Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-05-02
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

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RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
Progress OF Religion nj Home and
Abroad-Ministers, Sunday schools
and Church Matters.
The Protestant ChUrchmaa says
Ritualism is the Humpty Dumpty
of the Church.
There are fewer young men now
offering themselves as missionaries
to the Baptist Union than at any
time for thirty years.
A careful estimate would place
the number of recent conversions
in all the Presbyterian churches at
Buffalo at considerably over three
hundred.
The Providence, Rhode Island,
Methodist Conference last week re-
solved to admit no man to member
ship who uses tobacco except for
medicinal purposes.
The Baptist annual, of New
York, shows that in that State there
are $40 churches, Isl ordained or
licensed preachers, 4,941 baptisms
last year, and 6,703 members.
The Rev. j. r. Ramsay, Presby-
terrain missionary to the Indians,
reports increasing fervor for relig-
ion among the Seminoles, many of
whom still retain their heather Gus
toms.
On Easter Sunday fifty persons
in Madrid received the communion
according to the rite of the Protest.
ant religion. This is the first time |
that such ceremony has been wit |
messed in that city since the days of |
Philip III.
The Presbytery at Corisco, in
Africa, Jan. 8, dIsapproved of the
basis of union Of the two schools in
this country but authorized the as
sembly to complete a reunion on
the basis of the confession of faith
and catechisms without explanation.
Baptist Anniversaries will be held |
in Boston the third week of May.
The Missionary Union will meet
Tuesday, the 18th the Home Mis-
sion Society Wednesday, the 10Th;
and the Publication and Bible So
ciety, Thursday, the Goth.
A revival of religion is in pro-
gress in Richmond, Ind, in which
the Methodists, Presbyterians and
Friends are sharing richly. The
orthodox Friends carry on their
meetings much as do the Methodists
singing, praying, exhorting, and
calling up mourners.
Since the burning of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church at San Jose,
California, the dwelling of Rev.
Thos. Dunn, pastor, has been twice |
fired. He persists in the "crime"
of ahording religious instruction to
some of the Chinese.
There are 1904 Sunday schools
under Methodist Episcopal control,
instructing 1,195,914 scholars, an
increase Of 1889 last year. Hence
the scholars in the Sabbath schools
of that denomination are nearly as
many as adults in church relation
ship. 1904.
Since the establishment of civil
and religious liberty in Austria, that |
country has entered on a course of |
unprecedented prosperity Business
is active, the productive industry of |
the country is fully employed, and
wealth is accumulating.
The Presbytery of st. Joseph,
Indiana, New School, in view of the |
failure OF the committees basis, APP
proved by two successive General
Assemblies, adopts n resolution
earnestly petitioning its General
Assembly to withdraw from all fur
ther negotiations on the subject, in
case the Old School declines the
basis now proposed.
The Congregational Churches of
Illinois gave for all religious pur-
poses, during the year 1868, $780,
022 G3. OF this, S5,774 50 were
given to foreign missions-less than
enc seventeen part of the whole
sum. The AdCdnce states these
facts in proof that the churches in
question have not forgotten that
charity begins at home"
! The Roman Catholics have "a
missions in China with 10 bishops,
five apostolic projects and "a col
legcs, besides numerous other
schools. The Sisters of Charity
have nine establishments in that
empire. In Canton and Pekin the
Roman Catholics are building
eathedrals TO cost S3,O00,OOO each.
The american Presbyterian, new
school, wishes for u union Of the
two schools based on complete har-
mony of sentiment, or with the adj
mission of differences not in con
flict with essential dogmas of the
church. 1t wishes for a specific
recognition of minor differences
within the circle Of genuine Calvin
ism.
The Lexington (Ky.) Statesman
saws: The elders Of the Christian
Church in this city have taken de-
cided grounds against whisky and
whisky makers, and have determ-
med not TO allow members of their
church TO manufacture it or sell it
exclusively, in large or small guam
titles. This is n pretty bold course
for them TO pursue, and the inf1u
ence of it will be great"
While the Pope has summoned a
general council at Rome to CON-
mence its sessions in December, a
great Protestant convention is pro
iected to meet at Berlin, Prussia, to
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