The Portland daily press., 1865-08-26
RELIGIOUS rNTRI.LIenNoH.


"A paper has been started in Florence whose
object is ayowedlys the Reconciliation Of tbo
Papacy with italy "A
The Congregation of Sacred RIGHTS At
Rome, has just published form of BLESSING to
be used By telegraph. The clergy are tn as
semble at a telegraph station, where a certain
amount of chanting, etc. is to be done. and
prayers put up, in which, among other annro-
pirate passages from the Scriptures this
from the 1O4th Psalm: "sWho waIketh unon
the wings of the wind; Who naketh His an
gels spirits, His ministers flaming fire"
~, The Spirituaiists have started a new paner
in Chicago, with the singular title the Pelioio-
Philosophical Journal.
Wednesday, August 9Th, an Ecclesiastical
Council was held in the Seventh Bantist
Church, Baltimore, with the view of ORGANIZING
German Baptist church in that city.
MIR. Eli P. Noyes Of Newton Theological
Institute, was ordained pastor of the Bantist
Church in East Washington, N. H., on We'd
nesday, Aug. 10th.
Rev. j. III. Gilmore, of Concord. N. Fl
has accepted unanimous call from the Second
Baptist Church, Rochester, New York. To he.
come its pastor. The church has Just naui-
dated an onerous debt of eleven thousand dol
lars
Rev. Fl. A. Sawtelle sailed with his family
on the 10Th, from New York, 0ia Panama. for
San Francisco to resume his labors with the
Baptist Church in that city sAkhA 1k13
six young negro men from the Island of
Hayti have entered the Episcopal Theological
Seminary at Gambler, Ohio. aa
The Spiritualists win hold a State Conven-
ton at Ludlow, VT, September 18th, 18th and
9th.
The Presbyterian preachers of St. Louis
have resolved not to take the oath prescribed
by the new Constitution, and have issued an
address to their brethren relative thereto
Rev. G. D. B. Pepper, pastor of the Bap-
list Church in Waterville, has had the offer Of
a professorship in the Theological Seminary at
Newton Corner, and also one in Pennsylvania.
He has not yet decided which to accept. if
either. M f-.a,oA
Rev. G. p. Headly leaves the Conerega-
tional Church in Waterville for a new field of
labor
AN Ecclesiastical Council is called to meet
at Phillips on Tuesday, Aug. 49, to consider
the propriety of ordaining Mr. Francis B.
Knowlton, recently Of Waldoboro, to the Cos
pei Ministry.
The Wesleyan Grove Camp Meeting at
Northport will commence next Monday, on the
18th inst. 1t will probably be more largely at
tended than any which has been held hereto
FORE
The Kennebec Association of Universal
lists will hold its annual session in Winthrop
on Wednesday and Thursday the Both and 3lst
inst .sagttg nssttpssE ,.vss.xae
The Broadway Society, Rev. Dr. Chapin's
have contracted for the erection of their new
church, to be located on the corner of Fifth
Avenue and Forty-Fift Street. The cost of
its erection is to be one hundred and eight
thousand dollars, and the contractors consider
that it will take about one year to complete it.
I'VE have received from Rev. G. Bailey. Re-
cording Secretary Of the Maine Universalist
Convention, a neatly printed pamphlet, from
the press of GO. Bailey, Gardiner, containing
the proceedings of the Convention at its late
annual session in Waterville, together with de-
nominational statistics and other matter 1t
contains large amount of information of in
terest to members of that denomination.
Rev S. G. Hayford of Huntingdon N. Y,
has become pastor of the Universalist society
in Belfast 45H sgf a as,..i'r.55
The Lewiston Journal says the 18th session
Of the Freewill Baptist General Conference
will be held in that city, commencing Wednes-
day, October 4th, and holding one week The
Conference IS held every third year, and en-
braces churches in the United States, Canada,
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. 1t has been
held in Maine but twice-the first time in Oct,
1881, at Wilton-the second in Oct 1871, at
Topsham-24 years ago.
The Camp Meeting at Poland commences
next Tuesday