The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-10-26
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-@Fha new ,ndaxerv lea titiftii church edfice
inst conrjetad Nv tine Methodist Society at
sl,owhooan wos dedicated on Wednesday. The
a.1;oa. s saymon was preached Blythe pas
+ar Pov @. f. Allen, late Of the Chestnut
street. church in this city, The usual selVlces
f,r sneb occasions prescribed by the Method
lot Eniseopals church was read by Rev. Mr.
nrav once, connected with the Pine Street
church iu thisscity@ venerable John Az
len, widely known as isCamp-meeting john
was also l,resentand tool, part In the Services.
The church is "a spacious and handsome one,
finished IN the most approved modern style,
and in excellent taste.
Rev. s. L. Holman, late of South Berwick,
has become pastor of the Baptist church, at
Woonsoclket, R. I. to.
We learn from the Christian Register that
the new Unitarian school in Boston, for the
education of Christian ministers is now fairly
| established. Thirteen gentlemen who had
been selected by the committee, among large
| number Of inquirers, have Joined the school
| and have devoted themselves to the work Of
| the winter A convenient house, No. 8 East
Dedham street, has been simply and neatly fit
| ted for their accommodation. 1t is hoped that
| the members of the senior class may be ready
| to enter on the work of the ministry after the
| first term of eight months. The members of
the middle class are to remain two terms. in
the school and those of. the Junior class three.
| Each term is to run from October TO May, the
remainder of the year to be spent elsewhere.
The different departments Of instruction are
| under the charge Of various prominent clergy
| men of Boston. 1888 isl'i0a - 9'f-f
p A letter from San Francisco says:-"Thus
farlthe experiment OF Outstanding the Chi
nese in California has been anything but "a
| happy one. i am told by friends of the mis-
sionaries in China that the influence of the re-
turned Chinese is uniformly against Christian
ity. Their reasoning is, that if The doctrines Of
Christ bear such fruit as they have, experience
ed in America, they prefer Confucius or, Budd
ha" 81
Father Gleason, a devoted Catholic hal
met with great success in northern Missouri
| having established four churches and baptized
a hundred converts from Professionalism within
a short time s.d u ialsoc las 19Sd EST
Bishop Kip of California is laboring ear
nestly to secure the better keeping of the Sab
bath, and lately uttered severe rebuke 0
| some Episcopalians at San Francisco, wht
went out of the city for picnic on Sunday. %
The New York Independent of last weel
contained an article by Rev. Washington Glad
den of North Adams, sustaining the views o
Rev. DR. Bushnell ON the atonement. Mr.
GLADDEN. says of the three most prevalent the
cries of the atonement: According to Prince
ton, the atonement is "a peace offering to an of
Tended Deity; according to Andover, it is an
expedient of governmental policy; according
to Bushnell, it is the method God takes O
showing to men how much he lis willing to d.
and suffer to save them from sin and DEATH
Mr.. GLADDEN. says the Bushnell view ha
brought to himself joy and inspiration
1 The Pan Anglican synod in London ha
dispersed without having accomplished any
thing very important. Matters of controversy
were carefully avoided, and the pastoral ad
dress adopted makes no reference to ritualism
nor scarcely to. anything of interest 1t is q
very vague exllortation to love and good works
to hold fast the canonical scriptures, to avoid
4 superstition and the Catholic church, and to
hold fast the creeds and pure worship of "the
church." 1t has been said with great justice
that 'ithe Conference, wi'hout knowing exact
ly what it was doing, agreed to what no one
can understand, and the Bishops cannot agree
| as to what they decided" This is not a salts
| factory termination to a gathering which might
have been made the means Of doing great good
Archbishop Purcell of Cincinnati has
written letter in reply to Rev. Thomas Wick
| ers, in which he declares that the Pope has
never been opposed tosprogress; that it is a
stale SANDER to say the Catholic Church is
| opposed to the circulation of the Bible, and
that he himself is opposed to union of church
and state, and. prefers the condition OF the
church in the United States to its condition in
Italy, France or Spain. s...,,g rgsf - %