The Portland daily press., 1865-10-25
RELIGIOUS 1rrrL11epNoS.

| Providence, r. L, died Thursday evening last,
aged "a years .-Ass---
| Chicago has upwards of one hundred Sun
| day Schools, with an attendance of 24,OGO. The
largest has S14 pupils, and the number Of books
in the libraries is 10000
The Rev. I. w. Hughes, Assistant Super
intendent of the Baldwin Place Home for Lit
tie Wanderers, will speak in behalf of the
above mission on Sunday morning, Oct. SOth.
at the Congress Square Church, Universalist,
at the Chestnut Street Methodist in, the after
noon, andat the State Street Congregational in
the evening. He is an interesting speaker
AL who can should hear him. Monday even
ing the Sabbath Schools of the city will meet
| IN the City Hall and be addressed by Rev.
Messrs.. TowIes and Hughes. The children
from the Mission win sing, .&c.-[Christian
! Mirror. 1Ind adj 10 efi80iJ K
High Mass was said at Newburyport on
Tuesday, for the repose of the soul of Rev.
Peter Hamin, Catholic priest there, who lately
committed suicide. The Newburyport Herald
says:"As funeral service it was most perfect
yes, sublime; we have never SCENT equalled
Even upon us, who could not see. why the soul
of good man like Peter Hamill should not be
in peace with God without this-who could
not see how all this could affect his repose there
was mysterious power in the requiem mass,
that we could not avoid; and to the Catholics
it must have been and was intense"
l. i'm speech in the Episcopal Convention
at Philadelphia, the Lord Bishop of Montreal
limited that for the instruction Of the people in
religious truth, he preferred the prayer book to
the Bibla Bishop Talbot, of Indiana, follow
ed him, remarking, among other things, that if
be was forced to choose between sending the
Bible or the prayer-book to the ignorant and
perishing, he would choose the latter How
much does this spirit differ from that of the
Romish Church? 9itall9As ~
Bishop Conroy, the new bishop Of the do
cese of Albany, N. Y, was consecrated to that
position ON Sunday week with more than ordi-
nary ceremony. T&elye archbishops and bish-
ops, and hundred or more priests participated
in the .soleInnities. g After the ceremonies of
conservation, which were led by Bishop Nc
Closkey Of New York, and were long and i'm
pressive, Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati,
preached the Sermon from Matt. xviii 49, 20,
and made strong argument for the apostolic
succession in the Catholic Church, alone At
ter the services the ecclesiasties and invited
guests partook of grand banquet.
Rev. John o. Fiske, of Bath, is giving ase-
ries of articles in the Mirror entitled Sketches
of Travel" Mr. F. has recently returned from
Europe. III .eefs'5 aAaaJa a'aslA
The American Bible Society have sent
agents to Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama and
Florida, to labor among the freedmen.
MIR. Thomas e. Brastow, a graduate Of Ban
gor Seminary, was ordained Pastor of the Con-
gregational church in Brooks and jackson on
the 18th inst '0I4 ~ -. - =. 81 ~
THE Boston Transcript regrets to learn that
Rev. Thomas B. Thayer, D. D., of the Shaw
NUT Universalistr Church in that city, is lying
dangerously Ill at his residence In Union P ark
Il The General Baptist Yearly Meeting is tc
be holden at Windham Center, commencing on
the Friday preceding the, first Saturday in No
vember next, and continue over the Sabbath.
/. The Nashua, N. H., Telegraph says Rev. G
7. Flanders has recalled his letter Of fssignA-
ton as pastor of the Universalist Society, and
decided to remain in Nashua ,,...,.f
The first General Baptist Association in
Maine will hold its next session at Sebago
commencing on the first Saturday in December
next. .itel3gsa lsosaQl .sa5mgisus aaa ss5fesQ
"A movement has been made, to establish
a new Y Unitarian society at Ellsworth. Il Rev.
VIM FL. Slavery, formerly of Mass, is now
preaching there.
In the State of Connecticut there are ll5
Baptist churches of which only rs have pastors.
The whole membership. of these churches is
16,4O0, and of these 698 were added during the
past year.; sb s, rs ssT4 ~ -gJaFfvg =
The First Unitarian Society in lowell have
invited Rev. Frederic rockingham to become
their pastor. z tsd uHA ctti1g
Rev. John. P. CULVER, of Norwich, Con-
necticut, accepts the call recently made to him
from the New England Congregations Church
in Chicago. "a s1s' VA = g ~ -
DIR. William Smith, the learned editor of
the dictionary of the Bible, viii soon publish
| "The Students Manual Of Old Testament His
tory" and "Fhe Student Manual Of New Tes-
lament History"
Mrs, Mary Warburtoh Of Hartford, has
| given $4,000 for the building of aneat chapel
for the Union Sabbath School, which has here
tofore met in a hall. 9,5.8ge I99JIQJ
| Rev. Charles Howard Malcolm has receiv-
ed an unanimous call to settle over the Baptist
| Church of Wheeling, Virginia, fromSwhose pas
torate he was elected about eight years ago, be-
cause his sentiments did not harmonic with
Southern IDEAS s8stv5 l. eSssasAsSstA 80
When Columbia, South Carolina, was ia
ken by our troops, the Theological Seminary
building was uni9jured as also the houses of
Drs. Howe and Leland, professors. The for
mer residence of Dr. Thornwell, president, was
burned. This institution resumes its work,
Nov. 1st. Ftosattl..sa 4, ,r.e.,
-Chauncey Rose has recently given $4,000
to the "Home of the Friendless" in New York
city, and also 10000 to other deserving char
ties in the city and vicinity.
The first book ever printed with types was
the Bible in Latin. This was issued in Mentz,
in Germany, about the year 1880 -. =. =
/ Statistics show that the Congregational
and Method st churches. in New England are
diminishing in numbers. 3sr-s6s ,saes.s s,IT
The Massachusetts Universalist convention
went in squarely for universal suffrage, and de-
plored "the practical demise of Christianity, in
the recent election in Connecticut, whereby
these rights were withheld from the colored
population" aAitoHt q sq9H ,alloiiai
Rev Mr.. Stockman, pastor of the Free
Baptist Church at Wells, is obliged to leave his
present field of labor on account OF his health.
| -Messrs. Stern and RoseDthal, missionaries
IN Abyssinia, little while since, were arrested
by the government, and threatened with vio-
lent death, and much anxiety has been awaken
ed Throughout the Christian world as.to their
fate 1t now appears that the Emperor as
agreed to give them up, on payment of $4,000
ransom. Friends are raising the money in
England and on the Continent; and DR.. Beke,
the Abysinian traveller, is to go with it to Con
dar, and secure their release AssA 70
"A letter from France, in the New York
Observer, Oct. IL, contains the following Tile
famous Dr.. Strauss, who has been silent tor SO
many years, has suddenly appeared upon the
stage, and now multiplies his publications with
feverish ardor. The laurels Of Mr. Renan have
evidently prevented him from sleeping He
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