Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-06-27
RELIGIOUS INrELMGENCE.
Progress Of EeiigiOn aG Horne and
Abroad-Ministers and sun-
day Schools

&e"SFeAs "i heitSton a1 Home al
AbroHd-hinfsferS and sun-
dag Schools.
Connecticut reports liz Bapti
churches, with 10, $50 members.
The revival in Salem, N. j., h,
sdded over 500 10 the number
church members.
Last year 9,202 English Sabbat
school scholars became members, {
churches.
The Presbyterian thinks tbs
enough Of their ministers hay
crossed the ocean for health or re
creation, TO form full grown Pres
bytery, or a small synod.
The receipts for Episcopal for
eign missions this year are in ad
vance Of the last, and ffalf the def
cheney of $33, 900 remaining in DC
tOber last has been paid of.
The American Baptist Year Bool
is just issued. There are reported
65l associations, 1901 churches
S,695 ordained ministers, COTS
baptisms, and I,12I,98 presen
members.
The English Jewish rabbi, DIR
Adler, declares that Judaism teache:
"that the sincere and virtuous pro.
lessons of every religion may hope
10 ENJOY future happiness"
Thirteen candidates for the min
istry in the Lutheran Church were
ordained in Trinity Church, Read
ing, Pennsylvania, by the Synod du-
ring its late session in that place.
Postmaster General Cresswell, on
the request Of number of relig-
ious organizations, has ordered the
discontinuance Of the Sunday mail TO
and from Cape May, Atlantic, and
other watering places.
III Great Britain there are thirty
one Catholic Peers, fifty Catholic
Baronets and thirty eight Catholic
members of the House of Commons.
Catholicism is said to be on the in
crease throughout England.
4 In Schem's Ecclesiastical Alma
nae for 1868 the total number of
members in evangelical denomina-
tons IN this country is 1904 ,929 in
population of not less than 3d.
100000, or one in seven.
The Jews are said TO be vigo-
rOusly pushing three Enterprises
the establishment of an agricultural
colony in Jerulasem, q Universal
Synod in Germany, and the revos
cation of the decree of 1895 Danish
ing Jews from Spain.
Bishop Whitehouse, of Illinois,
has cited Rev. Mr. Cheny, of Christ's
Church, Chicago, before an eccles.
iastical council for dIopping the
word regeneration in the baptism
al service, and asserting his disbe-
lief in any regenerating qualities in
the ordinance of baptism.
Rev. DIR. Hamilton, of Oakland,
California, who was recently dis
missed from the Presbytcry be
cause he taught that man could
repent and be forgiven after death,
has an independent Presbyterian
Church, fill to overlooking with
those who agree with him in senti
meEt.
The Old School Mission Church
in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is an OBJ
ject of such hostility, that it has re-
CURED military guard for its pros
lection. The Sunday shOol con
nected with the church has ten
teachers and sixty pupils. The
chuIch has but thirty, six communi
cants.
The Missionary Society of the
British BaptisLs report an income
of $50, $50. At It's recent session
an address was made by the Rev.
Dr.. Landels, in which he brought
out the fact that each missionary
family in India costs, on an average,
f3S5 per annum, and urges that the
missionaries go out at first unmar-
ried
The late Episcopal Conference at
Chicago, indicates that a portion of
the denomination are quite earnest
in their determination TO amend the
prayer book and 70 adopt q policy
Of the Interchange Of ministerial
offices with other denominations.
None of the Bishops, however, APP
pear 10 he with them.
A new Jewish synagogue in the
city of New York, called ,Shaaray
76ld, which means Gates of:Prayer,
has just been completed at cost of
1925, 900. They adopt the Ortho-
dOx Hebrew creed, and during the
service the men sit in the body of
the church, whilo the women sit in
the galleries.
There are three well defined par
ties in the Protestant Episcopal
Church in the United States-the
Ritualistic or ROmanistic wing, the
Middle party, who claim evangcli-
cal sentiments, but hold to the
Prayer-bOok as it is, and the evan
gclical party proper, who contend
that the Prayer book possesses Ro-
manizing germs, and should there
fore be revised.
The Roman Catholics have about
thirty churches in Boston, located
in the most desirable portions of
the city. They arc also erecting n
mammoth church edilice of granite,
fronting Washington street, which
will rival the Temple of Fifth ave
nue.. New York. Within fortnight
ninety Protestants are said TO have
embraced the Catholic faith.
There is in England a South
American Missionary Society, which
last year raised and expended over
$4,000 1t was originated by a
sea captain, who was greatly inter
ested in an effort to cyanoelize
the Patsgonians, and whose tragic
death, 10y starvation, on his last re
turn to Patagonia, only excited
grcater interest ia the work. Ills
,,.,,- IN D.ta,n,1a n, 10.