Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-12-13
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
Ministers, the Progress of Religion,
and Church Matters Generally.

ana NHuEch Matters 0cneTAlly.
After a long period of inaction
and decline, the Quakers in West
mOreland and Craven, in Northwest
Yorkshire, England, are making
converts,
The Third Presbyterian church of
Pittsburgh, which cost about $780,
600 and is the finest church edifice in
that city, was dedicated November
30.
Oshkosh, Wis, will soon become
the western city of churches. Only
two years ago it had a population
of 5000; now it has Is churches, of
which five have been organized since
last April.
The two youngest bishops of the
Protestant Episcopal church-Tuttle
of Montana, and Robertson, of Mis-
souri-were raised as Methodists.
The presiding bishop, Smith, Of
Kentucky, was formerly a Congre-
gationalist.
The success of the First Presby-
terrain church of Cincinnati has
been so marked since it adopted the
free-seat plan that the Fifth church
has FOLLOWED its example. Both at
tendance and church finances have
increased over One-third.
The law of the Episcopal church
of the United States, as amended by
the late New York Convention, does
not allow any minister of that de-
nomination to marry parties, either
of which have been divorced, except
for adultery.
The London city Mission Maya
zine details the work Of the two
missionaries to the night cabmen of
London, Of whom there are nearly
two thousand, most of them old and
ailing men. The account is inter
esting, and. in many respects, en-
couraging
At late meeting of the Presby-
terry Of HOlston, the Rev Messrs.
W. II. Smith, and William Harri-
son were received from the Presby-
terry Of Union New SCHOOL,, Synod
of Tennessee. And the Rev. Sam
uel Hodge was dismissed to join the
Presbytery Of Dubuque, Synod of
Iowa.
At n recent public meeting in
Maine. the President stated that but
twenty per cent. Of the population
attended church, and that the eX-
cnses ofthose who stayed away were
either that they could not afford to-
rent pew or to dress well enough.
The Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation ofNorwalk, Conn, decidedly
object to have Miss AnnaE. Dickin-
sons lecture under the auspices ofthat
association. In a letter to the Ga
zette the President says: 1--WE deem
the general tenure Other lectures to
be pernicious and calculated to OPP
pose the great objects of a christian
association
It's a curious example Of the loss
inflicted upon the country by our
deprecated currency, even in its
charitable work, that the Board of
Missions of the Methodist chnrch
was obliged to appropriate over sew
cnty five thousand dollars for loss
by exchange, the missionary enter
prise il foreign lands having, of
course, 10 be supported with gold.
Minnesota Synod has increased
nearly thirty three per cent. during
the synodical year. Eight churches
received each more than twenty &C
cessions; nine new churches were
organized, six churches are building.
Besides work among Swedes and
Norwegians, the Synod has thriving
chrches among the Dacotahs, the
largest church on the roll being of
converted savages.
A theological student who has
been at work in the prison at Au-
burn, New York, writes to a relegi-
GUS paper: "Out of the hundred
men whom it was my privilege to
visit last year, l can now count
seven or eight who give good evil
dence that they are Christians, and
whose influence is good over their
fellow convicts. One of these col
lected some ten or a dozen Of his
comrades into sunday school class
and / obtained a teacher for them. .
The English Association for the
Promotion of the Unity of Christen-
dom, which seeks q reunion of the
Anglican with the Greek and Roman
churches, is said to be " the most
powerful agency for extending ritu-
alism." 1t was founded in 1857,
has now y, GS4 members, of whom
1851 are Romanists, and 10,02C
Anglicans.
The Centenary Methodist Episco.
pal Church South, in St Louis, Mis-
souri,, raised on Sunday, November
s, after strong plea by Presiden
William A. Smith, the large sum o
$4,000 for Central College. Th,
St. Louis AdrOcatc thinks tn,
amount will he largely increased By
the subscription of the absentees
The same congregation recent,
gave collection Of $1,000 for tn
Methodist Orphans Home of tina
church.
The Protestant ChurchmdH men
tons a case in New Jersey, wher
the ve5try Of IN Episcopal congrC
gation have resolved manimousl
that their rector be requested t
make such exchanges, or hold sue
fraternal relations with non-EpiscC
pal clergyman, as be may think d,
sirable, and pledging to him the
hearty sympathy and support, an
adherence, whatever may be the con
sequences.
The Rev. DIR. Leonard Bacon,
the New Haven, speaking on Il
subject Of education before the la
General Conference at Waterbur