Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1891 — RELIGIOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

RELIGIOUS NOTES.

Miss Mary Elizabeth Hann. of Washington, D. C., has given SBO,000 toward a cathedral for the Protestant Episcopal Church in that city. It is stated that the most-holy governing synod of Russia has issued orders to the effect that students of all religious denominations must attend lessons in the orthodox catechism, and that all Industrial establishments must have an orthodox church within a distance of twenty kilometers. According to the statisticsjyibli&lr ert r»y the French Cultus~Miniktry, the status of Protestantism France is at present the following: Reformed Church, 540,000: Lutheran church 75,000; the United Church of Algiers 9,733; free churches, 6,000; various sects. 4,000; not on the official list, 15,000. A summer convocation of Christian workers, under the auspices of the Christian alliance, is to be held at Western Springs, near Chicago. June 19-28. Among the prominent workers from abroad are Revs. A.B. Simpson.of New York; Dr.F.L.Chappell, of Boston, and John Morrow, of Pittsburg. Pa. Miss F. L. Shepard, of New York, will have charge of the music. The recent census of Ireland shows that the Roman Catholics number 3,547,745, a decrease of 411,146 during the last decade- The number of Protestant Episcopalians is 600,830, a decrease of 38,744; of Presbyterian 446,687, decrease of 24,047; of Methodists, 55,232, an increase of 6,396. The decrease of population in Ire land during the decade has been nearly half a million, r A remarkable movement has been started in Madras, India, by twe Mohammedans, which has for its object the preaching of Hindoos and, if possible, Christians to Mohammed anism. * The young men who go out preaching are free from the preju dices of the old fashioned Moham medans, try to live true and claim to be at one with the Unitarians of America and England. The result is an increase in the spirit of inquiry that is abroad. , The leaders adopt English at the medium of preaching Islam and acknowledge the fatherhood of God, and thus over throw the old fashioned prejudice against the Christian expression “Son of God," “God’s children,” which many Mohammedans consider blasphemous. '