The Portland daily press., 1866-02-17

Bishop Stevens, of Pennsylvania on the
day of his arrival at Pittsburgh, to attend the
conservation of Bishop Kerfoot, was seized
with nervous paralysis. His physicians advise
entire rest from his duties for a year.
1t is reported that the Rev. DR.. John Nc
Cintock, the distinguished scholar and Metho-
dist divine, has purchased farm in the neigh
borhood of New Brunswick, N. j., on which he
intends to settle, having retired from the regu-
lar work of the ministry on account of i'll
health.
Mr.. Fl. f, Durant, formerly lawyer in
Boston, is mentioned as possible successor to
DIR. Stone at Park Street. Boston. --
1t is rumored that an effort is to be made
in the British Parliament for the adoption of
measures to restrain the excessive development
of ritualism in the Church of England.
Rev. e. w. Mundy, pastor of the first Bap-
fist Church at Syracuse, N. Y, is on trial for
heresy. The charges are that he denied the to-
tai depravity of man, the necessity of the OBJ
servance of the Christian Sabbath as laid down
in evangelical creeds, that he denied the doc
trine of the resurrection of the body, and held
that the Bible taught simply a spiritual resur-
rection, and lastly, that he~taught that the
evangelical view of the atonement was not on
ly unscriptural and unchristian, but heather
ish.
We learn from the Mirror that the Maple
Street Church and Society of Danvers Mass,
have extended call to Rev. w. Carruthers, of
N. Cambridge. Salary 81, 400.
The King of Denmark has recently given
unrestricted religious liberty to the Methodist
Episcopal Church in his dominions, and the
United States Minister at Copenhagen takes
this for the text of a congratulatory epistle to
the American Board of Missions connected
with that church. 4l5
Lent began on the 14th and continues for
ty days. All the days of Lent Sundays ex-
cepted) are fast days of obligation. The use of
flesh meat is allowed by dispensation on all
Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays in Lent,
once in the day only; on Sundays it is allowed
without restriction as to the number of times.
Lard may be used in preparing food on all the
days in Lent. (This dispensat ON extends also
to the days of abstinence throughout the year,
Eggs, fish, butter, cheese and milk may be used
at the evening collation.. The use of flesh meat
and fish at the same meal is prohibited.
LII q rCCCub duuICSo tHO lsCS. LII. n1COIlu-
took said of the Methodist Church, that it is
the only Church in history, from the apostles
time until now, that has put forward as its very
elemental thought-the great central pervading
idea of the whole book of God from the begin
ming to the end-the holiness of the human
soul, mind and will.
Rev. Mr.. Starr, Methodist, and Rev. Mr..
Tillson, Baptist, have declined to distribute to
the poor 1914 passed over to them as the avails
of a charity concert and ball by the Old Colo
ny Lodge of Masons. They think it would in
some way sanction and sanctify the sin of dane
ing to touch the money,
The old Dntch Church, corner of Fulton
and Williams Streets, in New York-the old
est building in the city in which religious SER
vices are held-is about to be sold for secular
uses. It has been the scene of the famous
"Fulton prayer meetings" nuemf
The Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore re-
Gently preached against certain abomina ions
of fashionable life, and especially "the Ger
man" refusing absolution and the sacrament
to any who should indulge in it.
The monks of the monastery of st. Cathe-
rine on Mount Sinai have rebelled against their
abbot, Archbishop Cyril, and shut him up in a
black hole. The Viceroy of Egypt has sent a
company of soldiers to the monastery to restore
order. .a
AT Kennebunk Village the Congregational
society have purchased the residence of Joseph
Dane, Esq, for Parsonage. They have also
extended call to Rev. Mr.. Darling, formerly of
Dover, to become their pastor.
York County Freewill Baptist Quarterly
Meeting held its winter session with the Lyman
church on the 7th and 9Th inst. TWAS a sea-
son of much interest. ~ - .