The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-06-17
RELIGIOUS Intelligence.

CALENDAR FOR JuNE-17 I'd Sunday after Trinity
- ID Sunday after Trinity, amidst John Baptist. 49,
The anniversary Of the American Tract Society of
receipts of tn. Ye.I Ss oy
contributions and legaces $40 2l2 from sale Of pub
locations, S19,335.
age in New England SO $780, for coporage in the west
$1s96 for foreign lands $780, agencies So 635 clerks
In store 81 925; rent taxes insurance. freight print
ing. postage, paper and all other expenses, So 323;
gratuitous distribution $564O.
Coiportage Fifteen colporters have been employed
under the direction Of this Society, in Maine, New
Hampshire Vermont and Massachusetts,. These fifteen
coporters have circulated 1926 books of which 6274
grants the destitute and 1856 622 pages of tracts
visited "a CAT fsmilies had religious ersation and
prayer with ID 000 and found 1856 families had no re-
lgOus book except the Bible held e45 meetings for
tualy neglected public worship on the Sabbath The
whole number of books circulated during the year is
1O355. The receipts $4404 80 in advance of the
$3.50 49, ' " '''' '-'-'' 90 ~ '"'''
The sum Of 81 ,966 has been paid towards the sup.
port OF more than SO colporters, commissioned by the
Society in New York.
From abstract of the annual report Of the Mas
sachusetts Sabbath School Society learn that the
receipts of the society have S2OO47 its new pub
locations, 65whole number 942 The number of hope.
ful conversions, reported in the schools, is $50.
The Massachusetts Missionary Society is in -four
shing condition The receipts during the SO years of
Its existence have been S412074 In addition this
National Society at New York, FOR the purpose,
Sl32756 amounting in all to $545 $50 IL to this
add the which the Berkshire and Columbia and
the Hampshire Missionary Societies expended their
missionaries before they assumed auxiliary rela-
ton the total receipts from Massachusetts, tor home
missionary purposes is $59l699 or this l67 $685.
have been expended in this State. and S545 500 in
other parts of the land More than half the receipts
Of fifty years have been contributed during the last
ten years.
The General Synod of the Reformed Dutch Church,
have recommended to the churches under their care,
to observe as day of humiliation and prayer, &C
count OF the cholera the 4h Thursday of the
month, 18th June.
The Rev. w. M. Green, D. d Professor in the IJn;
versty OF North Carolina has been unanm ousy elect
ed by the Diocesan Convention of Mississippi to be
Bishop of the Diocese.
The Oxford Herald mentions report hitherto un.
contradictcd that the late Viscount Melbourne
privately received into the Church Of Rome several
years prior to his DEATH and q Roman Catholic
when he was Premier Of England.
The Rev Baptist Nool has taken his place among the
dssenters Of England and disconnected himself with
the establishment whose vices no has pungenty de-
picted But In doing he very properly refuses to
cal laws of England still suffer to be inflicted upon
those who leave the established church He has ad-
dressed letter to the Bishop Of London, announcing
that he has taken the oath prescribed by law for dis
sentlDg minister's but has refused to comply with the
law which requires such to be deposed from holy orders
before they allowed to preach He says that he
will suffer imprisonment than relinquish the
ercise OF minis teral duties
The FREE CHURCH oTLASD.--From an official re-.
port in Scotch paper, learn that the Church
ofScotland has two normal semina lie and upwards Of
i've hundred schools and a college in wi ic1 Upwards
OF two hundred students training for the Of
the ministry at home and abroad. 1t has hsme mis-
sion which provides the Of grace many of
most destitute localities In the highlands and owlands
OF Scotland and supports missionaries in Trinidad
Jamaica and Canada; in West Africa and South Africa
In Bombay Madras Calcutta Nagpur and other places
in India; in New South Wales Van Diemans land and
New zealand; in Gibraltar, Malta, Leghorn, Constan-
tnope Pesth in Hungary, and other places the
tnent of Europe For the support Of the missionary
schemes Of this church there raised last year.
1S47.S the Of E5G 000 and for objects strictly
connected with these schemes about 81 00O more,
king in all 1888 COO than $500 000 greater
1t il believed in proportion to the number and
the contributors than is raised for similar purposes
In any other country, not excepting New England
In the Southern Methodist Church there are nine
annual conferences -Four bishops have charge OF tho
field aided by las travelling preachers The number
Of local preachcrsis 026 with 591 7S8 members Over
3b4 600 colored and the Of members during
the past year has been % 33 Total colec lions amount
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