The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-03-24
RELIGIOUS 1NrELLlaENoE.


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Rev. A. Eldridse, D. D., of Detroit, has
accepted from the American and Foreign
Christian Union an appointment to the Union
chapel in Paris.
Rev. P. o. Powers, formerly missionary
in Syria but of late pastor in South Windsor,
Conn.,, is about to return to his old field of la
Dor at Antioch -..,f. III ,...., s-.,-o s-r- b..
( AT Peking, China, heather temple has
been purchased, the idols have been removed,
and the building turned into missionary hos
pital -.
The Central Presbyterian, published at
Richmond, advocates the formation of a church
of the Southern type in New York city.
/ "A new monthly paper called The Friend,
has been started by the Quakers in New York
city. .-.s-el sr-ss III. r., ses,-r. ri Ill.
| "A new Catholic Seminary is about to be
erected in Philadelphia for the education of
Catholic priests. Accommodations will be
made for 300.
Rev. Jonathan Edwards, d D., has resign
ed the pastorate of the Arch Street (Presbyte-
rian} Church in Philadelphia, to take the pres
idency of Washington and Jefferson College,
Canonsburg, Pa. lf 3 1sa 20 2a o
"A letter writer in the Watchmaan and Re-
cent churches of Paris, and of the small num-
Der of people who worship in them. He says:
But you are disappointed in the audiences
which gather in these temples, Even at High
Mass, held on the eve of Christmas, three hun
bred viii include the audience of nominal wor-
shippers at Notre Dame; and of these the
great majority are humble women and narrow
minded men. Only handful of solid and in
telligent persons go through the formalities of
the service" q V elt 10 VI bro1z =l.s d.
flowers, the sculptor, being applied to for
statue of Swedenborg to be erected in London,
replied that he could do it for $4,000, or for
whatever sum might be raised. because of his
interest in the object. He writes to the COM
mittee:-"I am New Churchman,' 'Swe-
denborgian,-a New Jerusalemite,' without
any reservation whatever; and wish it to be
known. Swedenborg is my author; all other
writer's lin comparison) seem moving in the
dark with tapers in hand-groping their way
while be moves in the broad light of the sun
Gods own sun. / read no other author than
Swedenborg, nor have 1 for many years-un-
L. IS the sermons of New Churcbmen And I
am happy to know that God has allowed me 10
be Instrumental in directing attention to OUT
heavenly doctrines. Therefore, if it will DO
good, publish me as New Churchman."
The 18th of June, 1867, will be the eigh-
teen-hundredth anniversary of st. Peters
death. On that occasion the Pope is to con-
woke all the bishops of Christendom to Rome,
where grand jubilee will be celebrated.
! 1t seems to be thing well understood now
that the Cardinals hat, which at the next Pa
pal Consistory is to be bestowed upon an Amer
lean bishop, can by no possibility fall to the lot
of any eccIesiastic who during the late war has
adhered to the cause Of the Union. Bishop
Lynch, of Charleston, whom JEFF. Davis sent
as special envoy to Rome, is believed to be
the only man who has any chance of the hon
4 "A meeting in behalf of the Universalist
Missionary Enterprise was held last week in
the church of Rev. DIR. Chaplin, in New York,
under the auspices OF the Board of Trustees
of the General Convention of the Universe
lists of the United States. The meeting was
presided over by Rev. G.. 8. Demorest, who
stated its object to be response to tie call of
the General Convention to raise 100000 for
missionary purposes. Speeches were made by
Horace Greeley and others, and about $l5o0
subscribed toward the fund. a r.
r; Rev. Thomas Vickers, at present in Ger
many, has received and accepted call to the
First Unitarian Society in Cincinnati
An ecclesiastical council has assented to
the dismission of Rev. ARENAS Dean from the
pastorate of the second Congregational church
at Greenfield, Mass, at his request. Whiting
Griswold told the council the only difficulty
with the parish was new minister on the
brain" Six months hearing of candidates is
good remedy for this disease. ,D
Rev. DR.. Kincaid, for nearly forty years
missionary of the American Baptist Missiona-
y Union in Burmah, arrived in Boston on Sat-
lrday last, having had long and perilous voy-
age of 139 days.
Rev. George Gilfillan, the well-known au-
thor, is undergoing trial before the Edinburgh
nited Presbyterian Presbytery, for preaching
on subjects more secular than religious.
> DR.. McPheeters having declined to resume
charge Of the Pine Street Presbyterian Church,
81, Louis, the congregation has invited DR..
Sco.t, formerly of New Orleans, more recent
y ., San francisco, and now of New York.
-Kev' G. Campbell has engaged to supply
.ne free Baptist pulpit in Temple half the
time for year. 3 t117T - - -
some OF Inc Methodists, Baptists and Old
ocnool fresoyterlans are with the Roman
Catholics In Mexico in refusing the oath of
loyalty to the new constitution. ="
Rev. Theodore D. Marsh was ;n.t.,,os
pastor of Presbyterian Church in Co,or.do
February 4-the first installation in the Terri,
tory, and over Church which mas the onlv
church building yet erected in the Rocky
55cE o. a3aei PISS g1 4
Esther Smith, who has spent thirty-three
years among the Cherokee Indians as mis-
sionary, died on the oath of January. She had
peen declining for many months previous to
her death. She was buried in the old military
graveyard at Fort Gibson. Z AJl
-Ihe Zfon's Advocate says: ''The resigna-
non OF lev. N. M. Wood of his pastorate at
Lewiston, takes effect the last Of the present
month" -, -'--N f-S
. w Inc new island in the Gre,,ian arcbipel-
ago mas assumed the shape of a or escent and ia
apparently part of the crater of an enormous