The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-05-19
PORTLAND MORNING,
RELIGIOUS INTELLIeENCE.

The anniversaries of the various societies
connected with the Baptist organization COM
menced in Boston ON Wednesday. Several
hundred delegates were in attendance from all
parts of the Northern and Western States.
Among the distinguished men who are present,
the Transcript mentions President Sears of
Brown University; President Anderson oi
Rochester University; Rev. Galusha Anderson
OF st. Louis; Judge Ewart of Ohio; President
Gregory of Michigan; President Read OF Hi
nois; President Champlin of Waterville Col
lege; Rev. DR.. Cummings of New Hampshire;
Rev. DR.. Armitage of New York Rev. j. Hyart
Smith of Philadelphia; Rev, E. y. Goodspeed
of Chicago; Rev. Samuel Morss of Lewisburg,
Pa; Rev. G. B. Crane of Hartford; Senator
Harris of New York; Rev. DR.. Kincaid, 40
years missionary in Burmah, and others. The
Baptist denominations in the United States, of
which the various national societies are now in
session include more than million OF members,
in 10000 churches, with 5000 ordained minis
tiers. They have 81 colleges and ~ theological
missionaries, Last year their anniversaries
were held in St. Louis
Rev. Thomas Savage died at Bedford, New
Hampshire, May Sth. He was graduate of
Harvard, and had been pastor of the Congrega-
tional Church in Bedford nearly Al years.
The class which has recently graduated at
Princeton Theological Seminary numbered &c
of whom - at least expect to devote themselves
to foreign missionary work.
Rev. Thomas Shepard, d. d., senior pastor
of the Congregational Church in Bristol, r. l.,
preached sermon last Sabbath commemora-
tive of a fifty years ministry. Rev. DIR. Nell
son of Leicester, senior pastor of the Congre-
gational Church in Leicester, recently preached
his 54th anniversary sermon.
Rev. Theodore Clapp, for more than thirty
five years pastor of a church in New Orleans,
and pronounced by Mr.. Clay the most eloquent
divine he ever heard, died recently at Louis
vile, Ky. ef L
The Ellsworth american states that Rev.
L. P. Gurney, now of Topsham, has accepted
aninvitation to supply the pulpit of the Bap-
tist House in that town. e-e-
The Aroostook Conference of Congreea-
tional churches will be held at Presque Isle, on
the 9th and 10th of June.
The Bishop of Melbourne has prohibited
the use of hymns and organs in the churches
under his control. Ht as4
The famous Catholic orator, Father Hya-
cinthe, had engaged to preach during Lent in
the cathedral at Lyons, France, but he was ST.
fenced by his ecclesiastical superiors, who re-
quired him to modify certain portions of his
lectures, where he dealt with certain abuses in
religious affairs, and where also che had dared
to look for Christians beyond the portals of his
own chur Oh, and invoked beneath the vaults of
Notre Dame the God of Washington, of Lin
coin and of johnson, the God that hath blessed
the banners of free and Christian America"
Great interest is excited among the Jews in
France by the approaching election for chief
rabbi of the Central Consistory at Paris-the
Jewish archbishop he is frequently called. A
Russian official paper states that the rabbinical
Jews in Russia possess six hundred and fifteen
synagogues and two thousand four hundred
and thirty-five oratories, to which five thous-
and and one hundred religious officials are at
tached. The Caraites, who are only to be met
with in five governments, have fourteen syna
gogues and forty-six religious officials Ofsix
millions three hundred and thirty-six thousand
souls, composing the population of Poland, the
Jews are above seven hundred thousand, eleven
per cent. of the whole. In many of the towns
the Jewish population preponderates, but few
Jews are found in the rural districts.