Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-11-13

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preach his closing discourse in the morning.
Sunday School ConUersions.-Fro the Sun
day school report of the late Oregon Confer.
euee, we learn that seventy-fve scholars have
been converted and added to the church eur
ing the year.
Ordination at C6elsea.-Mr Albert H.
Plumb of Providence, graduate of the An
dover theological Seminary, was ordained on
Wednesday afternoon, at the Winnismimet
Congregational Church, Chelsea, and was af-
forwards installed as pastor of the church.
The Rev. Charles H. Wheeler, from the
Diocese of Connecticut, has recently accepted
an invitation to take charge of Grace Church
in Boston. until Easter, during the absence
OF the Rector, the Rev. DR.. Maso in Eu-
rope, and will enter upon his duties on Sun
day, l4th inst.
The churches of the leading denominations
IN Philadelphia are as follows :-Presbyteri-
an, Of the various branches, 70 Methodist,
6O Episeopalian, "a Baptist, 33 Luther
an, Is Friends. ID. The Roman Catholics
have 2S. The total number of churches of
every description in Philadelphia is 3O7.
Rev. DR.. Chaplin of New York is slowly
improving in health, and he expects soon to
resume his public duties.
Rev Samuel J. May of Syracuse, N. Y,
IS making arrangements to go to Europe, to
be absent year.
Prot. +. D. Huntington, D. d., is about to
leave the Monthly Religious Magazine, except
&C contributor, and the vacant chair will be
assumed by Revs. Rufus Ellis and Edmund
H. Sears. The reason assigned for the change
IS, "the multiplicity of duties" on the part of
the learned Professor.
Rev. Ralph Hoyt of New York, who &C.
cepted the offer of Lola Montez to give a
lecture for the benefit of the Church of the
Good Shepherd, blown down by an unfriend-
~ tempest last Summer, has got himself INTO
exceedingly hot water The Bishop of the
Diocese has issued a kind of interdict, or in
junction, as they call it in New York, and
promised Contributors are canceling their
subscriptions by the hundreds.
Protestant Anniversary 1t is contemplat.
ed IN London to make the 3OOth anniversary
OF the accession of Queen Elizabeth to the
throne of England, which will occur on the
18th of November, the occasion Of a special
celebration commemorative of the event in
connection with the cause of Professionalism,
Liberal Collection. Two thousand five
hundred dollars we've collected Sunday before
last, in st. Paul's Methodist Episcopal
church, on the Fourth Avenue, New York,
for the benefit of the New York Conference
City Missionary Society.
The ReUiUat and the Mtnjsters.-The New
ork Observer mentions as one of the effects
of the late religious revival, the unusual &C
SESSIONS TO the Presbyterian divinity schools
OF the country. One hundred and sixteen
students are now in the Theological Seminary
at Allegheny City. This is far larger num-
DER than has ever been in the Seminary be-
tore. Other seminaries are also flied with
young men pressing into the ministry, In
Princeton there are more than one hundred
and sixty, and the village has been largely
called on to furnish lodgings for those who
could not be accommodated within the Sem
mary building. The Union Theological Sem.
mary in New York has one hundred and
twenty-four students. Many young men in
business, and some who had studied for other
professions, have turned their attention to the
ministry.
Minister Shot.-The Rev. P. E. Green,
Methodist preacher in charge of the Warren
Circuit, Mississippi, was shot at Montalbon,
few days since, by man named Fisher.
The wound is supposed to be mortal. The
cause OF the shooting was, that Fishers wife
had Joined the church lately and Fisher
meeting Mr.. Green, abused him terribly, and
finally pulled out pistol and shot him. The
culprit has fled.
California Conference. - This conference
has had prosperous session. The California
AdUocGte reports the IN embership as {, 1927, an
increase Of 575, notwithstanding great losses
from the Fraser River excitement. The Sun
day-school returns show an increase of six
schools, l35 officers and teachers, 707 schol-
ars, and 3, l44 volumes in library and Ito
conversions among the members Of the
schools. Eighty five preachers were station
Cd, and 26 stutions were left to be supplied.
The missionary collections, S SO3 As, an in
crease OF $3.50. Church property Of every
kind has largely increased.
France. M. Robineau, the pastor with
Baptist principles, has been deposed by the
Consstory OF Nantes, and their action has
been confirmed by the Minister of Public
Worship The majority of the church re-
main attached to their pastor, and embrace
his sentiments.
S'0eden. The power of public sentiment
IN our age is shown strikngly i'll the suspen-
sion and taclt abrogaton of the penalties
against dissent in Sweden. The clergy, as a
body, are earnest in enforcing these penalties,
but the Government dares not do it in face of
the protests sent in from the protestant ma
tons of Europe. The laws are not formally
annulled, but it is generally understood that
they will not in future be enforced.
Germany, hundred Romish priests in
Germany have petitioned the Archbishop of
Vienna for a redress of grievances. The
Neaos Of the Churches publishes the petition
in full, received from two reliable correspon-
dents. 1t pleads urgently for the privilege of
marriage as the only means of gaining the
confidence of the people, which has been
shaken by the open immortality of many
priests. 1t is altogether a remarkable paper.
and proves that the famous Austrian Com
sordat, by grasping at inordnate power, may
give rise to a revolution in the very heart of
the Romish church.
Religious Matters m Haly. Liberty of con-
science, one of the most difficult conouests
secured to US in this country by our Consti.
tuition, and the one most nsidiously assailed.
received a fresh confirmation at Genoa, on
Thursday last, by the opening of the chapel
OF the Wuldenses, which has been founded
and built in the Via Assarott. That day the
clerical journal, the Cattolco, came out all
edged with black border, to denote, as il
protested, the mourning of the church.
When the kWadenses determined to erect
their place of worship there, the clerical par
ty set to work, and, being unable to prevent
the accomplishment Of the fact, resolved to
protest against it in rather a singular way. by
constructing directly opposite church dedi.
Gated in honor Of the dogma of the Immacu-
late Conception, but the edihce has remained
half finished, owing to the paucity of the
oblations. Cor. Of European Times.