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of foreign sights and subjects whose follower we are so willing to be, while he does all the rough journeying with his knapsack on his back and his exceedingly-light, purse in his pocket, and we sit quietly in our room these hot July days, and, through his graphic sketches and still more graphic pictures, see what he saw and hear what he heard. Those who were delighted with his genial, racy sketches of German life in the "American Family in Germany," will not find so much to laugh at among the solemn, staid Russians, but quite as much to interest and entertain.

AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON AMERICAN GRAPE CULTURE AND WINE-MAKING. By Peter B. Mead. 8vo. Pp. 483. $3.50. New York: Harper & Brothers. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co.-The author is a veteran horticulturist, and he knows whereof he writes. The volume is a record of his own practice and experience, and he has striven to make it a safe guide to all. Though elementary, it is not superficial, and the reader who consults it on any department of grape growing and vineyard dressing will find it sufficiently full and satisfactory. The work is illustrated by neatly-cut wood engravings, drawn from nature.

THACKERAY'S LECTURES. The English Humorists, The Four Georges. Complete in One Volume. 12mo. Pp. 449. $1.25. New York: Harper & Brothers. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co.-We have already spoken of this really-fine edition of Thackeray's works from the press of the Harpers, and have not yet ceased to wonder how a book so large and so well made as this is, can be sold for $1.25. These lectures are first among the best of Thackeray's productions.

CURIOSITY SHOP, AND SKETCHES. Four Volumes in One. 16mo. Pp. 1,238. $1.50. Globe Edition. New York: Hurd & Houghton. Cincinnati: R. W. Carroll & Co.-This is another issue of the Globe Edition of

Dickens's works-one of the best of the many editions now appearing. It contains the "Old Curiosity Shop," which we have accepted as one of Dickens's best, containing that inimitable character, "Little Nell." To this story are added a number of "reprinted pieces," and those "sketches of every-day life and every-day people," which first introduced Mr. Dickens to the public. The illustrations, from designs by Darley and Gilbert, are very fine.

THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT, AND DOMBEY AND SON. By Charles Dickens. The Diamond Edition. $1.50. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co.-Two additional volumes of the Diamond series, in which the complete stories of Chuzzlewit and Dombey & Son are compressed into a space not too large for the pocket, while the style and finish of the books are worthy of the library.

THE PICKWICK PAPERS. By Charles Dickens. Be

ing the First of a New Edition of Dickens's Works,

entitled, The Charles Dickens Edition. Eight Illustrations. Square 16mo. Pp. 497. $1.50. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co.-And still they come. This is an entirely new edition, to be issued simultaneously in England and America, under the editorial supervision of Mr. Dickens himself, and its characteristics are to be "legibility, durability, beauty, and cheapness." The present volume certainly accom

plishes these points. The page is a flowing, open one, in clear type, on fine toned paper, and the volume strongly bound in cloth.

THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH, IN VERSE. For the Use of Bible Classes, Schools, and Families, in the Protestant Episcopal Church. By John Henry Hopkins, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of the Diocese of Vermont. 12mo. Pp. 256. New York: W. I. Pooley. Cincinnati: R. W. Carroll & Co.-As we seldom have an opportunity of using poetry in our "Literary Notices" we will let the Bishop introduce his own book:

"With humble hope some aid to bring
To remedy this evil of our time,

I give my reader here a novel thing

A history of the Church, composed in rhyme.
The form, I trust, its use will recommend,
Although it wears an unaccustomed dress;
The verse some small attractiveness may lend,
And help the memory better to impress.
To high poetic power I lay no claim,

Nor would my subject favor its display;
To write a useful book was all my aim;
How far successful, 't is not mine to say.

