The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-03-23
Religious News.

nois.
The largest new School Presbyte-
rian membership is the Kensington
Church, Philadelphia.
"A German Universalist Church is
established in New York.
Rev. Henry \. Wise. is pastor of
Christ Church, Baltimore.
Plus IN is the goth Pontiff in st.
Peters chair. He is 20 years old, and
has been Pope 81 years.
There are 73I Universalist Churches
and 534 ministers in the United States.
More young men than formerly are
Offering for the ministry.
The second meeting of the confer
ence OF the Unitarian and other Chris
tiHn churches in the Middle States. is
to be held at Northumberland Pa, be-
ginning March 9th. The opening ser
mon Is to be by Rev. DIR. Turner, of
Philadelphia.
The American Tract Society has
voted $500 to help reprint, in the Italian
language, the we'll known work of DIR.
James r. Walker. of Ohio, entitled
PHILOSOPHY of the Plan of Salvation"
The last reports from the Maine
colonists Mt Jatfa are worse than ever,
anu the Oh4J COuSO1luR ABOUT
them Is that the swindler and kuave
Adams, is in Jail for refusing to restore
the property of his deIuded followers.
Seventeen of the emigrants had died,
and twenty-five were sick in December
"A Baptist family by the name of
Grocer, in Pennsylvania, has given
S25O,OOO to found Baptist Theological
Seminary near the town of Chester,
Pa. OF this, the sum of Sl7O,O is in
and in do
ings. Mr. William Bucknell, associa-
ted with the family by marriage, has
added $4,000 for "a library.
The Missionary Herald for March
has some suggestive statistics:-
Total expenditure of the American
Board since its formation, fifty-sIx
years ago, SIl ,229, Ol3. Cost of the
Massachusetts, uength of road and
branches about l73 miles,) Sl1, 27l $780,"
Rev. II. d. Northup, one of our
countrymen, went to England some
years since and established a church in
London, which now numbers 600 MEM
bers- He has also heen largely EMPLOY
ed as an Evangelist in England and
Scotland. He is about to return to this
country, and will probably labor in
New York City.
"A Protestant church has been estab-
lished in the City of Mexico, protected
by the bayonets of Catholic soldiers,
although stoutly opposed by the priests.
An Episcopal missionary in a small
town in Kentucky, not a mechanic, has
made all the pews in his church, and
the shutters, and built IA bell tower, and
is preaching with great success.
Among the novelties of the present
London season will be Evangelical
drawing-roOms. These will have to be
FN NzyIFl l. lf.aWf
thing of the sort.
There are 4s5, 900 Catholics in New
York city, 5000 OF whom are regular
church attendants The total includes
$4,000 young men between the ages OF
fifteen and thirty.
"A church in Baltimore has the mot
to upon the outer walls: ITO the poor
the gospel is preached" One morning
these words were found painted under
it: "Not here, though"
The Parson Adams, who figures in
the Jana colony, wns formerly Nor
mon elder and an advocate of Miller
ism.
Statistics drawn from IS Colleges.
East and West, show total of :. 500
students, of whom 1886 are professors
of religion In Ii New England Col
reyes there are 2,S35 under graduates,
of whom ,059 profess religion. There
has been a steady increase for years in
the proportion OF religious students in
Colleges from less than one-third to
nearly one half.
There We're last year Tss professed
conversions in the Colleges of this
country.
In the Theological Seminaries there
Is decided increase of numbers. five
congregational Semiuaries having now
243 students, and four Presbyterian,
having $50.
There are about 900 welshmen in
Sc Louis, who have organized Church
in that city, and called Welsh pastor.
bishop McIlvaine's remark that
Wherever the Lord has a true believer
there have 1 Il brother" deserves to be
written in letters of light. While cred
liable TO him, il is as true as the God of
ne Bible, and was true before he WINS
porn. True believers are all one faith |
IN CHRIST, and any denominational bar |
rierS mat are inconsistent with the re-
coGnitiou of Que another as such. are |
The headquarters of the Sisters of |
Gharity for the United States. are at /
ElnmlttSburg, Md. Tho present num-
per OF the SiSterhood IS 95i. being n NET |
increase OF thirty during the past wear.
ihey nave founded four new establish
liehts curing the same period, and they
two hospitals, thirty-two hoSnitaI asS-
iums, forty-nine parochial schools. fo1r
houses OF charity, and one academy
making total OF los establishments
institutions extend from Boston |
% San francisco throughout most of !
he States OF the American Union.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Pittsburgh |
Commercial does not furnish a fiatterino-