RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS. oe 
CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN. 
v. J. E. Suarp, ; 
Pastor Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Kansas City, Mo. 
The following are the statistics of this denomiation for the State 
of Missouri: Number of Synods, 3; Presbyteries, 13; ordained 
ministers, 149; licensed ministers, 46; candidates preparing for 
the ministry, 45; pastors, 24; ministers supplying congregations, 
101; ministers without charge of congregations, 39; congrega- 
tions, 331 ; members, 16,185 ; persons in Sunday Schools, 9,056. 
There are the following institutions of learning under the control 
of this denomination in Missouri: 4 academies and high schools; 
and McGee College at College Mound, Macon County, Rev. J. B. 
MITCHELL, D.D., President. Females, 86; males, 187. Total 
matriculations, 273. Candidates preparing for the ministry, 29 ; 
professors and teachers, 11. 
The periodicals of the State are, the Cumberland Presbyterian 
(weekly), published in Saint Louis, Rev. J. R. Brown, D.D., edi- 
tor, and McGee College Record (semi-annually), published at 
College Mound, Macon County. 
The General Assembly has a Board of Missions, of which Rev. 
J. H. Houx, of Warrensburg, Missouri, is President, and Rev. J. B. 
Locan, of Saint Louis, is Corresponding Secretary and General 
Superintendent. 
Outp ScHOoL PRESBYTERIAN. 
By Rev. R. P. Farris, D. D., 
Editor of the ‘‘ Old School Presbyterian,’’ 
The first Presbyterian sermon in Saint Louis, after the cession 
of the territory to the United States, was preached November 6, 
1814, by Rev. Dante. Smiru, of Bennington, Vermont, who, in 
company with Rev. S. J. Mitts, of Carringford, Connecticut, was 
sent hither by the Bible and Missionary Society of New England 
and Philadelphia. The first baptism by a Presbyterian minister ir 
Saint Louis, after the cession of the country to the United States, 
was administered Sunday, March 3, 1816, by Rev. GipEoN BLAck- 
BURN, of Nashville, Tennessee. The late Mrs. MorTIMER KENNETT 
was one of the children then baptized. The Lord’s Supper was 
administered by Rev. T. Fiint, for the first time in Saint Louis 
to members of this denomination, Sunday July 21, 1816, after the 
country was ceded to the United States. The first Presbyterian 
Church west of the Mississippi River, was organized Saturday, 
August 3, 1816, as the Bellevue Church, at Caledonia, Washing- 
ton County, Missouri, with 27 members. Bonhomme Church, 
Saint Louis County, was organized October 4, 1816. First Presby- 
terian Church, Saint Louis, was organized November 23, 1817. 
Saint Charles Presbyterian Church was organized August 30, 1818. 
The Old School Presbyterian Synod of Missouri consists, in 
1872, of 6 Presbyteries, go ministers, 130 churches, 8,ooo communi- 
cants, 600 Suriday School teachers, 6,000 Sunday School scholars. 
Westminster College, at Fulton, under the patronage of this 
denomination, has 6 professors, 100 students, and $100,000,: en- 
dowment. 
The Old School Presbyterian (weekly) is published in Saint 
Louis by Cuartes B. Cox. Its editor is Ropert P. Farris. 
ROMAN CAT HOLIC. 
By Rev. Wo. WALSH, 
Pastor St. Bridget Church, St. Louis, Mo. 
The Archives of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, kept by the 
Chancellor, Very Rev. H. Muntsiepen, place the date of the 
building of the first Catholic church in the city of St. Louis in 
the year 1770. ‘The first pastor of the church was Rev. Mr. 
Gisau.r,’a native of France, St. Louis being then a French village 
of some five hundred inhabitants, all of whom professed the 
Catholic faith. The territory then, north of what is now the State 
of Louisiana, and when subject to France, was called the ‘ District 
of Louisiana,’’ or ‘‘ Upper Louisiana,’’ and was attended by 
priests of the Diocese of New Orleans. Bishop Dusourc, of New 
Orleans, had then charge of Upper and Lower Louisiana, and 
more than once visited St. Louis. But such was the growth of St. 
Louis that it was erected into an Episcopal See in the year 1826, 
when it had a population of about ten thousand souls. Rt. Rev. 
JosepH Rosati was the first Bishop of St. Louis. There are 
now, in 1872, two Catholic Sees in the State of Missouri ; the 
Archdiocese of St. Louis, and the Diocese of St. Joseph. Most 
Rev. Peter RicHarD KEnrRICK, consecrated in 1841 coadjutor to 
Bishop Rosati, and now assisted by Rt. Rev. Parrick Joun Ryan, 
his coadjutor, consecrated in April 1872, governs the Archdiocese 
of St. Louis. Rt. Rev. JoHn Hocan, consecrated in September, 
1868, governs the Diocese of St. Joseph. 
From the Catholic Almanac of 1872, published by SADLIER, of 
New York, collated and revised by Catholic clergymen appointed 
by the Catholic Bishops of the United States, the following brief 
summary is taken, which will show the prosperous condition of the 
Catholic Church in this State ; 
The Archdiocese of St. Louis contains; Churches, 157 ; in 
course of erection, 14; chapels and stations, 30; priests, 186; 
priests ordained since January, 1872, 15; clerical students, 48; 
since received, 20; literary institutions for young men, including 
I university, 2 colleges, and 1 academy, 4; religious orders of 
men, 6; female academies and convents, 9 ; hospitals, 3 ; orphan 
asylums, 4; number of orphans, — benevolent and ‘charitable 
institutions, 4; religious orders of y omen, 12; Catholic popula- 
tion, about 200,000. 
Besides the above religious and literary institutions, there are 
about one hundred Catholic parish s@hools attached to the churches 
of the Archdiocese, and in which n6t less than 25,000 children of 
both sexes receive their education.» These schools are under the 
direction of the Catholic clergy, whose congregations build and 
support them without any aid from the Common School Fund. 
The teachers are generally religious, and receive but small salaries. 
There are Sunday Schools in all the churches, attended by the 
children of the parish schools, ang all others who desire a 
instruction. 
The Diocese of St. Joseph contains: Churches, 25; missions 
and chapels, 30; priests, 20; colleges, academies and parish 
schools, 30; Catholic population, about 20,000. 
These figures give the following ‘summary for the State of Mis- 
souri : Churches, 182; in course of erection, 14; chapels, missions 
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