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numerous passages of Scripture . About the year 360 , Saint Chrysostom caused a . gotliic priest to read the Bible in his own language in the Church of St . Paul in Constantinople ., ajnd to preach upon it . This essay or sermon i& perhaps something of that kind , at all events it is' a valuable addition to gothic literature .
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according to the foregoing statement * , amounts to 828 millions of souLs . It may be observed , however , that the number of the Jews must be far greater and may be taken at more than eight millions .. We have « iveri it at 2 , 650 , 000
because that is derived from authentic sources ; but these are very uncertain , in Asia and Africa especially . In the same way the nunlber of the Sunnite Mohammedans may be rated as exceeding the amount above-stated by nearly twenty millions . —Ai gemeine Kirchenzei tung .
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The Madrid Gazette announces a Spanish translation of Cobbett ' s History of the Reformation , by M . Chalumeau de Verneuil , dedicated to the Infant Don Francisco , brother of the King . A most pompous eulogium is bestowed on the original , ** the production , " says the Gazette , " of Sir William Cobbett , which has produced the most powerful impression in favour of the Catholics through all parts of the British Empire . "
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208 Intelligence . —Foreign .
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Population of the Earth according to the different Religious Sects . Monotheists 362 , 045 , 000 I . Christians 234 , 495 , 000 Viz . 1 . Catholics , 169 , 150 , 000 ; 2 . Protestants , 57 , 694 , 000 : viz . a . Evangelic , united , 8 , 200 , 000 ; b . Lutheran , 16 , 220 , 000 ; c . Reformed , 12 , 240 , 000
( Proper Reformed , 7 , 440 , 000 ; Presbyterians , 4 , 800 , 000 ) ; d . Anglican , 15 , 050 , 000 ; e . Professors of various sects , 5 , 914 , 000 ( Independents , 3 , 800 , 000 ; Methodists , 1 , 500 , 000 ; Quakers 200 , 000 ; Menotiites 200 , 000 ; Herrenhuters 100 , 000 ; Baptists , 76 , 000 ; Unitarians , 60 , 000 ; Swedenborgians , 36 , 000 ; Filippines , 12 , 000 ) : 3 . Greek
Christians , 41 , 375 , 000 ; b . Eastern Greek , 6 , 000 , 000 ; 4 . Monophysites , 5 , 876 , 000 : viz . a . Jacobites , 3 , 526 , 000 ( Prop . Jacobites , 220 , 000 ; Copts , 3 , 200 , 000 ; Thomas Christians , 80 , 000 ; John ditto , 26 , 000 ) ; b . Maronites , 150 , 000 ; c . Armenians , 2 , 200 , 000 : 5 . Nestorians , 400 ; 000 . II . Jews 2 , 650 , 000 III . Mohammedans 115 , 120 , 000 Viz . 1 . Sunnites , 72 , 000 , 000 ; viz . a . Sunnites , 65 , 000 , 000 , — b . Wechabites ,
7 , 000 , 000 ; 2 . Schiites , 43 , 000 , 000 ; 3 Ismaelites , 120 , 000 . IV . Zoroastrians 780 , 000 V . Confucians 5 , 000 , 000 VI . Nanknists 4 , 000 , 000 Polytheists 466 , 000 , 000 1 . Lamaites 58 , 000 , 000 2 . brahmins 115 , 000 , 000 3 . Buddhists 169 , 000 , 000 4 . Fetiche-Worshipers 124 , 000 , 000 The aggregate population of the globe ,
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Our countrymen at Malta appear , from the following passage from Blaquiere ' s lately published Letters from Greece , to be peculiarly easy on the subject of religion : — " You are not perhaps aware , that it is a special part of our oolicv not onlv to afford
nrotection to all the religious rites and superstitions of Malta and the Ionian Islands , but even to assist in their performance . All the grand processions in the respective islands are attended by the British civil and military authorities , many of whom even carry wax lights , in honour of the Virgin or Saint , as it may be . This is a somewhat remarkable fact , as contrasted with those religious differences which continue to divide other parts of the empire . "
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M . Inguanzo , Archbishop of Toledo , has lately published an order prohibiting almost every description of books , prayer-books excepted , from entering his diocese . Every work in a foreign language , and every translation , and all the French and English Journals en masse are forbidden . Not satisfied with this , he has even prohibited his diocesans from entering the reading-rooms lately established , also from reading the works of Llorente , or Senipcre on the
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M . Sylvester Guidi , who has for many years continued to enrich the Clementine Museum at Rome with Egyptian antiquities , has ju 9 t imported a fresh collection . Among other articles is a Greco-Egyptian papyrus , which is supposed to have belonged to Ptolemy Philadelphus ; it is in perfect preservation , not a single letter being wanting .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1828, page 208, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2558/page/64/
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