Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-12-27
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
MINISTERS, churches, and the Progress
of Religion.


MINISTERS, churches, and the Progress
Of Religion.
The First Campbellite Church in
Philadelphia have chosen five dea-
coIesses.
The Russian clergy, after extern
sive discussion, have decided Sun
day Schools to be orthodox.
The German Baptists of New
Haven are building $4,000 church
with twenty-five cent contributions
Rev. Newman Hall says that
thirty thousand members are ex-
communicated yearly from the Eng
fish Church for intemperance.
NConnected with the Methodist
Episcopal Church in the United
States are four German Conferences
with membership of 10000.
One of the most remarkable feats
of church debt-paying is that of
DR.. Scudder's Presbyterian Church
in San Francisco. He raised $46,-
$50 in a canvass of four days.
The Lutheran Church in this
country is rapidly increasing by i'm
migration from Germany. They
have a membership almost as large
as that of the two schools of Pres
hyterians united.
The Rev. W. L. Gage, of the Pearl
Street Congregational Church in
Hartford, instead of saying during
the service, Let us sing the -
hymn" says, eve will now listen
to the singing Of the - hymn"
and the choir sing.
The Freewill Baptists have in
increased the past year by 81 per
cent. or about seven per cent if we
include the accession from the Gen
eral Baptists. The largest gains
have been in Illinois, Rhode Island
and Massachusetts,.
A revival of religion has been in
progress for the past two weeks at
Emory and Henry College, Virgin
ia. There have been about sixty
conversions. Out of one hundred
and eighty students one hundred are
professors of religion.
The late Rev. Phineas Stowe sent
one of the most novel kilograms
ever transmitted between New York
and Boston. 1t was in these words
" My dear daughter-Is it possible
that you cannot give your heart TO
the Lord Jesus Christ p
A volume has been published in
Shanghai, giving brief biographies
of all the three hundred and thirty
eight Protestant missionaries who
have labored in China since 1899
OF these, sixty have died in the
service, six by violence, six by ac-
cident, and eight while on voyages.
The first person to introduce Sun
day Schools into France was a
Methodist, about thirty years ago.
They did not prosper, owing to the
opposition of the clergy, until 1856,
when Rev Fred Monard heartily
adopted the system.
When men, skeptically inclined,
talk to Henry Ward Beecher concern
ing their advanced views of reli-
gion, he merely replies, 90, l know
all about that; l stopped at that
hotel once This generally closes
the controversy,
Kansas seems to be quite strong
Methodist State The number of
Methodist Episcopal members is
9,25S; OF Congregationalists, 1,434 /;
of Presbyterians, /, $50; of Baptists,
l,419. The other religL Gus bodies
combined do not number over :, 800.
A writer in the Boston CoRgrega-
GonalSt speaks of a parish in Berk-
shire county, Mass, "that has not
been ashamed TO employ faithful,
laborious, godly pastor for the
amazing sum of $500 per annum,
since April, 1864, till last spring,
when they decided to turn him out
to pasture, as being too old to
answer their purpose any longer.
Pope Plus is in his 18th year, but
is active and vigorous. He is in the
23d year Of his pontificate, and has
a fair prospect of completing a
quarter of a century OF official rule,
which no pope has done before him
His successor is said to he secretly
agreed on.
Timothy Titcomb, writing from
Europe, SAYS: L am learning 8
new respect for the American pui,
pit, the best, l verify believe, that
the world knows. The Scotch are
doubtless very sound, but must
say they are very heavy"
4 japanese student at Rutgar'
College, recently converted to the
Christian religion, was baptized il
the st. James Methodist EpiscOpa
Church, New Brunswick, n. j.
Nov. 22d, by the pastor, Rev. DR.
Tiffany. This is the first Japanes,
convert probably in this country.
A year ago Che Congregations
Church, in FliEt, Michigan, hat
twenty members. 1t now number
one hundred, and has grown thu
rapidly by the church work bcini
divided into five departments, an
every member being made respon
sihlc for all the work they can dc
Moung Shaw Loo, the native Bul
man preacher, who returned las
wear to his native land, after sewers
wears spent in this country, in tn
pursuit of his studies, has bee
heard from. He has been urged b
the King of Burmah to take up h
residence at Mondelag, and wi
probably accept the invitation.