Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-04
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER q 1865
RELIGI0us INTELLIGENCE.

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!; According to the Christian REPOSITORY
thereare, in the State Of Vermont seventy
three Universalist Societies and thirty-six
Uuiversalist clergymen. For forty-fiye
years they have sustained Universalist
paper, and for a long time two academies,
aud are now raising Il fund of $4,000 for
an Academy of high order.
The London Patriot, Of the l4th ultj
says: a0n Thursday evening the first of
8 series of services was held in the Church
of st, Mary, Magdalen, Munster Square,
in connection with new movement, which
seems to have received much support
l'mong the members of the Church Of
/ England. So much attention, indeed, has
the scheme commanded that duTing to-
day and Sunday there will be celebrations
of the Holy Communion in connection
/ with it in nearly three hundred churches in
| England -flE5t
From the minutes Of the General As
sociation congregational, of Massa-
chusetts, we gather the number of
orthodox churches is 4s9, of
which 3l3 have pastors, 100 have acting
pastors, and only 76 are dependent upon
supplies from Sabbath to1Sabbath. These
cherches contained ou the first day of
Sanuary last, 75,2ls members (23, 48S male
and 81, 730 female), of whom only IL ZOO
are reported as absent from their church
home. The Sabbath School scholars num-
Der sc, l57, an average to each church of
about lT6. Number of ministers, 566.
| Miss Rankin, who has long labored in
Brownsville and Monterey, in connection
with the American and Foreign Christian
Union, has Just arrived from the lattor city.
She comes to plead for the establishment Of
a seminary and chapel in Montery. Her
account of religious matters is very inter
esting Her journey through the country
bears the character of q romance. Ad- |
vised to travel with French escort which |
conveyed $I5O,000 in treasure, she de- |
clined, and started in stage, unattended, |
by another route When about half way |
the stage was stopped by the guerrilas Of |
of Cortinas, who detained her till he was |
sent for ten miles While they went for |
him, Miss Rankin, seeing wounded and |
sick saldiers, administered to their wants |
Cortinas arrived, and gave permission to
the lady to proceed The same night he !
and his troops attacked the French escort, |
captured their treasure, killed the Confed- |
crate General Parsons, and made prison |
er OF Duke Gwin, who was of the party. |
Gwin is now prisoner at Washington. |
In Monterey Protestant Church has |
been established with fourteen members, |
and in numerous villages in the vicinity |
there is a call for Bibles.
The total number of church members in
the British Conference and the COnferen-
ces connected with it is 526, l90. |
The General Association of New York |
Congregational at their late meeting at |
Oswego, took the preliminary steps for the |
organization Of a New York Education |
Society, to assist candidates for the min |
istTy. - y. --.g.,----
The Marquis of Westminster, the rich
est and most penurious of all the English |
mobiles, shows a disposition to grapple with
thedificult problem of the camel and the
needles eye having lately subscribed two
thousand pounds toward the building of a ]
new church for the parish of St. James,
SALISBURY. -
A new religious sect has bean formed at |
Florence. 1t is a kind of "Italian Church." |
similar to the 1'French Church which the
Able Chatel endeavored to establish in
Paris in 1881, of which the principal fea-
lures are the adoption of the national Ian
guage in the church services, and the ad-
ministration of the communion in both
kinds.
Rev~Dr. Treat stated, at Chicago last
week, that by actual comparison it is found |
that the number of persons actually re-
ceived into the Mission Churches among |
the heathen, and the Churches in Massa-
chusetts for twenty-five years, is very |
nearly the same, yet the pissipnarias have +
forelSn missions are failure
An.article from well-informsd writer
IN Roston paper shows that both tne
Congragationai and Methodist churcnes III
New England, are declining. From the
gtst;stics of the six Methodist conferences
If annears that during the past two years
Providence Conference has gained lzo
members; New England Conference 4ot
and East Maine Conference lO3i whiie III
New Hampshire Conferencethere has been
durinO the period a loss of 621i ln1Hest
Wains Conference of 267i and in V Vermont
i ronference of 499. The aggregate mem
hersbin of the seven hundred and forty
six churches composing the conferences
amounted in 1863 to "a, 294, while IN 1869
it is hut 7s 4s4, showing decrease OF SOU
: The Congregational statistics are oil siilli-
lar Import. .E,-.- a,,-i,,,-
An aamusing incident occurred during
the sneechof Mr.. William Welsh, at the
!. Eniseopal Convention at PmiadeiphlS1'
NJ st,tod that so anxious were the church
~ 10 apnear to connect itself IN any way
,,,;tb tba State. that during its session al
.Ricbmond. six years ago the Convention
raf1sad 10 memorialize the President o.
the limited States, and yet, Inconsistency
a fe,v davs afterwards, called upon 0oV
/ Wise a6out the period of the ohm Browl
Q arcitenept. Several members Loudly eH
i. ehGaiII 1891 al did not call on him die
b AZ caII ON himp and Rev. Dr. Adam
IS , sa;d he could not suffer this to pass with
explaining that the the TSoG Convention v4 @ bu
d Wise dad not pass pass. 'I1 aIIowed to visit hin
lfheirapriyate capacity. -siia'
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