Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-04
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
Progress of Religion at Home and
AbrOad-sffnisters, Sunday Schools
and Church Matters.

AbrOad-1ffnisters, Sunday schools
and Church Matters.
There are about a thousand mem
bers of the Greek Church in Califor.
MIA, principally Russians.
At the regular meeting of the con
| ference of Baptist ministers of Bos-
ton and vicinity, one hundred and
nineteen baptisms were reported fol
the month.
| The Christian AdUocate, of New
York, reports within the bounds OF
its circulation accessions to the
Methodist Church of 1858 during
a part Of the past month.
i Five Episcopal churches have
been lately formed in the State of
New York-one at Buffalo, called
Christ Church, one at Williamsburg,
one at Spring Valley, one at East
Aurora and one at Tonawanda.
| Rev. C. C. Townsend, who died
recently at New York, has been en-,
gagged for fifteen years in taking
destitute children to homes in the
West.
A correspondent from Rock
Island, Illinois, says that city is
now enjoying the most extensive
revival of religion that has visited
it during its entire history. A rich
harvest is being gathered into all
the churches.
In South. Jersey, before 1875,
| there were eight, and now there are
fifty two Baptist churches, with
1900 members. About thirteen of
these need and receive aid. The
Baptists of this region have just
subscribed $4,000 to found, at
Bridgeton, the "South Jersey In
stitute."
At the fremont Street Methodist
Episcopal Church, Boston, the con-
gregation and pastor read alternate
verses of scripture. Not q single
amen is heard from this congrega.
ton, at the close of the prayer from
the pulpit.
A Methodist sisterhood has been
formed in Cincinnati with bands Of
40 sisters each, to visit the sick and
poor and labor for the advance
ment of piety and virtue, following
at a distance the methods of the |
Catholic sisterhood.
A Methodist ministers meeting
in New York has discussed the |
question, "What shall be done for
the salvation Of the rich ?" The |
question usually has been, Glow |
shall we reach the poor?"
1t is stated in the Friend, the Phil
adelphia organ of the people some
times called Quakers, that in Ohio
they are decreasing. Since 1880 |
but five new meeting houses
have been established, while thirty
seven have been abandoned.
In the Friendly Islands, where
fifty years ago there was not one ma
tive Christian, but gross and un-
broken darkness, the regular at
tendants on religious worship now
exceed 10000, and contributions to
religious objects are over $4,000
year. They have also $50 day |
schools, containing 10000 pupils.
An imp ortant series of meetings
has Just been held in Pittsburg,
Cleveland and Cincinnati, and other
places, for the promotion of a bet
ter observance of the Sabbath. The
occasions drew together large au-
diences ofGerman as well as English
citizens, and addresses were made
in both languages 1t looks like the
the beginning of a much needed
reformation.
A Jewish alliance in France has
nearly 10000 members. 1t is look |
ing forward to the occupancy of
Palestine by the Jews. They have
an agricultural school and colony
near Jaffa. The eighth anniversary |
was held January IA, in Paris,
and was a brilliant gathering.
Mr.. Surgeons congregation
raised last year $4,000, over 5000
a week, by the boxes at the doors,
mostly in pence, to help young |
men preparing for the ministry, be-
sides other donations amounting to
f2O,OOO (sl3I, OOO, besides pew
rents.
During the past ten months the
American and Foreign Christian
Union has made an advance Of 80 |
per cent. in its collections as com
pared with the previous year. Its |
appropriations for the current year
are $4,000 beyond the former.
Its great work is on behalf of the
Roman Catholic population, at home |
and abroad.
Philadelphia has long been known
as the Quaker City and enjoyed an
enviable reputation for the cleanli-
ness of its streets. It has forfeited
its claim to both these distinctions.
Out of 1863 places of worship in its
limits only twelve belong to the
friends, seven to the Orthodox and
five to the Hicksites.
Certain Protestant Episcopalians
in the diocese of Illinois have issued
a protest against what they believe
10 be the Romanizing tendencies of
Bishop Whitehouse and others of
his school. A convention of all
who sympathise with this protest is
called to meet iu Chicago in June
next, for discussion and consulta-
ton.
Rev. DIR. Morgan recently
preached a sermon in Trinity
Chapel, New York, in which he
gave vivid picture of the moral
depravity of the city, in both high
and low places. He cOntended that
crime was on the increase, while
morality was losing its sway. As
an evidence of the tendency toward
a corrupt state OF civilization, he
named the fact that there are 1,400
lawyers and 1900 physicians in
New York, and only 300 preachers
Of the gospel.
Rev. Mr.. Earle, the revivalist,
who has been preaching in the
Baptist Church at Richmond, Vir-
GINA, in his. farewell discourse,