Worcester daily spy., 1858-09-04

ritual from all elements tending to Romanism.
Mr.. Poole, curate OF the notorious st. Barna-
bas church, has been removed by the Bishop
of London for establishing confessional, and
the Archbishop of Canterbury has confirmed
the sentence. 1t is hoped that this may check
the tendency to Romish practices which
seems dominant in the Puseyite section of the
church.
Orville Gardner, formerly pugilist and a
native of New York city, whose conversion
last winter attracted much notice, is now
resident of Port Chester, N. Y, with his
mother and brother. They are both engaged
in the shoe business. a correspondent of
the Ne'o York Herald from Port Chester,
where camp meeting was held last week,
says:
Gardner was present, and, Judging from
his notoriety as a professional fighter, was
prepared to see gross, animal, unculhvated
man but on the contrary, his organization is
compact and comparatively refined and al
though not pleasing speaker, yet he uses
language with correctness and freedom while
the earnestness, sincerity and humility of
his demeanor captivate the hearer and win
his confidence. He was dressed in a fine suit
OF black, and looked well. A resident of the
village says that the people of the surround
ing villages looked upon him as the second
Angel Gabriel, and the wonderful change
which has taken place in his conduct is a fie.
quent topic of conversation with them. Mr..
Gardner exhorted in the prayer meetings,
and made powerful appeals to the careless in
reference to their immortal interests"
Req. Charles Beecher.-The Recorder says
that this clergyman not only believes in the
EAST Indian Notion of Pre-Existence, but
also ''thnt Christ, when on EARTH was in a
state of probation = ''that belief in Calvin
istic creed should not be qualification for
admission to the Christian church," that
"Christ may redeem all men in the next
world, if not in this and "that God may
pardon there as well as here" Notwith-
standing this, he was duly installed lately as
pastor Of the Georgetown Congregational
Church.
The interest felt in Great Britain, in the
revival intelligence from this country, has led
to earnest prayer and energetic labor for
similar work of grace in the mother land.
Daily prayer meetings are held in the large
cities of the kingdom. and in many country
towns, and the preaching of the pulpit is
more simple and pungent than formerly.
There are tokens Of deepening religious feel
ing In the churches generally, which nurture
hopes of glorious spiritual harvest.
Inc London Patriot says the project of the
London Missionary Society to send twenty
additional missionaries to India within two
years lis hardly three months old, and yet four
ffths of the men, and more than half the es.
timated means are already at the directors
disposal Eighty thousand soldiers went
out there some time ago to shoot the people.
Aariual Of Priests and Mans. The ship Roger
Stewart, Capt Turner, from Havre, arrived
at New Orleans on Saturday, 18th inst, with
nineteen cabin and twelve steerage passen-
gers. Among the former were seven Catholic
Priests, five Sisters of Charity, and four
nuns, the greater proportion of whom were en-
route for Texas.