Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1860-12-20
Religious Intelligence.

| \ correspondent Of the Recorder gives an
account OF tho Westeren Con vocation of the
Docote tEpiscopali Of Pennsylvania recently
held. He says:
The needs and necessities Ct this portion OF
the Diocese were freely discussed, and the
matter Of having evangelists, as well as pas
tors and teachers. was strongly urged, from
| the very nature Of tho field. An itinerant
Ministry this is what we want, and what has
been urdcd Of lato upon us from variuu
quarters. The Bishop spoke of the dilatp-
| incsS Of the church t. come into such sys-
! en- and of the revolution it supposed in tho
! habits Of the clergy, and the Whole subject
was adjourned for the present with tho fol-
lowing reSul;tirn.
HesIred That the Rev. David Page. D.
d, the Rev. Jubal Hodges and tho Rev.
Robert Oliver, bo II committee TO prepare a
paper upon the whole subject OF linerancy.
and make a report to this body at its next ses-
ion, with vi w of laying said paper before
the Beard Of Missions.
lsr. lying, Of New York, in an article in
the protestant Chlrchman' on tho corrupt
tchdcncles oi modern society, says:
Is II not true that these scenes are freuncn-
| ted by nnltitudes Of the professed followers Of
Christ? Is it not true that both custom and
! the dances at the-e scenes are utterly unbe-
comcinS Christian? Very many OF the
| OF the modern dances are utterly shameful
| and degrading. We have often been amazed
that any parent Of pure moral taste could al
low daughter to mingle in such dances un-
der any possible pretcxt. We will not de-
scribe them. Thcy arc too well known to
require it. That they arc disgusting. and
, tend to gross moral corruption, cannot be
| successfully denied. And yet Christians, at
least in name, are found to countcnace them
! yth presence, and sometimes we are asham
cd to write it--even by their own parcpita-
ton. Aud even those who do not attend
such pltccs and amusmsuts Themselves do
t hcs'a o to otcld their children to the dane
! ing school 10 learn and to acquire the taste
| that can only be grdtitied in after life IN
these unspiiy and corruptins pleasures.
Bishop Simpson, at the last session of the
Ohio Conference, remarked that the Confer
ence was getting too full Of married preach
ers. lie said 20 tha young mcnj
Though you may be surrounded by angels,
dom. fear lest aii the angels shall have left
the earth by the end Of four years.
Tho Secretary of the American Congrega-
tioua Union gives the statistical strength of
, the Presbyterians, Old anil New School, and
, Cougregational'st sts in the ten States and Terri
tories Of the West as follows. Old School Pres
| byterians, 459 ministers, 700 churches and
! 81, ,2iJ COMMUNICATES. New School Pres
| byterians, iG7 ministers, s66 churches, 90 :
I. 5li communicants. sregationalists ,647
ministers, 7s0 churches and IS, 1866 ,ommu.
nicants.
At Spallow, in the district of Semil, Aus
tria, forty seven persous embraced Protestant
antism in one day.
At late meeting Of the Presbyterian Syr
od Of kcntucky,tO 70 S the question OF th
private administration Of the Lords Suppe
WAS largely disguised Resolutions wer'
passed condemning the course, but left th
question unsettled as to what may be regar
ded as private adninis,ration Of the ordi
naN-e.