Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1859-08-04
NUMBER 81.
Religious Intelligence.

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respondent of the Rockingham, Register, we had
the pleasure of being introduced to Father
Courtney, the oldest Methodist-preacher in
Virginia, and we suppose, the oldest in the
! South. He commenced preaching in 1909,
and has been laboring in the field ever since
| lie has married more people than any other
minister in Virginia. He is yeti good health,
and will walk, even now far enough to tire
any of us youngsters who claim to be young
| Americans"
There are fifty-nine churches in the City
of New Orleans 40 Protestant and 10 Roman
Catholic OF the Protestant churches 13 are
Methodist, 8 Presbyterian, Episcopal; and
only 9 Baptist. DR.. Palmers Church, Pres
| byteran, costs $lG2,000.
The East Hampton Conn., First Congre-
gational Church dismissed its Pastor about
three years ago, and since that time has tried
more than serenity ministers without .effecting
| n settlement. Either the people are hard to
/ suit, or the ministers are shy ofthe locality.
The Young Mems Christian Association Of
| the United States and the Canadas commence
ed their Sixth Annual Convention at Troy on
| the 18TH About three hundred delegates were
present, representing twenty States the Cana
das and New Brunswick. On Friday the
| Convention adjourned, and on Saturday the
members made an excursion to Sartoga.
DAILY PRAYER MEETING IN A Coal Pr
| ''lt is interesting to u.s. says the British
Messenger, "and it will, no doubt, be inter-
csting te our readers, to know that since the
end of October last a daily prayer meeting
has been carried on in coal pit in Stafford
| SHIRE"
Dr.. WIN. BURNs--Dr. Burns, of Kilsyth,
Scotland, died on the sth Of May, He was
| the oldest minister in the Free Church Of Scot
land being in the 8 LIST year This age, and59 th
of his ministry. lie had three brothers in the
ministry, one of whom is the Rev. DR. Burns
of Torono, Canada West. He had also two
sons in the ministry, one ofwhom is the Rev
w. G. Burns, an efficient foreign missionary,
now in China, and the other is the Rev. Isay
Burns, of Dundee. He was universally res
pccted and Loved. The oldest minister in
the Free Church now is the Rev. Mr.. Miller,
of Monikie. He is the father of DIR. Miller,
OF Glasgow, and Prof. Miller, Of Edinburgh
| RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT IN JERUSALEM.
There are SYMPTOMS of the beginnings of a
great religious movement in Jerusalem. We
clip the following from the London Record,
Of June II. 1t is part of letter dated at
Jerusalem:
The rovivals in America havemade WON
derful impression upon our people here
Brother Valentiner and occasionally make
communications of papers we receive, and it
appears not to have been in vain. We had
several application for the arrangement of
similar prayer meetings, but for a long time
we hestated; as however, they were urged
upon us perscveringly, we at last agreed and
we had the first meeting in the Mission libra-
ry on the 1st Of March. Unsurpassed all ex-
pectation; the room was so crowded, that as
it would not contain all that came, we were
obliged to open the adjoining room accommo-
date visitors. 1t was a. most solemn hour, and
the prayers offered though free from all excite
ment, bore very earnest character. Six
prayers offered up by as many individual, and
not arranged before hand but left entirely to
the direction of the Spirit three were offered
up by Jewish brethren and three by Gcntiles
There was only one in English and all others
in German. We all felt it was good for us
to have been there, &c.
Rev. DR.. Macklin was for many years the
Pastor of the Eight Presbyterian church in
Philadelphia. His health having mnch de-
clined, he past the last winter in Georgia
and Florida, not however with any great
benefit. In the spring he returned as far as
Baltimore. After some weeks of sickness
here, he died on the 9th inst.
Rev. w. r. Powell, one of the editors of the
Virginia Baat;st, died at Goshen depot, on the
i Virginia Central Railroad, on the 18th lust
Mr.. Powell is known as one of tho founders
or one ofthe introducers of what is known as
the test question in the Baptist Church-tota
abstinence from all that intoxicates, Il ncccss:-
ry qualification to church membership
| Rev. Franklin Putnam, pastor of tn,
church in Thorntown. Pa, died on the 9tl
inst and was taken to Greenvllc, Ohio, the
place Of his former residence, for interment
The Rev. John C. Harrison d. d., pastor
or the Baptist church at Kingston, n. Y, died
suddenly, of disease of the heart on the 10Th
inst, in the sixty-n;nth year of his age.
| Prof. Anson j. Upson, Of Hamilton COLLEGE
has been licerced as a preacher Of the Cos
pei, by the Presbytery Of Utica.
Rev. George d Henderson, young Bap
tist minister in Kansas, has become an Epis
copalian. 1t is stated that he is graduate
of Newton, and that he is the seventh from
that institution who has gone over to Epis
copacy.
Rev. James j. Helm, formerly pastor O
the Presbyterian church of Salem, \. Y.
has applied to the Standing Committee of tn,
Protestant Episcopal church in pennsylvani.
to be recommended as q candidate for order
in that church.