The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-11

party through their sympathy with Tevivals and
missionary Iabors as will give them ere long
such control of the denomination as shall
make it truly reformed .
ROMAN eATHoLIc.
The defnitive establishment Of religious
liberty in Austria, consequent on the Emperor's
passed the Reichsrath, is thus referred to by
the London Times correspondent at Yisuna, IN
his letter of May T:-
"Tbe new laws on marriage and schools
have received the imperial sanction, and the
Concordat exists no more. The imperial sane
ton was given on the 25th, and yesterday
morning the official Wetner ZeitUng announced
1t 10 the people of the empire. The laws are,
perhaps, not quite all that could be desired
but they remove all that was most objectiona-
bic IN the Concordat. Hencelorth, clert-
cal jurisdiction in matrimonial matters
is at an end, and, in this respect, as
well as in other', civil courts are to decide
according 10 the civil code. If any priest
should throw in the way OF marriage obstacles
not founded in the Law, the parties can be
legally married by the civil authorities. In all
eases Of separation and divorce henceforth to
be concluded, it is likewise the civil law which
is to decide. The supreme direction in matters
of education is to be exercised by the State;
only the religious education remains in the
hands of the clergy OF the different confessions.
Public schools are opel to all, without differ
enec OF rOgiou. In mixed marriages parents
may agree about the religion OF their children
as they please; II there is no such agreement,
the cons follow the religion of the father,
the daughters that of the mother. lllegtimste
children follow that OF the mother. After tho
fourteenth year Of age, every one is tree TO
change bis religion, only certain formalties are
to be observed. The members OF one church
cannot be forced, IN any way, to contribute to
the wants of another, unless such obligation is
founded on patronage or private contract. The
articles of the law by which apostates from
Christianity are disinherited, as well as that by
which the attempt to induce a Christian to
change his religion is punished as q crime, are
abolished. No religious community can refuse
a decent burial to persons of another religious
confession in places where no battle-ground
exists OF that confession. No one can be forced
10 abstain from work during the tete days of
religious confession not his IN; but every one
is obliged TO abstain from whatever might in.
tertere with the public worship OF any religion"
CONGREGATIONAL.
The CONGREGATIONAL church in Richland N.
Y, one OF those churches which lnElS0l were
united with presbyteres according to the plan
of union, has accepted the advice OF tie General
Assemblies that such churches SHOULD perfect
their organization" and has become thoroughly
Pres byterlan. The present indication is that
most of these churches will perfect their organi-
cation in the other way by becoming thoroughly
The meeting this year Of the General Asso-
citation of Kansas III Manhattan was the largest
ever held in the State. The number of Congre-
gational churches in the State have increased
during the last ten years from l6 to Al; and the
mem be1sbip, then 250, Is now five times as large.
There are 223 additions by profession reported
and the ministerial force has been increased by
eight.
Mr. Samuel Holmes, of New York city, who
has heretofore manifested his interest IN Yale
College by endowing scholarships to the amount
| Of five thousand dollars, has recently offered
| twenty-five thousand dollars TO the Theological
| Department, in successive payments, on condi-
| ton that the subscription tor the new Theo.
logical Hall and other endowments be completed
| within the present year.
| Forty years ago Amherst College had
| two students and an empty treasury. The two
students have lived TO sec their college prosper
beyond all expectation, and her Golfers fall. The
! treasurer reports that the college is now worth
more than million dollars, and free from
| debt.
Pr Norman Mcleod who has been inspect.
| ing tue missions Ill India, urges that all the
! petty distinctions of English, Scotch and Anne
| riCan sects be left behind by missionaries on
heather soil, and that the converts of all sOCie-
ties urite in fraternal intercourse and intercom.
munion. He would have them establish a COM
! mon, undivided Chris stianilY. AS an illustration
OF the evil OF sectarianism, he gives the case OF
| an American missionary. He says:-
as il to be thought that you are going to spot
| HiIdOstan with Baptist churches, with Congre-
gatiODal churches, Christian Propagation So.
| Cieties and London Missionary Societies? | one
day met one of ten missionaries from America,
| and asked him why he didn't belong to the
great body of the American portion OF the
clutches laboring in lnuia. lie replied that
there were such differences between them that
what are these differences Well, he said
there IS one tremendous hing-they sing hymns.
That Is as worthy man as lives-a most excel
lent man. then asked if he would not, in con
ssquel CO OF those differences, worship Jesus
Christ with them, Yes he replied, 'midel
protest. / could not help saying that wa
the worst BIahmihsm l had ever seen ir
lndia.n
TIE GOSPEL IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC.
The progress OF the Gospel in the South Paci
fc may be inferred from a meeting OF the Gene
raj Assembly OF the Presbyterian Church OF New
Zealand, at Nelson, last November. There are
touT Presby teTies and thirty-iVe congregation
in this Church. Most Of the native Christian
belong to the English Church. In the FIJI
Islands 100. 600 persons have received copies o
the Scriptures. The success of native preacher
is admirably shown at Nui, an island recent,
visited by Mr.. Bingham on the Morning Star
1t was hardly two years before that a nauV
Samoan Christian had begun his labors there
yet two hundred persons, nearly the entir
population, came out TO hear Mr.. Bing ham, o
whom forty Elk gave evidence of being Chris
tans. Christian teacher, unlike many VIII
visit that part OF the world, had prepared tn
way.