The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-04


pose, by all means in their power foreign influence
and particularly Roman Catholicism.
Religious IntcllIg ence.
Rev. W. S. Corbit having been transferred from
the New Jersey Conference to the New York East
Conference, will preach to-day in the Madison street
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Religious services have been resumed, and will be
held every Sunday, in the spacious tent corner of
Seventh avenue and Thirteenth street.
Rev. DR.. Bellows, of the First Congregational
(Unitarian) Church of this CITY, will preach this
morning in Williamsburg, OF the Odeon, corner OF
South Fourth and Fifth Streets
The Rev. J. S. Gallup was ordained and installed
pastor Of the Congregational Church at Essex,
Conn.,, on the 18th ult.
The Rev. VIM. Theodore Van Doren was installed
pastor of the Church Of Ramapo, on Wednesday,
the 18th ult.
INVITATIONS.
Rev. Mr. Armitage, late assistant minister Of St.
Johns Church, in Portsmouth, N. H., has accepted
an invitation to take charge Of the Episcopal
Church at Augusta, Maine, and Is about to take up
his residence in that city.
The Rev. Samuel H. Higgins, Of New Haven,
Conn.,, who had received call from the First Pres
byterian Church of Columbus Ca, has accepted,
and has therefore become the future pastor of that
church
Rev, Mfr. Swain, of the First Baptist Church in
fist Church at West Cambridge, few miles from
Boston, from which place the Cannon street church
in this city lately derived their present pastor the
Rev. II. r. Knapp has received and accepted an
invitation to return to the charge Of the Greenport
IL. ~ Baptist church, where he was ordained many
years ago.
Rev. j. D. Meeson late of Rondout, has accepted
the call of the Baptist church in Warren, Ohio and
entered on his labors.
Rev. Gibbon Williams has accepted the call Of the
church in Laporte, Ind, and will commence his To-
bors in June.
Rev. John Duncan has accepted call Of the
First Baptist Church in Camden, N. j., to become
their pastor,
DEATHS IN THE MINISTRY.
Rev. Ebenezer Hill died at his late residence in
Mason, N. H., on the 9th ult., aged Lightweight
years. He graduated at Harvard College in the
class with John Quincy Adams.
Rev. Joshua Chandler, Unitarian clergyman,
died in Boston the LIST inst at the age Of about
sixty-Gve years. He was graduate of Harvard Of
the class Of 1907 During the past few years he has
lived in retirement.
The Presbyterian congregation of Pennington, N.
j. intend to build handsome new churchab the
centre of the town, few doors north OF the Court
House.
The old building on the corner of Main and Tai.
colt streets, in Hartford, has been removed pre-.
paratory to the erection Of the new North Baptist
church.
On the 2lst ult., the corner stone was laid Of
Catholic church, to be erected at Bridgeport, ILL.,.
two miles from Chicago.
The corner stone of the Episcopal church. in pro-
cess of erection at Lcwcs, Del, laid the 9th
ult. Bishop Lee was In attendance, and OBLIGATED
during the ceremonies.
The interesting exercises Of dedcating the new
Methodist Episcopal church, situated at Union
square, Baltimore, took place on the 2Sth ult.
The Rt. Rev. Bishop O'Reilly VIII dedicate on
Sunday the 18th June, the two new churches lately
erected in Falls Village and West-Cornwall, Conn.
The new NJ. E. Church in North Bridgewater,
Mass, was dedicated on the LIST inst Sermon by
the Rev. Miner Raymond
The Roman Catholic church lately built in Louis
vile, was dedicated on the 2Sth ut to the service of
Almighty God, under the name and invocation Of
the patron Saint of Ireland, st. Patrick.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Rev. N. G. Fletcher has resigned ah pastor Of the
Universalist Church at Belfast Me.
Rev. George Carpenter, late pastor Of the Baptist
Church in Rowe, Mass, has assumed the pastoral
charge of the Baptist Church in North Scituate,
Mass.
A council of the Baptist Church IN steuben coun.
ty, N. Y, have deposed and excluded from church
fellowship the pastor Of the church, Rev. Frederick
Kent.
Rev. Frederick A. Fiske, Of Ashburnham, Mass,
has resigned the passionate Of the Congregational
Church in that place.
Rev. Jonathan Crane, for eighteen years pastor Of
the second Congregational Church In Attleborough,
has received dismission, at his own request, and
accepted the charge Of new church and society in
Twentieth street, New York.
meeting was held in Nashville, on the 9th ult.,
to take the initiatory towards making prefer Of
suitable lot to the Methodist Church South upon
which to erect the buildings Of the Book Concern.
The following resolution was adopted
Resolved That We will purchase and present TO the
Conference any suitable ground lot in Nashville
it's vicinity for the location Of the bullngs and
sary improvements.
Rev. DR.. Mcleod, Of this city, has declined the
professorship of Systematic and Practical Theo-
logy in the Seminary In Philadelphia to which he
was recently elected by the General Synod Of the
Reformed Presbyterian Church. He remains in his
present pastoral charge.