The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-12-10
NUMBER or BKIbF NOTES.
Regarding General News In the Church'

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The 18th anniversary OF the America
Sabbath Union Will be held In the Marol
Collegiate church, this city Deceiiiov e,
10th-12th. The anniversary sermon 5i WI
be preached by Or. Burrell on sunday
December 10th.
The Rev. 7. Wilbur Chapman, Do
has commenced a series of revival ser
| vices In Detroit, Mich. The preliminary
work under the care of DR.. Radcliffe wal
| efficiently carried out, and DR.. Chap-
| man entered upon his work with the near
/ ~ endorsement of all the churches tt
| will BIZ continued until the middle OF De
| cember.
The eleventh annual Baptist Congress
will be held I'm Augusta. Ga, December
bth-7th Among the speakers VIII be W.
". T. Faunce. D. D., the Rev. waiter
Rauscbenbusch, Henry {. Nedder, ESQ,
of New York; Prof Albion w. Small,
of Chicago, President ]. b. Sambrell, OF
Macon, Ga. Henry Nc Donald, ID, OF
Atlanta, j. Judson Taylor, ID. d., OF Mo-
bile, and others.
The Christian women of San Francisco
and Oakland have inaugurated move
ment 10 restrain the sensationalism OF
the daily papers Committees have been
appointed TO circulate among women OF
the churches petitions TO the editors urg-
ing them to elevate the moral tone of their
columns. and refuse their advertising CO.
lumns to the lowest class of advertisers.
They urge that Christian women all over
the land unite in this effort with view
to saving the Sabbath and relieving the
pressure Of evil influences upon all the
readers.
New statistic of Protestant churches
l.. tfxF
From these we CLEAN that there are Pro-
testant houses Of worship in 7S1 localities
in the French Republic. There are S87
Reformed pastors in charge Of congrega-
tions, and u Reformed chaplains In the
Army. The Lutheran clergy number only
80, the Free Evangelical Church has AZ, and
the other Protestant denominations have
". Then there are five Bible societies, nine
teen for Home Missions six for Foreign
Missions, forty-four Orphans Homes, for
ty-seven Refugee Houses, sixty hospitals,
and l1S periodicals-all in the interest OF
the Protestant Church of France. On the
whole, the Protestants of France are very
liberal in the support Of the work Of the
Church.
Numerous Stundist families. especially
the families Of men who have taken any
les ding part in the movement, are volun-
tarily leaving their homes, selling all they
possess, to settle either in some remote
part of the Empire or else in the neigbor-
ing OF Rumania. There seems to be a
widespread notion among these wretched
brethren that terrible day Of oersecuti On
is about to break on them. and they are
seeking a shelter. But although the ter
rible trials through which they are pass
irg have caused many Of the weaker to
succumb, and rejoin the Orthodox Church,
there can be little doubt that the move
ment is being largely recruited from out
side. The remarkable revival which be-
gan last winter in the province of Kher-
son has been followed by a somewhat
similar movement in the central province
OF Tamboy. Some reports state that the
number OF peasants who have left the
Orthodox Churcn In the latter province
number close on 1900
Leo XIII is putting forth efforts to bring
bt ok into the fold Of the Church the rem
nants of the Petite Eglise" in France 1t
will be remembered that when Napoleon
I compelled Plus VII to sign the Concor-
dat OF Fontainebleau, according to which
the Pope instructed the bishops of the
regime to resign and make room for new
apprentices, ten preiates refused TO obey
claiming that Rome had eighty years con-
stituted the Petite Eglise" in France,
who while not having any priesthood Of
their own, have continued in their tradi-
lions 10 the present day. They are found
chiefly in the dioceses of Poitiers and
Lyons, while number are also in the
Bretegne. Their leader at present is a
layman, M. Marius Due. The latter had
begun negotiations with the late Cardi-
nal Archbishop Foulon in reference TO
reunion with the Mother Church. The
Archbishop communicated with Leo XIII.
and the latter has now issued a docu-
ment, showing In what way this end can
be achieved. The indications are that the
Petite Eglise" will soon be a thing of
the past.