Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1900 — CHURCH AND CLERGY. [ARTICLE]

CHURCH AND CLERGY.

The average salary paid to Methodist preachers in the United States last year was $473.35. The Young Men’s Christian Association in Koine is now six years old and is in a flourishing condition. Efforts have been started in Brooklyn to give the gospel in some direct' form to every adult during 11)00. I-ast year the Presbyterian Church in England contributed $109,000 to missions and other plihnnthropic objects. Two young Christian Chinamen in Iloilo have started a movement for the Christianization of the Filipinos. An international congress of Roman Catholic workingmen will lie held in Paris during the coming summer. An effort will be made to raise $3,000,000 to insure the perpetuation of the L>. L. Moody institutions at Northfield. The Methodist Year Book, which has just been issued, shows in the United States 17,583 ministers und 2,871,949 probationers. The Congregational Church Building Society received for it,s work last year nearly $250,000. The loan fund now exceeds $050,000. Publishing firms state that the rise in the price of Bibles is caused by the advance in paper, and not by a desire to form a Bible trust. Thl* Rev. Dr. Guinness Rogers has retired from his pastorate of Grafton Square London, after a ministry of fifty-four years. The nonconformist church choirs of London will hold a singing contest at Crystal Palace in June, iu which choirs will compete for jtrir.es of money and 4,000 adult singers will give a concert. A movement is on foot to reorgnnizc the City of Bradford, England, from a church point of view. The building of new churches, the removal of unnecessary ones, and the rearrangement of parishes •re included in the scheme.