The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-09-19
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
ooMrnEp ron Tlls wAsnrsoros UNION.

IT.. COMPLIED FOR IHk WARRINGTON UNION.
The Dry for Prayer "A proposition made in tho N
Observer weeks ago. that the members of eccesL.s
cal bodies To meet this fall should assemble one day
er than usual and spend the time in prayer has been re-
ceived with remarkable favor Religious papers have re-
sponded to it, and pastors have hailed the suggestion
with marked appreciation In some cases the pastors of
churches where meetings to be held have sent out
invitations to the members to together on the day
previous to the regular time for meeting and the people
will welcome them with their warm Inequalities and
Christian SITUATIONS.
All these suggestions and arrangements indicate an in
creased desire TO pray and also increased sense of de-
pendencc God with confidence in the power of PRAYER
Never In the history OF the church in this country
this feeling deep and controlling God is honored
when Christians take his promises they are cast them
selves humbly upon the promises and believe that the
things they ask for in the Of Christ and agreeable
to his WILL must surely come We shall be glad to hear
that all synods associations and conventions that are
to meet this fall will in the spirit of the revival
with the strong desires for great blessing and thus
prove the Lord and see if he will not give his spirit with
out measure. Giving does not mpovcrsh Him. He has
oceans of mercy yet in storey Y. Observer,
Written Samons-A correspondent of the Christian In
dexin view of the fact that many of the brethren are
incorgibe and will not be reconcled to hearing sermons
read suggests that in arranging the religious exercises
at the next meeting OF the Baptist convention for the
State, it should be distinctly announced what houses
of worship there will be preaching and at what houses of
worship there win be reading.
Death Of Priests in Nep Orleans Catholic Standard
records with deep sorrow the death of the Rev John
Kavanagh and of the Rev. H. Auburt, both priests Of
the city of New Orleans They died Of yellow ever to
which the duties of their calling exposed them
Jerusalem. Originally it was called Salem. Gen xiv
81 Subsequently it was called Jcbus Joshua xviii 2s)
Hence the word Jerusalem il compound of these two
words. No city is celebrated this city. 1t was
beautiful for situation was the site OF most magnf-
cent tepewas the scat of the throne of David and of
Solomonwas besieged by Nebuchadnezzar and then by
itusw the place where the Son Of God sentenced
n. and iia.l a,1u
the capital of Gods covenant people, and for its howed
associations type of the church EARTH and 'the Je-
rusalem which is above"
Aadfas Outrage. The missionary house of the Method
list society at Madras recently assailed by mob
The object of the riot to seize youth who had taken
refuge with the missionaries under the fear of the conse
guences If he remained at home after his conversion to
Christianity 1t may be fairly doubted whether the mis-
sionaries ought to have given the youth shelter instead
of sending him back to his family to bear whatever per-
secutons his change of religion might bring upon him.
Yet it must be remembered that in India youth of
seventeen eighteen is man--often married man
that the courts in Madras had years ago decided that
yers arrived at years of discretion Ind right to choose
their residence, and that Mr. Jenkins sent for the
boy father before he would baptize him. "1he grayest
part of the case, says the Rev Mr. Arthur lies in the
conduct Of the police which the press of Madras the
grand jury, and the judge all to be agreed They
left the missionaries exposed to robbery and murder In
circumstances which seem to show that this inten
tionally done AS the dwellings, persons, and converts
on the first fruits of that perfect religious neutrality
which has lately been sounded forth the future policy
in India Ii missionaries violate law, let them he pun
ished If they ndiscreet let them be almonishcd
But if they not to be protected in the peaceabe prop
agaon OF Christianity and il native Christians are not to
have shelter under any roof they may choose may MS
well at proclaim that the Christian religion shall not
be taught in India"
NenO Jerusalem Church. The meeting of the Pennsyl-
yana association was held at the temple Of the Delaware
County Society, on Thursday the 26th ult. Rev Thos
Wilks presided, and large number of delegates and
members attended. The meeting characterized by
cordial spirit of unity activity and good will.
The Maine association of the New Church held its an
nual meeting at the Bangor the 9th and 2sth Of
August Rev. VIM. B. Hayden, of Portland, presided;
and the reports from the various societies in the State
showed an increased interest in the truths of the church.
colporer has been employed for several years in visit
ing isolated receivers lecturing and selling and distrb
utlng New Church books; and he has met with much
success, there being very general desire to hear the
New Church doctrines.
The Roman Cuttolic Priests against C25acy An extraor
binary memorial has been addressed by 507 Austrian
priests t. the author of the Concorat the Cardinal
Prince Archbishop of Vienna. In this document the
lower Catholic clergy put forth their grievances in Ian
guage the like of which has not been heard since the
days of the reformation, The memorial begins with
rough onslaught the absoutsc prerogatives of the
episcopacy ''Tbs Concorat, it says 'has conferred
upon the bishops many privileges and large in
of power but the priest has to bear the whole
which the hated convention has created among the peo
ple ''There il doubt, the document continues in
subsequent paragraph but that religion has be-
the object Of universal derision The Concorcat
has aroused tho wrath of tho most moderate with
spect to the antquated medieval ordinances of the
church and the Indignation against the executors of
those ordinances becomes louder and universal from
day to day This sentiment is the more dangerous as
it spreads among the main body of the people" The
memorial complains of the wretched pay (soIne-
times less than that of cabdrive of the lower clergy
in consequence of which they driven to the collection
of fees and taxes which the of the most dis
graceful and disgusting conflicts with the people Rei-
gion is thus made to appear in the light of an insure
BILE burden, and agitators increase the eelng by d-
rccng attention not to the pcnuy of the lower clergy
but to the luxury and abundance in which the bishops
reveling In the next place. the petitioners Law bare
the laxiness Of monlhood and demand the abolition Of
these begging orders and the appropriation of their revc
to the maintenance of the really working priests
more important demand follows II is for the abo-
on of cebacy on the ground that the irnpossibilty
Of entering into the marriage state renders tho priests
the victim of suspicious, OF sneerng and contempt and
produces axty amongst the clergy thus rendering them
contributors to the moral dissolution which is invading
demand that such reforms should be introduced as to
make the lower clergy longer appear in the odious
light Of oppreors of the poorer classes and that the
priests by the abolition Of tho law of cebacy should be
restored to the common ties of family and humanity If
this is not done, they assert call influence will en-
tvey disappear the Catholic religion will be despised
hierarchy be totally overthrown and the State become
the football of ccaseless attacks and complications
They express, too, the significant hope that they may
not be driven to expect their safety from tho revou
tionary partly " Post.