RELIGIOUS NEWS | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Apr 11, 1878

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 14.

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RELIGIOUS NEWS.

—The Baptists number 2,024,224 communicants in America.

—Four-fifths of the inhabitants of this planet now have the Bible in their own tongue.

—There were in 1877 fifty-seven times as many Presbyterians in the United States as in 1777.

—English Wesleyans have the responsibility of training 725,000 Sunday-school scholars.

—The people of New Haven, Conn., have erected a building for Mr. Moody that will seat 4,000 persons.

—Plymouth Methodist Episcopal church, Buffalo, which cost $27,000, has just cleared itself entirely of debt.

—The Irish Presbyterian Sunday-school Society reports 984 schools, 8,846 teachers, and 71,926 scholars in average attendance.

—It is now feared that Spurgeon is so broken down that he will be compelled to abandon the ministry, and thus break up the largest congregation in the world.

—The Baptists of Great Britain and Ireland number about 270,000. During last year they contributed for religious and benevolent objects, outside of home church expenses, domestic missions, association work, etc., £340,000, or $1,700,000.

—The new South Free church (Unitarian), Boston, has adopted a new method of observing the Lord's supper. The bread and wine are displayed on the communion table. There is nothing more about it. The congregation partake of it only by faith.

—The Church of the Puritans, in Hartford, last week discharged a debt of $100,000. The Congregational church, at Peoria, Ill., has paid off its indebtedness of $20,000. St. John's Episcopal church, Bridgeport, Conn., has raised $35,000 on its debt of $60,000, and the Simpson Methodist church, Brooklyn, has nearly paid off its floating debt of $13,000.

—The income of the Garrett Biblical Institute, Chicago (M. E.), has been wholly cut off by the great fire in that city, and the depreciation of property. To replace the buildings, a debt was incurred, on which $70,000 was paid. A debt of $92,000 still remains. The rentals have so far diminished, that at present, the entire income is consumed in paying taxes, insurance and repairs.