The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-07-27
Religious Intelligence.

Rev. DIR. Chapin's church is closed for the
summer. The DR.. is spending his vacation in
this State. He breaches in Calais the third
and fourth Sundays of the present month.
Rev. Samuel Longfellow has been engaged
to preach six months. by the 1ass Rev. Ineo-
dore Parker's Society, in Boston. He will be-
gin in the early Autumn i.,f
s The Liberal Christian says that Rev. w.
A. P. Dillingham;, Universalist, of Waterville,
has joined the Swedenborgians, with whom he
has long been in sympathy.
Rev. VIM. D. Gage, of Chelsea, Mass, hav-
ing decided to decline the call recently extend
ed to hi i'm by the Congregational church and
society of Augusta, we learn that renewed
effort will be made to secure the services of
Rev. Mr.. Field of Bangor as pastor of the So
ciety. A3 ~ 'sh -t Haao
Bishop Hopkins, of the Protestant Episco-
pal Diocese of Vermont, presiding Bishop of
the United States, accompanied by his eldest
son, the Rev. John Henry Hopkins, Jr., editor
OF the Church Journal, New York, will sail
early in August to attend the Pan-Anglican
Council to be held in London in September
By special invitation they will be the guests Of
the venerable Archbishop of Canterbury
r fee a ~
The government Of the Canton of Wallis
In Switzerland has decided to dismiss all teach
ers who are out of the order of the Jesuits.
The southern part of Switzerland, to which
this Canton belongs, has long been strong
hold of the Jesuits; while the northern part is
entirely Protestant
Ever since Cromwell's day, the inhabitants
OF the Waldensan fastness among the Alps
have been an object of peculiar interest to the
English race. From that time, an English
fund has provided yearly pittance toward the
support of the Waldensian clergy, and more
recently provision has been made for aiding
the people in their poverty to build them more
commodious places of worship. Now that the
people are permitted like all other Italians, to
leave their native rocks and go wherever they
can better their condition, they are also rapid
~ developing their ability to take care of them
selves, and may soon be safely left to that al
Tentative. We learn from the London Evan
gelical Christendom that the annual meeting of
the Synod of the Vaudois Church was held at
La Tour Pellice, June q. The principal ques-
tons for discussion were those relating to the
methods OF expansion of their religious work
Trinity College, Connecticut, has conferred
the degree of D. D. upon Rev d. G. Weston,
Rector of Christ Church, Stratford, CT, and
son eff Hon. Nathan Weston of Augusta
,a.n orsanizsd M in Bid GhEjstirn
on foot Tor the noIuIng of d Christian State
Convention under the auspices of the Young
Mems Christian Associations of Maine, in Oc-
tober next.
, The annual camp-meeting of the Metho-
dist Church at Sing Sing, New York, has been
in session this week.
The trouble in the School-street Uniyer
saist Church in Boston has eliminated in
the resignation of Rev. Rowland Conner. the
junior colleague of Rev. Dr. Miner. It will he
remembered that the pew-holders voted TO re-
quest Mr.. Conner to resign, on account of his
too liberal views, and the Society, by a large
majority, requested him not to. But DR.. Min
er and those who control the Church beino
against him, he decided to, leave. ss Al II Il. "a
The two Boards of the Corporation of
Brown University failed to make an election
last week, of President to succeed President
Sears. After two ballotings, in which Rev.
DIR. Hovey, of Newton, and Prof Chase Of
Providence, had much the highest number of
votes, a committee was appointed tn mako a
nomination, and to report in Commencement
week. .s.5ea..se sr zss,.