Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-08-17

Notes of Events Which Are Occurring
in It.

A debt of $4,000 has been INQUIRE
by the young people of the Baptis
union in founding their society organ
More tnin 1000 members of tn
| Christian Entle;iyor society have unite
with the church during the pas yeal
| The recent Christian Endeavor COZ
ven,ion ut Montreal was not 50 larg
nor enthusiastic as that Of last yeal
| although 5000 delegates were III al
| tendance.
There are now III woman mission
aries in India. These have access /,
| 4G513 zenanas and have 62,414 cir
pupils in the mission school
The American Bible society has beel
presented by President Gilman O
Johns Hopkins university a fac simil,
Of the ChaIdean flood tablet. recon
structed by Professor Haupt
Bishop Tobias Mullen of the Catholic
diocese OF Erie. Pa. celebrated his
silver jubilee On Wednesday, August
,, at Erie Cardinal James Gibbons
of Baltimore was present at the Serv.
ices.
The religious census of the United
States shows shat there are over ten
thousand members of the denomination
which calls itself The Old-Seed-in-the
Spirit Professionalism Baptists.
Rev. DR.. John F. Spence, late presi.
dent of L. S. Grant university, Athens
Tenn, is spoken of as 1he head of the
projected Prohibition university at
Hartman, Tenn, to open this fall.
According to the Yearbook of the
Congregational church for 1898, just
issued, there are in this country 5,14O
churches and 542, 725 members-an in
crease of 155 parishes and 17,62S mem
bers over last year.
On July ) Rev. G. 2. Blodgett cele-
brated the close of his fifty years
service as pastor of the Congregational
church, Greenwich, Mass. He still
reads a chapter in the New Testament
every morning.
Boston friends of Rev. +. f. Clark,
president of the Christian Endeavor
socie,y. recently presented him a por-
trait of himself surrounded by the
flags of all the countries visited by
him in his journey around the world
The Nova Scotia Wesleyan confer
ence has decided that Mary Dauphine
las Il legal right to sit on perfect
with the male members in
that body. She is the first woman
to be admitted to Il Methodist confer
ence in America.
The international Christian confer.
ence, which will be held in Chicago
from October 8 10 Is by the Eyangeli-
cal Alliance, will probably be one of the
most attractive of the many confer
ences held il connection with the Col
umbian exposition.
Twenty-siN adult converts from the
Roman Catholic church were recently
received into the Protestant Episcopal
church in 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 The
retiring president, DR.. D. II. Wheeler.
Of indianapolis is mentioned as a cap
able and worthy person for the position.
Rev. George Douglas of the Theologi-
cal college at Toronto, is such a pro-
anti-Romanist that the Chris
,ian Endeavor society officers required
him to submit his speech for inSpec
ton before delivery at the recent con
stricken out.
The Russian government proclama-
ton ordered a small colony of Luther
an farmers of German origin to re-
nounce their religion and join tho
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 to the
foreign missions board,
says: L am Informed by the secretary
of the navy chat ere is not at present
on the Asiatic station any vessel cap
able Of entering Siamese waters. Mis-
si0naries should communicate VITA the
legation Of Bangkok for the usual
protection"
The Presbyterians of the northern
United States want to raise for the
year 1S93-94 $1,2O0,0OO for foreign
missions alone. Last year they raised
over a 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
teresting 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 Bapiist,
says that the Congregational denom-
ination infant baptism is more and
more falling into disuse. Obviously
this must be So" To which the Con
gregationalist replies after this fash
ion: 'SThe Infant baptism in the Con
gregationaI churches in the United
States are as follows: In 1880, 1889;
in 1885, 7,139: in 1890 9,SS2; in 1892,
1O,257. What is obvious to the Exam
iner in these figures could not be