Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-08
RELIGIOUS IzrELLIGENCE

France Is l,2OOOO0, or thlrtieth OF the
entire population.
II is said that the Baptisis in this county
have added over 6l,000 by baptism, this
present year. Their number Of communi-
cants is over 100000.
The Church Monthly, an organ Of the
Episcopalians, in its October number comes
out fquarelv for Ritualism, which, IL says
sis system that belongs TO the Church by
right Of inheritance"
But one Old School Presbytsry 50 far
votes against reunion. This l. West Lex
ington, XIV, which Dr. RJbsrt j. Breckin-
ridge Represented IN the last Assembly.
There are but four other Ministers in il.
The frat foreign missionary of the E1g-
lish Society for The Propagation of the
gospel was sent out in 1902 to the State of
New jersey. His name was George Keith,
and he was felow-student of Bishop Bur
net, in the University OF Aberdeen.
Elder T. NJ GanO, formerly Colonel in
the Confederate service, recently held a
protracted meeting at Providence Church,
half way between Lexington and Nichol-
asville, Kentucky. The meeting was con-
tinued about two weeks, and resulted 10
about seventy confession5--a number OF
ihemost prominent citizens that locality.
The Church Ners at Hokartown, EpiscO.
pal, calls on the bishops for a revision Of
The liturgy. 1t SAYS the church wants more
liberty, ard liberty TO avoid disagreeable
IapetitIons. Many, it says, take liberties
with the liturgy already, bnt others do not
dare 10 depart from it.
Nine new churches have been organized
l e tb. los
wear. seven white and three Indian
churches. About half dozen church odi-
fees are in process Of erection, and many
congregations are preparing to build soon.
Rev. Stephen II. Tying Jr., in a sermon
preached October Is, and published IN tue
Church Union on the oath, charges modern
sacerdoialism and accommodation as SER
Gus affections Of the Episcopal Church
lie describes those schemes as at war with
Protestant symps,hies and principles.
Rev. Charles :. Robertson, ID, is pros
pering in the American Chapel in the city
of Paris. The liturgy has been laid
aside. and the service il such as is usual
in the Congregational and Presbyterian
churches. The Chapel is full, and great
interest j. taken 10 the advancement OF
religion in the congregation.
Rev. Mr.. Clough, Baptist missionary at
Augole, in the Madras Presidency, India,
writes July 4th, that fifty or sixty Hindoos
have come from The Eeighboring villages
10 be instructed in the principles and OBJ
iects Of Christianity, and that several OF
them have received baptism. The Baptists
have a school at ToungOo, in Burmah,
with sizty-one pupils.
Since April LIST, five new churches have
been organized in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, four
of which have erected suitable church edi
tces duriDg,ihat time. three Of them being
occupied and the fourth will be mex
month. There are now eighteen regularly
organized churches in that city, and seven
teen of them have church editiCes Of their
own.
A number Of the Synods Of the Presby
terrain Church have Joined in recommend
inp the Observance Of the first Sabbath 0
December as a day of special prayer in be
half'of missions, both foreign and dOmea
tic, and have directed pastors and all per
soma supplying pulpits, to observe that da
as A dav for special instruction concerning
these great enterprises Of the Church, an
the duty of all its members to give theJ
active and hearty support.
A statement has been printed in severs
papers that there are probably not NOR
Than thirty ministers Of the gospel Of a
denominations in the State Of Texas.
Methodist pastor of Galveston corrects tbs
statement by saving that the Melhodi
Fprcoual Church alone has thirty trave
ing ministers and forty-hve local ones, a
al work in that State. The other demon
informed.
The Free Church Of Scotland. since !
aration from the Establishment in ISL
when Aearly five hundred cergymen vo
untarilv resigued their homes and living
has hunt nine hundred churches, six hu
dred and fifty manses, three theoiogic
College, two normal OF training institution
and five hundred schools. Her avera,
annual income Tor three years previous
1865 has been c370,O00, and during h
twenty five years of existence witho
State support the sum raised by
amounts 10 over eS,0o0,O00 sterling
There are now in Brazil, three minist,
Connected with the Southern Preshyteri
cbur,h Rev. W. C. Emerson, Of +
Mississippi, Rev. Holmes i Hervey,
Fast Alabama, and the Rev }. K. BAH
of South Carolina. The last reached {
1e Jaueiro, On his way to Santa Bsrba
after long and rough voyage. Rev.
Nash Morton was ordained "a an evan
list by the Presbylery of Roanoke, on
18Th Of August, and was to have sal
from New York Tor South America on
2SA. He gees to establish a new mis-
enterprise in that county, and will
Joined. "a fOOn rs the most suitable 70
IL determined on, by the Rev L G. La
now preaching at Madison.
The New School ministers in Iowa
nearly equal TO their churches the Cons
oationalists one-fourih les, and The
school one-tbiTd ltss. The fact that
New School have more ministers in
nortion 70 their churches is singular.
The United States they have 2l0 II
ministers than chuEches, while the
school have 10. less. The growth Of
ola School in Iowa IL about eleven
three-uuarters per cent; the New SC
thirteen and thrse-quarers per cent;
the Cougregationalist eleven aud one
nrc cent. The donations per member
Od School, 81 O.: New School, 81