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Miss Anna Oliver says that
On Easter day a one thousand
’ dollar bill was found among the either Boston University must cease
offerings of St." Paul’s Protestant to admit women students to its
Episcopal Church, Pawtucket, R. I. theological department, or the
Methodist Episcopal Church must
There are in Philadelphia 552 welcome them to the ministry.
Sunday-schools, with a total mem-
There is mucnah xiëty ôf ïnînd
bership of 168,681, and an average’
attendance of 112,312. These among the Episcopal clergymen of
schools have given during the past Rochester, N. Y., and other places,
year 2 779 scholars to the communi because persons who caro little for
cant membership of the churches, religion, and not so much for
and have contributed $G5,464.22 to preaching, have been coming to the
churches to hear tha_fin* music.
'purely benevolent causes.
These persons have been attracted
In Miles City, Montana, the by the publication of programmes
MethodistB believe in receiving con setting forth what music would be
tributions from anybody, whether performed. The clergymen think
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They, place contribution wise and they have come to the
boxes in the drinking saloons, and conclusion to stop it, rather than
some of the patrons of those estab tempt their fellow beings to commit
lishments drop a coin or two in the sirT'of attending church from
whenever they take a drink.
unworthy motives.
Rev. Josiah Henson, the original
of Mrs. Stowe’s “ Uncle Tom,” died
on the 5th inst., at Dresden, Onta-
rio. He was born in Maryland, on
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consequently 94 years of age at the
time of his death.
At the celebration of the two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
Jesuitism in this country at the
church of the immaculate Concep
tion in Boston recently, Bishop
O’Reilly «aid: "No one outside of
the church of Jesus Christ can be
saved, and it is needless to prove
that this church is the only church
of Jesus. One might as well have
tried to be saved outside of the ark
in the days of Noah.” After this
there followed a banquet, and on the
bill of fare were five different kinds
of alcoholic drinks.
It is a fact suggestive of the in
fluence of the gospel on the condi
tion of women, that, in Turkey,
where a few years ago men yoked
their wives with oxen, the curricu
lum in some of the colleges for the
education of women compares favor
ably with similar institutions in
America. One of the girls who was
graduated from Harpoot Seminary
is at present engaged in making a
concordance of the Bible in modern
* Armenian.
Stockport, Scotland, claims to
have the most wonderful Sabbath
school in the world. Its member
ship comprises 400 teachers and
4,500 children, and nearly 9G,000
children have passed through the
school since its comencement.
The Presbyterian ministers of
Chicago have given up preaching
in connection with the communion,
and declare that they find it more
profitable to devote the time to
“praj’er, praise remarks on the
sacrament, silent meditation, and
thanksgiving.” They also think
the practice of continuous speaking
during the distribution of the ele
ments distracting, and recommend
the silent method. This the Pres
byterian minister can do, and so
can almost all the others. In the
Reformed'Church the minister is
only required to repeat two brief
portions of Scripture.
The Baptists of the State of Con
necticut have purchased a large
tract of land at Crescent Beach,
about seven miles west of New
London, and will there establish a
denominational watering place.
The land will be sold—one hundred
lots at one dollar a piece—the bar
gain to be invalid unless all the lots
are taken. The parties now own
ing the property agree, when all the
lots are bought and paid for, to
build a $4,000 tabernacle for the use
of owners of the lots, who are ex
pected to erect cottages on their
property and dwell there during
the heated term. Daily services
will be held at the tabernacle.
Seventeen lots have already been
disposed of to families at Norwich.
There
is great enthusiasm
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fested in the project by Baptists
throughout the State.
Mr. Sankey attended the gospel
services at the Cooper Institute in
the evening, but Mr. Moody was
suffering from the effects of the
voyage and was not able to attend.
