The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-03-20

(septaagin version was made by the Jews in Alsr.DS
Greek is the language in which the New Testament -
written for ii the language best understood b,i'S
used throughout the Roman empire. 1t Is in the Nao1
MAN dialect and Astounding with Hebrewism which sho~
u TO have been written by of Hebrew origin ~
charge OF the Holy Scriptures intrused to the &C.
Synagogue which consisted Of one hundred and t..
elders who continued in regular succession fron hs ~
of Ezra until Simon the Just B. O. 2el. Sanhedru WA
council of seventy and president who conducted ,hs
fairs of the nation Synagogues places of worsh
where prescribed liturgy and regular lessons were ps
is said Ezra distributed three hundred copies Of III.
for their Our Saviour constantly attended ,h.-
and at the of his ministry read from -
appointed lesson.
TIE METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH This oreaOi,,i,.
numbers some eighty thousand members or commupc.r,
and employs nearly fifteen hundred ministers and preach
This denomination, composed originally OF seceders s
the Methodist Episcopal Church. organized in tbs M
of Baltimore in the year 1880 By its constitution u,
right Of representation is secured the aity Tbe ,
of trial by committee the right of challenge and Il.
right of appeal in civil courts secured to aecuS
members
CHRISTIAN CHURCHES In TuaKEY.--Rev. Dr. Hamin !.
evening at the house Of the Earl ba
bury, speaking of the different and the ntroduet
of Christianity among them remarked that the region
country occupied by the Armenans offered the most Ia
ving 6eld and the largest had attended til. IA
bors of missionaries among that He also made N.
interesting announcement that than thirty svanae
cal churches had already beea formed in various parts
the Turkish empire and that the work of missions wa,
moving onward there with the most cheering prospects
EccLEsIAsrloAL AND PERSONAL---VERY.. Theodore Clan,
who is residing for the present ia Louisville Kenuck
has been presented by few of his former New Orleans n
shonsrs, with purse of eleven hundred dollars
The old John street Methodist church. New York n.
first OF that sect In the New World about which there b
been much litigation and noise is to be abandons
1t is to be thoroughly repaired with stores inserted in ,h
basement and then reopened permanently for public
worship.
Rev. Dr. Wayland has arranged TO preach for the 6rr
Bapdsh church Of Providence, Rhode Island
The members of the Presbyterian church in Columbs
South Carolina have presented silver tea set valued
$1,000 to their late pastor Rev. NJ Palmer now Of New
Orleans.
At the late meeting Of the Presbytery of Louisiana III,
pastoral relation between the Rev. II. Mosely and tia
church at Jackson, Louisiana dissolved and the Rev.
s. NJ. Montgomery restored to the Ministry new
Episcopal parish has been organized at Austin Texas with
Rev. Charles Gillette pastor. Rev. B. Croes of New
York. 10 officiating in Houston. Rev. O. Todd Quiu,ad
College has accepted call to the reclorshp Of Cavr
church. Rev l.. b. w. Shyroek has become pastor Of M
Presbyterian church in Crtenden Grant county Ken
lucky Rev. r. Cruikshank has become pastor of the Oh
School Presbyterian church, Potts,owp, Pennsylvania
Rsv j. T. Hutchinson has assumed the charge of st. Mar
tins parish, New IBERIA Louisiana Rev. G. c. North Of
New Orleans, has resigned his charge. A New School
Presbyterian church has been organized in Nashville Ten
nessee.
The Countess of Hunngdons Missionary Society intend
to establish mission to the Mohammedans of Turkey and
Syria. This is distinct from that Of the Turk
sh Mission Aid Society, which is formed more especially
for the purpose to assist American missionaries /
In Russia there 1882 224 members Of Lutheran con-
gregaons, with All preachers preacher to 1894
The present year, s57 is the tooth year since Christi
anty introduced into Finland eubdued by King Erich
X the saint of Sweden The jubilee Is to be celebrated
some time in the course Of this year.
Rev. Samuel Osgood has been pastor of the first Congr
gational church at Springfield in Massachusetts, for forty
eight years. Only one person is now living who was
member of that church at the time of Dr. Osgoods settle
ment.
One hundred and tweny.seven thousand dollars have
been collected for the Congregational Theological
Seminary at Chicago and the amount is said to be con-
santly increasing
The Unarans have built church in the city of Law
renee Kansas and urnshed.it witha bell but the building
is not yet completed Unitarian mission which was SUE
tanned for while in Minnesota to the Indians has been
given up, there being neither the money the
sustain it.