The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-11-04
Religious Notes

AZ the winter approaches, the busiest
season of the Bible Institute I'm Chicago
opens. Mr. Needy. The famous evang5-
list. and his associates IN the manage
ment OF the Institute are nov, more than
ever before, deluged with letters OF ap-
phcatlon frcm hundreds of godly young
men and women who desire TO enter the
institute and receive the necessary train
ing for practical Christian work.
Among the last act Of the General
Conference of the Methodist church in
canada, which recel thy closed its SEES
sion, was the commencement III the
establishment of a Federal Court OF
Missions, In which regard should be had
TO the work and claims OF the Presby-
terrain and other denominations. Natur-
ally one result hoped FOR Is the fOrma-
ton OF one strong French Protestant
Church instead of the various missions
4 good deal has elready been accom-
plished by n similar movement In the
Montreal conference In preventing the
formation OF overlapping missions. one
strong French Protestant church In
Canada Is certainly a contamination dc
yCutly to be wished.-Advertiser
Last week a requiem for the reposo
OF the soul of the Count OF Paris was
sung in the Catholic cathedral at Mon
treal. The elite or the French-Canadlan
society were present. but the Republi-
cans were conspicuous by their absence.
The board Of managers OF the American
McAll Association have chosen as their
representative secretary the Rev. Thos.
l.. Gulick. one OF the Well-known mission
airy family, and who fas been eng aged
in mission work In Spain and the Sand
wich Islands.
The Board OF Home Missions OF the
Presbyterian church Acknowledges
total of receipts for six months OF S26S, l6s.
a net gain OF $3.50 over the amount
for the corresponding perid OF last year.
Every department shows gain except
the donations from churches, which
show loss Of $50.
According to the census OF 1891 the
population OF British India and the
native States was PSI, 223, al, an increase
OF 100000 I'm ten years. OF these, ac-
cording TO religion. there were 47. 73l.lH
Hindus. 57,32l, l6i Mohammedans, 9,s2g,4oi
aboriginals, 7.l3l Sl Buddhists. 2'-a'-
$50 Christians 1891 S33 Sikhs, l.ilG,-
G3S jams, 1891 Parsis, H,lg Jews.
and 427S3 OF other religions. or
the Christian population l3l5&S were
certified TO be Roman Catholics, ana
the remainder 969 III, with the exception
of few hundred Syriacs, etc, ProteS-
tants.
Cardinal Vaughan, OF England, has
been creating considerable OF a sensation
by his statements as 10 the growth OF
Roman Catholicism In England. To thls
a Roman Catholic layman has replied
in the Westminster Gazette claiming
that as a whole in the United Kingdom
the number or CdtnOucS mas ldlitn oi
about a million and "A half within nifty
years. He says that In lil the Roman
Catholics were % per cent OF the popu-
lation. but In 1891 had dropped to ~
per cent. In England, Wales, and scot
land only per cent are Roman Cath
oIlcs and most of these. he says, are
Irish immigrants.
Speaking OF the recent statement OF
Bishop A. c. Coke, OF Western New
York concerning the result OF the SYM
postum OF Episcopal bishops in the In
dependent and the action OF the Presby-
terrain General Assembly directing that
further correspondence between its COM
mittee and that Of the Episcopal Church
be suspended for the present, the Pres
byterian, OF Philadelphia, remarks that
the Presbyterian Church Is In mo haste
10 close negotiations OF so much mo-
ment" The Church Is ready. II declares.
TO receive any communication which the
Episcopal committee may have TO offer,
but the Church must know with per-
feet certainty the precise ground on
which II stands as a party TO a most
important negotiation" As Ii must know
this from the highest authority In the
Protestant Episcopal Church. IL must
wait until the General Convention OF
that body In October, 1895. Bishop Coke
had spoken OF the resolution adopted by
the General Assembly as the seal AMI
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