The Portland daily press., 1869-06-19
Religlous Intelligence !.


The Southern Methodists report 603, 596
white members and 320S5 colored.
Protestant churches are being established
in many Of the chief towns of Turkey.
Religious intolerance in Brazil is causing
a decrease in German immigration.
The Queen of Madagascar and several of
her ministers were recently publicly baptized
in the English missionary church.
-Of seven young men accepted the present
year by the American Board, all but one go as
missionaries to China.
-Issac Pitman, of Bath. England, the pho
nographic inventor, has published complete
edition of the Bible in Photographic charac-
ters ~
The Rev. N. w. Clarke, late OF Keene, N.
H.. has entered ON his labors as pastor of the
BAPTIST church and society at Newton Centre.
The Rev. John S. Ayre, a superannuated
m;o;ster. has just given one thousand dollars
4, aid in the establishment of Methodist
Mission in Italy.
The First Baptist Church in this city
hoped to dedicate their new place of worship
the 2Sd; but it is found impossible to do 1t be-
fore the last week in June
Tho Romisn church will make q strong eff
fort to get some hold of the Freedmen for the
advantage of their faith. An exchange says:
"There are probably not less than a hundred
colored men now in Rome preparing for the
priesthood OF course the majority of them
Will become the teachers of the Freedmen at
the South
In the account of the proceedings of the
General Cow sntion of the New Jerusalem
Church of the United States on Wednesday
we find the following, as reported in the New
York Herald
The hour of twelve having arrived, recess
to half-past two p. M. was taken on motion OF
Rev. DR.. Ager. Immediately after rising the
congregation were at once called to order and
the baptismel fount brought to the front Of the
chancel, with the usual ceremonies prescribed
| in the New Jerusalem liturgy. The sacred
ordinance of baptism" was publicly admins
| tered by Rev. DIR. Giles to Rev. Mr.. Edwin
Ruthven Reyes, hitherto Methodist preach
| er in Portland, Me-, who thus publicly con
fessed his conversion to Swedenborgianisn
| and received admissiou into the New Church
| Rev. Mr.. Reyes will receive from this CON
vention license to oficiate. and will return
as Swedenborgian minister to Portland
| whence he left Methodist.
The main feature of general religious in
terest of the week has been the Anti Rituals
tic convention at Chicago We give q sum
mary of the closing as reported. The Chair
man Of the Committee on Resolutions, report
ed that in the opinion of the Conference it il
the duty of Evangelical men in the Church t,
try by means of the public and press to inform
the laity respecting the vital questions tina
now agitate the Church That the American
Church Missionary Society should extend itl
| work to foreign fields or another association b.
formed on the voluntary principle to conduc
the work. That this Conference recommend
that the Evangelical clergy of our Churcl
avail themselves Of all such means as the,
may deem best to promote fraternal ani
Christian religion with the ministers of the
churches, especially by uniting with them in
such great national institutions as the Ameri
can Bible Society. Remarks were made BY
Rev. DR.. Newton, Rev. Mr.. Clements, Rev
DIR. Andrews, and others, upon the subject.
matter of the resolutions, after which they
were adopted. Rev. DR.. Cooper offered the
| following: Resolved, That there shall be
now appointed a committee of clergymen and
laymen, to be denominated the Standing Com
mittee of the Chicago Conference, which Com
mittee shall have power to sit as often as they
may deem expedient, and shall be a body in
perpetuity for the promotion of the genera
objects contemplated by this Conference