Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1891 — RELIGIOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

RELIGIOUS NOTES.

The Year Book for 1891 of the Unitod Brethren in Christ shows that the membership of the church is 2,586 less than was shown by the previous Year B >ok. • Several ministers of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, have been suspended by their conferences for becoming candidates for political offices and leaving their churches to go on the stump. The college which the Jesuits opened in Canterbury after they had been expelled from France in 1880, is again to be closed. The reason assigned is that the patronage has not justified its continuance. The scholars will bo sent to similar schools in England and France. One of the great Buddhist temples at Kioto, Japan, is the center of a big embezzlement. Some priests forged the seal of the temple in 1877, and secured $86,000 from a national bank, which the temples of the Jeddo sect afterward refunded. And yet minis- ! ters the world over are charged with heving no head for business. | The statistics of the Lutheran church for 1890 have just been published, according to which the communicants o that denomination number 1,153,215, this being an increase of 67,167 over th'effgures of last year. The Lutheran church has increased in membership nearly, 65 percent, in ten years,which is twice the rate of Increase of tho population of the country.