The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-12-18
Religious Intelligence.


There is considerable religious interest at
North Berwick in the Baptist and Freewin
Baptist churches.
Rev. S. S. Brownson, pastor Of the Bap-
tist church in Anson, baptized five on the last
day of November.
1t is proposed to erect in Edinburg statue
or other suitable monument to DIR. Chalmers,
the great pulpit orator
Rev. E. Place Ladd has received and ac-
cepted call to the pastorate of the Freewill
Baptist church in Limerick.
The Protestant Bishop of Cashel Ireland,
Dr. DAILY, is preparing to make every curate in
his diocese Christmas present of fifty pounds.
AT the opening of the Suez Canal, the
blessing was pronounced by the ministers of
all religions, and in all languages, simultane-
ously.
Rev. j. r. Bowler of Rockland, Baptist
Missionary, has been laboring for some five
weeks in Guilford, where an interesting revt-
val is in progress, some twenty or more con-
versions.
The Catholic clergy of Cork, Ireland, have
held conference on the evils of intemperance,
and resolved to entreat all employers to pay
wages on Friday instead of Saturday, so as to
ullulnisu Ouuudy
General Green Clay Smith, formerly 10y
al member of Congress from Kentucky, has
joined the Baptists, and is ordained as min
ter. He breaches to destitute congregations in
Madison county, where he resides
Rev. d. d. Hill, of the Elm street B iptist
Church, Bath, resigned his charge about
week since. The regular service will be dis
continued for a short time, and some repairs
will be made on the Church.
Westward the star of Congregationalism
takes its way. The Boston Congregational
Review is to be removed from Boston to Chi
cago, and edited by the leading ministers and
professors of that faith there.
Rev. ID. E. 3. Fairfield of Hillsdale Mich,
formerly President of the Free Baptist Col
lege there, announces in card published in
the Morning Star that he has transferred his
ecclesiastical connection from the Free Bap-
lists to the Congregationalists.
The American residents in Dresden have
felt themselves strong enough to form an
Episcopal Church, and have procured for their
pastor DR.. J. L. Mambert, formerly of Lancas-
ter, Pa, an intelligent, courteous and earnest
minister.
The Catholic priests of Sandusky, Ohio,
have given notice from the pulpit that those
Catholic parents who are sending their child
rem to the public schools must send them to
the Catholic schools, or they will not be al
lowed to partake of the Holy Sacrament.
The annual Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in Georgia was held at At
lanta, in the woods, because no suitable house
was open to them in the city. Bishop Simp
som presided, and his patriotic utterance
during the war were brought up as reasons for
refusing the use of regular church edifces,
either Methodist or Presbyterian.
Rev. E. Corwin, of Oakland, California,
| describes in the Home Missionary his success
among mixed population in suburban
| town, in inviting all classes Of Christians in
| single church, which, in ten months, increas-
| ed its membership nearly three-fod His pol
| icy was to preach Christ, so that all might be
profited, and no one feel his denominational
feelings wounded.
The twenty-third annual conference of the
English branch of the Evangelical Alliance
was held in Derby, for four days in the last
week in November. Rev, j. II. Riggs, Wes-
leyan, presided. Visitors were present from
several countries. Measures were taken ior y
cordial cooperation with the Ameri0an eoiu
mittee in getting up the Genera oon'efenoe W
~ York next fall, which is ex-
pected to sit ten or t"ei,e ua'''
Peo'eu " os5 of November two Commissions
ion met In Philadelphia-one, of six
un ,'..tons and seven clergymen, represented the
,1o,bodist Episcopal Church in the United
states: the other, consisting of three bishops
and three clergymen, represented the African
,to.hod;st Fniscopal Zion Church After B"a
tree and full conversation, characterized on
both sides by great frankness and Christian
courtesy, the terms of reunion into one church
we're drawn M, and substantially approved by
hotb Commissions. But as neither was au-
tborized to act officially for the church it rep
resented the matter was adjourned until May
1879 when the two General Conferences will
meet. one in New York and the other in
Brooklyn. ,..-,.., -,,-.
"A correspondent of the Congreoationatist
describes the organization of an Armenian
Church by two colonies of Danes living near
Greenville, Mich. The council when met 10
sanction the organization were isno."ns
Danish, and the people lsno,"
so the services were conduo'eo 'n,ousu az IN
terpreter. Eighty-fVe persouS, "no nau u1en
l....;,oa ond confirmed as members OF the Lu-
~ N c,,rrch in Denmark, has signed pa
.a. 0xnressing a wish to be organized INTO
Pr-,r-egational Church, and pledging the sup
,ort of the pastor, having already begun 'ns
erection of parsonage. They ootn nolu evan
yelical views, and repudiate the IDEA OF naVing
bishop or any judicatory outside OIL tneir own
body.