The morning call., 1893-06-25
THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.
Items of Interest to Members oil
Many Denominations.

Many Denominations.
The Rev. Robert F. Horton of England
who delivered the Yale lectures or
Preaching" few weeks ago, tells the
Independent of London that while in this
country he was surprised by the enor.
nous proportion of keenly Intelligent
men" in American church congregations
He found the domestic life of the United
States more ideal than it is generally in
England. "Man and wife," he says, "are
more truly comrades and partners in the
business of life. The wife, in the case OF
ministers, is more distinctly admitted into
her husbands work and her husband
thought. and the children are more taken
into intimate friendship and live the life
of the parents"
The Congregational Club of Boston has
been listening to President Hartranft of
Hartford Theological Seminary, In advo-
cacy of supplying women with the same
theological training that men receive in
preparation for the ministry. The Con-
gregationalists have several ordained fe-
male preachers already, as have also the
! Unitarians and Universalists. and the
Spiritualists have many.
The Rev. Theodore c. Pease of Maiden
| has been elected to the Bartlett professor
ship of sacred rhetoric In Andover Theo-
logical Seminary made vacant by the &C.
! ceDtance by Professor Tucker of the
presidency of Dartmouth College. Mr..
Pease was graduated from Harvard in
1875, and from Andover Theological Sem
! mary in 1880.
Rev. John Goddard. pastor of the New
Jerusalem Sweden borgian) Church at Gin
! cinDati, will shortly arrive in San Fran
cisco, and is announced to preach at the
First New Jerusalem Church on O'Farrell
street. near Webster. on Sunday, July 2.
| Mr.. Goddard is an able preacher and has
an enviable reputation in the Sweden Dor
gian Church.
Last year the General Assembly of the
! Cumberland Presbyterian Church, by a
vote of los to 80, made declaration in
favor of the eligibility of women to the
office of ruling elder. The General Assem-
! bly, this year. by vote of 175 to 8, has de-
clded to submit the question to the Pres
byterans.
| Washington City has nearly 200 churches.
! The MethodiStS have so, the Baptists IS.
| the EpiscopaiaDs &c. the Pres by terians 81.
the Roman Catholics Is. the Lntherans 10,
! Congreg ationalists 4, the Hebrews and the
Disciples each, and the Universalists,
UDitarians and Swedenbo rgians l each.
A prOposition has been made in France
! to form federal union of the Protestant
churches = including the Lutheran, Re-
formed, Free Methodist and Baptist
churches-for common action in matters
concerning relation of the churches to the
| Government.
! II is said that 800 persons have been
converted and ten Baptist churches and
eight Sunday-schools esta blishe through
the agency of the misson-car presented
! by John d. Rockefeller to the American
Baptist Publishing Society.
Professor Charles A. Briggs expects to
publish at an early date his defense offered
| to the General Assembly Of the Presbyte-
rian Church at their recent meeting in
Washington. 1t will be issued in cheap
pamphlet form.
The one place in all the world where
| Christian Endeavor societies are forbidden
is the land of the Turk. The Government
has pronounced them foolish and out
rageous, and no Endeavor literature can be
published.
Statistics of the Wesleyan Methodist
| Church in Great Britain show total mem
bership last year of 427.739. an increase of
| 27S0 over the previous year, and 80. DIG
members on trial. an increase OF 447S.
A Stockholm police authority says the
| Salvation Army has accomplished more
in its struggles with crime and misery
than all other organizations put together.
The missionary debt of the Methodist
| Episcopal Church was $4,000 when, a
few months ago, pledges were made Gov
| ering the entire amount,
| The 10000 Congregationaiists of Hin OILS
contr buted to church work last year
S1,000,000. $280,000 of which was for mis-
! stems.
The Congregational Church in Honolulu
raises $4,000 a year for religious pur.
poses-an average of $40 member.
The fifteenth congress of the Protestant
Episcopal Church Will be held in New
York City in November next
The General Theological Seminary oil
New York City graduated class of thirty.
three members recently