Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-12-20


pei, writes that he is free and teach
ing publicly now, not, as before
within closed doors, for fear of th
police. He has just distributed tw,
hundred Bibles and tracts, and hopei
soon to be able to reopen hi
school. The expulsion Of the Queer
OF Spain indefinitely postpones hi:
trial, Three days after her fight
the revolutionary junta gave permis
sion to open a Protestant house OF
worship at Seville, the seat of the
Inquisition and the birthplace of the
new dogma of the Immaculate Con-
ception.
From the Lutheran Almanac for
1859, recently issued, we learn that
this denomination now has ], 800
ministers, 3, IS2 houses of worship,
81 synods, and nearly 400, 900 com
mnnicants, There are "a religious
periodicals, IL English, 10 German,
II Swedish, and l Norwegian; IL
theological seminaries, IL colleges,
s schools for females, IL academies,
IL orphan houses, besides other elee-
mosynary and benevolent institu-
tons. In the Lutheran Church, the
gospel is preached in English, Ger
man, Swedish, Norwegian, Bohemi-
an, and in several Sclavish dialects;
For many years q body of beliey.
! ers, known as the Reformed Church
of Spain, and now numbering 900,
have been worshipping by small
companies, and in secret places.
About twelve churches have been
wholly or partially organized, the
one at Malaga containing 200 mem
bers. In a dark cellar they have
printed a few copies of the Tesla
ment and a Family Catechism.
Schools, established at Bayonne,
and Pau in France, and Lausanne,
Switzerland, are preparing their
young men for Bible readers. These
facts, through the recent upheavings
in Spain, have come to the light.
The Baltimore Episcopal Metho
dist has the following palpable hit:
An extraordinary occurrence is
said to have happened at Petersburg,
Virginia, which many will think in
credible, but we publish it as we find
it. Rev. Mr.. Wingfeld has twice
refused call to a church in New
York, Vacated by the lamented
death Of the Rev. DR.. Hawks
where the field of usefulness" is
equal to ten thousand dollars year.
This Mr.. Wingfeld is a tough man
anyhow. We remember he was set
to scraping the streets in Norfolk un-
der the benign dictatorship@of But .
Ter, because of some infiexibility of
conscience, but still we had no idea
that, being recently married and
without worldly fortune, he would
refuse a providential call to rich
city congregation. If his example
could only be followed, the rich
worshippers in city temples would
be taught a lesson they very much
need. AS things are, men are con-
tinually confirmed in belief that
wealth....is profitable for all things,
and that deposits in security boxes
are akin to riches in heavenly
places"
Gen. Rosecrans, our new Minister
to Mexico, is well known to be de
cided Roman Catholic. The New
York Post says Before he sailed
from this city for Vera Cruz, he was
waited on by a considerable number
of very respectable citizens, with a
view to request that he would use
all proper good offices with the Mex
lean government, so that American
citizens should, if possible, enjoy Ill
Mexico as full a measure of relig
ious liberty as Roman Catholics Ell
10Y in the United States. The Gen
eral gave respectful attention to
these representations, and aVoWmg
himself as staunch a friend of civil
and religious liberty as any OF those
who had done him the honor to call
upon him, promised to exert his in
fiuence to secure for all his country
men the fullest and freest toleration.
Permission TO erect Protestant
places of worship in the city OF
Mexico, it was suggested, came
properly within the scope and mean
ing even Of existing treatles-to-
gether with exemption from an out
ward compliance with Roman rites
and ceremonies on public occasions
such as kneeling to the Host, etc
The statistics of the Methodist
Church North, for 1868, and OF the
same denomination South for 1867,
have been completed. The total OF
ministers and members for the
church North is 1,255,074, an in
crease of 1894 over 1867. The
total for the church South is 530, O4O,
an increase of 1882 over 1866.
The Southern Church has suffered a
loss of 1850 colored members,
occasioned it is believed, by the
change to other churches, and the
formation of separate negro confer
ences. Its increase of white men,
bers is 53,0S0, more than ten per
cent. upon its total of white mem
bership, 4l0, 4O4, as reported in 1866.
The means of comparing the col
ored membership of the two church
es are not accessible, the negro con-
ferences of the Church South having
their own minutes. OF travelling
preachers the Northerp Churches has
S,4SI, an increase of Az; the
Southern Church 1889, an increase
of IS. Oflocal preachers the North
ern Church has now 9,09S; the
Southern Church 1852, making a
total of preachers, travelling and
local, for the Church North 1879,
and for the Church South 6,34l and
for both churches "a $40.