The Portland daily press., 1866-02-10
RELIGIOUS 1NTELL Liz

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. is95za
BUM TO -LrNi4 Lnbglual i'saAfh
Tile Evangelical Dissenters of London
since 1851 have spent e727 00Oin chapel build
ing. Of this sum the Independents have rails
ed 1861 1858, with which they have built or en-,
larged 70 chapels sfl,aS3 ;-s Is 1tl si.II ia Sq,af
DIR. Huntington estimates that thirds
of the Episcopal ministers Of this country for
merly belonged to other denominations. f VI
--Rey. John B. iKerfoot, d. D., late president
of Trinity College, was consecrated, at Pitts
burg, last week, Bishop of Western Pennsyl-
vania. Ill ii o9d8uu3d 20 bUBiJ10 /
i Rev. Cyrus Phenix, superannuated
preacher of the East Maine Conference, died
recently at Pittston, Me. i4 u iAjZNA .3li'
Rev, James W. Hathaway, pastor of the
church at Kendalls Mills, who has been suffer
ing for several months with disease, is now con-
valescent. sloiasIg DDS ia '79SfI '.il l&5e 1t "-
The following items relating to Baptist
churches and ministers are from lions .Adyo-
cate = Rev. A. H. Stowel late of Boston, Mass,
is pastor of the, church at Ell Paso, Ill. Rev.
VIM. Roney has become pastor of the church
at Fulton, Ill. Rev. 1. Sawyer, has resigned
the pastoral care of the church of Lawrence,
Kansas, to take effect the first of March,. The
Strong Place church, of Brooklyn, have given
Rev. G. B. Crane of Hartford, a cordially
unanimous call to be their pastor. Rev. j. w.
Taggart goes from Newport r. L., his native
place, where he has temporarily resided, to
Wheeling, the capital Of West Virginia. Mr..
T. becomes pastor Of the small Baptist church
in that city, sost % Hfe
The receipts of the Maine Missionary So
ciety tCongreg atfonaD for the month of Janu-
AIRY, says the Mirror, were $930.94.
-Avigorous and earnest writer in the Mirror
has two column article against second SER
mon on the Sabbath. He says congregations
are becoming as particular about the quality as
the quantity of preaching, and this demand
cannot be met when the labor imposed is too
great. He insists also, that the second sermon
is breaking down the ministers, being too much
for health Easebs3 10 OH ,HW0Ha NV
From return published at Rome it APP
pears that at the end of 1864 there were in the
Catholic world 1928 members of the Jesuit or
der, being an increase of 12S on the previous
year, and more than double the number there
were in 1841, when the total was 1868.
r7-The Southern Presbyterian, published in
Columbia, s. G.. says: 1T is gratifying to see
the efforts making in every part of the coun-
try to revive the colleges and schools which
had been more or less completely destroyed
during the war, and to establish others
I The publication of the Arkansas Chsistian
ADVOCATE has been resumed. The editor selects
the following as his motto:-""Ford 1 am deter
mined not to know anything among yon save
tff'-}ta'
The Yicksburg (NIiss.) Journal says: "The
condition of the churches in Houston, Texas,
isa shame and disgrace to any civilized COM
munity. There, is not a Respectable church
building in the entire city,"
/ -Rev.,A. L. Stone delivered his farewell adj
dress to his Boston society and friends, in the
Music Hall, on Tuesday last. The house was
densely crowded, and DR.. Stone was made the
recipient Of many earnest expressions of regret
at his departure. He was to sail from New
York to-day, for California. .....--. q
Rev. g. I. Bard has asked and received a
dismission from the Congregational church at
Waterford, VT The Ca1edonian referring to
the dismissal says:-7"It is the old story of in
adequate support, OF, in plain language, he was
starved out. His nominal salary has been $500,
and his family consists Of five persons. There
isno excuse for starving ministers or teachers
at any time; and especially now in time of
general prosperity.',oH 70 ofsts has 5,aaa bsi
Rev. William Carruthers, of North Cam
bridge, peremptorily resigned his charge, last
Sabbath, as the only way to settle existing diff
culties,s "; % .uso3 81. 5 sssss8 b5l
The Observer states that Prof. Shepard, Of
/ Bangor Theological Seminary, is to spend a few
| weeks at Andover, to assist Prof. Phelps in his
department of Homiletics.? 49,, p, -,
IS The Chicago papers announce that "Rev
Robert Laird Collier, for two years pastor of
the Wabash Avenue Methodist Episcopal
| Church in that city, and since May last pastor
| of a church in Brunswick, N. j., has accepted
the pastorate of the Church of the Messiah,
First Universalist on the corner of Wabash
/ Avenue and Hubbard Court. He assumes
charge on the LIST of April" .c,son saaso
I RI. Rev. Bishop Payne of the African Mis-.
/ sion. communicates to the Cavalla West Afri-
/ ca) Messenger Intelligence of the sudden death
at Cape Palmas, on Saturday, Nov Is, of the
| Rev. Cadwallader Golden Hoffman, in tn e for
| ty-sixth year of his life, and the sixteenth Of
his connection with the Protestant Episcopal
| Mission at Cape Palmas and ports adjacent Sc
Rev. E. J. Scott, a clergyman of high stand.
ing in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and
late editor Of the Christian Messenger, vt.
died ON Wednesday of last week, aged sixty,
two years. ryg~rr ~ tn
f., The death, Sat the age of 20, of the Rev
Barton Boucher, rector of Fonthill Bishop, in
| Willis, is announced. He was the son of the
Rev. Jonathan Boucher, an adopted son of
Gen. Washington. The deceased was the au.
thor of several religious works. 81 % b'
| The death of Pastor Harms is reported
from Germany His name is very sacred
name among the good people of that country
| His life has been characterized by a most un.
usual energy and self-denial in his efforts to dc
good.
I "A beautiful new church gedifce, intended
| for the use Of the Church of the Messiah (Uni-
tartan and Universahst,) was dedicated in
| Montpelier, VT, on the Sd inst.
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