The national Republican., 1867-09-07
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCr.
Personal and Dginlster,.I

hEv. +. M. RAY has been admitted To
the ministry Of the Maine Conference Of
Unitarian and other Christian churches.
REv. CoSAsr SAWYER, late of Gloyers.
vile, has become pastor at Bedford, West.
chester county, New York.
The REv. SAMUEL II. HrrpARp has been
appointed pastor Of the First UniteJ
Brethren Church, Of Dayton, Ohio.
Rev. DR.. A. @. OsBoRS, of St. Louis
has been elected president Of the New
Hampton Institution, at Fairfax, Vt.
INITIATE time; it destroys everything
slowly; 1t undermines; il wears away: Il
destroys; 1t does not wrench.-Joubert.
The REv. DR.. HooE, of Richmond. Va.
mas decided to remain in that city, declin.
ing the call Of the Presbyterian Church at
Lexington, in the same State.
The REv. NJ. V. AvERrLL, rector of Grac,
Church, Indianapolis, has accented A cali
from the Episcopal Church at Goshen.
Elkhart county, Indiana.
A VOLUME Of select sermons by Bisbop
d. w. Clark, is soon to be published by
the Methodist Book Concern of Cincin.
natl.
REv. j.. I. SPArLDISG, OF West Stafford.
has received unanimous call TO the pas.
torate Of the Congregational church in
Essex, Mass.
ELDER JAcoB KSArr will start for Cali.
tornia in October, having been invited
thither by the Baptist Ministerial Union Of
that State.
REv. JoHS ROWLAND, late rector of 81.
Stephens church, Willamsport, Point
Coupee, La, has accepted call to the
rectorship Of st. Johns church, Somer.
vile, n. j.
Put low value oil the worlds clay.
and high value on Christ Temptation,
will come; but il you do not make them
welcome, they will turn to your adynn,
tage.-Ruthegord.
REv. w. F. PARK, son of Professor
Park, Of Andover, who has lust rradu.
ated from the seminary, has accepted call
from the Central Congregational Church,
in Lawrence, Mass.
The Rev. L. p. HAMMOND has been
preaching to the children of London, The
Rev. Baptist Noel says, that so far as man
could judge, he believes that two hundred
children had been converted under Mr..
Hammond's labors in week.
The Rev. G. w. BRopIE, the colored
pastor Of the African M. +. Church at
Raleigh, n. g., is pronounced by north.
ern man who heard him, to be giant in
the pulpit, and man Of first class ability.
comparing not unfavorably with the min.
lister of Plymouth Church.
BEFoRE the Sultan left England he was
presented by the British and Foreign
Bible Society with very handsomely
bound Bible in the Turkish language, and
received the gift very graciously. A Bible
was also to be presented to the Egyptian
Viceroy, but it was not ready in time and
Will be sent out to Egypt.
DR.. FISH, of Newark, New Jersey, has
been called simultaneously to the Ninth
street church, Cincinnati, Ohio; the Fourth
Baptist church, Philadelphia, and the
Bloomingdale Baptist church, New York,
but has declined them all, and will remain
ut his present post, where he has been so
useful for the last seventeen years.
FREDxRIcK JONES, esq, Of Boston, has
placed the sum Of $4,000 at the disposal
of the trustees Of the Andover Theologi.
cal Seminary, to enable them to appoint
and sustain suitable teacher of elocution.
for the training Of students in the science
and art Of apt, forcible, tasteful and con.
vincing public address.