The Washington union., 1858-02-21
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
COMPLIED ron 1m WASHINGTON UNION.


Christian denomination.
Graduates from the Sunday lScAool-A secular paper In
Boston states that of 507 students at six theological ns
tutions 3l3 instructed in the Sabbath school, and
the average time OF their conversion sixteen years of
age.
Good AdriceA Jesuit named Ianey wrote to another
of the of Faber for rules to direct the society how
to proceed with heretics In reply, he said First sin
cerely love heretcs yourselves and secondly engage
them by your behaviour to love you"
EBectCe Preaching "A shipbuilder being asked what
he thought of Whitfield replied every Sunday that
go my parish church | can build ship from stem
to stern under the sermon, but under Mr. Whitefeld
could not lay single plank "
Insanity Religion DR. Ray in tho report of the Butler
hospital in Rhode Island for the insane says IL be-
heve-and it is in the result of considera
BILE observation of various psychological that in
this age OF fast living, nothing be relied upon
surely for preserving the healthy balance of the
faculties than earnest practical conviction of the great
truths of Christianity"
Procrasiation the close of his life Patrick Henry
laid his hand on the Bible and said to a friend Here
is book worth than all Others yet it is my mis-
fortune to have read with proper attention until
lately William Pitt, when he to die, said IL
fear that have like others neglected my religious
duties too much to have any ground to hope that they
can be eficacous my death bed.
Repodl al 81. LouisWe learn from the papers of that
city that the present winter there has distinguished
by very general interest in the subject of religion
visit from the noted Elder Jacob Knapp seemed to be
the occasion Of general awakening in many of the
churches More than hundred and fifty persons have
been baptized and united to the different Baptist churches
in the city, and many have been added 10 the Methodist
Church. of all ages from OF fifty years to children Of
| twelve.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Presbyterian Church of Farmville
Virginia, proposes to erect church The pew sys
tcm, in modified form, has been adopted. Families
who desire to do will sit together in church, leaving
to all others who prefer the od way to sit as to them
| may be most agreeable ample being left for
| all such, and for casual visitors No pew rents
charged and have right to think themselves ex
cuded from the most desirable seats in the house
The Largest liberty is allowed in this matter to all
comers.
Church DesscratoH.-We find in the Baptist Chronicle
deserved rebukc administered to the Fifth Baptist
society of New York for having permitted the of their
church Tor sacred concert 1t concludes by SAYING
We commanded not to do evil that good may come
and while sympahze with any proper effort to increase
charitable donations, cannot commend be-
nevocn project which requires the conversion of Bap-
tis pulpit into stage for the display of operate talent
We have superstous regard for sacred localities but
CRATES most harshy upon of poprety to find
place set apart for the proclamation of the Gospel
Christ devoted to out of keeping with all the as
sociaons connected with this at is written My house
shall be called house of prayer"
Rev Dr. Lynch, Catholic Bishop elect of Charleston S.
c., was conplimented at recent dinner given by the
Charleston Chamber of Commerce, by Rev. Mr. Bur
nap, an aged Protestant clergyman, who proposed
his health Ihe scholar the gentleman the Ameri-
can bishop. In his appointment, all Caholics-
none Protes7ns His toast received with loud APP
plause and Bishop Lynch returned his warm thanks for
the cordial manner in which he had been received and
expressed his Acknowledgements of the kindness which he
had been accustomed to receive in Charleston from his
youth He wished to be conservative-to revere the
odcn things whether in Rome Greece, in any other
country; the oden monuments Of this world displayed
in geology And he revercd the old of the Church.
by which eccesascs took interest things of this
world Besides being an ccclesastic he held himself
fit al hnxrip
in everything that her welfare and honor both
in the present and in the future
DR.. Jadsoas burmese 7sstanenThc story of the pres
ervaton of this precious work, related by Mrs Judson
might adorn the pages of 1t taken to Ava
in manuscript and when Mr.. Juson was thrown into
prison, secretly sewed up by his wife in a cushion
too hard and unsghy to tempt the cupty of his
jailors, and used by him pillow When at the close
of months, he and his fellow sufferers were so
rudey thrust into the inner prison. the old pillow fell to
the share Of of the keepers but finding it probably
too hard for his use he threw it back and it came once
into its owners hands 1t again lost when he
driven to Dung pen-la and being stripped by one
of the attendants of the mat which tied around it.
the roll of hard cotton again flung back into the
prison. Here it was found by Moung Ing who took it
home memorial of his teachers, without suspecting
its priceless contents Several months after the manu-
script, which makes part Of the Burmese Bible
was found within, unnjured.
Revival IN Neo York Cfy-Ihc Evangelist states that
the religious interest is increasing and few churches in
Holy Spirit The daily noon prayer meeting for business
men, in the two sessionroom of the Dutch Church on
Fulton street. continues to be filed and the interest
without abatement The influence of this meeting is
| seen beyond New York. An uptown prayer-meeting
continuing from to 0, m. is held daily in the chapel
of the Home of the Friendess, East Twenty ninth
street. near Madison 1t has been in operation
weeks and is well attended In addition these
two daily public prayer meetings in this city, third has
been opened in the session of the Reformed Dutch
Church, on Ninth street, Broadway 1t crowded
the first opening with persons who manifested the
deepest interest in the devotional exercises Some
city churches have each set apart day for special prayer
with reference to work of grace within their bor-
! der
| Our Standard BIss.-At special meeting of the board
| OF managers of the American Bible Society," held
in this city the evening of the 29th utimo which was
called for the purpose of acting upon the report
mittee of nine who had been appointed consider the
revised edition of the Bible, printed by the society some
years since, containing material alterations from the stand
ard version and which hitherto has been the acknowl
edged standard of the society it
" Resolved That this society's present standard English
Bible be referred to the standing committee versions
for examination and in oil where the same differs
in the text or its accessories from the Bible previously
published by the society the committee are directed to
correct the by conforming it to the previous editions
printed by the society," by the authorized British presses
reference also being had to the original edition of the
nsaors printed in 16l and to report such corrections
to this board to the end that edition. thus per
cctcd may be adopted the standard edition of this
| society"
| The committee q versions endeavored to protest
against this, but could not do anything.
THE NEW BOOK STORE. Franklin Philip re-