Religious News and Notes.
By Editor
—One of Sitting Bull’s sons has united with the Episcopal church. —Five of the nine Cabinet Ministers of France are Protestants. —Chicago sustains the largest noon-day prayer-meeting in the world. —It has been decided in Ireland that a minister marrying himself is legally married. —Correspondents of the Baptist Banner are vigorously discussing the subject of feet-washing. —Oberlin College, Ohio, runs behind about $10,000 annually, which is made up by subscription. —“They’ve got a new church organ,”—and that is why the “Disciples” of Oakland have two meeting places. The London Hospital fund received from church collections last year the smallest amount it ever received in any year. —F. W. Conrad, D. D., editor of the Lutheran Observer, Philadelphia, has become insane. Cause—sleeplessness, induced by too much brain work. —The General Congregational Association of Missouri reports 70 churches and 41 pastors; while Minnesota has 109 Congregational ministers, 25 of whom are without churches. —The First Presbyterian church of Springfield, Mass., is 242 years old, and has had but eight pastors. In Vermont there are but nine Baptist pastorates which ante-date 1870. —Professor Mears, Bishops Peck and Huntington, and Chancellor Haven, have called a meeting at Syracuse, to take measures looking to the suppression of the Oneida Community. —Rev. Wm. Impey, the Wesleyan missionary of South Africa, who was compelled to resign on account of his views of future punishment, has been received into the church of England. —In consequence of the suspension of eight of their number for disobedience, the students of Trinity College, Hartford, refuse to attend college exercises. They have appealed from the Faculty to Bishop Williams. —An invalid aged 50 in Palmyra, N. Y., was three times immersed Feb. 2, in ice-cold water. When carried to the shore she was supposed to be dead, but was resuscitated by stimulants and other appliances. —Mr. Moody, criticising the self-conceit of some reformed drunkards, said, “You might as well be full of rum as full of egotism.” Egotism is very intoxicating to some constitutions, and often makes men act very foolish. —It seems unfortunate—so many cases. Prof. Allan Curr, who has been lecturing, and preaching to the Baptists, in San Francisco, has started east to defend his character which has been publicly assailed in Dubuque. —The Congregational church in Henniker, N. H., recently admitted some Universalists to church membership, omitting the word “everlasting” in reading the confession, to accommodate them. That may pass for Christian charity, but we have no confidence in it. —The Volksfreund, a German Catholic organ, demands a statement of the affairs of Archbishop Purcell, which it has reasons to fear may be worse than represented. German Catholics charge that the money, much of which is their own, has gone to build Irish churches. —A minister writing from Greensboro, Ala., thinks the Colored Baptists of that place are over-religious. “I believe their bell has been rung for service here every night for the last twelve months, except on Saturday; and it is frequently midnight and even later before they break up.” —A petition to the President asking him to veto the Chinese bill has been forwarded, bearing the names of the following ministers,—Briggs, Hemphill, Horford, Wells, Fisk, Pond, and others of San Francisco; and of Drs. Guard, Eells, McLean, McLafferty, Mooar, and Benton of Oakland. —The claims filed against Archbishop Purcell already amount to $3,600,000. An effort will be made by a committee of Roman Catholic clergy to have the State laws modified so that a lottery scheme will be inaugurated for his benefit. Their success, however, is considered doubtful in Ohio. —Bishop Simpson in his closing lecture in Yale noticed the scientific gentlemen who pronounced Christianity a failure, and said, “We promise that the whole world shall be brought to the foot of the Cross before an evolutionist shall find even a single monkey transformed into a man.” —The Advocate of Christian Holiness accuses the Christian at Work of making “flings at holiness.” The latter paper rather facetiously repudiates the charge, closing thus: “Further, let our brother Advocate read over that last paragraph of his, and if that is the fruit of the holiness whose cultivation he enjoins, we shall have to decline his offer of the article with thanks,—for really the good book offers us something better.” —One of the editors of the San Francisco Occident (Presbyterian), writing from Chicago, says: “Socialism and infidelity and Atheism and Spiritualism are here active and terrible powers. They have so far been held in check, and it is to be hoped that they will ever be kept in chains. But if these shackles are broken, then there will be a ‘reign of terror.’”