The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-11-03
mTscELLANEOUs.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The Mission Sabbath School Of our
city has recently been recognized,
John p. Glover, Esq, having been
elected Superintendent, II is now
growing in numbers aud interest,"
Notwithstanding the Inconvenience
connected with the room in which. Z !.
is held. We believe the attendance
! now is over four hundred, and would
be largely increased Immediately if q
room could be found that would ac-
commodate them. Mr., Glover is la
boring diligently and hopefully He
is confident he will yet succeed in
building his contemplated hall for the
especial accommodation of his School,
and that ii viii yet become an institu-
ton in which our people will feel the
greatest pride and interest. ID
| BY invitation, President j ohnson
attended the Roman Catholic Council
at Baltimore, Sunday, October 2lst.
Professor Kidd, the elocutionist,
who has been for the past year con
nected with the theological institu-
tions at Princeton and Pittsburg, as
teacher of elocution. has returned to
Cincinnati, and has been engaged by
the School Board to give instructions
each Saturday to some four hundred
teachers employed in the Common
Schools of that city az -
DIR. Robinson, of Utah, Superin-
tendent of the only Christian Sabbath
School in Salt Lake City, was MUIR
dered by the Mormons, October "a.
General Conner, formerly command
ing in Utah, teleRraphs that the Gen
tiles of that city are panic-stricken,
and advises Rev. DIR. Norman Mcleod
not TO return there. 500
Rev. Fl. Starr Nichols. the young
and able pastor. Of, the Vine Street
CONGREGATIONAL Church, Cincinnati,
has. resigned His health, for some
time past, has warned him that less of
the closet and more of the outdoor
and muscular exercise is imperiOus
He expects ultimately to 60 into bust
ness in Cincinnati, .fnae. ''
An extensive revival of religion is
in progress in the Christian Church
at Richmond, Madison County, Ky.gu
The Unipersdlist gives a list of con-
tributions in this denomination the
past two years for education, amount
ing TO $519 800, of which 1856, $50 was
for Tufts College. 81
3oA great religious revival has been
in progress for weeks past at Athens,
Ga. The people go en- masse TO the
services of the various churches on
every day, all places of business be-
ing closed meanwhile, and everybody
seeming to be deeply interested. As
many as two hundred have presented
themselves at one time for prayer
The Ross County ,(O)a Sunday
School Union lately held a Conven-
ton at Londonderry, in that county.
The statistics read before the Oonven-
ton show that there are "a Sunday
Seools in the county, with 842 officers
and 6, 329 scholars. Among the latter,
179 conversions have occurred during
the year. There are 1872 children
who do not attend Sunday SchoOLuZa
~ The Board Of Missions of the Prot
estant Episcopal Church.have declined
to send missionaries to the Sandwich
Islands, or to pass resolutions Of sym
patty with Bishop Staley, the anglo
Catholic prelate, whose aitiens have
been the subject of much controversy
in tue religious papers. The Bishop,
It will be remembered, visited this
country few months since with a
view Of getting American aid IN his
enterprise. q 3 inl~ 'r'
The Indiana State Christian Con-
vention will meet at Thorntown,
Boone County, Indiana, on Tuesday,
November 18th, 1866, at 2 o'clock. aP,..
NJ. Il 1t is expected that the confer
ences throughout the State will send
in at least one delegate for every hum
bred members in their conference,
and that majority of such delegates
be lay members, Visitors from other
States are invited ms o4asgl
The Synod of the German Reform
ed Church, which is especially strong
in Pennsylvania, though it has mems
bers in many other States opened its
one hundred and twentieth annual
meeting at York, Pa, on the 18th
inst. H'h rAN
The Central Presbyterian Church
in Broome Street, N. y, was opened
for the last time for religious services.