The Portland daily press., 1866-03-17
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

u The reports of religious reyivals increase
in numbers and interest. We could fill large
page with accounts which come to us from all
parts of the country. This very widespread
religious movement seems to be quite free from
excessive excitement, and to be everywhere
marked by great degree of depth and ear
nestness. ta aHh ~
Rev Martin Moore, for several years editor
of the Boston Recorder, died on Sunday, at his,
residence in Cambridge, aged seven6y six years.
r. The missionary packet Morning Star, was
sold at auction on Saturday last, for the sum of
$4,000. She is now owned by Messrs. D. Fos-
ter & Co. She will be called the Harriet New
ELL and placed under command of Capt. Gun
ningham, favorably known as captain of the
'Kamehaha ", and win sail shortly on
cruise to the Phoenix group.
"A Naples letter-writer says that several
Roman Catholic priests have declared their in
tentions of m, rriage, under the new law which
makes marriage civil rite, and that one has
already been united to a lady of Naples The
writer thinks this, example will be somewhat
extensively followed.
The Burmah Baptist Missionary Conven-
ton was organized in, Rangoon last Oct. The
body consisted of 16 missionaries, II ordained
native preachers, 81 unordained native preach
ers, and 16 elders. .e,sgF .TTts ~
Fifteen students in Princeton Theological
Seminary have decided to give themselves to
the foreign missionary work. 80
AT the last meeting of the managers of the
Bible Society, an earnest discussion took place
on the application of the English Bible Socie-
ty for set of plates for the Arabic Bible now
being electrotyped at the Bible House. Some
alterations were proposed in Difference to Eng
fish ideas, but it was resolved that the plates
should not be altered. The question whether
the English society should pay for the plates,
andif so, how much, the bare additional cost Of
the plates, or unequal share of the preparato-
ry expense, was settled in a generous and ma
tional way, by a hearty vote to make the plates
fraternal gift to the old country. 70 .'.. 4,
Rev. James Horden, of the Church Mis-
sionary Society, has returned home to England
after laboring fourteen years among the In
dams on the shores of James Bay. When he
first came among them they were a poor. debas-
ed people, not one being able to read; now
there is scarcely a family of Indians connected
one or more are not able to read. In some
families the whole are able to read fluently and
write neatly. There are about one hundred
and twenty altogether whocan speak English
The London Patriot says the Roman Cath
| olics have nearly doubled their priests and
chapels in England and Scotland since fS51r.--
There are nearly four times as many converts
as there were fifteen years ago; and there are
more than 1900 priests in England alone. q.
-Rey. j. Il. Hatch gives notice that he still
holds on to his Unitarian pastorate at Concord
N. H., notwithstanding the settlement of his
successor. 'ali i2e3-9a y tg ff%
Bishop Vail has succeeded in raising $780,.
600 to endow his Kansas sbishopric. "a g..
Rev. Henry Goldman Potter has accepted
] the unanimous invitation of Trinity Church in