The Portland daily press., 1865-08-16
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Goodell, Missionaries of the American Board
at Constantinople, and Misses Isabella and EN-
ma Goodell, arrived in Boston ON the Sd inst.
The Central Pres6yteriqa contains accounts
Of numerous revivals in the South. especially
in Virginia.
-hev. Daniel w. Waldron of Augusta, Me-,
has received call to settle over the first Com
gregational Church in Randolph, Mass. Sal
airy $1400.
The Rockingham, N. H., Association of
oniversalists hold their annual meeting to-day,
August l6, and tomorrow.
Rev. Daniel Kilburn, a Methodist clergy
man of some note, died at Hartford, VT, on
the 18th ult, in the slst year of his age. He
was native of Gilsum, N. H, and commenced
preaching in 1905.
Rev. w. H. Daniels, lately pastor of lions
Church, at st. John, N. b., has accepted
the call of the Congregational Church at Nor
NAL, ILL.,, the seat of the Illinois State Normal
University.
Rev. z. Druon, formerly in charge of the
Catholic Church at Montpelier has returned
from Europe with commission as Vicar Gen
eral of Vermont, residence at st. Adams.
Rev. r. Z. Kittredge, formerly 1ublisher of
the Boston Commonwealth, has become pastor
of Universalist society at Marblehead.
The funeral of Right Reverend Alonzo
Potter, Bishop of Pennsylvania, was celebrated
on Friday last, with very imposing ceremo-
MES.
"A paragraph which has been circulating in
the papers reports the death on the oath ult., of
Father Taylor, the venerable sailor preacher of
Boston. This is mistake. Chaplain Taylor
OF the Hartford, recently deceased, is not Fa-
ther Taylor of Boston, who is still living, in
the enjoyment Of excellent health, and appar-
entity with the promise of many more years OF
useful and valuable life.
The Boston Recorder Of last week has an
extended and interesting article upon the four
quarterlies belonging to the Orthodox Congre-
gationalists: The Congregational Quarterly,
the Boston Reoie,c, the Bf5liothecd Sacra and
the Nec Highlander. The article says: ''These
four quarterlies of our denomination may well
be referred to as an honor to the body, while
they offer medium for all that varied labor of
the periodical press that the aim and ends of
our branch Of the church may require. We
take great pleasure, and we hope no unworthy
satisfaction in being able thus to unite them
and speak of them"
DIR. Mott President of Union College. has
reached the age of 80 years, though very feeble
and falling rapidly. Rev. DR.. Day, for many
years President of Yale College, is yet living in
New Haven, in the full possession of his facul-
ties, at the age .of92.
=" The Polity of the Congregational
Churches" is the title of very able discourse
preached by Rev. Samuel Wolcott, d d.,
of Cleveland, Ohio, and published by Rand &
Avery, Boston
The Baccalaureate sermon by Rev. Or.
Miner, President of Tufts College, has Just
been issued in handsome form by the New Eng
land Publishing House.
There are six colored churches in Sayan-
nah, Georgia. Three of them have large or
gans and fine choirs. The pastors of four Of
them have always been colored men.
Good Words for August contains a most in
teresting and instructive article on Jerusalem,
being the seventh of series on Eastern Tray
ell, written by the editor, Rev. Norman Mcleod.
1t is accompanied by a large and well-executed
wood engraving in two parts, taken from pho
tographs, one Of which shows the city with the
surrounding country for several miles circuit.
and the other exhibits the interior of the city
itself
About 800 colored members of the different
Baptist churches in Charleston have been Or
ganlzed into new church, and two of their
number, for several years licensed preachers.
were at the same time ordained as ministers.
Rev. Justin Spaulding, formerly mission
airy to Rio Janeiro, and who for many years
has been a prominent minister of the New
Hampshire Conference, died on the 9th ult.. at
Mofetown, VT.
The Jews have very able and spirited pa
per in New York, called the Jeuish Leader.
and they are talking earnestly about establish
ing theological school in that city, where the
Hebrew Bible and the Talmud shall be studied. |
The obligatory character of the Augsburg |
Confession is likely to form the subject of a |
very animated controversy at the next general
synod of the Lutheran church The President
of the Franckean synod in New York, at the
recent session of this synod, very strongly pro-
tested against an unqualified recognition of
of the entire confession"