Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1891 — RELIG OUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

RELIG OUS NOTES.

The Congregational ministry is said to have been recruited by sixty-nine ministers going to it from other churches, and thirty-five out of the more than half, were Methodists. The Germans are collecting funds for a large Protestant church to be erected in the city of Rome; 88.000 marks have already been received. Pastor Terlinden, of Duisberg, is the leading spirit of the movement. It is proposed that there shall be at the World’s Columbian Exposition, in 1893, ah exhibit which shall present, so far as practicable, the history .present position, distribution and work of the churches and other religious ora ganizations of this country. In a vote upon the most popular hymn, gathered by the Independent, **My Faith Looks up to Thee” had the largest majority. Other hymns receiving a large vote were: • One Sweetly Solemn Thought.” “Softly Now the Light of Day,” “I Love to Steal Awhile Away,” ‘*l Would Not Live Al way.”

The latest reports from the vote taken in the Methodist Episcopal churches on the admission of women to the General Conference summarize 420 districts. The numbers for ad*, mission are 218,960; against, 132,949; total vote, 349,909. The ministerial vote being taken in the various conferences gives eighty-one votes for admission and 153 against it. The Right Rev. William David Walker, Bishop of North Dakota, at St. James’s Church,Brooklyn.recently gave an account of his missionary work in North Dakota, where he uses the cathedral car on several railroads. It seats seventy-five persons,but ninetytwo are crowded into Tt sometimes. The Bishop plays the organ, cares for the fires, sweeps out the enr, as well as preaches. The car has a lectern, font and altar.