New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-22
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
Prepared for The Tribune.

- The NeW-V Version Baptists are push
ing forward their work with great Assduity
Rev. Isaac Moore, Agent of the American Bible
Union" has been preaching in the chapel OF the
Mercer University on the Importance OF areVislon
of the English Scriptures, and some OF MS hear
erE resolved 90 become contributors to the Society.
The Ee"frci rL~'.1.-s. 1I"'s'S'" ooaVes
that there are IN Cincinnati forty thousand Ger
msns, two.thirds of whom are Roman Catholics.
The HethodiGts of that City have three churches
which re growing and number nearly oOO menu
befs. There are also afaw congregations connected
with the Germ an Ecclesiastical organizations.
The large congregations Of Protestant Germans
are Ratloraiiss.
"A new Methodist Church has Just been
completed in Louisville Ky, which is one of the
most costly and elegant Methodist churches in the
world. 1t ia ninety feet long, sixty wide and forty
nigh. The pews are circular and finished in sofa
style. The fiesco painting is said to be in fine
taste.
In raising money for Missionary pur-
poses some OF the Southern Methodist Confer
ences have manifested spirit of great liberallty.
From the returns it appears that during the past
year the Alabama Conference has contributed
sil 200, Georgia Conference $4,000, and South
Carolina Conference Sl7700
49, The Christian advocate and Journal
reports revival Of religion in the OnOndags In.
dian Mission. The Indian school is likewise in g
prosperous condition the average number being
as high as forty, and the attendance quite uni
form.
- The contributions for building a Mis-
sion church at Cayslls, West Africa, the station
Of Rev. John Payne, amount to $4,000 chiefly
from Sunday schools, showing how much may be
done by the accumulation of small gifts.
- Mr.. Payne's translation Of the book
Of Acts into the Grebo tongue, has Just been
printed by the hberality Of the American Bible
Society. His version of Luke and Genesis had
previously been printed by the game instis0-
ton The Gospel Of John is nearly ready for the
press.
Col. Beckwith, the well-known friend
81 the WsldenSes has just succeeded in obtain
ING from the Piedmont Government permission 70
build Protestant church for Indsns at TGrIl.
Previously, the Government had refused 70 allow
anything bat room constructed with dwelling.
house front, and situated ia some obscure lane OF
garden out Of sight. Now, the permiss on is fell
and clear 70 build regular church where he
Pleeses. A fine site has been purch ised, and pre-
psratons are in progress to erect suitable baild-
ing next summer.
The entire number of new COngrsga-
tioual Chspels nLondon, built, building, or pro-
jected, during the last three years amounts 20 at
least twenty, tho united cost OF which amounts 10
100000. Eight new chapels have been bd't
during the past year; four having been undsrta.
ken without any assistance from the Congrega-
tonal Building Society.
-" Mormonism," says the Editor Of the
Christian H'atckmdB and Refect0r Boston,
grew up amid scenes familiar 10 our oOyhOof.
TIE elevation on which the golden plates are said
to have been found was we'll known 20 as before Il
received It's present name OF Bible Hill The
store il which we performed a short clerIship
used 20 be occasionally swept BY the father Of tne
Prophet, for glass Of grog or such articles IS
would sustain his needy family, who were mere
ysgrants making shiis - live as they could, and
spending mvcn Of their time in nocturnal money.
digging The y hose testimony and aihdayits
concerning TIE family are contained 10 Ihe book al
luded to, which g 60 expose OF the fraud, were
several OF them our familiar acquaintances We
know that what they say Of the money digging,
sight seeing fortuneteing, lying and drunken.
ness Of the family is reliable. Martin Harris
whose farm was mortgSged TO print the Golden
Bible ana some Of the printers themselves. are
names familiar 20 Our youth. Those acquainted
with the enterprise In its inception smiled at the
clumsy cheat as thing too contemplate for q
thought and that must die Ia its birth"
To Ne, therefore, its subsequent history is one
Of the nest unaccountable things Of this uuac.
ccuutable age. To see Joe Smith hailed as pro-
pie. OF the Lord by seventy.tye or hundred
thousand people 70 trace his footsteps through
Ohio. Missouri and Illinois 10 gee his followers
threading their way amid privssions incOaceivs.
bic across The great Western Desert, and plant.
ing themselves IN the rich vnes Of Utah and or
the borders Of the Great Salt Lake to know that
gorgeous temples have riser under their hands in
Ohio and Illinois and that another, the largest
structure IN the world, Is projected at their new
home 20 observe their missionaries traveryng
this country, Great Britain, and making their wey
even to Palestine multiplying Their proselytes by
hundreds and shipping them 20 their promised
land IL the West suggests tho idea that some