But I can promise that the leading facts,

From the beginning, shall with truth appear,
In just accordance with the words and acts

Of Him whose worship claims our love and fear." THE BLIND BASKET-MAKER LIBRARY. Four Volumes in a Box. New York: Carlton & Porter. Cincinnati: Poe & Hitchcock.-The names of these four beautiful little books are, Nurse Brame, The Blind Basket Maker and his Little Daughter, Charley and Edith, and Little Sue and her Friends. They are a sequel to that most popular book, "Ministering Children," written by the same author, who prefaces each volume with a neat little letter to the dear children who welcomed" the former book. Of these little books Dr. Wise says, "We feel sure that no right-minded reader will rise from the perusal of these stories without feeling convicted of selfishness, nor without warmer aspirations after that highest development of Christian life which demonstrates itself in daily deeds of kindness to those who are poor in things spiritual and temporal."

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By Anthony

THE LAST CHRONICLE OF BARSET. Trollope. With Illustrations by George H. Thomas. 8vo, cloth. Pp. 362. $2. New York: Harper & Bros. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co.

APPLETON'S HAND-BOOK OF AMERICAN TRAVEL. The Northern Tour. Being a Guide through all the Northern, Western, and North Western States and Territories, with Descriptive Sketches of the Principal Cities and Towns, and Maps of the Leading Routes of Travel. By Edward H. Hall. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Cincinnati: R. W. Carroll & Co. $3.-Brimful of in

formation, and indispensable to the traveler.

CATALOGUES.-Pennington Seminary and Female Collegiate Institute, of the New Jersey Annual Conference, Pennington, New Jersey, Rev. T. Hanlon, A. M., Principal. North-Western Female College, Evanston, Illinois, Rev. Lucius H. Bugbee, M. A., President. Xenia Female College, Xenia, Ohio, William Smith, A. M., President. Moore's Hill Male and Female Collegiate

Institute, Moore's Hill, Indiana, Rev. Thomas Harper & Brothers. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co.-A rison, President. Willoughby Collegiate Institute, Wil- convenient form for this important law. loughby, Ohio, Rev. John B. Robinson, President. Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute, Morgantown, West Virginia, Rev. G. W. Arnold, Principal. Brookville College, Brookville, Indiana, Rev. J. H. Martin, A. M., President. Pittsburg Female College, Pittsburg, Penn., Rev. I. C. Pershing, D. D., President.

MISCELLANEOUS. THE BANKRUPT LAW, WITH ORDERS AND FORMS. Paper, 25 cents. New York: Har

SOWING THE WIND. A Novel. By E. Lynn Linton. NORA AND ARCHIBALD LEE. A Novel. By the Author of Agnes Tremorne, etc. Nos. 290 and 291 of Harper's Library of Select Novels. Paper, 50 cents. New York: Harper & Brothers. Cincinnati: Robert

Clarke & Co.

MINUTES OF THE OHIO STATE SUNDAY SCHOOL CONFERENCE. Cleveland, Ohio, May 29 and 30, 1867.

Eiterarg, Briratilir, and Statistical Zirms.

HELIOTYPOGRAPHY.-To print from plates made by the action of the sunlight, without the aid of the graver of the artist, has long been an object which those interested in the matter have striven to accomplish. At last the feat has been accomplished, and plates are now produced in type-metal, or zinc, which is harder than type, which can be printed from upon the ordinary printing press in exactly the same manner as the ordinary method of printing from type or wood-cuts. The success of this invention is established beyond a doubt, and letters-patent have been taken out in this country and Europe. A company has been formed in this city called the Heliotype Company, and an establishment has been opened at 90 Fulton-street. We have visited the place, and have examined specimens of the printing, and the plates from which the impressions were made. Nothing more perfect could be desired, and when the reader is informed that they can be produced at an expense of one-fourth of the present prices asked for wood-cuts, he will see that it is of some practical value as well as a great achievement in art. We have before us specimens of this new method of printing in the shape of an autograph letter from Dr. Leonard W. Bacon, a map of the New England and Middle States, which was originally drawn with a pen, and a page of the Illustrated London News much reduced in size. All of these are as perfect as the originals, in fact exact fac similes. There is no branch of the art of printing to which this new process is not applicable. Every thing which can be reproduced upon paper in black and white, is brought out to absolute perfection-the finest engravings, maps, music, pictures, enlarged or reduced to any size desired, etc. In a few weeks it is confidently expected that the artist will be able to take the photograph of any person, house, or study from nature desired, and sending it to this heliotype company, have returned in a few hours an exact copy in metal which can be printed from upon the ordinary printing-press. What more than this can be desired it is difficult to imagine.

