Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1875 — RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. [ARTICLE]

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

—The Congregational Union was founded twenty three years ago. and has assisted 925 churches in thirty-four States and Territories, at an expense of nearly $600,000. —The salaries of the Bishops of the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church are now paid by voluntary contributions from them embers of the churches. Their treasurer reports them fully up. —Bishop Haven estimates the wealth of the Methodist Episcopal denomination as at least $1,000,000,000, and says-: “We do not get a mill per year tax ou our capital for the world's Christianization outside our own parishes.” —The receipts of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church in America for the year just ended were $54.240; of which amount $34,626 were from church collections. The total amount falls $1,103 below that of the previous year. —Zachariah L. Jamison, a Seneca Indian more than sixty years old, sustained at a recent, meeting of the Presbytery of Buffalo a satisfactory examination, and was ordained a preacher to his own nation, on the reservation in Western New York. The Indians on the reservation number 3,000. ' <i . eO —The Archbishop of Canterbury takes a deep interest in the labors of the evangelists Moody and Saukey in the city of London. He “rejoices when Christ is preached, whether regularly or irregularly, and trusts that the clergy will endeavor to deepen the salutary impression produced by the revivalists.” —A new religious vagary in California is a sect of “ Child Christians,” who interpret literally the passage “ Except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.” They endeavor to feel and act like children, playing childish games ami adopting an infantile manner of speech. —The London Telegraph says of Mr. Moody: “Notwithstanding all the easy talk about hysteria, epidemics, magnetism, nervous systems and the like, the philosophers and divines have yet to explain to us why it is a bad thing for these Yankee itinerants to turn people by thousands to right and virtuous lives, and a good thing when a Bishop or Cardinal manages to convert half a dozen.” —The late English Baptist anniversaries show a clear increase of members for the past year of 10,572, a larger number than for the last ten years. There were twentylive new churches organized during the year, and thirty-two new chapels were built, at a cost of £64,185; 124 others were enlarged ancl improved at a cost of £41),863. The work of the denomination in the United Kingdom indicates growth and liberality.