The evangelists give the mostsatis-
factory accounts of their visit to
Paris and England, “and esp^ciany"
of their stay in Cambridge and Ox
ford. They stat^that the clergy of
the Church of England took a much
warmer interest iir their work than
on their previous visit. Mr. Moody
gaas
onceto-NnxthfijeWL.tCL.iest
during the summer, and Mr. Stnkey
to his home in Pennsylvania. They
expect to return to England in
October to resume their work
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“there.
The General Assembly of the
Presby terian church, North, meet at
-Saratoga May 17; the Southern
Assembly at Lexington; Va., May
17 ; the Cumberland Presbyterians
at Nashville. Tenn., May 17 ; the
United Presbyterians at Pittsburgh
May 23. May seems to be quite a
Presbjterian month. The digest
chyle was intrusted to a committee
in May, two hundred and thirty
eight years ago. Two years later
still, in the blcssom month of May,
the Confession was adopted by the
Scottish church.
Rev. John T. Baldwin, in the
eighty-eighth year of his age, and
one of the oldest of the living grad
uates of Auburn Theological Sem
inary, is now residing at Santa
Cruz, Cal., in good health, and able
to preach the word. He was well
known in Western New York* and
in New Jersey, and greatly esteem
ed in the churches.
Sitting Bull is about to become a
Catholic. The Bishop of Dakota
announced that he was converted at
Fort Randall, and after his journey
to join his tribe on the Standing
Rock reservation he will be receiv
ed into the church with about 140
other Sioux converts.
l’rof. Timothy Dwight, who will
complete twenty-five’years of ser
vice in the Chair of Sacred Litera
ture in Yale Divinity School, at the
approaching anniversary of the in
stitution, May 17, is a grandson of
President Timothy Dwight, whose
term as Yale’s president extended
from 1795 to his death in 1817.
Prof. Dwight’s great-grand-mother,
Messrs. Moody and Sankey ar President Dwight’s mother, was a
rived in New York by the steam daughter of Jonathan Edwards.
ship Alaska, on Sunday May 6. Prof, Dwight is most highly es
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teemed as a scholar- and a man of
sound judgment, and in 1870 he
was recommended by many as the
successor of President Woolsey in
his grandfather’s office, now held by
Noah Porter.
W.
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treasurer of the Mount Hermon
School for Boys established by Mr.
Moody, has received from England
the sum of £1,000 sterling for that
institution.
The trustees have
built four new buildings at Gill, op
posite Northfield, the home oF Hr.
Moody. They have also received a
bequest from the late Roswell Field
of his museum, and the sum of
$1,600 to provide for a cabinet and
its increase.
Chace Lewis, a venerable citizen
of Providence who died last week,
left the following public bequests :
To Bates College, Lewiston, Maine,
$4,00<l ; Roger Williams Free Bap
tist church, Providence, $5,(MM);
Home for Aged Men, Providence,
$1,000; Woman’s Christian Asso
ciation, -$500;....Home „Tor.- Aged
Women, $500; Hillsdale College,
Hillsdale, Mich., $1,000; Storer
College, Harper’s Ferry, West Va,
$2,000 ; and Rhode Island Hospital,
$1,000. _
Dr. Schaff gives the following ex
planation of the great falling off in
the sale of the Revised New’ Testa
ment : “ A reaction was sure to
come. It is estimated that about
3,000,000 copies were sold—2,000,-
000 in England and 1,000,0(H) in
America. That is not a small sale
for a book which may be called a
new edition of an old work.
“ Another obstacle to its immedi
ate acceptance by the public is that
the work has no sanction of author
ity as yet. The convocation of
Canterbury will not pass upon the
revision until both Testaments are
finished. Then it may authorize it,
reject it, or recommit it to the
hands of the revisers for further
consideration. At present the re
vised Testament has no standing as
compared w’ith the authorized ver
sion, and, of course, its sale suffers
in consequence.
THE NAME AGAIN.
Now it 4s Dr. Collins, famous in
the discussion of the communion
✓wine question, who takes up the
above subject, and proposes to
demonstrate that the God-given
name of the body of Christ is the
“ Christian Church.” If he has not