Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1876 — RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. [ARTICLE]

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

—No edifice, says the Churchman , of Hartford, Conn., can properly be called a church which is under any indebtedness, or even liable to become so. —There is a strange rumor that Pere Hyacintlie, now on liis way to this country, is to receive a call from a leading church in this city . Boston Herald. —lt is in contemplation to erect a large Presbyterian church in the northwestern part of Philadelphia, capable of seating 3,000 persons, and not within five blocks of any other church of the same denomination. —Within thepasttwenty years Connecticut has expended about SIOO,OOO for libraries and apparatus in the public schools of that State. About three-fourths of this has been contributed voluntarily, and the remainder has been furnished by the State. —Secretary Northop,'of the Connecticut State Board ot Education, has made preparations for displaying at the Philadelphia Exhibition evidences of the educational development of the Chinese students who are now in this country under the'charge of Mr. Yung Wing. —A recent Port Jervis (N. Y.) letter to the New York Sun says: religious revival in this city was closed last evening. The number of conversions amount to over 700 in the Methodist Church, and the converts in the oilier churches w-ill raise the number to nearly 800.” —The Northern Presbyterian Church in its march South liasjjfganized the Synod of Atlantic, comprised of six presbyteries in four States, having 123 churches, forty-four ministers ana about 10,000 members, mostly colored. Most of the churches have preaching but once a month, but other services are kept up regularly. —The Young Men’s Christian Association of Vermont have sent out a body of experienced men, who are to hold what are called Gospel meetings in every town in the State. They devote from three to five days in each place. ’ The churches are taking up collections to pay their expenses. This requires but four, dollars lrom each church! —The first col®rcd clergjman of the Reformed Episcopal Church was ordained by Bishop Cummins, at Pineville, S. C., Dec. 5. The newly-ordained deacon, Frank C. Ferguson, has been a teacher of a large school. A school for the training of co»ored ministers will be opened by the Reformed Episcopalians in Charleston at the beginning of this year, —The programme for the celebration of the centenary of American Independence by the Methodist Episcopal churches has been published. The thanksgivwill begin on the first Sunday in/ J unhand close on the Fourth of July. Each chutch will select a Sunday during the interval named. The exercises will Be a memorial sermon and a children’s meeting. The people are invited to devote their gifts to the cause of education.