Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1890 — RELIGIOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

RELIGIOUS NOTES.

The presiding elder of the M. E. Church in Rohilkvnd district is appealing for eight hundred pastors to labor among the recently baptised converts in North India. The M. E. Church is also asking for funds to establish eight hundred village schools for Christians and inquirers. During the months of October and November the Methodist laity are to vote on the question whether women be admitted to the General Conference, the legislative body of the church. Elections for that purpose will be held in every meeting house; they will be by ballot and members of twenty-one years and over may vote. The Brotherhood of St. Andrew is to hold its fifth annual convention in Philadelphia, Oct. 16-19. This conferences will be held in St. George’s Hall, and the public services in the different churchesjin the city. Bishop Potter, the Rev. Drs. Rainsford and Holland. President Seth Low, of Columbia College, and others will make addresses.

Mrs, Bennett, of Greenville, Ala., one of the few persons who has lived to be more than a hundred years old, did cot unite with any church until she was 112, when she was immersed by a Baptist minister of twenty-two. She is now said to be 115. She" is in excellent health, walks three miles to church and reads the hymns without glasses. The Independent soy: Some of the religious papers are quoting and commenting on the statement that the forthcoming census of the religious denominations will show that there are 25,000,000 church members in this country. This statement is wholly without authorization, We are assured that it has no basis in any returns received by the Census Cfflce, but is wholly due to the_ imagination of some reporter, The Congregationalist says: "The circulation of the Bible is the most wonderful thing in the literary history of this century. The British and Foreign Bible Society was organized in 1804, and the American Bible Socie. ty in 1816. The total receipts of the two societies have been $78,185,925 and they have issued 176,695,121 Bibles, testaments and separate books oi the Soriptures. During the la9t yeai they have printed 5.288,820, an average of nearly 17,000 daily.