The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-08-02
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
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Progress Of Religion n tho United States.
Twenty eight Protestant churches have been dedi.
Gated since our last report Twelve OF this number
Methodist houses OF worship, and the largest OF
them is the new centenary church located at Bing-
hamton, In this State. 1t was dedicated the 10th
| ult., Bishop James and Dr. r. 8. Foster preaching
| morning and evening. The cost OF the ediflce was
$4,000. Its dimensions are 1852 feet by o6, with
spire 1870 feet in height. The audience room will
| seat one thousand persons. Another centenary
church, erected at cost Of $4,000, dedicated
at Greensburg, Ind, on the 18th ult. The sermon
| was preached by Dr. Hitchcock. The society Is
| young having been organized only two years ago.
| Under the ministry Of Rev. J. 8. Winchester and
Rev. G. L. Curtis, the present pastor, its member
| ship has doubled within this short period. new
house ofworship at Shullsburg, Wis., costing $12 0Oo
was recently dedicated, and another built at an ex
pense OF $4,000 in Far Rockaway, L. l., Of which
Rev. Q. p. Corner Is pastor. Dedications OF smaller
churches at Sext0nville ma. Jackson, omo; AKIN
son and NeOga, ILL.,; Centre Grove and Brick Oak,
Iowa; Mount Pleasant, Nebraska; and Oshawa, Can
ada, are also announced.
Five Presbyterian churches have been lately dedl-
Gated. The Presbyterian congregation In H0Desdale
was organized nearly forty years ago: In 1887 they
the increase Of the society," was torn down years
ago to give place to larger one, finished last
month, at cost OF $4,000 and dedicated June 20.
sermon the OCCASION and several Of the clergy OF
the neghborhood participated In the services. A
new Cumberland Presbyterian church IN Bolivar,
Tenn. was dedicated last month, Rev. S. G. Burney
preaching the sermon. In Illinois, at Bardolph,
Presbyterian church, worth about S. 900 and capable
OF accommodating $50 pers ms was recently deal-
Gated; and at New Salem, In the same state Kew !.
II: Marshall preached the sermon at the dedlcatlon
OF another smaller edhce. mission chapel has
been lately erected for the benefit OF the German
population in Chicago, and was dedicated the 6th
ult, Rev. DR.. L. J. Haisey and Rev. ID. q. Marquis
conducting the services.
The congregational Society in Bradford Conn.,, on
the 5th ult. dedicated new house OF worship large
enough to accommodate eight hundred persons and
costing $4,000. In New London, Conn., two days
before small mission chapel was dedicated TWO
Congregational churches have also been lately COM
peted and consecraed In Bowere ILL.,, and prospect
| Grove, Mo.
| vile, N. j. and Mill Creek, Ind, small Baptlst
churches recently erected have been duly dedicated
the corner Of North and Eleventh streets, washing
| ton, d. g., dedicated few Sabbaths ago, Rev:
| j. G. Butler conducting the liturglc service ana
| Rev. DR.. Stork preaching the sermon. This chapel
Will seat about three hundred persons. 1t has cost
$4,000, OF which $4,000 is yet unpaid. An earnest
appeal for this sum and for means to prosecute the
enterprise Is made to Lutherans throughout the
Two German Reformed churches, one in Crawford
county and another at Boiling Springs, Pa, were
dedicated the 18th and 14th ut
| Twenty-th persons united with the Congrega-
tiOnal church at AtteborO at the last communion,
and eight with the church in Assonet, Mass.
Twenty-seven persons were admitted to the Con.
gregatl0na cnurcn at Jamaica Plaln Mass, nrSJ
Sunday in July. The salary of the pastor, Rev. F. b.
Perkins, has recently been increased $780, and new
meeting house Is greatly needed to accommodate
part of the fruits of the recent revival in the
Congregational church OF Ware Village, Mass, Rev.
A. L. Perkins, pastor, thiryhree united with 1t by
profession the first Sunday in July. or these nine
teen received baptism.
Summer Services in the City.
We are enabled to state in reference to the ar
rangements of some OF the leading churches for the
summer, that the Reformed church in West Twenty
third street. near Sixth avenue, will be open, morn
ing and afternoon August and o, the neghboring
Presbyterian church uniting with them; and August
49, 90 and 80 the West Twenty third street Presby-
terian church VIII be open morning and afternoon
| the Reformed church uniting with them. The Rev.
DIR. Condit, Of Auburn, Is expected to supply the
pulpit Of The Twenty.thrd street Presbyterian
in his own pulpit on the first Sabbath of August.
and will preach regularly through the month in
second street. Sabbath mornings, and In the after
noon, at five O'Clock, will preach in the City Mission
tent Fifth avenue and Seventy second street. and in
There win be preaching every Sabbath morning
and evening In the rooms OF the Historical Society,
Second avenue and Eleventh street. 1t Is expected
that Rev. T. L. Quick will commence his services in
Ovet chapel, in Second street, Second avenue,
The Fourteenth street Presbyterian church, corner
Of Second avenue. has service every Sunday morning
Strangers visiting the city will always find inter.
esting services Sabbath afternoons at the Missions
Ne. 40 New BOwery, No. 81 Park No. 155 Worth, No.
20 Columbia streets; and In the evenings at No. u
Greenwich, No. 1856 Spring, No. ll6 Elizabeth streets.
SDcramentarianism and the Confessional.
The following passage from q sermon on "The
Duty and Office Of Priest" by Rev. DR.. Morgan
Dix, Of this city, is copied from the Protestant
C7vchnadn:-"For it belongs to the priest to minis
ter the sacrament Of regeneration whereby men are
grated into the mystical body Of Christi 1t is his to
hear the confession of the sinner and by that power
which the Lord Jesus hath left to His Church. to de-
clare and pronounce to such sinner truly repentng
and unfeignedly believing the dissolution and re-
mission OF his SINS And, finally to rise at length to
that view and prospect OF our vocation at which
flesh and heart fail and In which the loftIest function
OF the sacerdOal Office Is revealed IL belongs to the
priest as such. to stand In his right at the altar
and there TO represent and accompany the work OF
his Lord In Heaven. y II there he no re-
generation in baptism; II there be in the Holy
Eucharist no mystery requiring the operation OF
supernatural power to Its accomplishment, why
should not any devout and godly man minister with
US In the one or In the other Sr
He then goes TO admit that the exclusion OF non
Episcopal ministers argues "a want OF charity, and
"a want OF reason" unless the Church holds to the
recommendation and sacerdotal views which in this
passage he 80 canddly propounds.
The B'uai Birth Society.
NEW YORK, July 80, 1868.
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