Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-21
Relieions Intal1in...

The last official returns show tho.,
 one church for every 557 free inbabito, ,uere United States, or one lor every 64G .'s "c Of tt tire population. The average nu,nt VI the er each of these churches is found to sno Wla date Is 384, and the average value ss9S1@n s9 m | Churches are most numerous. in uyoa-l'O, @-'tOO, the population, in Indiana, Florida 'hhoI'loa h'I and Ohio; and less rumerous ;r n np9,!awa' Louisiana, and Iowa. Those in N,s1'1y, oayorr. are the largest, and have the greatest t'Vn Ss. value. svei1. (6T A correspondent of Ziol,s Ho,,,,
 ing from Palmyra, says; You are ay,. "r' WI Palmyra is the seat of our projecies TTn;n n"s tl named in honor of Bishop Baker wba ba'e'sfr first Methodist Episcopal Bishop who oo ,, was ia the first session of Kansas and Nebrs.,' ,'sl'e renee. A loveiier site cannot be fonnT 'lca. to be built on an emiuence ove1lookir, N, expanse on either hand as far as tho " ye reach, and more enchanting ranor,.!s g. think, the sun never sIione upon.o '4''A v ! Or Such is the rapislity of travel Do that the Holy Land car be reached ie}. 1}9" aaly month from New York. Au excb,r ,s,' I.t as the best route, the following: Fjr,t ,7t < 2 pool, II days; thence to Marseillss L'a thence to Alexandria, 8 days; tAeaca t, I .ty days; and from Jatfa to She Holy Citv ors D'., back, ? days. "''. 0F The Trustees of the Dioca.. .. Episcopal church of Indiana are t,s;, .' for the immediate erection of a >n,t,Jio' ts.@t copal residence at Indianapolis, at ! about S4OOO A lot has been r,,c, the purpose. ?
 Gr Father Sawyer, the veneraHe o.,. rian preacher is now in Bangor. Me vi | intends to make his home. His hca,t5r..
 as goood as it h1s been for some ve,rsr'. his bodily and mental visor does not ,. .',' have abated since his visit last year 9
 now past eight months of his one hur4,,I second year.
 [E1- Between thirty and forty c'er,vna
 dissenting ministers of Bristol, E1saud
 arranged to carry out series of ou, d,n. vices during the summer months.
 (EF At the recent convention of tbo testant Episcopal church of Indiana tro
 Parishes, St. Luke's, Cauuetou, and r.. church, Sullivan, were rece. .veI into tln.o,' the convention; and two others which b.r
 hibited no signs of life for several yr,rs !, strikcn from the list, viz; Trinity, Ha,ar.t and Immanuei, Leaveuworjh. h cor,.s. with this fact, 1t may be we'll to sta,o. Ii. canon, declaring under what c'reum,,u,.. Parish shall hereafter be couS.ltrel as S.. ing the advantages of union with tne cor. tion, Was enacted.
 cF A Philadelphia correspondent of New York Tribune writes that the yes,, the church of the Epiphany have jrvre. l Rev. William Otis Prenti<s, of Wa'-ero. 1 C., as the rector of that parish, and he enter upon his duties early in Angus. course, this announcement is accomplnieIs a characteristic fling at the section from W. the reverend gentleman comes.
 (EJ- The Rev. Bettmia iIu,cuas, aGg man in the Episcopal church, Albion. l.r we find it announced in one of the church ! nals, has lost in a little over a muata. mm from April 2t to May T, eiglt cl1hel. sons and six daughters, whose az, yr.eil one to eighteen wears. What Wa. .hsd.s which 50 faarful'y d4cima,cd a single fan we dolot find stated.
 GLr The Rev. Osborn Rogers, a venor minister of the Methodist church. and al neutIy p.ous and good man, dirI l short since at his residence hear Oxford, tl. j[T A number of the m ,st prlmi#aptn bers of Wesley Chapel, luiaualu $. aty. tested against the change recently alan.s that church of the promjsouous ,.,-rs' .. congregation, and aunouueo tuc.r sem. from the church. h the list we liad such minent Mcthodists as John W. Holland g Hauuaman, A ..rad Harrison, etc. Taev they go elsewhere"