is now in the thirty
first year Of his epscopate This is the
longes; record OF any Bishop In India. /; has
been his happiness TO see the native Chris
tians in his diocese increase from about
1000 10 10000.
Missionaries Of the Norwegian Missionary
Society have established a leper settlement at
AutsiTabe, in Madagascar, containing besides
thirty cottages chapel and hospital.
Ninety-eight lepers are now at this asylum.
\ number OF them have been baptized, and
there is church for lepers only.
The Supreme Court Of Minnesota has de-
cided that the deed of property worth 100000.
IN Minneapolis, under the will of Richard
Martin, OF Red Hook, New York for the
support OF ;. Barnabas' Hospital. in Mime
apolis, holds good. The property was 10 re-
vert TO st. Luke's Hospital, New York city
in the event OF the Protestant Episcopal
churches Of Minneapolis failing TO agree 10
support the ;. Barnabas Hospital.
NJ. dHulst, rector of the Catholic Institute
of France, deporing the present ignorance OF
the Bible in France, recalls the large use
made OF IL IN the Roman Catholic preaching
Of the seventeenth century. He declares the
rese"y alton Of II 20 the clergy 10 be a novelty
in the Church Tue Able GARNER has issued
under episcopal sanction, popular edition
of the Gospels in French. with the inscrip-
ton: LET France return TO the Gospel"
The British Medica, Journal saws: 'Russia
has been infected with the vice of ether
drinking, and The perDcOus habit has spread
So rapidly that the Government has Judged
1t necessary 10 prohibit the free sale OF ether
and OF certain of - compounds, and 10
schedule it among the poisons the sale Of
..l.
surrounded with severe restrictions, az was
lalely done IN Ireland.
-.
The income Of the synodical scheme Of the
English Presbyterian Church for the past
year has been: For Foreign Missions, f9729
as compared with IS i59 u the previous wear:
Home Missions, 8l,T7O as against { ,7sl
Jewish mission. 1878, an increase OF E23; for
Continental churches, t4l6, AS against 1880:
for the College, tS23 against fS9T in the pre-
vious year; instruction OF youth, $3.50 a
falling Oh OF G3i; sustentatiOn fund aid
$685., against tj,05l in lS90-msking a total
Of Elo,S5S as compared with 4l7,719 in the
previous year.
The Armenian Catholic Church has adopted
the Gregorian Calendar. This was done
chiefly through the influence of the present
Patriarch AzaIian. TIE It'll of January. Old
Ntfi's NSo NhaH-cA ~ lut lJlu OF January, !
New Style. The Orthodox Armenians. In
contrast with the United and the Catholic
Armenians. had resented this step from
national grounds. However, the persecu.
tons which they endured at the hands of
Russia have robbed them OF the hope of a
restoration Of the Armenian nation with the
help Of the Gar and as a result they have
turned TO the Occidental peoples.
-
The life OF Miss Alice NJ. Bacon, author of !
Japanese Girls and Women is one that !
should be an inspiration 10 any woman She |
has taught in the Normal school for Indians
and negroes in Hampton, Va. for nearly ten
years without salary, with all interval of |
nearly two years spent in Japan, where she |
taught among the japanese peeresses Be. |
sides teaching five classes day in the Hamp- |
ton school, and caring for a little mOiherless |
japanese girl, she riDds time to supervise the |
new Dixie hospital aud training school for
colored nurses, which she has founded and 10 |
which she has given the closest attention. |
The rest OF her time is given to editorial
work on the Hampton school paper and 10
Aocial duties.