The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-12-20
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.


ASCERTAIN
Meeting held in this city the 18th inst, in behalf
q the American and New York Sunday School Union.
tat missionaries have been at work during the year
4 rwentythrec different States, and the work has
Me,v been fnaugurated in Europe. Seventeen
Kindred and thirty-one new schools, with 10000
fholars, have been organized during the year. be-
ides aiding 6600 Others with 397 goo scholars. One
Missionary In the Northwest has organized during
line years 240 new schools mot AGO. as published
d some Of the daily papers, This missionary can
,0unt more than fifty churches that have grown out
Dfthese schools. Some 20 600 new schools have been
organized during the past twelve years. Eighty to
ninety per cent OF these new schools as careful sta
istics show, live and become permanent centres OF
religious influence. The society is in want Of funds
The United Presbyterians OF Hob0ken, N. j.. have
just built mission chapel in Hudson City, grow
Ing suburb of Hoboken, and the house was formally
opened for divine worship the 9th inst. Rev. Robert
Armstrong will take pastoral charge OF the congre-
CATION assembling there.
The new building OF the Second Presbyterian
Rev. DR.. Charles Hodge preaching the sermon in the
morning and the Rev. DR.. James McCosh in the after
Last June the Presbytery OF St. Clairsvllle organ
1zed a small church OF nine members They united
with the Methodist brethren In the building or a
Of debt.
Rev. R. H. Richardson. DID,, formerly OF New
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Presbyterian church, Trenton, N. j., on Wednesday
evening December2. DR.. Hall, OF the First church,
presided and the Introductory services were con-
Quoted by Rev. Mr.. Manning. Professor Shields,
DID,, OF Princeton College, preached the sermon
FRONT. Cor; i, is-"The preaching OF the Cross the
on the communion occasion last sabbath In the
Fourth United Presbyterian church, Pittsburg Rev.
G9ckns pastor hree applicants ere ad
In Pennington, N. j., Baptist church just COM
pleied at cost Of s435oO lately dedicated. Rev.
I,.lInr nPn DALI
Dedicatons OF Baptist houses Of worship have also
taken place in Rockford, H., and In Cincinnati,
AT Maiden, N. Y.;West End. n j.; statedale, Penn,
and Grand View, Iowa, Methodist congregations
have lately dedicated new houses OF worship.
New German and English churches have been re-
Gently consecrated in Youngstown and Allegheny
county, Penn IN stephenson ana Rchland counties
Also Norwegian churches have been dedicated in
Minneschck county, Iowa, and Long Prairie, LII.
The Lutheran Observer gives accounts or the dedca
ton OF Lutheran houses of worship at North Liberty
Iowa. and al Buckhorn, ia.
In Chicago, on the corner of Wabash avenue and
Thrty-frst street. new Presbyterian house Of wor-
Ship completed at cost OF $4,000 was lately dedi-
Gated. Still another has been consecrated IN Liberty,
Ohio.
The Reformed Church Of Chicago, under the pas
toral care OF Rev. James Demarest, Jr., dedicated
their new house OF worship the 10Th ut. The edfce
is 81 by 100 feet. When fully completed it will have
cost $4,000
The Congregational Church in Flint, Mich, or
ganized last autumn, has grown from forty to one
hundred members within the year. On Sunday,
November %, 1t dedicated chapel which viii seat
nve hundred persons and cost about SIS, 000 The
sermon was by Rev J. w. Hough, OF Jackson the
dedicatory address by Rev. Frank 2. Woodbury.. the
The Methodist church in the distant city OF Austin
Nevada, has signalzed itself by erecting a costly
brick house OF worship OF an expense of CSC, 900.
The First Presbyterian church In Philadelphia has
chosen five ladies to be deaconesses in that church.
Rev: Dr. Palmer states that since the LIST OF May
nearly $40 900 twenty churches and they stand
pledged to ffty-three other churches for nearly
pc w more, inc opening OF new
to Christian effort and the advancing tide OF popu-
atOn makes the demands for assistance In the build
Ing OF church edifces continually more urgent.
Chicago contains about 100 Protestant Evangelical
churches, OF which twelve are Methodist, ten New
School and eight Old School Presbyterian; but the
population gains on the churches. The Congrega-
journalists and Old School Presbyterinns have each q
theological seminary. The Methodists have the
northwestern University, with productive fund OF
5000, 900, and the Garrett Biblical Institute The
Baptists have the Douglas University.
In North Alabama the Baptlsts are said TO be nIi-
merically stronger than any other denomination In
this region there are ten associations with mem
would reach .0oO The Churches humber 30 and
the ministers $50.
In Boston there are six Presbyterian churches-f.
E., three United, one Reformed and two Old School
Presbyterian churches. All OF these churches have
been founded since 1916 and all of them have now
settled pastors
Row About n Niggcr in Princeton College.
The following is from the Ladepende,t:-A CORE
declaration that the halls of Old Nassau should be
open to students without distinction Of color, the
Satanic spirit Of caste exists among large por-
ton OF the students. 1.-THE 'democratic' pulse
beats high and Southern chivalry nourishes in
its glory.' Our correspondent says:-"For a
few Sabbaths past the students have been
treated TO lectures the afternoon bv excellent
President, DR.. McCosh These considered free
and any one attends them who desires to do 80
There generally number of theological students
In the audience and among these we have noticed q
nnse NJ che he sight Of ths an her
midst made the eyes Of the democratic brethren
and caused their hearts to ache at this evidence OF
negro equality. cold Bhudder thrilled their
whole being they beheld O seat which per.
chance had been filed In former years by some de-
akin was black and who, instead OF the seal Of aris-
toracy, had but the seal Of manhood on
we'll as to relieve their burdened consciencies ~
petition has been drawn up and signed by sixty
seventy students to be presented to the faculty OF
the college. 1t prays that an edict may 90 forth
from said faculty which shall prevent henceforth and
forever similar outrages upon democratic dignity
This paper was originated by some Of the very men
who fought to keep the negro in bondage, and fall
ing TO do this, would now deprive him Of every
right as Christian and man which makes liberty
sweet to the SOUL or the meanness OF this act we
cannot speak in lifting terms Suffice 1t to say that
some Of the subscribers little above the level OF
their brethren found their souls shrivelling up so
last that they withdrew their names from the odous
paper.n
Religion in California.
The General Association OF California has lust
Issued its Minutes, from which the following
facts are geancd:-The amount raised for charities
among the Congregational churches the past year
was nearly $4,000 The value OF their church pro-
perry is set down at $225,ooo. The amount raised
for church erection and the payment OF church
debts has been nearly $4,000. Amount raised for
current expenses, so, 600. This denomination has
~ sunday schools with $500 scholars. The number
of baptsms during the year was lis. SO OF which
were OF infants. The present membership OF the
church is about 1900, the increase Oh the last year
being 10. The number OF ministers Is -, ten OF
whom have been installed as pastors. The largest
church is the First, In san Francisco, which has 3ss
members; the smallest that OF FL Dorado, which
has but four. The number OF preaching stations
where churches have not yet been formed is i've
There has been gain OF four churches, Ave having
been organized and one disbanded the past year.
The absentees from the churches number 2O2 Ten
persons have been accommodated. The pastor
longest settled In his present field OF labor Is the
Benton; the third, |. u. Dwinell, ID. ID.