The Portland daily press., 1865-11-25
RELIGIOUS INTELLIaENCE.

The Lewiston Journal says eight persons
were confirmed by Bishop Burgess in Trinity
Church in that city, on Sunday last.
The Universalists have established regular
Sabbath services in Saco. Us
To show what amiable relations may exist
between different religious societies of the
same. denomination, in the same town or city
the Lowell Courier gives an instance. 1t says
AS the pastor of the Second Universalist So.
ciety in Providence, Rev. j. G. Adams, was
about to leave that city to come to Lowell, the
ladies of the First Universalist Society in the
same city, of which Rev. G. Fl. Fay is pastor,
very generously surprised the pastor and his
companion with the presentation of certain
valuable and useful silver gifts, as evidence OF
theirgood will toward the recipient of these "a
vors." y .W tF-E IA 81
The ADVOCATE says Rev. G. W. Watts (Bap-
tist) has removed from Bar Mills to South
Thomaston. ss r Il t.-
+ The Board Of the Massachusetts Baptist
Convention, made choice, at their last quarter
ly meeting, of Rev. B. T. Bronson, of Roxbury,
as their Missionary Secretary. l
The Cambridge Association (Unitarian)
met last week at Somerville, and took the in
itiatory steps for raising another 100000 for
the general purposes of the denomination, and
especially for the work which is to be done in
the South. The body consisted of not far from
fifty members, clerical and lay, from fifteen or
twenty churches twas voted that the church
es there represented should undertake to raise
$4,000, as beginning of the fund, and a COM
mittee of five was appointed to make the neces-
sary arrangements ~ sAh
> Rev. Mr.. Mckenzie, Of Augusta, has de-
clined the call as pastor of the Shepard Con-
gregational Society, Cambridge, Mass
Rev. CORTLAND Y. DeNormandie, of Fair
haven, is going for six months to Richmond,
Va, to labor in behalf of the American Unita
rian Association.
: The American Baptist Publication Society
has issued an address to the Baptist churches
of the land, calling for $4,000 to be expended
in the organization Of Sabbath Schools for the
poor whites of the South, as also among the
blacks.
Rev. w. Ellis, of the London Missionary
Society, who has now been more than fifty
turned to England from Madagascar, and makes
favorable report of what is going forward
there. Many of the rumors which have been
spread abroad Of late concerning the island
prove to have been false.
Two or three of the c0lored congregations
in Jamaica have recently sent, constitutions
amounting in all to ESQ, to the Church Mis-
sionary Societyof England. This is in remem-
brance of aid received from that society some
twenty-five years ago. l.Iad
The oldest pastor in Massachusetts, is said
tobe Rev. DR.. Emerson, of Salem, who has
been settled over the same parish more than
sixty years. He has for some years had col
league. hee 74 ael
& Rev. Frederic rockingham declines the
call to the Unitarian Church in Lowell, and
will remain at Brattleborough, VT ~
4 Intelligence has reached this COUNTRY of
the death of Rev. Samuel A. Rhea, of the Mes,
torian mission under the care of the American
Board.
p The Boston OniUersdlist, in complimenta-
ry notice of the Pearl Street Society in this
city, and their new and talented pastor adds
The First Society, under the ministry of Rev
e. G. Bolles, has a house of worship scarcely
second to any in the order, and is active ana
vigorous, moving steadily on in success and
prosperity; and the two together, embracing as
they do many leading and wealthy families,
have a prominent religious and social influence
in the place. There is probably no other citv
in the country where the cause is relatively so
strong as it is in Portland" ss.s. NJ
Rev. Henry @. Leonard, formerly pastor Of
the Universalist Society of Waterville, and
the popular Chaplain of the Maine Sd and of
the LIST Me. Heavy Artillery, has accepted
unanimous invitation to take the pastoral
charge of the Unitarian Society in Albany. N
z.
Rev. A. Abbott commenced his pastoral la
bors with tn Universalist Church in Rockland
Nov, 23d, i'as'