Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-08-18
THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.
Notes of Events Which Are Occurring
III It

by the young people of the Baptist
union i'll founding their society organ.
More than 1900 members of the
Christian Endeagor society have united
with the church during the pas, year.
The recent Christian Endeavor con-
Ven>ion at Montreal was not so large
nor enthusiastic as that of last year.
although 5000 delegates were in at
tendance.
There are now Ill woman mission
aries in India. These have access to
4o.o13 zenanaS and have 62.414 girl
pupils in the mission school
The American Bible society has been
presented 10y President Gilman of
Johns Hopkins university fac simile
Of the Chaldcan flood ,ablet, recon
Structed by Professor Haupt
Bishop Tobias Mullen of the Catholic
diocese of Eric. Pa. celebrated his
silver jubilee on Wednesday. August
>. 1t Eric. Cardinal James Gibbons
, of Baltimore was present at the scrv-
ices.
The religious census of the United
States shows that there are over ten
thousand members of the denomination
which calls itself The Old
Spirit Professionalism BaptiStS.
Rev. DR.. John +. Spence, late presi
dent of L. $. Grant university, Athens.
Tenn. is spoken of as che head of the
projected Prohibition university at
Hartman. Tenn, to open this fall.
According to the Yearbook of the
congregational church for 1893. just
/, issued, there are in this country 5,140
churches and 542,725 members i'll
crease of 155 parishes and 17.62S MEM
bers over last year.
On July Rev. G. l.. Blodget, celc-
brated the close of his fifty years
service as pastor of til" Congregational
church, Greenwich, Mass. He still
reads chapter in the New Testament
every morning.
Boston friends of Rev f. T.. Clark
president of the Christian Endcavor
socie,y. recently presented him Il por-
trait of himself surrounded by the
flags of al the countries visited by
him i'll his journey around the world.
The Nova Scotia Wesleyan confer
cncc has decided that Mary Dauphine
has IL legal right to sit on Il perfect
equalit! with ,he male members in
that body. She is the first woman
to be admitted to i Methodist confer
cnce in America
The intcrn, ti0nal Christian confer.
encc. which will be held in Chicago
from October 20 Is by the Evangcli-
Cal Alliance, will probably be one of the
most attractive Of The many confer
cnces held liz connection with the Col
umhian exposition.
Twenty-siX adult converts from the
Roman Catholic church were recently
received into the Protestant Episcopal
church lin Dublin, ireland. Most of
them are parents of children who have
been attending the schools of the
Irish church missions.
Rev. George L. Mains Of New York
was elected president of Allegheny
college, MeadyilLe, Pa, to succeed che
retiring president, DIR. ID. III. Wheeler.
DR. Mains declines and DR.. Cleveland
of indianapolis is mentioned as Il cap
able and worthy person for the position.
Rev. George Douglas of the ThcolOgi-
cal college 1T Toronto is such Il pro-
nomced anti-Romanist that The Chris
tian EndcavOr society officers required
him to- submit his speech for inSpcc-
ton before delivery at the recent con
vention, and several passages We're
stricken out.
The Russian government proclaml-
ton ordered Il small colony of Luther
an farmers of German origin to re-
nounce their religion and join the
Greek church. Nearly all refused.
They were considered outlaws and were
subjected 20 great suffering and hard
ships not only by the representatives
of the government but also by their
neighborS.
Secretary Gresham, writing 10 the
Presbyterian foreign missions board,
says: Il am informed by the secretary
Of the navy that there is not at present
on the Asiatic station any vessel cap
able # entering Siamcse waters. Mis-
siOnarics should communicate vita the
legation Of bangkok for the usual
diplomatic protection"
The Presby tcrians Of the northern
United States want to raise for the
year 1S93-94 900 for foreign
missions a1on2. Last year they raised
over million dollars for home mis-
Sions, including the work among the
freedmen. AS with tie Baptists, they
transferred the Indian missions from
the foreign to the home mission
board.
Professor rockingham Of Princeton
college returned not long since from
an extended archaeological tour through
central Italy, and, according to The
College Bulletin, one of the most in
ueresting results Of it is the proof that
he has adduced to the effect that
many of the Christian churches, which
have been supposed to date from the
early centuries of our era, really be-
long much later, in fact, we'll into the
middle ages.
The New York Examiner Bap. ist),
ination "infant baptism is more and
more falling into disusc. Obviously
this must be So" To which the Con
gregationalist replies after this fash
ion: 1.-THE Infant baptism in the Con
gregational churches in the United
in 1885, 7,1a9: in 1890, 0,&S2; in 1892,
1O,257. What is obvious to the Exam
liner in these figures could not be
obvious to any enc but BAPTIST"
During the rWO decades from 1870 TO