The Portland daily press., 1866-12-29
RELIGIOUS.

| -Ihe Pennington Chronicle learns that
rev Mr.. Toothaker of New Sharon is reeoyer-
ing ms health. His people have voted to sup
p.s ms pulpit and continue his salary during
his disability.
rev. A T. Hutchinson baptized twelve
persons into the F. Baptist Church at New
/ Gloucester on the first inst
| Mrs. p. "A. Hanaford of Bostop ad;tor =,
the Ladies' Repository has been enoaced %
supply the pulpit of the Universalist church in
bingham until the first of March. and will
commence her labors soon.
| "A monument is to be erected at Mt. An
burn to the memory of Rev. j. W. Horton, the
New Orleans martyr. A committee of the mia-
listers of Boston ask for small contributions
from those who sympathized with Mr.. Horton
in his good work.
The Congregationalsts of Vermont are
taking measures to establish on permanent
basis suitable religious paper.
"A letter from Charleston ia New York
paper, describes the difficulties Of the Unitari-
ans In their search after pastor who will
preach their doctrine, and consent to serve
slavery after it is dead:
The Rev. Mr.. Stebbins, preacher of the ir
ou .th nom Boston, supplied them for \
t;r,a vt after while they held meetino and
tried him on the charge of his being Yanlcea,
found him 'uilty, and discharged him. This
was some T., last winter, since which time
thov ba,, tnn tis Z. tho lookout for one whose
nol;t;cs anJ thao1 ~ they could endorse. Call
a,tar on ,-os sueoiosy md at last a response
was given 1 by = 1s nastor a, large somewhere in
England or Ireland. The az " Sc and '' tSo
as to salary, politics, theoloe vas dmIv ~
matter OF his expected arrival as not bscn
hssk H. 4
neard Oh since, so far as outsiders al talre a
cd. Ii may be that they will have 10 'sc'I,1
native American after ALL But the din. ee,.n
u, tney VIII III not nave northerner, an1w
not grow Unitarian preachers 40 The Sarth.
The Pail Mall Gazette has a correspondent
whose last letter is good illustration of the
uncertainties which wait on the immediate
conduct of the Pope. He says:
Inc demeanor of the Holy Father il very
perplexlng; he speaks in monosyllables, Cr
enigmas, darkly limiting at approaching sur
prses; and this gives rise to variety OF rIimoin
wnich are too extravagant TO be repeated. The
ldiest report, however, finds believers here, ey.
en- IN nigh circles, nor is any so unfounded a.
not to be traceable to some authority"
"A Constantinople letter in the N. Y. Trl,-
une says:-"The late French Ambassador per.
suaded the Porte to give a very valuable lot of
land to the Sisters of Charity as a reward for
tneir iabors during the cholera. At the same
time the Porte refuses to allow the Rev. DR..
Hamln to erect Protestant college on lot OF
land which he has purchased and paid e2!ooO
for, although he and the American missionar.
les labored with more devotion and more suc-
cess during the cholera epidemic than any 9TH
er body of mon in Constantinople"
The clergymen of Mechanic Falls-Metho-
dist, Congregationalist, Baptist, Universalist'
and Free Baptist-have arranged for series Of
forenoon sermons devoted to the great evil ot
intemperance, and the best means of promot.
ing the cause of temperance.