Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1861-03-07
Religious Intelligence.

The receipts Of the American Bible Society
for December were S28, 418 &c the Issues,
52,718 volumes. -....... a.. ......,...
Rev II. Grattan Guinness is preaching in
New England. N'. "a.
The German Methodist paper, published
Mt Cincinnati, has a circulation Of ten thou
sand among a membership of twenty thou
sand German Methodists, making a subscri-
Der for every two members. ....
The death of Rev. Henry Whitley, report
the accidental fall oil a wall in the mission
compound. ..' I. .t-- .'"..'
The Solicitor General Of England, Sir
William Atherton, laid the foundation of q
Primitive Methodist Chapel, with appropriate
remarks. lie is the son Of Methodist min
lister.
Rev. G. c. IIussey, late OF the denomina-
ton Of Friends was ordained and installed
pastor of the Unitarian Church in North
Easton, recently.
The Congregationalis.s of England are
agitating tile question of selecting labor
principle, to educate them for evangelical
work.
The Pope's Allecution styles the French
Emperor and the King of Sardinia as i'm
pious men, who proclaim themselves the sons
of the Church, but whom we must call the
SONS Of darkness .. .a. o.. ....rr"
A copy Of Bagstcrs polyglot Bible lin
eight languages) in folio, is to be presented
to Garibaldi. 1t will be delivered to him at
Caprera by two gentlemen, witt. suitable
address. Memorable are the words of Gar
ibaldi himself: The Bible is the cannon
which will liberate Italy .....
A writer in the Southern Observer shows
that in 1850 the proportion Of members OF
evangelical churches to the entire population
was one to thirteen, and in 1860 one to five
and half. Since 1909 the relative increase
has been constant and rapid.
The Pittsburgh Christian Adrocatc con-
tains the following:
AT rough Guess. says writer in Fra
zer's Magazine, there may be five thousand
hymns in the English language Watts
wrote GOO; Doddridae 375 the Wesleys,
969; Cowper and Newton about iC0 Mort
eomery. 255: : but he doubts whether there
he more than two hundred that can take
their place among the classics of our national
poe try
The New York Herald contains some in
teresting statistics of the church accommoda-
tons in that great city 1t gives the follow
via # ba
modations for 1850 ard 1860: 1S50-Num-
ber of churches, 2l4; Number of seats, 2l9,-
O9s; va:.us Of church property, 50 59s,700
In 1S60-Number OF churches, 258; number
seats, 253, 33; value of church property l.
8ls 400. The population in 1850 was 5l5-
547, and in 1860 had grown to Sl4, ,G54, ,whi-
ch makes the ratio of church accommoda-
'tons in 1850 about forty-one per cent,bn. IN
1860 but thirty-one per cent could be seatcd.
There are now 3,2l9 people to each church,
against 2, 400 in 1850.
A correspondent of the 4drocate anis Jour
nal writes from Boston that the Rev. Mr..
Marning, pastor of the Old South church in
discourse on the National fast alluded to
the causes of our present difficulties in a style
that brought down the house" He says
Applause was often expressed, and at It's
close an old gentleman arose and proposed
three groans for James Buchanan! Some
thing probably must be pardoned to that old
revolutionary spot. For there Warren, aud
Hancock, and Otis baransued. There too
the British made the stable for their horses,
and the riding schools, iu the brief interval
between Hancock expulsion from Fstoo
aud their osn.