The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-06-22
Religious Intelligence.

Tho Cornerstone of the new Universalist |
Church in Augusta was laid on Wednesday |
with appropriate ceremonies.
The Maine Baptist State Convention met |
in Rockland on Tuesday, After the opening
exercises vote was passed adopting the char
ter, uniting it with the Maine Missionary So
c;ety. The convention then adjourned sine
die At ten and a half O'Clock the Maine Mis-
sionary Society met and having adopted the
same charter, also adjourned sine die The
two bodies then met under tho name of the
Maine Mi, sionary Convention. Rev. DR.. W.
III. Smaller was elected President; Rev j. C.
White Vice President; Rev. NJ j. Wheeler
Rec. Sec.; Rev N. nj. Wood, Cor. Sec.; and
Rev. j. Il. Foster, Treas. A full report of the
proceedings is not yet received. The attend
ance was large. I'D al. H. tt--
The Queen of England has issued proc
lamation appointing Board of Commission
ers to inquire and report concerning the ritual
of the Church Of England. The Commission
recites that different practices have arisen i'm
regard to the course and conduct of public
worship, and especially with reference to the
ornaments used in churches, and the vest
ments worn by ministers. With view to such
practice in such matters as may be deemed es-
sential,p the Commissioners, or any ten or more
of them, are eniOined to examine the direc-
tons in the Book of Common Prayer, and all
other laws and customs, with power to suggest
| any amendments which they may think fit to
| recommend.
| At the last meeting of the Provincial
| Synod of the Moravian Church at Bethlehem.
Pa, three elergymen were elected members of
the Provincial Elders Conference position of
dignity and responsibility. Two-of. these cler-
| gymen accepted their elections. The third
expressed an unwillingness to assume such
weighty duties, and submitted his case ito the
decision of the Lord in the lot" After solemn
prayer the lot was drawn before the altar. The
answer was mo" Another clergyman was
then elected, who asked for tho same ordeal
The lot was drawn "Yea," and the matter was
settled. .'5'l -.-i '''t
The debt of $4,000 which has long hung
over the American chapel at Paris, where Rev.
DR.. Eldridge is now laboring, has just been
extinguished. Four American gentlemen
gave $1,000 each, several others $500 each, and
by collection taken in the chapel Sabbath
morning, May 26th the sum was completed and
the debt cancelled. huf- cs
The various synods of the Lutheran Church
in the United States are discussing project of
union.
Rev. S. L. Rowland, pastor of the First
Parish Church Of Bangor, announced, on Sun
day, his resignation of his pastoral charge. to
take effect on the first of August next. Pro-
tracted i'll health is the cause of his resigna-
ton. fil.s., .s. 4t . 20.
Rev. William A. Drew writes to the Cos
pei Banner that the venerable Father Stetson
is lying at the point of death at his home in
Brunswick. i4G3 i
The first of series of four conferences
under tho auspices of the Massachusetts Uni
versalist Convention was held Wednesday in
the Universalist Church at East Boston, The
conferences are for the purpose of discussing
the UNCONVENTIONAL interests, the spiritual
condition, the work to be done, and the finan-
cial means and needs of the denomination.
Rev. DIR. Hepburn, Presbyterian missiona-
ry to Japan, has nearly completed his diction-
airy of the Japanese language, and the publ
, cation is about to commence. ,.s< h.-Ss
"A Jewish paper in New York, says: "Wt
are pleased to record Mt last a movement
among our New York Israelites intended tl
promote the general observance of the Sab
bath day. A meeting was held on Sunday
last by some young men of this city, who or
ganized the Hebrew Sabbath Association,
and took immediate steps to secure the sym
, pathy and cooperation of the ministers ant
officers of our congregations" -ls -ss
Mr.. Edwin NJ. Bartlett is to be ordained t.
the ministry at the Baptist chu rich in Bethel
on Wednesday, June 2G, and installed paste
of the church. De- I'll"