Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1892 — RELIGIOUS MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

RELIGIOUS MATTERS.

■’ The Southern Baptist convention will hold its thirty-seventh .session (forty-seventh year) at Atlanta, Gai," commencing Friday, May 6. It is reported that Dr. Wm. M. Taylor, pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle church, New York city, will be invited to take the place of Rev. Dr. Cairns, principal of the United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh, Scotland. The Catholic Review says that if the American Bible Society will print the Douay version of the New Testament without any omission or change they will be glad to see 12,000,000 copies distributed among the Catholics of the United States, having “no such fear of Holy Writ as the fables of fiction pretend.” If the Bible Society will sell this book for ten cents a copy, or give copies away for nothing, the Review promises to freely advertise their purpose and assist them in carrying it out, always on condition that they produce an e 1 -on that is “true to the original, neither garbled, nor mutilated, nor padded.” Protestantism in Europe predominates in Great Britain, Denmark, Sweden, Norw»y, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the German empire, while Roman Catholicism .4$ the principal religious faith in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, France and Austria. In Ireland there are 1,155,000 Protestants, and about 4,000,000 Catholics. Italy, Spain and Portugal are almost wholly Catholic, while Denmark, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands are almost entirely Protestant. Id Switzerland two-thirds of the population are Protestants, and in Scotland there are only about 330,000 Roman Catholics, and only abou five million and a half in all Great Britain and Ireland.