Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-02-16
CHURCH NEWS.
What Is Now Going on III the Reli
giouS World.

One hundred new missionaries will
be seat out by the English BaptiSts this
year.
la the year 1900 the Jews propose
to hold an international Jewish gather
at Jerusalem
The deaths of Rev. ]. 5. Hill, bishop
OF the Niger region, and his wife are
reported from Lagos, west Africa.
The league of First church, Elgin,
Ill, is the largest young peoples So
ciety in that city. 1t has 223 members.
Bishop Hurst has been elected pres;-
dent OF the Society Of American Church
History. He succeeds the late I5r.
Schaff
Rev. DR.. j. L. ii. Latchaw, tate
president of Findlay college has &C
cepted the unanimous call of the First
Bapstist church of GAINESVILLE, Ohio.
AS Il result of the union meetings
held by Evangelist Hartsough at Lewis,
Mich, forty members were received
into the Conercga tiOnal church in that
city.
Fishing on Sunday is condemned as
Illegal by TIE appellate court OF New
York. which attirnS that the "ChIistian
Sabbath is enc Of the civil institutions
Of the state -
The McAll mission in France has now
al mission stations. with over $4,000
sittings; a mission boat called lie Bon
Mesa ger. Sunday schools, Bible class
es and reading rooms.
Trinity church. Boston. has establish
ed a Christian pawn shop where the
rate Will not exceed i per cent. and
where the business will be conducted
on humane principles.
Chicago has 626 churches. Of these
the Mcthadists have 100, the Roman
Catholics. 1O1: Congregationalists. S4;
BaptiStS. -. Lutherans, CT; preSbyter-
ians. IS. and Episcopalians A.
Rev. DR. w. S. Swanson. the founder
Of the Annoy mission, China has re-
Gently died. He was superintendent of
this mission for twenty years, and was
sent out by the English Presbyterian
church.
4 section of the congregation of
Perth Middle Scotch Presbyterian
parish church has petitioned the pres
of singing or repeating the amenS after
hymns.
Rev. John l.. Smith has secured
judgment for 1885 against the De
PAW university. 1t seems that Mr..
Smith secured a bequeSt from August
Swisher of $4,000 for the university.
for which he was to be paid 3 per cent.
The court held that he was entitled to
the compensat ton.
Once every two months the Christ
ian Endeayor union of Lincoln, Neb..
has agreed to hold Il mass meeting, at
which an address concerning some
practical point Of committee work Will
be delivered.
The question as to where the.author-
ity in regard to the control of church
property in the Presbyterian church
resides. came before the Canadian
synod recentig, and was decided in
favor of the church session as against
the trustees
s. I. Warren, the distinguished Or
ganist, of Grace church. New York
city, is TO retire from his position be-
NSluSS llII N1iAAA IL IL SibOuI ~ max Il
boy choir. Mr.. Warren does not be
lieve in boy cho1rs.
Archdeacon Dol said at Il recent
meeting Of the Adelaide synod: 1t
was often insisted that the founda ton
of the British character was the open
Bible. 1t was nothing of the sort. The
foundation Of the British character
xx-aS rho church
Rev. Samuel Lockwood, Phi. D.. the
naturalist. died At his home at Free
hold, \. J., January 8, aged % years.
He was born in Mar Sfeld, Noting
hamshire. Eng. and ca-le TO America
in his childhood. He contributed
largely To scientific literature.
The new edifice of the Reformed
Presbyterian church in Monroe street.
Brooklyn, costing about $4,000. and
seating 500 people, was opened for
services January Il. Professor J. NJ.
Littleiohn preached The congregation
is the only one of its name in the city
and is Of the Corenantee persuasion.
Mrs. Ethel Boyce has been arrested
at Muncie. Ind, for treating her g.
vear-old child in an inhuman manner
1t is claimed that as a punishment for