The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-12-30
RELIGIOUS INTELLlGENCE.

MIR. George Lewis, from Bangor seminary,
was ordained and installed as pastor over the
Congregational church at Bedford, Mass, on
the 18th inst E Z 'lj s-h3 saoii99s e"t y
in Australia, has eight Congrega-
tional churches, besides several chapels and sta
tons supplied by lay preachers. S.los & 5A4
The Friend paper published in the Sand
witch Islands, remarking upon the new mea-
sures which have been introduced under the
English Reformed Catholic mission, says: "The
Hawaiian board of education, we learn, has
tabooed singing during school-hours in COM
mon schools-in our opinion most stupid and
unphilosophical prohibition, utterly opposed to
the opinions of the best educators of Europe
and America" Nii ~ - l i .l- ta14t-A
"A Congregational society has been formed
in New Orleans, which has purchased Pres
byterian church for $4,000 and Rev, William
I. Eustis of New Haven will preach for them.
The Augusta Banner says arrangements
have been made for Rev. G. r. Moor of Cam
bridgeport, formerly of this city, to supply the
Universalist pulpit in that city for three
months, commencing the first Sabbath in JAN
uary.
"A volume containing forty sermons, from
the pen of the late DR.. Ballou, President of
Tufts College, has just been issued from the
press. sh% ii4i'i.li Pig 'iiAo'' ,r-i-''-i- ii,l
Rev. VIM. H. Cutler of Lowell, Mass, and
member of the class of 1865 of the Bangor
Theological Seminary, has accepted call from
the Congregational church at HopEnton, N. III.
The Gospel Banner commences q new vol
urne under the most favorable circumstances,
on the first of January. e te ,-..r ,a.,,I.. h.
The editor of the New, York Observer, says
that. though he sees nearly all the Southern re-
igious papers, and meets with many Southern
clergy, he has not seen line or heard word in
favor of union between the Southern and North
ern churches atpresent. ." -'.
Rev. A. p Tracy is about to remove from
Rockland to take charge of the Free Will Bap-
list church in East Corinth lDodI dnffl
The American Bible Society acknowledges
the receipt of 1888 "a for the month of October,
from Vermont ~ b.. .t1-.f En-
The New York Observer says that a wealthy
gentleman connected with the Methodist de-
nomination, offers $4,000 for founding Theo-
logical Seminary.
Elder Knapp, the celebrated revivalist is
preaching in Philadelphia. lie" ''a5iA2
The Christian Register has an appeal from
Dr. Bellows in behalf of the African Colonial
ton Society for the establishment of schools in
the South.
President Stearns of Amherst College, says
the Congregationdlist, was at Geneva during
the last week in November, and intends visit.
ing the Holy Land before his return.
"A Hindoo writer says: 'There is no moral
standard which regulates caste. A man may
cheat, perjure himself, commit theft or high
way robbery, be convicted and sent to the An
damans for years, and yet he does not lose
CASTE" 5.s q fit5i- 5s5a-lt ga ana
Rev. Calvin Stebbins was sent to Charles
ton, s. c., by the American Unitarian Associa-
ton, to occupy the vacant pulpit of the Uni
tartan church in that city Objection was
made to him on the ground that he was North
ern man, and recentlyby vote of the society
he was informed that his services were no long
er needed. The right of hisopponents to ex-
clude him will be tested.
The London Patriot says that the Mayors
of London, Southampton and Bristol are Jews;
. the Mayors of Liverpool and Hull are Wesley
ans; and those of several of the Yorkshire and
Lancashire towns are Independents
"A new church has been organized in San
Francisco, and called the "Central Baptist
Church." The Euangel says: "The plan of the
enterprise is copied from the fremont Temple.
Boston, seats free, and the enterprise to be sus-
tanned by contributions and voluntary SUBJ
scripHons. Rev, o. w. Briggs, formerly pas
tor in Brooklyn, N. Y, is the pastor of the new
church" ...-e r.5 t..s..,.s 81 aresae-
One of the Massachusetts, State Senators
has avowed his determination to vote for no
minister for chaplain who asks for his vote.
Every senator and representative should adopt
the same resolution. The men who hang about
legislatures and Congress, begging chaplain
cies, are disgrace to their profession 4'ii-
The venerable DR.. Daniel Webb, the oldest
Methodist preacher in Barnstable, is lying dan
gerously ill at Barnstable. d7 hs. Uah--
The First African Baptist Church in Pc
tersburgh Va, with membership of 1900
were building fine brick edifce when the war
commenced and they were obliged to suspend
operations. But, says a correspondent of the
New York Chronicle, they have cared for the
SICK supplied the destitute, and buried the
dead at an expense of $1O0 month during the
war, and the other two churches have been
equally forward in this good wo k Let the
reader pause and think of it. Three Baptist
churches, with over three thousand members
and the most Of them slaves, each sustaining
public worship in Petersburgh all through the
war, meeting all expenses and helping the sick
the needy and the dying, and giving a Chris
tan burial to the dead-al this in sight of the
two great armies, and subject to military
reignE[Springfeld Union. .-... b.
EB- -Four fishermen caught seventy pounds
Of pickerel in pond at Belchertown, Massa-
chusetts, the other day-an in four and a half