The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-10
RELIGIOUS INTRLLJGENCE.
FoREIGN.


Baptist minister, German by 01Ith, was sent
by society in London TO preach the gospel in
Hamburg. He suffered imprisonment and many
indignities at the instigation OF the Lutheran
eleggy until 1857, when the rights of the Bap.
fists were publicly recognized and now all re-
gious distinctions are abolished He has large
congregation, and forty preaching places in the
environs. He has been the means of establish
ing stations almost every German State, in
the Duchies, in Denmark Swepen, Norway, the
Danubiau Provinces Poland, Courland, and
other European countries. He can say of the
fifteen thousand members now actually in CON-
munion with his churches, that every one of
them is In some way or other missionary.
THE CHARGES AGAINST DR.. NORMAN MACLEOD,
OP SCoTLAND.-This eminent divine and scholar
was publicly charged with having expressed
views concerning the Sabbath contrary to the
Confession of Faith. When the matter was
brought before the Glasgow Presbytery the Doc
tor stated his views in iull. He had no desire
to see the Confession altered; or to give up any
of Its essential doctrines. He agreed with its
spirit If not its letter, in holding, as he did, the
permanence OF the moral law, though not OF the
DeCalogue as the Decalogue, and also the necessity
OF the Lords Day, though not on the authority
of the Fourth Commandment.
The Presbytery accepted his profession Of
adherence to the Confession ofFaith, but thought
the language of his book uDguarded and calcu-
lated to do harm, for which they administered o
solemn admonition.
Why FATHER HYACNTHg DID NOT PREACH AT
LYoNs.-The celebrated Father Hyacinthe, after
having electrified Paris by his eloquent sermons
at the cathedral, was engaged to preach during
Lent in the cathedral at Lyons. Tickets were
sold, and all preparations were made, when word
came that Father Hyacinthe was ''lndisposed,n
and would not give his lectures at Lyons
writer in the Christian World says that the real
reason of the failure was the authority of his
ecclesiastical superiors, who required him to
modify certain portions of his lectures, where
he dealt with certain abus es in religious affairs,
and where also "he had dared to look for Chris
tians beyond the portals of his own church. aud
invoked beneath the vaults OF Notre Dame the
God of Washington, of Lincoln, and of Johnson,
the God that hath blessed the banners of free
and Christian America"
MADAGAsCAR.--A letter from Antananarivo
says:-"It is gratifying to see that at all the
seven churches in the capital, with hardly an
exception, the congregations are steadily in
creasing, and in three or four cases OVERLOOKING
Numbers crowd round the doors and windows
to see and hear; and, this fact and that OF num-
bers being baptized and admitted to church fel-
lowship, are infallible proofs of solid and last
ing good having been done."
GERMANY.-The Hamburg MisSionblah says
that among the attendants at Berlin during the
week Of prayer was Lady Havelock, widow of
the celebrated English General. She is a
daughter of the English missionary, Rev. DR..
Marshman, founder of the Baptist Mission in
India.
SANDWICH IsLANDs.-Mr. Coan writes that the
Annual Convention of Teachers and Church
Officers for the Districts of Hilo and Puma re-
for church erection, S2250; for native preachers,
$500. Total, $4290.
CHNA.-The Roman Catholics in China claim
to have three millions of their faith in that
country. They are building Cathedral In
Pekin 300 feet long by 15O WIDE.
"A letter from Mrs. Gulick gives an account
of tour made in Mongolia, in which vast re-
gion no Protestant missionary labors. The
station Of Mr. Gulick is on its border.
DOMESTIC.
A LAWYER IN THE PULPTT.-The Christian In
Guirer has letter from Boston describing the
appearance OF a leading lawyer of that city in
Dr. Nehemiah Adams pulpit. Mr.. Durant, it is
sald on the occasion of severe domestic afc.
ton the loss of his only son, and under the in
fuence OF the revival movements in the city,
has lett the bar for the pulpit. The writer says
of the discourse:-
''It was remarkably afFtctionate, and although
given in an oh!hand way, with lawyers freedom,
It showed trace of the lawyers sharp anay SIS,
keen discrimination, or aggressive point. II was
very much Of the st Jonn temper in Ils feeling,
the gospel as the Eternal Word the absolute truth,
IN which which alone the weary soul can ind perfect and
memorable occasion, to hear Rufus Choate's bu.I-
ness partner, and one of the richest and most
ceSsiul lawyers IN Boston, preach. Preaching 1T
surely was"
CoNGREGATIoNAL.-The statistics of this de-
nomination for 1865 in the United States are as
tollows:-hlinisters, 276l; churches, 1928; men,
bers, 263 296 additions by profession, IL 033; by
IeIeI, 1895 pdpIlshs, 5Uloj odopatn sCnoldIs,
272,6S4.
Returns from five hundred and Congrega-
tonal churches in the Northwestern States
show that one out Of every tour adult male
members served in the late wGr including ll9
ministers and 33S sons OF ministers. The losses
have been on an average thee to each church.
The almost universal report is that these sol
diers have returned with untarnished charac-
ters. On an average each cong regation fur
nished sixteen soldiers
Rev. Mr.. Rowe has been appointed by the
American Home NJ ssonary Society TO labor at
Corpus Christi, Texas, O region as destitute as
China or Africa. From the Nueces to the Rio
Grande, territory OF one hundred miles in
breadth, there is not a Protestant church or
school
"A Congregational Church was organized at
Empire City, colorado, in January, Rev. Mr..
Mellis, Pastor.
BAPTIsT.-The convention to consider the pro-
posed union between the BaDtists and Disciples
met in Richmond, Va, April "a. The result
was considered doubtful.
The receipts of the Baptist Missionary Union
for the year ending March 81 we're Sl69, 1872,
which Is an increase of 500, ,l59 over the previous
year-a result much more favorable than was at
one time anticipated.
The Baptist SsterhOod throughout the
United States are at work in raising one hun
dred thousand dollars. The action is simultane-
strOm Maine to Minnesota. 1t is in response
to the appeal recently made by the Home Mis-.
sion Board for money to aid in educating colored
Baptist preachers in the Southern States.
REFORMED DUTCH - The South Chassis, of
Bergen, N. j., has adopted plan of missionary
operatons among the Germans within their
bounds
Rev Charles Hart, of the Presbytery of New
ork, has accepted call from the North Re-
formed Dutch Church of Newark, N. j.
The Reformed Dutch Church OF Syracuse,
N. T., has made unanimous call upon the Rev.
j. Searh, OF Oyster Bay, l.. l.
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