The Portland daily press., 1867-08-17
Religious Intelligence.

DIR. Pussy has been examined before a Sc
lect Committee ofthe House of Commons, and
is said to have given evidence regarding the
uses OF the confessional Ofthe most extraordin-
airy kind. Portions oft will not be printed for
general circulation. 2uamR4 ,--r..
The Bowdoinham Baptist Quarterly Meet
ing will be held with the First Baptist Church
in Leeds, the first Tuesday I'D and 4th )of Sept
The BowdOinham Baptist Association will
meet with the Baptist Church in Greene, on
Tuesday, Sept 10th, at o'clock P. M. Annual
sermon by Rev. A. Bryant or f. d. Blake, al
ternate Doctrinal sermon by Rev. A. r. Crane.
The Universalist papers are still wrans-
CLING over the case of Rev Rowland Conner.
The old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow
is to be repaired and used as Free Mission
Church. Il ''-1 =
Rev e. o. Haven, D. D., President of the
Michigan State University, has declined an ur-
| gent request to lake charge of the Theological
Seminary about to be established near Boston
by the Methodists e" 9-A
5-John Clarke, of Baltimore, has left $780,
ooo to st. Johns Protestant Methodist Church
in that city. f5.. sss.. 1911
The meeting of the American Board this
year is to be Ut Buffalo, The time of the meet
ing has been changed that it may NOT interfere
with the State fair, which occurs in the first
week IN October. The meeting of the Board
will begin Tuesday, Sept. 18th. asse
The Church News informs us that the
rope thinks of re-establishing in Scotland the
Catholic hierarchy, giving territorial iurisdic-
ton to the apostolic wears and appointing for
the others bishops. There will be an archbish-
OPP at Glasgow, with six suffragans, who will
be the bishops of Edinburgh, Perth, Aberdeen,
Inverness, Stirling, and Kilmarnock respec-
lively AS the leading men of both parties in
the English Parliament have declared them
selves ashamed of their opposition to the re-es-
tabnshment of Catholic bishoprics in England
lew years since, and expressed desire to re-
peal the Ecclesiastical Titles BILL" which WOO
passed ON that occasion no sffvsir1on to re-es-
tlblishrnAnts Of the Catholic hierarchy in Scot
land is anticipated. ,e n-r ,...s Il
The Rev. A. p. Happier, M. D., who has
been a missionary in China for twenty-three
years, with single interval for the benefit of
his family, has arrived in this country.
The Courier DIES Etats Unis finds the recent
cable despatch which named Monsigneur Du-
panl0u as the most probable successor of Pins
TX. "dssez fnconaprehensible" Our last news
from Rome did not mention any alarming
change in the Holy Fathers health 1t is true
that the common people of Rome expect him
to die very soon but their beliefs based ON the
old tradition that no Pope can hold his Office
for twenty-five years until the last days of the
world, and would hardly warrant the Sacred
College in caballing at present for the success
sion. 80 .7zisf ~ f-faft .h.Hb7.f
lions Herald puts! thus forcibly the "Cry
of Our Own MISUNDERSTANDING let not
the cities be neglected. Whatever other de-
nominations may do or leave undone, it is high
time that Methodism had girded herself for
the great work of city evane Citation. We are
heartily glad to know that in Boston at least.
the churches and the people are moving with
tokens OF great success already manifest.
volunteers are offering them selves as visitors
and tract distributors; young men meet to
gether on Sabbath mornings, in various places.
and after seasons of prayer, they go forth to
labor with men all through the city, bringing
many to the churches and the Sabbath schools
and thus to Christ. They stand by the horse
cars, on the bridges, at the ferries and steam
boat landings, and distribute tracts and con-
verse on the subject of religion Mission
schools are being established, and already sew
eral are in successful operation. IF places pre-
sent themselves where we ought to have adj
ditional churches. it is believed that measures
will be taken to occupy them"