The plates produced by this new process are capable of producing any number of impressions, as each line is braced, the acid, by a new process, being limited in its operations, not having the opportunity to eat under the face of the type, thus producing a shell which would soon break down. The more work there is upon a picture the better this new process seems to apply to

it. Some of Gustave Dore's superb Bible illustrations are easily reproduced as exact as the originals. Professor Doremus of this city is having a very old and rare work on physiology, which was printed some time in 1600, and is full of fine and costly engravings, reproduced by this novel and cheap process. We confidently expect to see this wonderful invention completely drive wood-cuts and hand-engraving out of use. A man would be foolish, indeed, to pay three times as much for a wood-cut done by hand as he would have to pay for the same thing by the new process of Heliotypography. It is only necessary to add that the celebrated house of Waters & Son, of this city, map engravers, are deeply interested in this matter.-New York Evening Gazette.

KANSAS SCHOOL STATISTICS.-From the sixth annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, it appears that in the year 1866 there were, in 871 school districts, 31,258 children in attendance upon our common schools. There were 1,086 teachers, whose aggregate wages were $115,924. The total value of school-houses was $318,897. Besides these, there are reported eighty-three select schools, with 113 teachers, and 3,268 scholars; three academies and institutes; nine colleges and universities-two of these commercial colleges-numbering thirty-nine teachers and professors, and 958 students. Add to these the State Normal

School, the State Agricultural College, and the State University, and the pupils attending them, and the grand total of scholars in the Kansas schools last year was 35,789.

THE BLIND IN GREAT BRITAIN.-The number of blind people in Great Britain is estimated at 30,000. In England and Wales the ratio of the blind to the rest of the population is one in 1,037; in Scotland, one in 1,086; in Ireland, one in 843; and in the Channel Islands, one in 720.

SCIENTIFIC MAGIC.-Professor Doremus, of New York, recently delivered a lecture, in which, as we learn from the Druggists' Circular, he introduced several illustrations of the constitution of gun cotton. The lecturer once placed a linen handkerchief in an explosive condition, and then had it thrown into the wash. His servant girl washed, dried, and sprinkled it ready for ironing, without her being aware of its

character. The moment she placed the hot iron on the handkerchief it vanished into thin air, much, of course, to her astonishment and affright. Had such a thing occurred before the principles of science were so generally understood as they now are, it would have been attributed to supernatural agency.

NATIONAL FINANCES.-At the outbreak of the civil war the entire national debt of the United States was $65,000,000. In April, 1862, it had swollen to $523,299,945; in 1863 it had grown to $939,497,359; in 1864, $1,656,815,105, and by March, 1865, the debt was $2,866,855,077. Our liability may be put down, in round numbers, at $3,000,000,000.

In 1860 France paid taxes to the amount of $413,101,505; Austria, $183,300,445. The payment of three hundred millions of dollars annually, to the national debt of the United States, would extinguish it in thirty

years.

HOW OUR ANCESTORS LIVED.-Erasmus, who visited England in the early part of the sixteenth century, gives a curious description of an English interior of the better class. The furniture was rough, the walls unplastered, but sometimes wainscoted or hung with tapestry, and the floor covered with rushes, which were not changed for months. The dogs and cats had free access to the eating-rooms, and the fragments of meat and bones were thrown to them, which they devoured among the rushes, leaving what they could not eat to rot there, with the draining of beer-vessels and all manner of unmentionable abominations. There

ant to live among those whose religion, and social and domestic life are so unlike the New England style."

DEPTH OF THE OCEAN.-The average depth of the Atlantic Ocean is estimated at 25,000 feet, and of the Pacific at 20,000. The deepest water in the Atlantic is off the Island of St. Helena, which has been sounded 37,000 feet, or over five miles.

INDIAN LITERATURE.-Professor Max Muller, of Oxford, has announced his intention of publishing in eight volumes, "The Sacred Hymns of the Brahmins," as preserved to us in the oldest collection of religious poetry, the Rig veda-Sanhita, translated and explained.

