The Portland daily press., 1865-10-21
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RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

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The Methodists of Wilmington, Delaware
are building a marble church as Manufacturing
to the Lord that he has removed treason from
the land.
The Bath Times learns that Rev. d. @.
Cushman of the Congregational Church in
Warren, is about to remove from the State, to
take charge of church in Hubbardston, Mass.
AT the Free VIII Baptist General Confer
ence ON Tuesday of last week, a resolution pro-
hibiting the ordination of ministers who use
tobacco, was adopted. It is said that the de-
nomination numbers "a 900 communicants, one
fourth of whom arein Maine. z
AT St Johns Roman Catholic Church in
Bangor, few Sabbaths since, $50 children and
adults received the sacrament Of Confirmation
at the hands. of the Rt. Rev. Bishop Bacon
Several of those confirmed were converts.
"A missionary society has been established
in Russia for the conversion Of Pagan and 9TH
er non-Christian inhabitants of the empire, the
Caucasus excepted. The society win commence
its operations in the AItai and 1r2nsbaikal
countries. q AilAIaG 2C1Gq
Father Beckx, general of the Society Of
Jesus, and principal author of the celebrated
Papal Enoyclical and Syllabus, is dangerously
ill. as 2'- 4'i4 la47hai ia9"oi sa1 g a1s I
The second daughter of the CountVde Mon
talembert is preparing to follow the example Of
her eldest sister in entering into holy orders
The loyal Baptist preachers of Missouri
held State convention at Hannibal last week,
and gave the heartiest support to the govern
ment, with corresponding hearty knocks at
the rebels The president read a letter from
Rev. Il J y. Tatums of Hermitage, Missouri, the
region Of greatest guerrilla warfare. Accom-
panying this was a copy of the minutes Of a
new association in that locality called "Free--
DOM" Its constitution requires that churches
desiring admittance must first make Teconeil-
iation at home, by declaring non-fellowship
with the rebellion" The president said this
was a voice of encouragement from source
least expected. There might be something in
a name" The Freedom Association was made
a member of the convention at once. ~ ~
AT the conservation of a new church, at
Finsbury, London, the bishop found occasion
to rebuke high church demonstrations Sew.
erai Of the clergy were decorated with richly
embroidered stoles, which the bishop ordered
them to take off; he also had the flowers and
candles removed from the altar, and, would not
consecrate the church till the priest had agreed
to remove an unfinished cartoon from the mar
bile over the communion table. Extreme high
churchism seems to annoy the bishop Of Lon
don as much as radical low4chnfch ism does the
bishop of New York
Tho Paris Journal des De5ats -haSthe fol-
lowing: "The holy Father has taken occasion
Of the last eonsistory to reproye secret soeites,
and especially that of the FreemasoDs, which
aims at the ruin of the church and all civil, gov
eminent. Itwould be hard to persuade us that
this is the end aimed at, at least in France, BY
a body who only six months ago had at its head
Marshal Magnan, and who still has ,aInongstits
members men highly distinguished in the gov
eminent, the army, and the Chambers We
even believe that there is more than one mason
in the army which upholds at Rome the tenn
poral power. ALI these conspiritors will be as
tonished to find that, without their knowledge
they have been engaged in plotfor the destrac-
ton of the church and civil authority, and
that they are communicated; for the Pom
tifcal allocutionends with a formal excommu-
nication. In order to impress the faithful with
just horror of.freemasonry, the Pope refers
to the mysteries which it celebrates and the
Pope, Of course, knows all about these mys-
teries and these oaths, butwe believe that there
are very few even Of the freemasons them
selves, who could boast that they know SO
much" ft3 s4s4
"A letter from Rome states that Cardinal
Antoneli had begged France, instead Of evac-
uating Rome altogether. at the. time fixed, to
leave a thousand men only as a guard of honor
to ensure the personal safety of the Pope" M.
Drouyn de Lhuys is said to have replied to this,
that to comply with it would be to attempt to
evade an engagement by which France is
bound.
Rev. Mr.. Burgess has resigned the pastor
ate Of the Freewill Baptist Church in Bangor,
to accept a call from Harrisburg, Penn. g
The Oxford Conference of Congregational
churches meets at South Paris, on Tuesday and
Wednesday, Oct oath and 25th, - '''l 'A'''a'