The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-05-11
Religious Int lliGence.

The First Congregational Society in Clare
mont, Mass, have invited Rev. b. w. Pond, of
Brunswick, to become their pastor. He has
accepted the invitation. r+
Rev. Mr.. Cook has closed his pastorate of
the I'd Congregational Church and Parish in
Wells
REV. Mr.. Caverno has received and accept
ed unanimous invitation from the f. w.
Baptist church and congregation at Doughty's
Falls, in North Berwick, to become their pas
tor 81 l't ti.t +
Archbishop Spalding of Baltimore is on
his way to Rome, where he intends to be pres
ent at the general meeting of Bishops, conven-
ed by the Pope for next month The Arch
bishop undertakes this pilgrimage for pur-
poses of health as well as official business
Rev. Henry M. Dexter, on Sunday last,
resigned the pastoral charge of the Berkeley
Street church in Boston. 1t is understood
that he will assume the editorial chair of the
Congregdtiondlist and become one of its pro-
prietors. ie D
There are in the Methodist Church in this
country about SO 900 Germans, and more than
half of these have preaching in the German
language. t' t'i.' i''"
The Congress of Feru, after an exciting
debate, has decided that the Roman Catholic
religion shall be the religion of the State to the
exclusion of every other. '.i'e4
There are eight clergymen in Boston who
have been pastors of the same parishes more
than thirty years, and several others who have
occupied the same pulpit nearly a generation.
The Independent announces that it will not
hereafter be in any sense or degree an organ
of the Congregationalists, but weekly reli-
gious journal, abandoning the discussion of
doctrines and creeds. The editor gives as a
reason for this change that $50 many men pos
ess worse creeds and yet better characters
than himself that he totally despairs of forcing
the whole world into moral goodness through
the narrow method of one prescribed belief"
Rev E. +. Abbott has been engaged by
the Universalist Society of Orono to supply
their pulpit the present year. ...., Lac
The Presbyterian mission among the
Creeks and Seminoles in the Indian territory
was br oxen up when Albert Pike misled those
poor people into rebellion. Since those who
are lett have returned to their homes, the mis-
sionaries have resumed their work 1t has
been deemed advisable now to organize the
Christian Semin0les into a separate church,
Mr.. Ramsay, the missionary, reports sixty-six
members already gathered in, with nearly as
many more who were prevented by distance
and the severe weather from attending his
meeting. Describing the transition, he says:
1T was to mind strong evidence of the
"realty and power of our blessed religion to
'see men who were once fierce savages, whom
'the strong arm of the government could not
drive from their favorite haunts in the swamps
"of Florida, now subdued by the victorious
"Cross sitting weeping at the feet of the Prince
of Peace. The greater part of the noted Billy
'Bowlegs's band are now members of our
Church. Sermon being over we proceeded to
"baptize the candidates for church member
ship, twentyfour in number, and five infants.
ct was an interesting sight, which will not
'soon be forgotten at the Seminole Agency
"We then proceeded to administer the Lords
Supper, of which nearly one hundred persons
epartook. As many Methodists, and some
Baptist brethren sat down with u.s." 'Ns