New-York tribune., 1868-01-17
RELIGIOUS.

The new NJ +. Church at Granville, y. j., Is
10 be dedicated on the Goth inst
The Liberal Christian Union will meet in the
Church Of the Messiah, next Monday evening.
The Rev. Asahel Newell died on the Sth inst
at his sons residence in Montgomery Co.. Ill., at the age
Of % years.
A new Sisterhood of Charity, dedicated TO
ST. Ethelreda, has been established n the district VI d.
Pauls MalwOrth, London.
In the early Spring at New Melleray, Iowa,
work is 10 bo begun on new monastry, which, when
completed. will be the largest in America
The new Methodist Episcopal Church at Nj.
UOreb Somerset County ~ j. dedicated on the sth
inst. 1t Is a handsome edihce. and cost $4,000.
The Rev. Brown Emerson, ID. d., pastor OF
the South Church Salem Mass competed us Volh !eA'
The Rev. w. ii. II. Murray of the Corner
Church In Merdcn Conn, has prepared y yceum ieetiLe
Impartial Suffrage" In winch he speaks iOr "On""
The friends of the Rev. f.. t. Whitcomb of
Yantic celebrated the 10Th anniversary OF MS wedding
day by entertainment at s residence on tho evening
of the 9Th inst
AS the time for the meeting of the General
Conference draws near the Methodist ChuIeh bec1neS
CATION as that body to The reuds
Of Lay Delegation arc very able and very active
The New York State Temperance Society
will hold its annual meeting In Utica the 2ist aud 22d
inst. The Rev. Dr. Peck of Albany the Rev b. J. Ives
Hon. Mel Dow Of Portland, Me, TO be among tho
speakers.
Thursday next, Jan. 90, will be a memorable
the finest church edces In the denomination Is 20 be
dedicated in Wilmington Bishop simpson preaching the
dedcatOry at IL o'clock In the forenoon and the
Rev ii. Is. Ridgeway, OF the Hew-York Conference,
preaching in the evening.
In the Scotch Free Church every pastor at
the time Of his ordination, Is required Ia pay SO and
when he gets married so more; he must also eonir9Go
yearly $685. all OF which goes IN the widows fund Tho
married and unmarried gave alike ON the death OF every
minister his widow is entitled 10 50 much year. In pro-
portion 10 the size OF the family
The business of writing sermons for cuTates
-,
has long existed in England Indeed, sermons are ad
vertscd, aud stand ready TO get UP occasional
sermon with skill and dispatch. Tie question IS now in
the Ecclesiastical Court OF England to try whether such
practices are moral or otherwise.
Mrs. Mary Penn Gasllill, lately deceased,
who resided at Penn Cottage Lower Merton, Montgomery
County bequeaths in her VIII $1,000 to the Theo
logical seminary Of ST. Charles BorOMeO and 81 the
old Cathedral Church OF St. John Thirteenthst., be-
tween Market and Chestnut Ph9delpha at which place
The editor of The Church Monthly tells curl
story Of the December number OF the magazine:
The periodical called The Radical bound at the
81 SIX f SEp9 Ms 0j at d got bound up In tue covers
ever soon detected aud the mistake has been corrected
far as has been known 10 u.s."
To counteract the influence Of the Low
Churchmen. who are banded together in n union the
High Church party have formed u protective unlon
which has opened with vlgor under the protection OF
the Jews bitter than that which exists
Examiner and Chronicle.
The Rev. Theodore b. Lyman. the Ritual
isc Episcopal Priest at Rome Very anxious TO correct
the impression that his" American Chapel In Rome was
shut up by order OF the Papal authorities lie assures
the Church IN America that the Papa power has shown
40 disposition To interfere with his services II only
the two Presbyterian places OF worship that ordered
TO be closed. EXAMINER aud Chronicle
The Church Unions correspondent who re-
Gently attended Trinity Church TO cram article
upon what he styles Spectacular Religion" says that
the people who worship IN Trinity Cathedral have made
greater Progres. In the path Of superstition and the
OF worldly vanity within the past year. than IN Christian
charity humility, and Wey. The Unions writer facies
himself In an Idian pagoda. and "a numerous array
OF kidded snobs redolent VI patchOu with hair parted
in the middle aud upper lips not unlike patent shoe
brushes"