Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-01-10
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
Ministers, Sunday school and Church
Matters.

Ministers, Sunday school and Church
Matters.
There arc three hundred and
eighty-five churches in Philadel-
phia.
London has a Mormon church
with one thousand members.
A Methodist Bible class in Santa
Clara, California, is attended by
twenty-six Cinnamon.
The General Missionary Com
mittee of the Methodist Church have
issued call for S85O,0OO.
Three ladies will soon sail for
China as missionaries of the wo-
mans Union Missionary Society.
A religious revival among the
convicts in New Hampshire State
Prison is progressing.
There are twelve churches on
Erie street, Cleveland, Ohio, within
space of less than a mile.
Old South Church, Boston, owns
property valued at 5000, O00-a flea
bite compared with the wealth of
old Trinity.
Mr.. Colin Lindsay, President Of
the English Church Union, has
gone over to the Catholic Church.
The University of Oxford, Eng
land, will begin the new year by
opening its door to the Non-cOn-
fOrmists.
A friendly reunion of the Luth-
eran and reformed communiOns, on
the basis of a common creed, is
earnestly advocated.
An apostle of Mormonism in
Denmark writes to Brigham Young
that there are five thousand mem
bers of the Mormon Church in that
country.
A Minnesota paper says The
ladies Of the congregation have
carpeted the Presbyterian Church
at ShakOpee, and request that gen
tlemen who chew tobacco leave
their mouths at the door.
The Baltimore Association of
Friends, assisted by Friends in Eng
land, have established, in North
Carolina alone, thirty Sabbath
schools for their own children.
There are, in addition, sixteen
schools for colOred children.
The Old School Presbyterian
Board of Church Extension reports
that in the last thirteen and a half
years it has received a little over
$500, 900, and has aided in the
erection of 900 churches, capable of
accommodating about 100000 wor-
shippers. The average cost of the
sanctuaries is less than $4,000.
At a noon prayer meeting in
Chicago q brother engaged in the
mission work in the city told of
efforts making by Catholics for the
conversion of Protestants to Cathol-
icism. Eight in a district where
he had been laboring have just
been taken into that Church with
great ado. The Catholics are
leaving no stone unturned to ad-
vance their cause.
The first Methodist church in
Massachusetts was established in
1871, and there are now 271
churches in 207 cities or towns.
There are 248 church buildings and
lis parsonages. In l28 towns there
are no churches. The value of the
24S churches is S2,282, $50; and OF
the 118 parsonages S265, 900.
| The annual incomes of the vari-
Gus English bishops range from
| $4,000 to $4,000. Canterbury
rejoices in the latter figure, and Sc
dor in the former. London and
Winchester are each set down at
$50, 900 a year, and Durham at $40
900. The other bishOprics are
worth from $4,000 to S27 1000.
The medical dispensary estab-
lished by the London Missionary
Society st Foo Chow, have treated
during the last year 5,722 cases at
the hospital, and prescribed for
20,8l6 in all. 1t is proposed to buy
Il large Bhuddist temple for the use
of the hospital. The Superintend-
ent says that the greatest of all
difficulties to be overcome in the
renovation Of China is opium
smoking, which is a barrier to all
progress, spiritual or temporal.
The late Walter Lowrie was fol
thirty years Secretary of the Pres
byterian Board of Foreign and Do
nestle Missions. To occupy this
post of toll, he relinquished one o.
the most lucrative and honorable
in our country, that is, the Office o
Clerk of the Senate of the UniteC
States. When some one asked hin
why he made the change, he replied
- | choose the service involving the
most service for Christ"
The alleged sympathy of the
Prince of Wales with the ritualist,
is creating anxiety in the minds o
some church people. Various cir
cumstances are referred to as cal
culated to excite uneasiness. Thu
Hon. Mr.. Wood, the Prince:
equery, is, for example, Presiden
of the English Church Union The
Prince gave a handsome check Il
DIR. Lee for improving All Saints