The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-12-09
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

AhO -houoc, q iCo pIioh OSeo5oh
building in Luton, England, belonging to the
Baptists, now some centuries old, where John
Bunyan used sometimes to preach, is about to
be pulled down, and foreign paper advises
those who can to go and see it for the curiosity
of the thing.
"A new version of the New Testament, un-
der Catholic auspices, has recently been issued
in Quebec. The translation is made, not from
the original Greek, but from the Latin Vulgate,
and, with the notes and commentaries append
ed, makes volume of about eight hundred pa
ges. ~
The fifth general meeting of the EvangeE-
cal Alliance has been appointed for September,
1866, by the committee chosen for the purpose
in 1862, to be held either at Amsterdam or the
Hague. rlU s-54- E&sE
1t is reported in English papers that the
case of Bishop Colenso, in which he sues the
Chancellor of the Exchequer for Withholding
his salary, win not probably come to hearing
until next March. re6NE#
The Calvin Baptist Society of saco are
building new vestry.
Rev. George Bates, of Auburn, since March
has occupied the pulpit Of the Universalist So
oiety at Pennington.
Rev. F. e. Fellows has resigned the pastor
ate Of the Second Congregational Parish in
Kennebunk. He has received and accepted
call to become pastor of church in Bridgton.
. Died in Corinna, Nov. 9th, Elder Benz. P.
Winchester, aged u years and ten months
for many years the pastor of the Baptist church
in C.-]Advocate
The lions Adc0cdte will soon enter upon
new volume. 1t calls upon the Baptists of the
State for thousand additional subscribers, and
the call should be needed. 1t is good denom-
national paper, ably conducted. }HE
Rev. e. P. Thwing, Congregationalist) for
merly of this city, has become the editor of
the Home Monthly which is now entering ON
its 18th volume. -t.A--
- The Congregational Westinghouse in
Brewer village was re-opened for public wor-
ship Nov. 26th, having been closed for about
three months for remodeling and repairs.
The Missionary Society of the Methodist
Episcopal Church have made their estimates
for the current year, and have appropriated
81 O00O 900 for works of benevolence, $287 657 ,83
for Foreign Missions, 1921 $50 for Domestic
Missions, $301 ,092,17 for operations at the
South, and other smaller sums for specific pur-
poses fal
The salary of Rev. Horatio Stebbins pas
tor of the Unitarian Church in San Francisco,
is $4,000 in gold. He was in addition to this,
recently made the recipientof $4,000 as mark
Of his peoples respect. ~
The Southern Episcopal Convention, re-
Gently assembled at Augusta, Georgia, has de-
cided to leave to each diocese the decision of
the question as to union with the Episcopal
church North.
The Christian Register, Unitarian, announ-
ces that after the LIST of January it will be pub
lished by an association of gentlemen associat-
ed for that purpose, and that Mr.. David Reed,
who established the paper forty years ago. re-
tires, The Register will remain under the ed
itorial care of Rev. Mr.. Bush.
Dr. Strauss "New Life of Jesus" will
shortly be issued in London.
DIR. Kincaid, of the American Baptist Mis-
sionary Society, after residence of thirty-fve
years in India, is compelled to leave his field of
labor, and is on his way to this country. ~
The Baptist Foreign Missionary organiza-
ton has received for the first six months of it's
financial year, which commences May 1, $685.
300 "a, against $4,000 50 received in the same
months last year.
"A new Encyclical letter is expected to APP
pear next month, convoking at Rome in 1866 all
the bishops of the Roman Church throughout
the world to commemorate the eighteenth CEN
tenary of the death of st. Peter. fra
"A Rockland paper reports very lively in
terest in several of the religious societies of
that city. number of very interesting cases
Of conversion have occurred in connection
with the Methodist, as also with the First and
Second Baptist and Freewill Baptist Societies.
From various parts Of Washington County, al
so, we have accounts of similar revival of in
terest in religious affairs.
Several Methodist churches have been
burned in Maryland, because they were used
during the week for colored schools. m
Ernest Renan, the author of the Life of
Jesus is of Jewish origin. Though he once
took orders in the Roman Catholic Church, he
has abandoned the faith and is married. The
sale of his book has exceeded 100000 copies in
France alone, and has yielded enormous profits.
The American missionaries in Turkey have
been advised by Turks of the New School,
who are really infidels-to translate the Koran,
which is written in Arabic, into common Turk
sh, and print it for circulation, as a sure means
of destroying its sanctity in the eyes of the
people. What they declined to do, the Imperi-
al government has now done officially.