The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-05-26
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGEnCE.

ueuleation services of the new Baptis
Chapei at Lisbon Falls took place yesterday.
The Free Baptist Society of that place now hold
regular meetings The Union House in which
the Society worships, is to be repaired
- Rev. George l.. CLANCY of tho tJo,ts
Street Church in Boston has declined n mani
nous call from the First Parish in Providence
r. l., of which the late Rev. Il. .. Hall, ID. ID
was pastor. oI l'i.
The Church of all Souls, in New York.
gives $4,000 to the 100000 Unitarian fund.
This is the largest sum reported from single
church.
Rev. Z. ID. Presence, ID. d., OF Paris, all
thor OF the work on Christ, in opposition to
Renan's Life of Jesus, has been engaged as a
regular correspondent of the Wdtchnaan and
hsNec'of and his first letter appears in the issue
vi iiss week In it, among other things, he
makes brief reference to Remains latest book,
| on the Apostles" ~ ".A'
The Quakers in England have raised S7a-
| 600 for the benefit of the freedmen in tb;s
| country -. 10
| we learn from the Adcoccte flat Rev. e.
W. Fray, formerly of Buckiield, lately of
Brookfeld, Mass. accepts the call OF the Bap-
tist church in Tyringham, Berkshire Co., Mass.
and enters Immediately upon his duties in the
latter place. f..
| Rev. G.. Z. Matthews has resigned the pas
torate of the Elm Street Baptist church, Bath.
and commenced his labors as pastor of the
Spring Street Baptist church Auburn
Some of the Southern Baptists have been
advocating union with the Campbellites; but
the plan does not find much favor with the de-
nomination, and will not probably succeed.
The Adoocate thinks it ought not, unless the
Campbellites become sound in the faith. D..
by Council convened in South Berwick.
Me, May 10th, Rev. L. W. Allen was dismissed
from the pastorate of the Conversational
Church, with resolutions commending hun to
the churches "as an able, faithful and success
ful minister of the Gospel" and Rev. Sylyanus
Hayward. formerly of Dunbarton, was installed
Mirror. = =
The Baptist anniversaries which COM
menced in Boston ON the 10th, ended ON the
I'D. The closing meeting was held at Ire
mont Temple Wednesday evening when Rev.
j. b. Hutton, missionary to Burinab, made
some interesting statements respecting the.
missions in the section in which he had labor
ed, after which Shawa Loo, a native Burmese,
made few remarks, and rendered hymn in
his natural dialect. Moung Ryan, another ma
tive, also spoke, and was followed by Rev. A.
E Douglas, missionary to the Telagoos of Hin
dostan. The usual closing religious exercises
were thenobserved, and at their conclusion the
meeting adjourned.
of the fifty houses Of public worship in
San Francisco, there is but one that has a his
tory older than ten or twelve years, or around
whose walls the associations of past genera
tions still cling. 1t is the church of the Mis-
sion Dolores. 1t was dedicated in 1776, and is
as old as the Republic
AT a meeting in Bath, of the Lincoln West.
Associ alton May LIST, Mr. Edward N Packard
of Brunswick, Instr uctor in Bowdoin College
was licensed to preach the gospel ~''1
We see by the Oxford Democrat that the
Methods. Society at Middle Interval, Bethel,
are preparing interesting anniversary exer-
cises, to be held at their church, on Sunday,
june 30. An address will be delivered by Rev.
Mr.. Pottle. ..t -
tional churches in Franklin County will be-
held at Vests Mills, Industry. on Tuesdov
and Wednesday, June 18th and 18th.
"A society has just been formed in London.
under the patronage of the Earl of Shaftes,
bury, TO commence tentative effort for the
propagation of Christianity among the Arabs
Ayoung Christian Arab named Youhanna III
Karey, has been well educated in England for
the ministry, and is to be sent out to Palcsa;ne
accompanied by an English physician of an,
proved piety.