Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1890 — RELIGIOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

RELIGIOUS NOTES.

The Emperor of Germany has subscribed 20,000 marks to the Evangelical mission for a hospital at Zanzibar. A translation of tho “Pilgrim’s Progress.” printed: with raised types foi the use of the blind in the Island ol Formosa, is about to be published. Miss Guinness says that the nearer one comes to an open port in China, the more antagonistic is the feeling toward foreigners. That is a sorry comment on the lives of foreigners in the ports of that country. It is said that Bishop Bowman has dedicated more churches than any other minister of any denomination. He recently dedicated a new church on the circuit in Pennsylvania, where he preached his first sermon over fifty years ago. —— The last yearly meeting of the ;Friends. in London, is described by ond of their number as “one long series of sermons and prayer, unrelieved by silence.” And out of the weariness of such performances he cries out for , -the active power of silence.” The United Presbyterian Church has conformed its statistical inquiry this year to the schedule of the Census Office. It- reports 865 congregations, 103,1121 church members, 815 churches, with a seating capacity of 263,303 and valued at $5,036,764. The central division of ,the. Salvation Army has just celebrated the tenth anniversary of the landing of the Army in this country. At the meeting in New York five delegates from the Army in India, including a Mohammedan, a Buddhist Priest, and a native of Ceylon, were present. A highly valued manuscript copy of the Gospels, written in letters of gold, on purple vellum, dating about the seventh century, is, as reported, to be soon offered at public sale in London. Six years ago it was purchased for the Prussian government at a sale of manuscripts belonging to the Duke of Hamilton. Five thousand pounds were offered for it by an English bookseller. It is said that there are only three or four manuscripts of the same kind in existence. The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church is a body organized just after the close of the war of colored members 01. ilia.. Methodist Episcopal Church, South. It has annual conferences and a General Conference which meets every four years. Tho fifth quadrennial session of the latter was held last month in Little Rock, Ark., the bishops presiding in turn. The episcopal message reported the church as in a very prosperous condition. The business transacted by the conference was chiefly of a routine nature.