The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-07-26
RELIGIOUS 1rrELLrenNoE.

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Rev. Dr. Gannett, of the Arlington Street
Church, Boston, Rev Mr.. Dexter, Of Berkeley
Street, do, and Rev. DR.. Stearns President Of
Amherst College, have sailed for Europe.
Rev. Charles Bugbee, Unitarian minister
in Ashby, died July 7th.
The cornerstone of new Congregational
church was laid in Philadelphia on the 18th Of
June last with appropriate ceremonies. The
society which is to occupy it was organized
last year, and is under the pastoral care of Rev
| Edward Halves, formerly of Waterville.
| The board of managers of the American
Bible Society have resolved to take measures
for an appropriate observance of the fiftieth
! year of the existence of that organization.
Seven young men graduated from the Di-
vinity School at Cambridge, at the recent an
niyersary. es8 81 fli4 sl.5t "a IL. &
1 Rev. Newton Heston, the able pastor of the
State Street Congregational Church, Brook
Ign, New York, died suddenly, July 18th, aged
Az
| The ministers Of Richmond still take de-
faint attitude as though the rest of the world
| were of small consequence in comparison with
| Virginia A writer in the CongregdtiossaEist
| tells of things which have recently fallen I'M
der his own observation in that city. He says:
| 1.-THE agent of the New York American Tract
Society recently. called on the clergy of the
city. He proposed to them to recommence tax
ing their publications for distribution. YES
said they, we will take them if we can put our
own imprint upon them. But we do not be-
heve in an american Tract Society, We are
going to maintain a Virginia. Tract Society,""
Professor Taylor Lewis, in an article in the
Christian IateIigsncer, takes strong ground in
favor of the right of the freed people to full
citizenship in our country.
The ACKNOWLEDGMENT convened for the
purpose of deciding upon the Installation Of
Rev. J. =. Walton as pastor of the Sd parish
Orthodoxy in this city, is to meet in the vestry
Of that church, this afternoon at o'clock.
The controversy in New York between
Bishop Potter and the Low Church clergy
engages the attention of the religious press of
every denomination. s. ft&b4 fss
The North american Reoieto has made DR.
Gillettis work. sThe Life and Times of John
Huss," "a mark for severe and repeated criti-
cisms. The American Pres6gtersaa and the
Christian InteAigencer criticise the critic so,ne-
what sharply. g
Rev. Father Lee, of Winsted, Conn. has
sailed for Rome under orders from the bisbon
He goes out to procure professors and teachers
for the Roman Cat aolic college, in Allegheny.
NY. Ans s3elA s5I
--Generol Baptist Repositoryis the name Of
new paper, to be issued quarterly, under the
auspices of the Trustees of the General Pro-
vision Baptist Association. Rev J. M. Buz-
eel, NJ. D., of Gorham, is editor. The General
Provision Baptists seem to be a body or oroan-
ization Of Christians who have separated from
the Free VIII Baptist denomination, for rea-
sons whichs-not nnderstanding,-we are una
Bile to explain.
The Methodists of France and Switzerland
held their fourteenth annual conference on tbe
10th of June. A decided gain for religious lib-
erty and progress is reported. There are 1913
houses of worship, 26 ministers, SO local preach
ers, 81 Sunday Schools, 258 teachers and 1870
scholars. Bishop James, from this country at
tended the Conference, and was well received
The colony of Moravian Brothers at Ka-
nigsfeld, near Wellenger, in the Black Forest,
Germany, comprises four hundred inhabitants
and forms model State in miniature DURING
the fifty years'it has existed, not one Of its
members has had any affair with the police or
judicial authorities, and not crime or offence
has been committed. There has never been a
trial or sale by order of justice, nor are there
any beggars ever to be found at KHnigsfeld.
There are seventy thousand Germans in
Paris, and measures are on foot to provide
suitable religious instructions for them. 80
The annual meeting of the London Socie-
ty for the Propagation of the Gospel has been
held. Itreports receipts for the year e1O2997.
an increase of over $4,000 over the year previ-
GUS. Its missionary list now includes five hun
bred and one clergymen, and large BODY of
catechists, teachers and divinity students.
( The National Baptist says Rev. Ebenezer
Dodge, d. D., has been elected Professor of Ec-
clesiastical History in Newton Theoloeical
Seminary. DR.. Dodge has been for twelve
years connected with Madison University. At
Hamilton, N. Y.
The order of Jesuits is said to have doubled
in the last twenty five years, and now numbers
7,728 of whom 726 are in the United States.
-Therecentg graduating class at Harvard Uni
yersity was divided denominationally as fol-
lows: SO Unitarians, II Orthodox Conerega-
tionalists, 9 Episcopalians, Baptists, and OF
other Unitarian denominations