The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-12
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
METHODIST rBosprR1rY IN NEW JERSEY.

METHODIST PROSPERITY IN NEW JERSEY.
The Methodist Churches in New Jersey are
paying off their debts at such rates as these:-
keyport, $1,000; Centreville, $l450; squan Viii
lage, $500, etc. The Willow Grove and Vlneland
charge has just spent $4,000 in church building
apq provengini ~ iooa ne hrs 1sS.onaay & coiecS4n
the churches-Over sixty in Clinton Church, owes
hundred in Vineland, one hundred at Water.
ford, etc.
AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY.
At the last meeting of the managers Of the
Bible Society, an earnest discussion took place
on the application of the English Bible Society
for set OF plates Tor the Arabic Bible now being
electrotyped by the Bible House. Some altera-
tons were proposed in Difference to English
ideas, but it was resolved that the plates should
not be altered The question whether the Eng.
lish Society should pay for the plates, and III so,
how much, the bare additional cost OF the plates,
or an equal share OF the preparatory expense,
was settled in generous and national way, by
hearty vote to make the plates traternal gift to
the old country.
MISSION AMONG THE INDIANS OF HUDsoNs BAY.
Rev. James Horden, OF the Church Missionary
Society, has returned home to England after
laboring fourteen years among the Indians on
the shores Of James Bay. When he first went
among them they were poor debased people,
not one being able to read; now there is scarcely
a family Of Indians connected with his station at
Moose Fort, Of whom some one or more are not
now able to read. In some families the whole
are able to read fluently and write neatly There
are about one hundred and twenty altogether
who can speak English. Mr.. Horden relates the
circumstances of several recent happy deaths
among them, and their dying testimony to the
good done by the gospel.
EFFECT OF THE LAW OF CIVIL MARRIAGE IN ITALY.
An interesting case has occurred at Naples, in
connection with the new law of civil marriage.
A priest recently presented himself at the office
of the Civil Registrar, provided with all the
papers necessary for marriage, and wishing to
be United to Neanolitan lady. The case was
referred to higher court, and 1T was decided
that as the civil code neither explicitly ner i'm
plicltly made any restriction as regarded per-
sons bound by ecclesiastical VOWS, the priest had
right to marry like any other citizen. Ac.
cordingly Pasquale de francesca was married
on the 10th Of January last.
HEBREW BIBLE SOCIETY.
Mr.. Bliss, the commissioner of the American
Bible Society for the Turkish empire, in a recent
letter from Constantinople, relates the following
instructive Incident ".E
"a Jewish RABBI of Nicodemia seeing, some
time since, that the Young men of his flock were
inclined TO spend their Sabbath (Saturlay) wan
dering about the town, idling away their time
and in danger from such dissipation, proposed to
them TO come to his house and study the Old
Testament. His proposal was acceded to, and
they now meet every Saturday for this purpose,
Old Testament He proposed that each young
in box, to be used in the purchase OF the Bible
for the poor This was also acceded to. Hence
aris:s Jewish Bible Association in Nicomedia."