Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1883 — Religious Notes. [ARTICLE]

Religious Notes.

There are 1,000,000 Moslems in Syria and Palestine. Mr. Spurgeon has received 91,600 as royalty on the sale in America of “The Treasury of David.” To Jan. 15 the Wesleyan Thanksgiving fund amounted to: subscribed. 91.518 975; of this amount 91,442,905 had been paid. After holding the pastorate of the First Congregational Church at Hadley, Mass, for thirty-five years, the Rev. Dr. Rowland Ayres has resigned. The Rev. F. F. Emerson has resigned the pastorate of the First Congregational Church Amherst to accept a call from the United Congregational Church of Newport. The New Hebrides are being slowly won from the savage heathenism by the Presbyterian missionaries. A new station has just been established on the Island of Spi, which has about 10,000 inhabitants. The Rev. George Allen, of Worcester, Mass., celebrates *his ninety-first birthday on Thursday. He is said to be the oldest man in Worcester, the oldest clergyman in the State, and the oldest survivor of the Tale class of 1818. The Rev. Mr. Kalloch,of Ban Francisco, rented his Metropolitan Baptist Temple to Messrs. Mace and Slade for an evening •xhiWtion the exercises were preceded

by nacrod music. Perhaps that end ot the country 'is free, after all. ■ noMli ■ Prof. Hirman F. Reed, of Philadelphia, says the Bible is the most dram atto honk m the world, uot even excepting Shakespeare’s plays, and argues that the same care and art required in reading Shakespeare should be applied to the reading of the Bible. The Indian Witness says that a recent procession of the Salvation Army in Lahore was a mile long, and the crowd, either in the procession or on its flanks, was estimated at from 15,000 to 20,000 persons. The only persons who misbehaved were Europeans. Bishop Doane, of Albany, has made a plan to build a grand cathedral in the city and he has collected $44,000 with which to begin the work. The site has been selected and the ground hks been paid for. The cathedral is to seat 2,000 people, and will have cost when completed about $300,000.