AUSTRALIA. In 1846 the colony of New South Wales included what is now Victoria. Its population was then 200,000, it is now 400,000. There were then

394 schools and 19,033 scholars, now there are 1,069 schools and 53,453 scholars; there were 138 mills, now there are 175; there were 124 manufactories, now there are 2,133; the tillage area was 183,360 acres, now it is 378,254; there were 88,126 horses, now there are 282,687; there were 1,430,736 horned cattle, now there are 1,961,905; there were 7,908,811 sheep, now there are 8,132,511; the ships employed were 800, the tunnage of which was 140,000 tuns; now 2,000 ships are employed, the tunnage of which is 650,000 tuns; the yearly export of gold was nil, now it is £2,647,668; 40,000 tuns of coal were raised, now 600,000 tuns are raised; the expenditure was £290,000, now it is £2,314,794.

LOSSES OF PRUSSIA IN WAR.-An official account of

shows a return of 229 killed and 611 wounded officers, and of 3,735 killed and 15,580 wounded, rank and file. OUTBREAK OF PLAGUE ON THE EUPHRATES.-The

was nothing like refinement or elegance in the luxury Prussian loss in the late war is now published, and of the higher ranks; the indulgences which their wealth permitted consisted in rough and wasteful profusion. Salt beef and strong ale constituted the principal part of Queen Elizabeth's breakfast, and similar refreshments were served to her in bed for supper.telegraph sends evil news from Bagdad. What is deAt a series of entertainments given by the nobility in 1669, where each exhausted his invention to outdo the others, it was universally admitted that Lord Goring won the palm for the magnificence of his fancy. The description of this supper will give us an idea of what was then thought magnificent. It consisted of four huge, brawny pigs, piping hot, bitted and harnessed, with ropes of sausages, to a huge pudding bag, which served for a chariot.

RESULTS OF HIGH CULTURE.-France obtains fifty per cent. more wheat per acre than the United States, England more than one hundred per cent. greater crops, and the secret is superior cultivation and manuring.

CRISES IN LIFE.-Sixty-three years of age is said to be the grand climacteric, or turn of life, a critical period for masculine humanity, more men dying at that age, or near it, than at any other, leaving accidents and violent deaths aside. A like critical period for feminine humanity is forty-seven years.

CHANGING POPULATION.-The Springfield (Mass.) Republican says there is "a very rapid change of population going on in our manufacturing towns. Foreign working people have come in to such an extent as, in many villages, to constitute the controlling element, and the natives do not find it pleas

clared to be the veritable Asiatic plague has appeared at Kerbeeiah, on the Euphrates; and of the two settled Arab tribes, 1,000 strong, whom it has attacked, 100 have been carried off. A telegraphic report, dated June 4th, from the quarantine inspector at Bagdad, states that whatever may be the real character of the malady, its symptoms are clearly those of the pest, typhus fever, glandular swellings, carbuncles, and livid spots on the skin. The inducing causes of the outbreak are supposed to have been the miasma following the late floods, the poverty, filth, and crowded state in which the people live. Prompt measures have been taken by the Bagdad authorities to prevent the spread of the malady, and, thanks to these and the great heat of the weather, the outbreak is said to be already subsiding.

JAPAN. The progress of intimate relations between this country and Japan is illustrated in the fact that the "Japanese Commissioners, now at Washington, have purchased twenty thousand volumes of school books for the instruction of the Japanese. Among the books are two thousand three hundred school dictionaries, four thousand readers and spellers, ten thousand copy-books, eight hundred English grammars, seven hundred copies of Wells's scientific text-books; also botanies, universal history, astronomy, anatomy, drawing-books, geographies, etc."

