The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-01-26
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS GENERALLY.

Rev. Dr. Burnham has retired from the pastorate
of the first Congregational church in Rindge, N.
H. During his ministry of forty-sx years four
hundred and ninety-eight were added to the
church profession. He wrote two thousand
three hundred sermons, equivalent to one hundred
octave volumes Of three hundred printed pages.
Rev. William L. Cage just elected pastor Of
the Pearl street church of Hartford, is known as
translator of many German works, and is spoken
of as one Of the best German scholars ia this
country.
Rev. E. II. Titus, formerly Of Beverly, Mass, Is
supplying, by exchange and otherwise, the Con-
gregational church at West Newbury, in the same
State.
Mr. william P Alcott son of the late DR.. Will
liam A. Alcott. has accepted a call to the church
in North Greenwich, Conn.,, where he is nowilabor-
ing.
At the chapel of Zion church, Third avenue and
Thirty ninth street. Right Rev. Bishop Southgate,
rector divine service, free to all, is held every
Sabbath. This church has contributed largely
during the winter to alleviate the sufferings OF the
poor.
The English Abyssinian expedition may be
viewed as in some sense great missionary move
ment cutting across the line of the slave trade as
it did and being accompanied by missionary as
an interpreter CDR. KrappD and by two colpor
teurs a. distributors oil Bibles and religious books
and tracts.
In India there is . religious movement among
the natives, called SanGj. The members covenant
to this edect:-
will adore the Superior Being the Creator the Pre-.
omnipotsns, who has no form or like; aad viii not
adore any ether being.
One society is named the Vida Ssmaj. Another
ct Lahore is called the Brahma Samaj. A third II
l in the Punjaub. In the cathedral Of Bombay the
| Rev Mr.. Kirk has held conference with the ma
| tive reformers. He urged them to proclaim the
worship Of one God and to free themselves from
| the prejudices OF caste.
| In Japan, it IL said, there are twenty thousand
| Roman Catholics, descended from the Christian
converts left there two hundred years ago, at the
| time Japan was closed 70 foreign intercourse.
| They are scattered throughout the empire aud
| there are no new converts.
| A company Of fifty Highlanders, under Major
| Gordon, have left Scotland for Rome to form Q
| body guard for the Pope.
The Richmond Religious Herald has news that
| Mr.. Phillips and the other Southern Baptist mis-
sionaries at Abbeokuta, Africa, have been ex.
property and it is feared that the native Christians
| will be iiercely prosecuted.
There are, perhaps, one hundred thousand
Chinese in California now, and every month there
are more arriving. They are In condition here
TO be reached BY those who know their language
| and manners. A good Christian work begun
among them would Immediately affect China itself.
Rev. J. Anketell has become rector Of st. Paul's,
Havana, N. Y, and professor Of languages In the
Masonic College there.
Rev. William Ballantyne, Of Canada, has re.
ceived and accepted call from the First Presby.
terrain church Of Brooklyn, Iowa.
Rev. g. Barber closed an eight years. ministry
| with the First parish in Tyngsboro, Mass, on
| the last Sabbath Of 1867.
An American has commenced the publication OF
an illustrated Sabbath school newspaper in Buenos
Ayres, South America.
Rev. e. L. Benkinopp, . clergyman receiving
| the pay Of the Church Of England, asserts thai
| Professionalism has produced ell the heresy and
schisn and infdelity Of the last three hundred
years, from Martin Luther to Joe Smith,"
Rev. J. G. Burnell has accepted q call to the
Congregational churches OF Unionville and North
| Madison, Conn.
Rev. Nathaniel W. Conkling, Of Philadeph
accepts the call Of the Rutgers church, in this
| city.
Raw. j. B. Cook, Of Wells, Me-, has taken charge
Of the Congregational church Of Salisbury, Mass.
Rev. Noah Cressey, who died in Boston last
month, was installed over the Congregational
church In Norway In 1909.
The Richmond Wing tsstines that the late
Bishop Hopkins, Of Vermont, was one Of the few
heroic men who dared to confront In New England
the fanatcism and heresies that ruled the minda
and swayed the passions Of that people. He did
| not hesitate to defend slavery ~ God-ordainsd
institution, 20 dsnounoe Tho war and to Justify the
South and q soon a. the war ended he came
South to offer what cid and sympathy he could "a
her people,"
Tho Collsriate Dutch) church hes chosen new