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wish to blink them. We must look them in the face;
let us derive from their consideration what benefit
we may. If a corrupted form of Christianity, which
does not give the people the Word of God, puts
forth such efforts, and obtains such results, what
have we a right to expect from a pure Christianity,
with an open Bible in the hands of every man who
is willing to read? What have we a right to expect
from Christians at home in their efforts to convert
China, and from the results of missionary labor in
China itself?
IDOLATRY IN THE UNITED STATES.-It is startling
to read of idol temples erected and consecrated, and
idolatry formally established in the United States.
Of one of these temples just erected at Portland,
Oregon, this account is given: "The Chinese Joss
house on Alder-street has just been completed, and
the business of furnishing it is in active progress.
The vestibule is furnished with two large oil globes,
inside of which burn lights, which show to great
advantage the cabalistic and heathenish figures painted
on the outside. One of the transparencies exhibits
the shadows of a procession of Chinamen, some on
foot, and some on horseback, representing celestial
warriors or celestial saints. Whatever they are, they
go round and round, propelled in some manner by a
current of heated air."
RELIGIONS OF MANKIND.-A recent work, giving
a history of all the missions of the Presbyterian
Church, has just been published, in which some
highly interesting statistics of a general character arc
found. Assuming that the estimate which assigns to
China a population of 360,ooo000,000ooo, is correct, it is
supposed that I,ooo,ooo,ooo human lbeings are now
occupying unevangelical lands. The number of adherents to different religions is estimated as follows:
Pagans, 6oo,ooo,0ooo; Mohammedans, 120,000,000;
Jelws, 5,000,000; Christians, 275,000ooo,ooo. Of the
latter, it is estimated that considerably over 200,000,ooo are embraced in the Roman Catholic, Greek, or
other unevangelical Churches.
The same work gives the following summary of
Protestant missions. It is probably as nearly reliable as any summary that can be obtained:
Ordained missionaries, foreign, 1,777; native, 674;
total, 2,45I. Assistant missionaries, foreign, 1,894;
native, 3,770; total, 5,664. Communicants, 249,528;
scholars, 203,905, showing an increase since 1853, or
in 15 years, of I,o82 ordained missionaries, over
I,ooo native assistants, about 70,00ooo communicants,
and over 2o,ooo scholars.
CALICO PRINTING.-The calico interest in the
United States is an important one. The total product
of the printed goods in I826 was about 3,000,00o0
yards. In I836 it reached 120,000,000. In I855 there
were twenty-seven print-works in the United States,
which produced in the aggregate 350,ooo,ooo yards
per year. This amount, at an average of ten cents
per yard, was worth $35,ooo,ooo. There are 6,000ooo,ooo
cotton spindles now in operation in the United States,
of which over 2,000,000 are running on cloths for
printing, and produce 450,ooo,ooo yards.
PAUPERISM IN NEW YORK.-In thirty-four years,
from I83I to I865, the population increased only 9go
per cent., while pauperism increased o90o per cent.,
giving ten paupers now for one in I83I. In that
year, one person out of I23 received relief; in I856,
one out of every I7; an increase of more than sevenfold in 25 years. Recently there were 6o,ooo persons
out of employment in New York city alone, with
flour at $I4 per barrel, and millions of fertile acres
in the West calling for cultivation. Not less than
$5,ooo,ooo are spent annually in New York city for
charitable objects. About 40 per cent. of persons
relieved are Americans, and the remainder, or 6o per
cent., foreigners.
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AMERICAN MISSIONARY IN PARIS.-We were glad
to welcome into our office a few days ago our esteemed
friend Rev. William Schwarz, who, after laboring
earnestly and successfully among his German countrymen in America, returned some twelve years since
to the father-land to carry our earnest godliness to
his countrymen at home. He was soon sent to labor
in Switzerland, and then in France, and has been a
heroic and successful evangelist, as we knew he would
be when we parted with him twelve years ago in
New York harbor. The following letter, from a
Paris correspondent of the 2Ve'w York, Tines, thus
appreciatively speaks of his labors:
" Some years ago the American Methodist Missionary Society
sent abroad as an agent of propagandism, an able, hard-working,
and most interesting man, Rev. William Schwarz. He first cast
his lot at Berlin, and going among the street-sweepers, the rag
pickers, and the offals generally of humanity, of that great class
which is abandoned by the rest of society, and for which churches
are never built, he reclaimed in a short time from the filth of mind
and body enough human beings to build up two churches, which
continue to worship in the Methodist faith and to grow in numbers and prosperity.
"He next pitched his tent at Basle, in Switzerland, and there
gathered around him in a short time enough of souls reclaimed
from sin and filth to establish and build another church.
"He then came to Paris, and here we have seen him in his
quiet, modest, and earnest way, rapidly gather up three congregations from materials so utterly beyond the reach of church
influences as to be fit only to be ranked with the heathen of the
remotest corners of the earth. He commenced in the quarter
called the Ternes, among the German street-sweepers, and in a
miserably plain room, rented for a trifle, he soon got together a
regular congregation, which he organized into a Church, and
started on a firm basis. He then obtained another room not far
from this, for an organization of domestics, and succeeded with the
same rapidity as before. By this time the Catholic establishments
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