Betrospect of Religious

RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL AT ROME.-The canonization which has just taken place at Rome, in commemoration of the martyrdom of Saint Peter, is the 191st. There have been no less than thirty-eight canoniza. tions in the present century. The religious ceremonies

connected with this commemoration are said to have been one of the most gorgeous pageants ever witnessed. The observances were commenced with a general illu mination of the city. Says the Herald's reporter, "St. Peter's shone like a great church on fire. At seven o'clock this morning there was a grand procession of prelates, priests, monks, and soldiers, from the Vatican to St. Peter's. His Holiness the Pope was carried on the throne. There was an immense crowd assembled in the interior of the church before his arrival. St. Peter's was most magnificently decorated with cloths of gold, silver tapestries, paintings, and two hundred thousand yards of crimson silk. The building was lighted up with many millions of candles. There were 100,000 people within its walls, including the ex-King of Naples, the Foreign Ministry, 500 Cardinals, Archbishops, and Bishops, and many thousands of clergymen, priests, friars, and monks. There were even nuns and soldiers from almost every country in the world."

MEXICO. Mr. Westrup, lately appointed Bible Agent in place of Mr. Hickey, states that the colporteurs in Mexico are successfully prosecuting their work. In a town in North Zacatecas, which they found remarkably enlightened and unprejudiced, they emptied their saddle-bags in one street. Mr. Westrup says that the people are evidently awakening to an idea of the truth. Many come miles to make inquiry about our religion. The influence of Rome diminishes continually, so that "there never was such a dull time of Lent at Easter in Monterey." And while the Romish meetings are growing less, those of the Protestants are continually increasing.

JEWS.-A Convention of delegates from the principal Jewish Synagogues of the country has recently been in session in Philadelphia. A paper read by Rev. Mr. Leeser claimed that the Fallachiaux tribes of Abyssinia, and the people of the interior of China, are the lineal descendants of the lost tribes. Their manners, customs, and forms of prayer show this to be the case. As efforts are making to convert them to Christianity, a messenger is about to be sent out by the Universal Israelitish Alliance of Paris to counteract the movement. The Business Committee deprecated the system prevalent for so many years of sending large sums to Palestine, which was spent in almsgiving, thus affording merely temporary relief, and causing the sojourner to be dependent on the charitable for their livelihood. They propose to stop this evil system, and, instead, to send out money to be expended in encouraging the development of agricultural and industrial pursuits, and offering premiums for well-directed efforts in this direction. The plan of

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the Committee was adopted. It was resolved to cooperate in measures for removing the Jews of Servia, Moldavia, Wallachia, Roumania, and the Barbary States to Palestine, and colonize them there. It was alse decided to establish a Jewish College at Philadelphia.

CHANGE OF NAME.-A change of name of the Dutch Reformed Church has for some time been seriously agitated among the people of that denomination. At the recent General Synod, which convened at Geneva, New York, the proposed change was accomplished by dropping the word "Dutch," and adding the words "in America." The name now is "Reformed Church in America." The vote for change stood 102 yeas to 7 nays. The result is somewhat remarkable as a triumph over conservatism, the Church being one of the most conservative of Protestant denominations.

THE GOSPEL IN BEYROUT.-Since the dreadful days of Maronite and Mohammedan bloodshed in the Leba non Mountains, the work of evangelization has been going steadily forward. This spiritual heritage is not all desolate. Christian influence is widening and win ning, and modern civilization is felt even in these strongholds of the false prophet's power. Of espe cial consequence is the orphan-house, under the direc tion of the deaconesses. This is not only a day school, but it keeps the children intrusted to its care under its control for a number of years, and thus weRos them from old influences, habits, and ideas, and transfers them into a new spiritual and moral atmosphere. Only in this way can the mournful, deeply rooted Arab ideas, which effectually bar the way to every advance of the Gospel, be thoroughly conquered. This orphan-house educates daily, without charge, 130 girls The good effects, which have already gone forth from this institution, are already fully evident. The natives who at first entertained a deep and often very absurdly-manifested suspicion, look now upon the estab lishment with the utmost confidence. From all parts of Mt. Lebanon applications are made for the reception of children-no more, however, than 130 can be accom modated.

Besides these orphans, our deaconesses in Beyrout instruct some seventy daughters of rich parents, among them especially those of Greek families, as also several Mohammedan children. Some of these are boarders in the institution.

