The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-08-24

1 I SAP.
| Strong hopes are expressed that Rev. Dr..
Hail. of Dublin, Ireland, will accept the call to
Fifth Avenue (Presbyterian) Church in New
| York. h''i'a t' ,S1faJ q eilDb sslh bn
"A number of Southern ministers publish
an earnest denial of Governor Pierponts alle-
CATION that the Southern pulpits are generally
disloyal. a iiijs4is5ttt safts.lftfre,a ,,,,i :.
IRA urong- the incidents of the Sing Sing
Camp Meeting was a. police prayer meeting,
held by the Metropolitan force detailed by Mr..
Kennedy, Of New York .,,,,,,s =, -,
-Universalsm is about one hundred years
old in America, and it is proposed to celebrate
its centenary in 1870, a century from the land
ing of John Murray, their first preacher. The
body now numbers about 700 ministers, and
800 organized societies. 1t has seven newspa-
pers and three magazines s5ssiiVlIq iooGs
"A letter from Rome, dated July "a, to the
General Correspondence of Vienna, saws:
THE learned Able Passaglia, yielding to the
persuasions of Mgr. Clifford, his former pupil
and now Bishop of. Clifton, in England, has
made his retraction, by declaring that, as
Catholic, he gives in his complete adhesion to
everything declared by the bishops respecting
the temporal power Of the Pope, in their adj
dress Of 1862, and that he submits all hispubli-
cations to the Judgment of the Holy See."
This, if true, will be regarded as a great tri-
umph over the Liberal portion of the Italian
church, Riisdiaii0 b9iailqua -slaod9S lssf
! The announcement that the commission
appointed by the standing committee to inyesti-
gate the charges pending against the Rev. S. HI.
Tying, Jr,, would not meet until September
next, has emboldened many of the most prom
inent OF the Low Church clergy to challenge
the tribunal appointed to inquire if the com
plant should be tried They are anxious. IL ia
said, to have settled finally the question, which
involves the right of an Episcopal minister to-
speak or officiate in the edifices of any evan-
Igelical denomination, and they declare that in
case the proceedings against Mr.. Tying result
in trial, they will present certain members of
the High Church wing for ritualistic practices,
and demand the judgment of the Triennial
Convention on the whole subject The excite
ment created by the case is as lively as ever.
and it is stated that the standing committee
of the diocese are divided upon the expediency
of prosecuting the charge at the present time,
The annual campmeetlng at WESLEYAN
Grove, Martha's Vineyard, closed on Monday
evening. The meeting this year was success
in the attendance and its results. The preach
ing and singing has been good and in some in
stances remarkably able and eloquent The
number of conversions has not been as large
as last year, still a considerable numoer came
forward at the close of the several meet
ings. The attendance was very large indeed.
The somewhat noted "Camp-meeting John"
who boasts that he has attended 1871 camp
meetings, was present. A'5H SAl io- 3.9i>acq
-Rev. j. e. Walton, formerly of the Third
PARISH church in this city, has become pastor
OF an Episcopal church in Rockford. III. ,.-f
"A correspondent writes that RELIGIONS ex-
clusiveness is still maintained in full forca !,
Sweden. He says he was himself lately fined
a heavy sum 'for allowing people to come to- |
gether for worship in his private house during
the hours that the Swedish church held SER
vice, or mass as it is yet called, and this fine
was exacted by the sanction of the King, be-
lore whose court the case was tried" He
aihrms that priests, assisted by sheriffs and |
poiicemen, do yet enter by force into peoples |
houses, and by force take the infants from an |
guished mothers arms, to have them legally |
baptized; and case is known in which Door |
farmers only cow has been taken in pavment.,,
The London Record says that 'the Ritual- |
site Commission met on the 9th of August.
md, according to general rumor, the proposal /
or exceptional legislation, dispensing with
of yestments in parochial churches,
vas negatived by a majority"
The Pail Mall Gazette says that in the IL
'rary Of the House Of Lords, the original copy |
u the SEALED Book of Common Prayer"
"nicn mas been so long missing, has been dis
covered. 1t is found in the manuscript that
ne bishops had ordered that the Communion
Tables should stand at the East end of the
hancel, and that the celebrant should face
Eastward; but they subsequently erased the
ubrics. an.s....
On Sunday, June 9, a collection was made
or the Prussian Head Bible Society in the
hurches of Berlin. The sum realized in
bout forty churches was three hundred and
ignty-four thalers, or rather more than e5s.
II an average of twenty-seven shillings per
hurchi lr''IT |