Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-04-15
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The above includes all the receipts, the
source of which is designated in the report
Other receipts from publications sold make
the whole amount of receipts for the month
$50, 2SO IS.
REL1R1ous FREEDOM is likely to be extended
in the East by the struggle now pending, I'M
less the success of the Russians should estab-
| lish the despotism of the Greek church over
new denominations. The Turks, who have
for a long time tolerated and protected Catho-
| lie and protestant Christians, moved by the
readiness of France and England to defend
their rights, are entering into another conven-
ton with them, the terms of which are, that
Christians shall be admitted as witness i'll Ju-
dical proceedings-may hold landed property
without distinction of nationality or religion
and that civil rights shall be secured to such
as enter into the army or civil snrvice. This
action is in striking contrast with that Of the
Car who says in his recent manifesto, "we
will advance on the name of tho Holy Trinity,
to snatch our co-relgionists from the yoke of
their oppressor,' and who with all the hene-
fits of the stOrthodox faith, has never allow
ed the free circulation Of the scriptures or the
operation of Christian MISSIONS both of which
have been favored by the Sultan, who has
even gone so far as to aid i'll the erection of a
Protestant CHAPEL, and given as perfect equal
ity of rights as the Koran viii admit.
There is now no part of the world except
England and the United States, where more
religious freedom is tolerated than i'll Mahom-
edan Turkey. Nowhere but in the two ma
tons first named, is full liberty to worship
tolerated to all sects. There is no such thing
as allowing the rights of conscience in the
Roman Catholic countries Of the south of Eu-
rope; among the Greeks in the East; nor
among the Protestants of the North. France
allows worship in certain prescribed forms
all pay for that, but others, even at their own
cost, cannot meet for prayer, or erect chapel
without special grant from the Minister of
Public Worship. While Christianity has free
course in Turkey and will be made yet more
free as the preiudees wear away by associa-
ton, and the few remaining barriers to perfect
federation are broken down by treaties it is
shame to think that Christians nation continue
their prosecutions against the living, and fol-
low the dead to their graves, where heretcs
| are denied any other burial than being igno-
miniously smuggledto their last resting places.
| Ne,obTyport Herald.
| The Twenty ninth Anniversary of the AM
ERIcAN TRACT SOCIETY Will be held on
Wednesday, May 10, at 10 o'clock, A. NJ. in
| the Broadway Tabernacle, New York. A
| held at the Socetys House, at o'clock, A.
| NJ, of the same day.
| Providence METHODIST EPISCOPAL Con-
FERBNcE.-The annual session of this body
closed on Wednesday at Edgartown. During
the session one hundred clergymen were pres
ent, with large number of laymen. The &C
ton of the Conference, was unusually har-
monious. The reports showed large in
crease of funds for benevolent enterprises dur
! ing the last year. The Edgartown people en-
tertained the delegates with the most LIBERAL
hospitality. The charge delivered to the
clergy by Bishop Baker is spoken ofas a high
ly eloquent and appropriate production.
| Nearly twenty churches in this Conference
have been left unsupplied from deficiency of
| preachers.
ORDINATION. - The ordination of Rev.
Timothy Stowe as Pastor of the Pacific Con-
| gregational Church, in New Bedford, took
| place Tuesday evening, April IL. The SER
mon was preached by Rev. A. c. Thompson
of Roxbury, and other clergymen from abroad
participated in the exercises.
The New BEDFORD, MASS, TRACT SocIE-
TY held Its annual meeting, January 10. Dur
ing the year it circulated 1872, 900 pages of
tracts, 1920, copies of The Child's Paper,
and 1854 copies of the American Messenger.
An interesting address was delivered by Rev.
A. Eldridge.
The new Unitarian church on Central Hill,
Somerville is nearly completed, and will be
dedicated in few days. 1t is beautiful
brick structure. The new Unitarian church
in West Roxbury will be opened for religious
worship on the first of May. 1t is built of
stone, and is substantial and commodious
structure. A church edifice for the orthodox
| Is l.
ed on Main-street. 1t will be built of wood
at a cost of about $4,000. Thes pire viii be
about $50 feet i'll height.
Rev. Joseph Cummings, D D, Methodist,
of Boston, has been elected President of Cen
essee College. i'll Lima, New York. DIR. c,
is, a learned and eloquent man, still young,
and of great promise.
The last arrivals from England speak of the
death Of Rev. George Stanley Faber, B. D.,
at the advanced age of 80 years. He is widely
known as the author of the "Dificultics Of
Inidelity,' and other religious works.-Rev
w. H. Starr, pastor of the Congregational
church, in Elgin, Illinois, died on Monday,
| the 9th inst.
The Diocese of Vermont numbers 25 cler-
gymen. When Bishop Hopkins was conse-
Grated, % years since, it contained but IL
clergymen. The Christian Witness adds:-
"Twenty years ago, there was but one clergy
| man in this diocese to every 25,466 souls;
| whereas there is one now to every I2,52O.-
| 1856 persons have been confirmed, during
Bishop Hopkins Episcopate. There are at
| present % church cdfces whereas there were
| but l6 in 1882.
| In 1889 the Methodist Book Concern was
managed by one person, who was agent and
| editor, In Philadelphia. Since then it has been
removed to New York, and is now one of the