Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-12-06
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

The Bible IS now printed IN more
than two hundred different Ian
guages.
The Hebrew Sunday School of
Philadelphia has one hundred and
ty-four pupils.
A visitor to the Holy Land found
a Sunday School of sixty four chill
dren' at Jerusalem. The children
sang some American songs.
Sunday, December Is, is to be
observed by the Ohio churches as a
day of special prayer for Sunday
School work.
Rev. James Caldwell, a missiona-
ny from the Australian Wesleyan
Conference to China, was drowned
while bathing September %.
The Hudson, N. Y, Christian
Association has voted to admit
checkers and chess to its rooms and
to exclude dominoes and backgam-
mon.
Ministers of the Church of Eng
land, opposed to the disestablish-
p ment of the Irish Church, have
preached freely against it during the
late canvass.
The American Presbyterian has
an article in favor of great churches.
1t says they are the centers of great
influence and a stimulant to noble
ambition.
The question of admitting lay
men as members of the Methodist
Conferences, which are now limited
to clergymen, is to be submitted to
vote of all the different Methodist
churches in June next.
Nine christian churches, of the
primitive Byzantine style of archi-
lecture, have been discovered at
Lallibali, the Holy City of Abyssi
MIA, which have not been visited by
Europeans for over three centuries.
At meeting to consider the sub
iect of Spanish evangelization, held
last week at a Spanish Episcopal
Church in New York city, it was
stated that there are in Spain fifteen
Protestant churches, with three
thousand worshippers.
The first Methodist church in
Massachusetts was established in
1871. They now number 27l
churches in POI cities and towns.
They have 24S church buildings,
some Of them very costly, and lis
parsonages In lbs towns of the
State there are no Methodist
churches.
The Wesleyan Missionary Society,
Eng, has its attention directed to
Spain rs fold of missionary exer-
ton. But, like the Methodist Epis-
copal Missionary Society i'll this
country, it is embarrassed by q
debt, the pressure of large undertake
ings, and an insufficient income.
A writer inquiries of the editor of
the Standard Of the Cross, the or
gan of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in Ohio, if he recognizes as
valid churches of any other religious
organizations than the Protestant
EpiscOpalians. To which the editor
replies in an emphatic and unquali-
fed Yes
According to the EreniRg Post,
there is in New York an Episcopal
church. founded in 1866, and com
posed entirely Of Cubans, Mexicans
and Spaniards. Its membership has
advanced from twenty to more than
three hundred, and large distribu-
tons of the scriptures have been
made through its agency.
Rev. Mr.. Sturgeon, in a recent
sermon, disposes Of the question,
which is the most useful kind OF
preaching, practical, experimental,
or doctrinal rs follows: h" The very
best preaching is that which has
most Of Jesus Christ in it, for II
gathers up the eXcellences Of the
three classes, since for practice
Christ is the truth, and for eXper
fence Christ is the life
A letter from Madrid says: "Om
Protestant fellow-countrymen arr
not likely to let the grass grow un
der their feet. Distributors OF
bibles and tracts have already be
can their operations in the grea
cities; and two bold BritOns hav'
been seen giving the sacred volume
to people in that very Plaza Mayor
where not more than a century ag
the population Of the city sat dow
to enjoy what was then the favOrit
national holiday-an auto ddJd Q
heretics and Hebrews"
The Jesuits, who have been driv
en- from almost every country
Europe, Catholic as well as Prote'
tant, are coming to this country i
large numbers. The Liberia Ca
holica saws that3429 Jesuits are no.
employed in missionary work, an
it seems that of these there are II
less than 759 in the United State
including fathers. scholastics an
brother coadjutors. Under I'll
laws of this country they are hen
free and safe in the pursuit of the
work
The Right Rev Henry c. La
has been elected Bishop Of the ne
Protestant Episcopal Diocese
Eaton. Nd. The convention VI
held on Friday, the goth inst. n
the vote was rs follows Cleric
vote. fourteen for Bishop Lay, al
six for DIR. PincIlney. Laymer
vote twenty for Bishop Lay al
eight for Or. Pnckncy. At I
time of his election to this new Oh
ccse he was Missionary Bishop
the Diocese of Arkansas.
A late China mail brought t
sad news that the old laws agalI
Christian converts have been ]
vived in Japan. All the natl
christians ia Nagaski have be
sentenced to suffer death, and |
of them have been executed. II
wholesale slaughter may cNtc
over the entire island, in which
Catholics alone claim 10000 me