Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-05-23
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
Progress OF ReIIgtGn-MinIslerS, sun
day Schools and Church Matters.


day schools and Church Matters.
The Mormons have eighteen Sun
day schools, with $500 attendants
at Salt Lake City.
The First Presbyterian Church o
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, has adopted tn,
plan of free seats and, atthe same
time, added $500 to the salary o.
the pastor. o
The Universal Israelite Alliance
which las its centre in Paris, has
now in operation 13 schools-6 in
Morocco, 3 in Turkey, 2 in Pales-
+ tine, / in Syria, and | in Asia Mi
nor, besides the normal school at
Paris. @
An American Episcopal church
was organized at Dresden, Saxony,
March 20, IN the Hotel de Pologne.
The constitution provides that the
parish shall be known as the Ameri-
can Church of st. John, in the city
of Dresden, SaxOny. The mem
bers are principally Americans,
Rev. DIR. Wisner's church, Pres
byterian, at Lockport, New York,
Sunday the 9th inst, admitted by
profession 203 members by letter,
15s total, 2I9. OF these, SO were
baptized. This is believed te be the
largest accession ever made to a
chuFeh in western New York at one
time. At the commencement of
DIR. Wisner's passionate in that
church, its entire membership was
202, 1t is now about 700.
The pastoral letter of Archbishop
Spalding, read in the Catholic
church at Baltimore, on Sunday,
the 9th inst, urges Catholics to pay
particular attention to the education
and conversion of the blacks in this
country. He also advises that
more attention be paid to building
protectories and orphan asylums
foT vagrant Catholic children. He
encourages christian education, but
denOunces education without re-
ligion as tending to vice and i'm
morality.
The Episcopalians in Kentucky
have inaugurated a new system of
church extension, employing two
evangelists to build up churches in
destitute places, and to do much of
the work of a Methodist travelling
preacher. A missionary of the
Church Missionary Society has dur
ing the last year organized congre-
cations in five towns in Missouri,
averaging twenty COMMITMENTS in
each.
Bishop Kingsley presides over
the Colorado Conference, June "a;
the Oregon, August II; the Nevada,
Sept. 2, and the California, Sept.
Is. After these he embarks at San
FRANCISCO for China and India, Wis
iting as he returns on his round-the-
world journey, Germany, France,
England and Ireland. That world
wide parish of Wesley's needs
looking after and will receive it.
An exchange says: 1--WE spoke
recently of the Moravians as mis-
sionary church. 1t seems they are
surpassed by the Waldeneses. These
people have only twenty-six congre-
cations with three thousand COM
municants, yet they have in Italy
eighty missionary agents, of whom
thirty-one are ordained ministers,
and forty nine teachers. That is
equivalent 10 three missionaries
for every congregation. This shows
what people can do when they try"
1t is reported in England that
several Clergymen of the English
Church propose to attend the aps
preaching General Council. They
wish to lay before it their difficulties
in regard TO Rome. They wish to
have place in the Catholic Church,
but deem their present orders valid,
and cannot submit TO be reordained.
A special committee has been APP
pointed at Rome to investigate this
subject and advice the body how to
deal with it. Many of this class, it
is thought, will join the Catholic
Church, and be admitted to its
priesthood. If the law requiring
the celibacy of the clergy should be
revoked very large accesions weuld
be obtained from the Anglican
clergy.
Elder Heman Bangs, a veteran OF
Connecticut and New York Method.
ism, has lately been placed on the
superannuated list at his own re.
quest. He has built some fortS OF
fifty churches in Connecticut, and
twenty parsonages, though he never
lived in one. He claims to have
been the fiRt Methodist in this
country who preached on temper
ance; and says ten thousand souls
have been converted under his min
SrtEy. He has never complained
bat once about his salary, and ther
he objected TO an increase on tho
ground that the example might have
q Bad influence upon his brethren
The old veteran was presented Will
$4,000 on retiring.