Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-04-05
RELIGIOUS SUMMARY.

There arssaid to be 81. 600 Orthodox
Qaskers in this country.
The UniFersalists claim $50 parishes
and 5S7 ministers in the United States.
-Thare are 120 young men preparing
FOR the ministry il Chiesgo.
DIR. Cuy!er's Church, New York,
numbers 1880 communicates.
IN the dIoceseef Philadelphia there
are eleven Roman Catholic converts.
The Fourth street Baptist Church,
st. Louis, has over 1880 Suuday-schooi
scholars.
"A cellar subscription is in progress
among the Jews TO build synagogues In
Spain.
Madrid sold II, 900 feet of land on the
Promenade de Bilbao for the Protestant
Church.
The New School General Assembly
meets next May in DR.. Rrentiss' church,
New York.
--Twenty-six bishops Of the Anglican
communion now Use pastoral slaves, and
seven mitres.
France now has 82O Protestant Sun.
day schools; Germany, $50; SWitz9r-
land, $50; Holland, 2S6.
The New York City Mission has
gathered 2Ss4 children and youths into
Sabbath schools during the last year.
Five hundred religious men in Tours,
/ France, have petitiOned the Senate that
the Church may be wholly separated
/ from the State,
"A congregation of Seventh Bay
! Christians in Hungsry, being REFUSE q
l tolerance by the laws has embraced Ju-
| daism.
Bishop Coke has been urged by the
/ standing committee to take brief vsca-
ton in Europe for his health, He de-
clines.
The Swiss Presbyterian Synod o.
Zurich has adopted 8 liturgy with one
form Of prayer for evangelcals, and an
other for rationalists.
Rev. DIR. Osborn, Of the Fourth Street
Baptist Church, St. Louis, has gone tc
Europe TO collect marers sAls to complete
history Of Baptists.
"A Presbyterian clergyman in Call
fornis, indicted for heresy, threatens =
prosecute the council if they trif1e VIII
his character.
The British aud Foreign Bible So
ciety has resolved to print ], 600 600 cOpie
of the Gospels in the version by Cyprian
de Valera.
The Jewish community, and quite,
nunher of Christian societies of Frank
FORT. the birthplace OF the late BsrO
ROthschild, have received legacles De
queathed to them by the DECEASED.
"A London paper has correspor
dence from COnstsntnopie, stating tns
tha 2nItaD has written to the Pope 3 lei
} ter. ia which he asks His Holiness info
= nation concerning certain points OF IN
3 Catholic religion. This letter has create
a great sensation in Rome. It is gene
slly Iook ed upon as frat step on tn
part of His Highness towards his oonVel
sion to Christianity.
The fashionable preachers OF Vienn
made la their Lent sermons terrible q
taeks upon the newspapers. Father Br
y mer said in the pulpit OF the Dominlcs
g Church Beloved Brethren l tell 20
o read no bad newspapers, 10 bed BOOK
p INT read the Bible, and you viii be ce
tain 10 be converted" Another preach
sjnpljfied this sdyice considerably
recommending his audience MOTTO ret
l. any newspapers at all +; sll OF them we
> bad.
q Bishop Lay, recently translated fro
l. Arkansas to Maryland, in his farew'
Ietter dated Easter Monday, pays the Il
lowing merited compliment TO the pc
nle of the State whore he has minister
90 acceptably and we'll " 1t had oceu
red tn raa that iD leaving Arkansas
81 onoht 70 zrite privately my scknoW
ID edements to individuals of the love 81
e. h 1dness received In years past. ID
of " en- came to nuInhe them, It seem
ae imnossible to write to all: Every lit
town and neighborhOod suggests u
- names OF kind and hosplt sble friend
and every rough path fs minds noe
~ soraa help without which it could n
~ have been traVersed. We hear mu
said sometimes of prejudice and secta
an bitterness. In these nine years and
half have encountered none. In q
missionary services I have had access
,or whole communities, and ha 70 recelvet
cordial welcome from minis ers OF 9th
.. Teligious bodies. This kind less | ha
'er endeavored not to abuse, bu yet ha
a rot found myself llindered from teac
ed n the whole doctrine Of the Church
plain and charitable terms.D