The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-05-05
Christian Life Column
RELIGIOUS NEWS ITEMS.
[EDTTED BY REV. D. H. TUTTLE.l

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female college at an early date. Column
bia, Charlotte and Asheville are try
ing to get the school.
The Foreign Mission Board of the
Southern Presbyterian Church closed
its financial year out of debt, and with
a neat balance on hand. The total re-
ceipts for the year are $141 976-O7-a
gain over last year of 50. CAB II.
The efJr of the Moravian Church
to cancel the def tit of $28 81 with
which the missionary accounts for
1894 closed has been more than sue
cessful. The contributions for the
purpose amounted on January 2lst to
S29. O62, giving $191 surplus.
The outlook for California Baptists
is hopeful. There have ben over fit
teen Baptist Sunday-schools organized
within the past six months. The new
Chapel Car managers, Mr.. Jacques
ard wife, of Lowell, Mass r there
at work, and a great field is before
them.
The Foreign Mission Board of the
Reformed Church in America beit &
compelled to retrench, the Woman's
Board has determined that the girls
high-caste schools in India shall not be
closed, and hence assume the responsi
biIity for their maintenance for the
coming year.
Secretary Merriam says that there
is at Lukunga, Africa, an independent,
self supporting Baptist Church of 600
members, with a missionary society,
and raising among themselves $500 for
religious purposes. Fourteen years
ago the gospel had not been heard
there.
The Journal and Messenger cor
reefs the error Of one of its exchanges
in saying John D. Rockefeller is a
member of the Fifth Avenue Church
New York City. He is a member Of
the Euclid Church in Cleveland, o.,
and is superintendent Of its Sunday
school. He is present about five months
during the year, while his wife is su-
Derintendent of the infant class.
At Moody's Bible Institute in Chi
cago last year the number of students
enrolled was: Mems Department, $50;
Women's Department, 100; total, 500.
About so more attended, but were not
enrolled because their stay was too
short, or because they were not salts
factory students. They came from
nearly every State in the Union, and
no less than seventeen foreign coun-
tries were represented,
DIR. J. a. ZAhm, Of the Roman
Catholic University Of Notre Dame,
South Bend, Indiana, has been appoin-
ted to an important position in Rome,
as procuraoor general of the Order of
the Holy Cross. The signific 2nce of
this statement will be apparent if it is
remembered that DR.. Z shm belongs to
the extreme liberal wing Of the Church
in scientific matters, and in the inter
probation Of the Biblical a. Ount Of Gre
alton.
DR.. J. @. Buchanan, for many
years Secretary of the New Jersey Bap
list Convention, has lately compiled
the figures of the increase of the
churches of that State within 80 miles
ofNew York. These show that in the ten
wears. from 1885 to 1895, the member
ship in that region increased from Is,
PIT to "a, 29O. This increase of over
1900 in a decade has largely come
from the Churches of New York and
Brooklyn.
At a recent meeting of Adventists
in oston, all those present we're asked
TO rise who were followers Of William
Miller in 1882 when he set the date of
the end of the world. Fifty venerable
persons rose. That date has been
often changed during these sixty four
years, and explanations given each
time to account for errors in calcula-
ton. But the faith of these aged and
experienced saints in their interpreta-
tions Of prophecy seems never to have
faltered.
Every one who kUows the tune
called Coronation" usually sung to
"Au hail the power of Jesus name!'
will be interested in the following in
scription on a tomb in Shirley c9me-
terry. Mass Here sleeps the sweetest
siu ger, Oliver Holden, composer of the
tune Coronation Born in Shirley,
September Is, 1865 Died in Charles