The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-25
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.



PEKIN CHINA.-A heather temple has been
purchased, the idols removed, and missionary
hospital commenced.
GERMANY the Upper Austrian Diet an
earnest discussion took place on the claims OF
DR.. Readiger, Bishop OF Liur, that all children
born in The lying-in hospital must be christened
by Roman Catholic priests. The Diet mantully
upheld the rights of non-Cathoic mothers, and
tortyt deputies out OF nifty voted IN favor OF
the motion made bv DR.. Won Figuly, that all
the children OF Protestant women delivered in
the Upper Austria lyingn hospital shall be bap-
tized by Protestant clergymen."
CoLENso AGAIN DIR. Colenso has expressed
his willingness to be tried by the Archblshopo Of
Canterbury, but will meanwhile maintain his
legal rights as Colonial Bishop and claim his
salary.
DOMESTIC.
ROMAN CATHOLIC, - The Second National
Council of the Roman Catholic Bishops of the
United States will be opened in Baltimore on
the first Sunday of October There are at pre-
sent in the United States seven ecclesiastical
provinces, embracing forty eight dioceses.
According to letters from Rome, it is Arch
bishop Spaulding, OF Baltimore, and not Bishop
Lynch, of Charleston, who was to receive the
cardina ais bat at the next Consistory (Which, by
this time, has probably been heidi.
BAPT1sT.-The Baptist papers are discussing
the proposed union between the Baptlsts and
Disciples, a majority of them opposing the
measure or doubling its expediency.
The Southern Board of Missions having pos
Orleano, has ordered the colored Baptist church
worshippng there to leave. This act of un-
1riendiness to the freedmen is much censured
CoNGREGATIoNAL.-Th Rev. Mr.. Hobrook,
now in England, has obtained stone from the
building in which Elder Brewster lived, in Scro-
bey, England, and in which the Scrobey Church
wo1shipEed. II is for the New England church,
Chicago. So Chicago outstrps the Brooklyn
Pilgrim Church, which only went to Plymouth
Rock for their memorial stone.
THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY AssooIATIoN.-The
receipts are now coming in at rate which, II
continued, will give the society the $250,O0O re-
commended by the National Council Thus far,
nearly one-fith of the receipts came from Eng
land. But the Congregational Churches in Ame-
rica are especially interested in gathering the
sum OF $25O,O00 from themselves, according to
the recommendation OF the Council.
PREsBYTERIAN.-Th reports of revivals con-
tinue to howIn from all sections of the country,
and large additions to the membership are re-
corded.
The reformed Presbyterians in New York
have obtained an act OF the Legislature by
which deacons alone are to act as trustees of
their congregations.
AT Auburn, N. Y, the three Presbyterian
churches received one hundred and eleven new
members on April l.
AT Jacksonville H., three hundred CONVEX
sions are reported, of whom one hundred are
students. AT Lacon, ILL.,, over two hundred
have been added TO the churches, among tnem
the chief men of the town: In Johnstown, N.
churches.
METHoDIsT.-A powerful revival is in progress
in Dickinson College. Thirty to forty students
profess conversion.
In the North Indiana Conference, in seven
districts great reVivals are reported, and the
increase Of membership is given as 6s79.
Rev. DR.. Durbin is about to start, early in
May, tor long tour among the Missions of the
Methodist Board in Central and Northern Eu-
rope, and perhaps in Bulgaria.
-
Methodist Church, South, at New Orleans, the
German ministers and members Of the Rio
Grande and Texas Conference proposed to
sever their connection with the South, and join
the Church North.
AT Meadvlle, Pa, two hundred and fifty
persons have joined the Church.
Methodist papers report accessions as fol-
1ows:- Western AdUOCdte 1875; Christian AdUO-
cate, IN ", 100; Western Ad0ocate, April IL,
SS7; Northeastern AdUOCdte, over 900. Over
1900 have been added in the Columbus (Ohio)
District.
UNITARIAN.-The First Congregational Church
(Unitarlan), Providence, carrying out the design
which they had of giving testimonial of their
esteem and affection for their pastor, the late
DR.. Hall, have given $4,000 to his family,
Rev. A. G. Hibberd has resigned the pas
toral charge of the Unitarian Society of Detroit
Mich.
REFORMED DuToH.-The receipts of the Boart
of Foreign Missions during the eleven months
(froni May ], 1864, to April l, 1869 OF the las
financial year we're 81, ,OS8'34; during the
eleven months of this fiscal year, they have beer
$44,3G8'S6. The decrease is S26, ,6694s. To clost
the year, on April 80, without debt, the Boart
needs $685. 900.
MISCELLANEOUS. The London Record an
nounces the return OF Mr.. Hemans son of tn
poetess, from the communion of the Church o
Rome.
Rev. J. ". Roberts has been elected Bisho
of Monrovia, Africa. He is a brother OF tn
first President of the Republic, now Chancello
OF the College of Liberia.