CHURCHES IN CHICAGO-Of the various religious denominations in Chicago, twenty-five years ago there were in that city only the following churches: One Episcopal, where there are now 13; 1 Methodist, where there are now 18; 1 Baptist, where there are now 9; 1 Catholic, where there are now 17; 1 Universalist, where there are now 2; 1 Unitarian, where there are now 2; 1 Swedenborgian, or New Church congregation, having now a coördinate chapel; and 2 Presbyterian Churches, the second just organized, with twenty-six members, where now there are 18, including 2 Re

formed Dutch Churches. Since the year 1842 there have been established in the city 7 Congregational Churches, 4 Old School Presbyterian, 1 German Reformed, 3 United Presbyterian, 1 Scotch Presbyterian, 2 Reformed Protestant Dutch, and 10 Lutheran, besides several small Churches of minor sects. Thus there are now 107 Churches, where there were only eight or nine a quarter of a century ago.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-OLD SCHOOL.-The following are the statistics for the year 1867: Synods......

Presbyteries...

Licentiates...

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35

176

254

312

2,622

18,848

broken out in most of our circuits, for it is a pleasing fact that the increase of members has taken place in every circuit save one, and in that circuit the decrease was only 4.

There is also a satisfactory progress in receipts. More than £1,000 have been raised by our people, for the expenses of public worship and the support of the ministry; £410 for the Missionary Society; and £760 for chapel building or chapel debts. The total receipts for official funds, including the Worn-out Preachers' Fund, and the donations for our institution, amount to £2,350.

AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY.-During the year end." 2,302 ing April 1, 1867, the American Tract Society printed nearly 44,000,000 pages of minor reading matter, with enough more in the form of books to make a total of over 215,000,000 pages. These belonged to 837,676 volumes, and over 7,000,000 copies of tracts.

13,074

246,350

5,266

10,269

196,023

Total number of communicants...

Infants baptized....

Number of persons in Sabbath schools.......

..$2,673,606

For the boards....

For disabled ministers.

Congregational purposes...........................

625,512 27,473 392,372

For miscellaneous purposes......................................
Whole amount contributed.................................... 3,731,164
Contingent fund.......

12,102

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AMERICAN SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.-The annual report shows that there are now between eighty and ninety missionaries in the service. Its library contains 1,200 volumes, 27 different missionaries report having organized 810 new schools, containing 5,707 teachers, and 34,347 scholars. Besides these, the following new schools were organized: Wisconsin and Minnesota, 174; Michigan, 140; Ohio, 60; Kentucky, 42; North Carolina, 25; South Carolina, 35; Arkansas, 35; Pennsylvania, 50; New York, 83; New England, 17. The following shows the aggregate of results: New schools organized, 1,671, containing teachers, 10,559, scholars, 67,204; schools visited and aided, 6,090, containing teachers, 45,175, scholars, 351,485; families visited, 35,924; miles traveled, 314,410; Scriptures distributed, 9,281; books and other requisites given to Sunday schools, $15,331,098.

The receipts from contributions and legacies during the year amounted to $98,727.64. The expenditures were $108,833.29.

HIGH CHURCH GOVERNMENT.-A few weeks ago, 15,996 Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, jr., of the Episcopal Church, preached in a Methodist pulpit in New Jersey. An offense of so heinous a character against ecclesiastical law can not be winked at, and Mr. Tyng is summoned for trial upon charges preferred before the Bishop of his diocese. The discipline which is unable to reach those who introduce the Roman Catholic ritualism into

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Episcopal Churches is to recover its vigor in prosecuting a clergyman for preaching the Gospel in another denomination. The contrast between the inability in the one case, and the ability in the other, will be interesting to the reflective.

CHICAGO THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.-The Chicago Theological Seminary, of the Old School Presbyterian Church, has erected its first permanent building, raised three professorship endowments of $30,000 each, and secured $8,000 toward a fourth. The alumni have increased from thirty-seven to sixty-five, and the assets have risen to nearly $200,000.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES IN SCOTLAND.-There are 2,600 Presbyterian Churches in Scotland. Of these about 1,000 belong to the Established Church, 1,000 to the Free Church, and 600 to the United Presbyterian body.

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