Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-10-19
Religious Intelligence.

A quarrel which has occurred in the Con-
eregational Church at South Hadey, Mass, is
attributed, by the CoagregdtionatisL to prac.
tice Of allowing women--"iemales, il calls
them--to vote in church business.
The Northtceste,R in noticing the illness of
Rev. H. Stansbury, of GAINESVILLE District, Wis
consin Conference says "There has been
remarkable fatality among Western presiding
elders within the past few weeks. Glllett, OF
Michigan, Wilson, of Missouri, and Caples, OF
the Central, have died.
During the past eighteen months about n
thousand hooks and tracts have appeared IN
Europe and the United States, relating to Italy,
and all more or less bearing on the question
of the temporal power of the Pope. Three
hundred of these books and pamphlets have
been published since the first Of January last,
The facts show the vast interests that are in
volved in the Roman question, and the strong
hold il has upon the public mind of the civil
lied world.
A Universalist writes to the Christian Free
man. "lf my Orthodox brethren will send me
$40 900, to pay the expenses of trip to ,la-
pan, will cngege to introduce Christianity
into that empire, or return the money at the
end of three years, with compound interest,
| 1t appears from the statistics presented Mt
| the recent annual convention of the Episco-
pal churches of Connecticut, that there are in
the State rs Episcopal parishes, l33 clergy
men, s,90S families ll,T3l communicates
aud the total contributions for all objects last
year were $lOs,s03.
Preliminary steps to union between the
| Free church and the United Presbyterian
church of Nova Scotia have been taken and
articles of agreement are definitely arranged.
THIS decision was reached at a conference
held at Pictou, n. s., on the 24th of June,
| The union is to be consummated at the meet
ing of the Synod at Pictou on the lth of Octo.
ber next
The Second Adventisls claims to have six
hundred preachers of whom three hundred
and sixty-iiye are classified ns believers in lit
ural life aud death, aud the utter and final de
struotion of the wicked. Among these six
hundred, cighiy.six are pastord--most of the
number are said To be constantly itiacrating,
Three hundred and forty-two of them are or
dained They estimate their membership al
iifty-four thousand, and the total ol their con.
gregations at one hundred and fifty thousand
The Pittshurg Conference Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church embraces 80 mordained
ministers, and lis deacons and elders in thG
effective or snperanu0te ranks and within
her bounds are 27s local ministers, ordained
and unordained 36,a26 members and G,I5l
probationefs Worship is conducted 10 SCI
J churches worth $72I,T94; while " parson
ages are shattered through the territory val
ned al sS4,ilO
Trask's anii-Tnbscco Journal states tha
the clergy Of the United States cost annually
+. 80. .0O0, 900 criminals, $l90Q0,000 lawyers
. $50, ,000,00O tobacco, $i0,0Q0,0GO RUN
H Sl00,000,Q00 Rpn one hundred millions o
dollars every year, This, says an exchange
is queer classification, but It speaks vol
/. umes
For sometime preparatDns have been ma
4 king in Scotland tocommemorate "a tho Iercen
tenary OF the Reformation. The celebration
, is appointed to be held IN lsdinburgh begiu
/, ming on the I4lh inst anf containing for ses
eral days An assemhlage ~ eminent Prot
estants Is expected 10 BE- present on the occa
sion. to take part Ia she public conleronces
+ anu give interest 60 the mbYe@ent
8 The nattisls In Wales have multiplied IL
K nuebeg " thoir churches sevenf0ld sinee th
beginning Of the present eoufnry Thou the
2 numbered but 81 nov they report All. BI
J. ring the past year they have enjoyed az il
X crease Of fsi9I Ia their nletlhcrslilp Th
(, services 81 tho denoniln0tionlin tho Wes
h language are chariiferiked ~ great fervc
y, and carHeHuee4 GlVNlian v6ns Il gone /
1. ipingle viii Aps by
Washed lhelffdn 4
she hlhpd Of the iA'h 81 hlss stibifie b.
"a fhleQ ~ bis sons iniths goSpd. :
CdSaes9 Hf wIinsssil,,e y yh9ysasssi ,is
I nropusea 8 the seyofal hrhnahos of ii