The Portland daily press., 1869-12-25
DAILY PRESS.
Saturday Morning, December 20, 1869.
Religious Intelligence.
CORTLAND ID

bishop WHDeriorco left the diocese of
Oxfoid without having promoted a single rel
atve.
1t is said that on Mount Zion, Jerusalem.
there is now a Sunday School numbering six
ty four children.
There are eleven theatrical buildings in
London in which Sunday evening services
are held regularly.
The new Methodist church at Rockland
IS completed, and is said to be a very fine. Ii
is to be dedicated very soou.
The Zion's Herald reports fifteen CONVEX
sions in the Methodist church at Saccarappa.
and twenty-four at Oxford
The Morning Star, the paper of the Free
viii Baptists, long published at Dover, N. H.,
isnow to be published in New York.
Kentucky is said TO be largely a Baptist
State, having nine hundred churches, with
membership of $4,000 whites and 10000
blacks.
"A Congregational church was formed
Dec. 5ih in Greenvlle at the foot of Moose
head Lake. Twenty-Five adults joined as
members.
The Methodist church in Lebanon which
has recently been undergoing repairs, was re-
opened on Friday, Nav. 26, with appropriate
services.
The Secretary Of the Presbyterian Board
of Domestic Missions issues his regrets, that
amid the joy of reunion the Boards receipts
have fallen off more than twenty thousand
dollars.
The Freewill BaptistS have, as a product
of their labors among the freedmen, twent7-
five churches, three quarterly meetings, and
one yearly meeting in the South.
There are in and about Chicago five uni
versities, and as many theological schools,
making this grand educational centre for
the Northwest.
The Marquis of Butte, the rich Scoth no.
bleman who has turned Catholic, is dispensing
his patronage in Scotland by allowing the
parishioners to choose their own ministers.
The Rev. George b. Whipple, an Epsco-
pal clergyman who followed Bishop Staley to
the Sandwich Islands, has had enough of it,
and returned home. He is now pastor of the
church at Faribault, MINI.
The Sultan has given permission to Eu-
genie to purchase, for 10000 francs, the ground
adjoining Mount David, in Jalestine, which is
believed to harbor the remains of the Virgin
Mary.
The new church at Maryland Ridge is
progressing finely. 1t will be, when finished,
| it is said fine specimen of the Gothic archi-
lecture. Rev. j. W. Sawyer, the preacher in
| charge, is architect.
--Zion's Herald of Boston gives notice that
| if the southern Methodism is reunited with
the Methodist Episcopal Church, thus doub-
| ling the number of bishops, measures will be
| taken to lengthen the term of service of bish-
| ops.
Rev. Albert Barnes, probably the most
| celebrated divine of the Presbyterian Church
| in this country, has protested strongly against
| Henry Ward Beecher and Horace Greeley
| lecturing before the Yong Mems Christian
| Association of Philadelphia.
| In ten counties of Pennsylvania the Ro-
man Catholics have one hundred churches,
one hundred and eighty priests, and two hun
| dred and twenty thousand communicates. A
new seminary for young priests viii be open
ed next year.
The Church Of the Mediator, of the Uni
yersalist denomination, just completed, at
| Providence, X. l., at a cost of 100000, was
| dedicated Wednesday the 22nd, with appro-
| pirate ceremonies. Rev. John G. Adams, of
| Lowell, delivered an interesting address.
| There has been lately reunion meeting
| Of all the evangelical pastors of Paris, which
resolved upon aggressive measures to reach
the population of the city with religious infu-
| ences. DIR. Gillette, Baptist minister at Wash
ngton, addressed the meeting.
There are scattered over France a con-
siderable number of little churches, whose
| faithful pastors itinerate as evangelists, while
their wives, in the midst of poverty, act the
part of Bible women among the cottages and
| villages around; and these are leavening
| France.
In East Monmouth, the friends of Rev.
S. NJ. Emerson, supernumerary preacher of
| the Maine Conference, called ON him one
evening not long since, on his return from the
field, and after an hour or two very pleasant.
ly and proftably spent, left him with substan-
tiai tokens OF their good will.
There are now four American places OF
worship open at Florence, which shows that
religious duty is not forgotten. These are the
Broad or Liberal Church of Rev. DR.. Van
Nest, with liturgical service half day and
congregational the other half; the high or
highest church of Rev. Mr.. Connolly; the me-
dium of Rev. Mr.. Langdon, and the Sweden
borgian of Rev. Mr.. Ford. Between visitors
and residents the number of Americans is al
ways considerable in Florence, and the at
tendance at each place OF worship is respecta-
BILE.
Nevada has not single Congregational
or Baptist Church, and but four each of the
Episcopalian, Metbodists and Presbyterian
churches, all the last being without settled
pastors. The Episcopalians are said to be
working with energy under the impulse Of
Bishop Whitaker. The whole churchmem
bership is said to be less than q fiitieth of th'
entire population. The difficulties in the wa,
of improvement arise partly from the ex
tremely "hard" population gathered about th'
mines, but still more from its CONSTANT,
changing and migratory character.