The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-09-09
RELIGIOUS 1NrELL1GRNoH.

The Montreal Witness says that at the late
camp-meeting held among the Chippewa In
dams, at Iroquois Point, the last protested pa
gan, an aged medicine man, abandoned his
wicked ways, renouncing all opposition, and
penitently sought and obtained forgiveness.
The missionaries of Canton have estab-
lished weekly paper for the people in China.
Missionaries in Siam have also started BIZ
monthly at Bangkok, the capital, printed part
ly in English, and partly in Sianese. aa3i 81
Rev. e. w. Allen of South Berwick. Me-
has resigned the pastorate of the Congregation
al Church in that town-the resignation to
take effect on the Both inst
~ -G. s. StockweH of Cambridge, Mass, has
been unanimously elected to fill the vacancy in
the pastorate occasioned by the resignation of
Rev. Dr. Ryland, late pastor of the African
Baptist church of Richmond. eAA~at#
Rev. I. j. Burgess has resigned the pastor
al charge OF the Baptist church in Barring and
the First Baptist church in Calais. He has
been pastor of the former seven years, and of
the latter twelve years. E sas-s Elpe -ias
The late Bishop Delaney, of Western New,
York, expended no less than forty Thousand
dollars Of his private patrimoiiy on the work of
his diocese. He also kept strict account OF
his income, and set apart tenth to the church,
"as due unto the Lord uofs
1 The Chronicle says the Congregational
meeting house inNew Sharon is undergoing
thorough renovation and improvement. The
church is in fourishing. condition, and its
scholarly, frank and unassuming pastor-Rev.
Mr. Toothaker-is deseryedly popular.
q -Rev..gB. r. Talbot, Rector of st. James
Church, Woonsocket, who has been in declining
health some months died at the residence of
his nephew, Rey.sJ. NJ. Peck, in claremOnt, N.
H., on Monday. ~ p ~ y
Father Feehan, pastor of the Church. of
the Immaculate Conception in st. Louis, has
been appointed by the Holy See Bishop of
Nashville. He has received the apostolic let
ters, and will probably be consecrated in St.
Louis N aHfE
"A paper has been found in the Methodist
Book Room in Cincinnati, Ohio, with an ac-
cennt of the receipts and expenses in 1903 Of
Bishop McKendree, one of the early bishops
of the M. e. Church. Receipts from seven con-
ferences S275; salary $50; and travelling and
other expenses, $61 So; leaving $S3 81 due the
Conference, The ink, though faded by time,
shows the neat handwriting of the heroic bish-
opaa A bishops salary, $50 yeari "a
There are fourteen Methodist churches, all
well supplied with efficient pastors, in the city
of Washington Thecopgregations are large.
A new church is in process of erection, at a
cost-of 81 5000, on the site Of the Old Foundry
Chapel, the original Methodist church in Wash
ington city, whose organization dates back TO
1916. The new church, when finished, will De
the handsomest edifce of the kind in the fed Z
eral capital l5qo eaIdWLH9 8gai r -ais b
..7-Associations of the Baptist denominations
will be held as follows: York, in Kennebnnk,
Sept. 18th and 14th; Piscataquis in Monroe,
Sept. 10Th; Washington, in Calais, Sept. 18th;
Keanebcc, in Norridgewock, Sept 18th; Bo'0-
doiahaBa, in Hallowell, Sept. 18th; AroostoOk,
in Houlton, Oct. 7th; Waldo, in Belfast, Sept.
29th Lincoln, in Camden Sept. 9th. s,e
A, writer in Evangelical CAristendons, dis
cussing the progress Of Roman Catholicism in
England, admits with regret that this progress
is considerable but finds consolation in the fact
that It is only one manifestation of general
revival of religious fervor, the dormancy of the
last century giving place to activity, and the
languor Of Indifference being exchanged for,
the ardor of faith. A corrupt and degenerate
religion is a bad thing, but religious apathy'or
hypocrisy is worse. Protestant pastors in
Catholic countries say that the converts are
generally persons who have been sincerely re-
ligious as Romanists, seldom or never men who
had cast off every form of religious belief; and
if this be the case, it may appear that the pa-
pacy, by stemming the tide of atheism in Eu-
rope, has prepared the way for a religion purer
than itself In a word, this writer believes that
the triumph of Romanism has, to large ex-
tent, been a triumph not over sincere and in
telligent Professionalism, but over careless inf
deity and practical heathenism