The Portland daily press., 1865-10-18
RELIGIOUS INTELLIennoE.

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Rev. Jacob j. Abbott, late pastor at Tx
bridge, Mass, has accepted the call which, as
we stated some time since, has been rendered
him by the Central Church and Society of Var
mouth, and will enter on the duties of his new
pastorate at an early day.
They are raising the frame Of the new Uni
tartan church in WateryiHe.
'a The Lewiston journal says Rev. Mr. Steere
(Universalist) spoken the Baptist Conference,
on Wednesday, when the Conference was de-
batting the resolution in favor of revising the
articles of faith. When Rev. Mr. S. rose to
speak, some one objected, on the ground that
there was not time enough for the brethren to
be heard: but dozen voices desired Mr.. Steere
to express his views, which he did in feeling
and appropriate manner. Mr.. Steere was for
merly member of the Free Baptist Church,
and parted from his former brethren in perfect
coed feeling. ~ geT
The nineteenth annual meeting of the
American Missionary association win be held
in Brooklyn, N. z, in the Plymouth church,
commencing Wednesday, October 25,, at 8
O'clock, P. M. Rev. DR.. Kirk, Of Boston, viii
preach the annual sermon. Christian work
among the freedmen will be the leading sub
ject of the meeting.
There is great confusion at present in the
island of Madagascar. The queen has yielded
herself to French influence, and the cause Of
Protestant missions suffers in consequence.
The Presbyterian synod of Virginia, in
session at Lynchburg last week, adopted rsso-
lutions for the religious instruction of the ne
groes by evangelists and by Sunday and week
day schools. The synod resolved unanimously
to keep up a separate church organization in
va tl4l-4 sE@i4t 4tlR 3- A&es5
Rev. s. B. Stockwell of Cambridge, has
been invited to succeed DR.. Ryland as pastor Of
the African Baptist Church Of Richmond
Va. r. sssr.4se -sga
u. The Southern Aid Society, organized be-
fore the war for the support of the slavery-up-
holding style of Christianity in the South, has
been revived, and at recent meeting in New
York, itlwas determined to resume active OPP
erations Immediately. AZ ~
Rev. DR. Boynton, late of Cincinnati, has
become pastor of the new Congregational So
ciety in Washington. This society has leased
the Unitarian church lately occupied by DR..
Charming in that city. RS ~ ~
The Portsmouth Chronicle says Rev. G. 7.
Flanders has resigned the pastorate of the
Universalist Society in Nashua, N H., and un-
derstands that he comes to Pearl Street So
ciety in this city, with salary of $4,000 and
five months leave of absence, in order to ena-
BILE him to visit Europe.
The annual session of the Massachusetts
Universalist Convention is being held in Haver-
hill the present week. - ,o1
"A Concord paper says Rev. B. F. Bowles CT
Manchester, N. FL, has agreed to remain with
his society in that city another year, and will
not accept the pastorate of the Universalist So
ciety in Augusta. s x eJt&tft
Rev. n. J. Burton, of Hartford, has receiv-
cd an Invitation to the pastorate of the First
Congregational Church. San Francisco. Sala-
ry $4,000, payable in gold, and travelling expen-
ses to California paid. ~ q q - ~
-Itnis stated by Bishop Eastburn that he
wrote to Bishop Potter Of New York, express
ing disapproval of the acts of certain low
churchmen in his diocese. He says: "These
acts am constrained to disapprove, in the first
place, because cannot but consider them as
direct violations of our canon law; and second
1y, on the ground of their inexpediency.s Fra-
ternal union with Christians and Christian
minister's of other bodies, in institutions for the
dissemination of the Scriptures, and scriptural
knowledge, is what have always found the
highest happiness in cultivating; ahd that ex-
'clusiveness which denies to all non episcopal
churches the claim to recognition, cannot
find in oiir Prayer-B Book, and whit have not
the slightest sympathy. But that of our legis-
ton which plainly requires that all who Off
ciate incur congregations shall be ministers of
our church. is regulation to which no reason
able objection can bemade by any one; and
strict obedience to it is, as it seems to me, es-
sentially necessary to the purity and safety of
our communion" The New York Convention.
however, adjourned without taking any notice
of the controversy between Bishop Potter and
the offending clergymen.
Rev. DIR. Sunderland's church at Washing
ton have peti ioned him to leave the American
chapel in Paris and return home though his
leave of absence has but half expired. Z
The Congregational Society at North Var
mouth having just finished neat and commo-
dious vestry, the ladies of the place gave a
levee in itson Wednesday evening last. which
Melted S27O in cash. 1ey1
Charles A. Lord, Esq, editor ofthe Chris
tian Mirror, who has been absent to attend the
meeting Of the American Board at Chicago. re-
turned to his post the last of the week. Dur
ing his absence the Mirror has been under the
charge of Rev. David shepley taa e.
Rev. Isaac s. Kallock, formerly Of fremont
Temple, Boston, is now president Of Ottowa
Colleges Experimentation recently establish
ed in the Indian territory.
9 The Religious Union is the title Of new re-
igious newspaper startedin Washington. The
editor says in his prospectus: 'sIt will be ma
tional and catholic in its character-not local
and bigoted. 1t win aim to adapt itself to all
Christians and to all loyal citizens, regardless
of all, relations save those that bind to Christ
and the government of the nation"
Contrary to general expectation, Il, vari-
GUS theological seminaries open this fall with
full numbers. The young men who have been
,yariously employed during the war areretirn-
ing to their studies.
The number of, churches which have.
grown up under the care of the American
Board, in various lands, is 1870, with present
membership of $685. There were added to
these churches during the past year 1914 menu
bers The whole number of pupils in the va
rious schools sustained by the board is 1922
-Chief-Justice Chase was the presiding Off
Ger in the late meeting at Cleveland Ohio, for
the organization of a National Society of Evan
gelization.
The shop-women of Paris who have here
+of,ro had no d9v of rast are nat;t;o,,:., AZ -:
employers for respite on the Sabbath, alleging
that it is necessary for them, both morally and
physically.
This is the fiftieth or jubilee year of the
American Bible Society, and part of the pub
lie celebration of this event is to consist of a
series Of commemorative discourse to be preach
ed in the various church of New York city.
Miss Hall, of Groton, Mass, has recently
given five thousand dollars to the Baptist Soci-
- ! Il, chat town She has also frivan a churcb