The Portland daily press., 1868-02-29
Religious Intelligence.

"A New York dispatch says that the yer
dict in the case of Rev. Stephen Fl Tying, finds
him guilty of violation of the canon, but
recommends the punishment to be as Light. as
possible.
The city council of Newark, New jersey,
have stdecided adversely on petition from
the Roman Catholic schools OF that city for
pro rata share of the school fund. The refusal
is made on the ground that upon no principle
which does not set at naught all Justice and
equality can money be given to one Christian
denomination and refused to another. If Civ
en- to Catholics, all other sects would have an
equal rightato claim their respective quotas of
the school fund, thus absorbing the whole,
ana taxing education out of the States hands,
to put it into those of the church I'D
KEY. Messrs. Foote and Haskns have
reached Great Salt Lake City, and held the
first religious service since the departure of
Rev. Norman Mcleod. They have Sunday
school having an average attendance of hun
dred, and day school OF seventy-eight. We
sincerely hope the Government will protect
this school and church against Brigham
Young.
The Universalsts have ordained Mrs. P. A.
Hanaford as a minister and installed her as
pastor of Universalist church in bingham.
Mass. ..4. I'd ..-.7. -
The revivals in Indiana are said to have
caused 10000 persons to become church MEM
bers.
"A Western exchange contains the following
item: Mr.. D. L. Moody, the lay evangelist Of
Chicago lately visited the Catholic Bishop of
that city to complain that the Irish boys broke
the windows of his chapel. The Bishop said
that he did right in coming to him, and that
he would see that the mischief was pnt an end
to, and he kept his word. The conversation
was then turned to other topics, and finally to
the efficacy Of prayer "Well," says Moody ~
visit great many kinds of people in Chicago,
and l always pray with them before leaving
them. So let us pray" And before the Bish-
op could say nay he was on his knees pouring
out bis soul to God, beseeching all spiritual
blessings upon the Bishop and his flock.
The Presby churches In France are
| almost equally divided into the Evangelical
and the Rationalistic parties. The former has
| just carried the election for members of the
ConseH Pres5yterdl by very small majority,
but yet by gain on the previous election.
The Evangelicals have secured large major
| ity in Rouen.
The "Church of the Disciples" in Boston
| REV. James Freeman Clarke's) has succeeded
in an experiment which in many other cases
has signally failed. The church was COM
menced in 1841, on the principle of free seats
and has always been so carried on. No seat
has ever been sold or rented. The church has
been supported all this time by voluntary sub
scriptions, and has welcomed all worshipArs,
whether they paid much, little, or nothing. A
new and larger house of worship is to be erect
ed, by voluntary contributions from those who
are willing to give to church free to all, where
the poor and rich sit tog ether side by side.
Rev. Rufus p. Stebbens D. D., who was
sent by the Unitarian Association at Boston
to supply the church at Washington, has sue
ceeded in settling the difficulty about the
colored Sunday school. The commit ee have
rescinded their unlucky vote to remove
the school from the church, thus restor.
ing the school. The school then accepted the
situation; but appealed to the church and
their friends to procure them a mol suitable
| place of meeting. @ @ta