Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1875 — RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. [ARTICLE]

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

—The number of Presbyterian churches on the Pacific coast has increased this year from 105 to 115, and of ministers from 115 to 125. —The preachersof the Methodist Church South report 300 conversions as the fruits of their camp-meetings in Maryland, combined with subsequent services in their churches. Dong Gong, a Chinaman, was ordained in Oregon as a Baptist minister recently, after due examination by a council of ministers. Several of his countrymen were present. —Mrs. E. H. Tubman has presented to the Campbellite Society of Augusta, Ga., a magnificent church edifice, having the udlest spire in the South, and costing her nearly $70,000. —The number of Baptist communicants in Nova Scotia, as reported to the recent annual convention, is 20,495; in New Brunswick, 11,375; in Prince Edward Island, 1,072 —making a total of 32,942. —The Boston North Baptist Association comprises thirty-six churchei, twentyeight ministers and 10,867 communicants. Their contributions for church and benevolent purposes during the last financial year amounted to $133,235. —The following resolution has been unanimously adopted by one of the Baptist Associations of Kansas: “That, in our opinion, the most befitting part which tlie Baptists of Kansas could take in the Centennial movement would be one concentrated effort to pay offtheirchurch debts.” —The sixty-seventh annual report of the Pennsylvania Bible Society states that during the past year it has circulated 71,786 volumes, the value of which was $29,308. Of these volumes 27,741 were Bibles and 37,793 Testaments. The remainder were Testaments and Psalms and other portions of the Scriptures. —The Khedive of Egypt has made up his mind that the girls in his country must be educated as well as the boys. Out of the 350,000 boys in Egypt 100,000 are at school and skillful Europeans rare the instructors. Miss Whfately, a niece of the late Archbishop Whately, has the direction of the girls’ schools. The Khedive sets the example by securing to each of his own sons and daughters a fine education. —The following is a summary of thestatistics of the new Diocese of Western Michigan: Clergy (Bishop,!; 29; deacon, 1), 31; parishes, 33; church edifices, 29; families, 1,440; adults and children, 4,820; baptisms (adults, 89; infants, 289), 378 ; confirmed in 23 parishes and Bstations, 231; communicants, present number, 2,626; Sunday-school teachers, 346; pupils, 2,288; contributions, total (including episcopate fund of $38,044.75, subscribed in twenty-two parishes and one mission), $96,425.85. ( This is the roughest conjugal experience on record: Ina Brooklyn divorce suit, the husband, who was Superintendent of a horse-car line, alleges that his wife is employed as a “ spotter,” and that throtfgh her influence he was turned out of his berth.