The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-03-16
RELIGIOUS NEWS

York reports its profits during the last
year at So, 900.
The Baptist Church in St. Joseph,
Iowa, has received sixty accessions re-
Gently.
Rev. J. F. Roy reports the average
salaries of the Presbyterian pastors in
Chicago, at sS,ll4i Congregational,
The receints of the American Board
for January were 81, S,243.79, OF which
SIS, ,1e9 comes from Massachusetts.
--A member of Dr. Huntington's
Church, Boston, has given SlOO, 600 to
found an Episcopal Theological school
al Cambridge.
a Baptist clergyman in San Fran
cisco, Kew. ID. a. Sawtelle, advocates
open communion. and IA large -couyre-
cation follow him.
The Dutch Foreign Board employs
IA missionaries, u assistants, 50 native
pastors aud helpers, IS churches, and
6l6 members.
Al Winoua, MIMI, business men
closed their stores on a week day, and
the whoIe attended a religious revival
meeting.
The Protestant religious papers
throughout the country commend the
recent protest Of the Episcopal Bishops
against Ritualism.
The week of prayer was generally
observed in France by the Protestan:
churches. -
The religions papers notice an en-
couraging increase in the numbers of
young men offering themselves for
loTelgu missionary service. 81.
Key. J. Z. Walton, who was refused
listallHi lhstalthtion by council, over a Congre-
gatlonal church al Portland, Maine on
account of lis heterodox views, has
become an Episcopalian, and will be
ordained by Bishop Eastman, of Mass.
The only Protestant clergyman in
Arizona, accogding 10 the PdclJic, is the
Rev. Charles NJ. Blake, formerly of
Benicia, and lately chaplain in the
army of the Potomac. He is now
chaplain at Fort Whipple, near Pres
colt, Arizona. -
The Presbyterian Foreign Board
employs" 20 missionaries, - ordained
natives, 80 teachers, colporteurs, &c,
40ehurches, 200 members, and 1000
youths in schools. Last year was one
of large success
A Congregational church at Corpus
Christi, Texas, with thirteen members.
and freedmen's church OF The same
order. are meeting with good success
According TO the statistics OF the
Andoyer Society of Inquiry, there are
now ofO young men in the theological
seminaries of this country, and in the
colleges 696 young men who expect to
prepare for the ministry.
Two wood sawyers were talking
together, and one of them used a great
many oaths.' II wish, sir,'' said a little
boy who was picking up chips near
them, you would not take the name of
Jesus Christ in vain. he is nv moth
er Savior, and it hurts me to hear YOU
lake his name in vain.''
Thirty years ago, Bishop Hopkins,
of the Episcopal church, published a
book or essay against temperance
Several years ago he published book
IN favor of slavery as divine institu-
ton Now he has come out with a
work supporting Rituslism and Semi I
Popery.
The largest Presbyterian church in
America, according TO the figures re-
ported. is the KensingIon Church, Phil
adelphia, Rev. VIM. T. Eva, pastor,
which reports LOSS memb bers. DR..
Cuyler's, in Brooklyn, claims I,G3O
members now-though 1t did not re-
port so many to the General Assembly, /
last years increase having been added. 1
A Woman's Union Missionary So
ciety, in New York city, now EMPLOYS 1
nye single ladies as missionaries, and
thirty-hye native women as Bible
readers in heather lands. 1t is found 1
that single ladies from Christian lands I
have access TO the rear apartments of 1
the dwellings, called Zenarias, where |
heather women pass their wretched 4
aves, especially the wives OF the rich in |
Calcutta and other cities OF India.
An Episcopal missionary in a small |
town in Kentucky, not a mechanic, has |
made all the pews of his church, and /
the shutters, and built belI-tower, and |
Is preaching with great success.
Pittsburgh has nine Methodist
Churches; including Allegheny and |
suburban towns there are twenty-fiv I
The Western Universalists have
raised SlO0, 900 for Lombard University. |
A German Universalist Church has !
been established in East New York.
There are in the United States 7sI I
Universalist Churches, and 534 minis I
ters. Many of the congregations are
small.
-FRIESDs.-A meeting ofthe leading
members of this body has been held to 1
consider what measures were needed to |
revive an interest in their meetings for ]
worship, which are now losing their 4
attractions, particularly for the youug,
II was proposed TO abolish separate /
seats for the sexes, establish libraries, /
meetings for conversation, &c.
The California Pacific, of January /
81 and February Z, gives cheering ac- ]
counts of the progress of religion in /
san Francisco, and other places in the 4
State.
The Liberal C2tTistidH complains /
that choirs in some of the Unitarian (
churches of the metropolis are getting
into the habit of Introducing trinita-
ran Inscriptions, or implied doctrines,
into the musical part of the worship. I
Smothered up in articulate vocalization I
they often escape observation, except
from very sensitive ears
The Religious Monthly for March
contains an able article, continued from 1
the previous number, from the pen of
Rev. Z. Il. Sears, taking decided
ground against DR.. SchenkeI's ssCharac-
ter of Jesus"
On the last Sunday morning of
teoruary tthe 24th), by previous ar
rangement, ministers in England, of
various denominations, were 10 preach Z
on on Tn Ihe relations OF the working classes
20 Christianity.
clatiou Of Montreal is the oldest organ-
ization of this kind IN America, and
this was copied from the one in Lon
DON There Is to be during the coming
sum mer a, convention AT Montreal Of
delegates from all the organizations of I
TINS kind IN the United States and Bri-
tish Provinces.
AIS.oAS 4AAOug tullOT OF LHe We"
\ ork Independent, says that the sun
day schools in the West are teaching
the people to love music. He declares
that the Methodist Church is the
CHRISTIAN song-bird of the West" and
saws, .'There will come day when the
American people viii be more musical
than the Germans; and the credit of the
change will belong TO the Sunday
school system. 1 solemnly believe that.
at this very day, the Sunday OF
the Repu bile are of more Importance to
its welfare than It's churches, a little
child shnll Lead them.l y