Childermaa. See Inkocents' Dat.
Children, Church Membebshif of. See Ihfakt Church Membbbship.
Children, Coiafumoir of. See Iiifa3it Cox-
MUKION.
Childs, JoHir Wbslet, a minister of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church South, was bom in Calvert Co., Md., in 1800. In 1814 he went to Richmond, Va., where he was employed as a derk. In 1826 he re- ceived license as a lo^ preacher ; in 1827 he entered the Baltimore Confarence on probation ; and in 1839 he was admitted into full connection. In 1844, when the Methodist Episcopid Church was divided od die slavery question, he adhered to the Soutliem (Siorch, and continued to serve in important appointments up to the year of his death. He died May 9, 1860, at Non folk, Ya. , in great peace. " His highest distinction lay in his extraordinary spirituality, his deadness to the world, his devotion to Christ; and in this respect il may reasonably be doubted whether he has had hit superior in modem times." — Spragne, A wdir, vii, Tlk
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Ghfl'efib (H^ Jrajfr' Mhl^, protected by the ySi- ther, i. e. God; Sept. KcXfa^ y. r. AaXot/ta), the sec- ond son of king David by Abigail, Nabal'g widow (2 Sam. iii, 8), called in the parallel passage (1 Chron. iU, 1} by the eqoiyalent name Danibl (q. v.). The rea- son <ft this twofold name is uncertain ; bat for the rab- binical notions concerning it, and some speculations of bia own, see Bochart, Hieroe. i, 608.
CbUi, a lepnbUc of Sonth America, with an area of about 170,000 square miles, and, according to the cen- sus of April, 1866, a population of 2,064,945 souls, al- naoat ezdnsiyely Roman Catholic There is one Ro- man archbishopric at Santiago, and three bishoprics at Serena, la Conception, and &m Carlos de Chfloe (An- cnd). The number of parish priests in 1868 was 153, of convents of monks 41, of convents of nuns 7 ; and a law provided that in future none of the 18 provinces abonld have more than one convent of every order. In 1834 the landed property of the Church was confis- cated, and since that time the clergy have been paid by the state. In the budget of 1847, 180,080 pesos [Span- iah dollars] were appropriated for this purpose. The educational institutions are fiff ahead of those of any other Sonth American state. At the University of Santiago, which was reorganized in 1842, and which soperintends, as the Supreme Educational Board of the state, all otlter- educational institutions, several Ger- man Protestant professors have been teaching' since 1857. The Simsta CattoUca, published at Santiago, is considered by Romanists as one of the best papers of the Roman Church in South America.
In July, 1865, the Chilian Congress had a long and animated discussion on amending Article 5 of the Chfl- ian Constitution, which is as follows : *' The religion of the republic of Chili is the Roman Catholic, to the exclusion of the public exercise of any other.'* The discussion terminated in a way quite satisfactory to the Liberal party, notwithstanding the full strengtifi of the Ultramontane party was brought to bear in favor of the old article. The amendment to the Constitu- tion, as adopted by Congress and sanctioned by the executive, declared : 1. That worship within buildings belonging to private persons is allowed to those who do not profess the Roman Catholic religion ; and, 2. That dissenters are allowed to establish and sustain pri- vate schools for the instruction of their own children. The first Protestant mission of Chili was established for Americans and Englishmen in Valparaiso in 1846, and has now become self-sustaining. The congregation had in 1857 50 communicants, and the number of Sunday- school scholars rose in 1859 to 100. A second Protest- ant mission has been established in Valparaiso for the German residents. In Santiago, the capital of the republic, the Protestant (chiefly American) residents in January, 1866, fitted up a chapel at an expense of $800, capable of seating 125 persons. The press of the city generaUy made a kindly notice of the opening exer- cises, in which the American and the English ministers took part, and not the least sign of dissatisfaction was manifested. The Protestants with great unanhnity came forward in support of the movement, and within one week after the opening of the chapel all the pews were rented. In 1860 a missionary of the South Amer- ican Missionary Society (of England), the Rev. Allen Gardiner, established himself at Lota, in Arauco Bay (Southern Chili), a town whiieh derived its chief im- portance from the coal mines in its neighborhood. In 1859 not less than 84 of these were worked, and some 3000 workmen were connected with them. At the re- quest €i the English and Scotch families engaged in the Lota mines, Mr. Gardiner established Sunday serv- ices at the misaion-house, and a Sunday-school for the ehildreo. The opposition at first shown by a portion at^be Roman Catholic population was gradually over- come, and the Protestant mission procured and secured religioiia toleration for the Protestant community of the
Lota mines, by a oontraot signed to that effMt at the company's office in a public manner, and after a pub- lic meeting, and without a dissenting voice. The mis- sionaries also took care of the spiritual interests of the sailors visiting Arauco Bay, and provided the German settlers in the neighborhood with opportunities of Christian worship. Having in the meanwhile ac- quired and perfected themselves in the Spanish lan- guage, they, in 1865 and 1866, made several itinerant visits into the territory of the Indians, and took the preliminary steps for establbhing the Indian missions upon a firm basis. In 1866 the society had stations at Lota and Coquimbo, at £1 Carmea in Northern Pata- gonia, Keppel Island (Falkland), besides one or two stations among the Araucanian Indians. In Dec. 1866, the society's ship, the ** Allen Gardiner,'* left England with four natives of the Terra del Fuego, who had re- ceived a Christian education in England. The first German miBsionary was sent to Southern Chili in 1866 by the Gustavus Adolphus Society of Germany. He began preaching half of the time at Orsono, and the other half at Puerto Monte, a (mostly German) town of 15,000 inhabitants, in a re^^on which, as late as 1850, was peopled only by small bodies of savages. The German Protestants of this town h^ive bought a house in the principal square, and propose to build a chapel.