Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-21
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
Churches and MInsters-PrOgress of
Relation at Home and Abruad.

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Rev. Edward w. Clark and wife
have gone to Assam as foreign
missionaries.
OF the Presbyterian theological
seminaries Allegheny has Y stu
dents; Princeton, 103, and Union
1877. -.
The Baptist mission at Bangkok,
in Siam, has four applicants for
baptism. The first for long time.
By the aid of English friends,
Barcelona, Seville, and Malaga, in
Spain, have commodious houses Of
Protestant worship.
The family of Or. Krummacher
is in strainened circumstances, and
a subscription is being raised in
Germany for their relief.
The Rev. Thomas X. Beecher
holds forth at the Elmira Opera
House every Sunday evening, and
employs brass band to play sacred
music.
Rev. George r. Taylor, of
Stanton, has been appointed Chap
lain of the University of Virginia.
His father filed the place thirty
years ago.
Since 1899, three hundred and
thirty eight Protestant Missionaries
have gone out to China. OF these
eight died while ell route, six were
killed, and sixty died in the service.
3 The Rev. Morgan Dix, DID, of
Trinity Church New York, in re-
cent serman said that the past three
hundred years were in a religious
sense the dark ages of the Christian
Church.
The British and Foreign Bible
Society has resolved to print mil
lion copies Of the Gospels as tracts
for immediate circulation in Spain.
They are to be printed in Madrid.
The Presbytery of San Jose, Cali
fornia, has prohibited Mr.. Hamil-
ton, of Oakland, from preaching,
that probation does not end with
this life, und that the future punish
ment of the wicked is not endless.
InSouthern India a Mohammedan
priest recently visited missionary
with the request that he would fur
nish a Christian teacher to instruct
school of Mohammedan girls,
offering to supply room, and a
small monthly stipend.
The Clerical Association of ithaca
has addressed a long protest against
dancing to the President of Cornell
University. 1t was suggested by
shock which the ministers received
at reception by the Faculty
which wound up with dancing.
Inthe Island of Ceylon, the liber
atty of the native Christians is be-
coming a marked feature Of the
churches. Many Of the converts
have adopted the practice Of giving
one tenth of their income TO the
cause of the gospel.
The American Bible Society
have commissioned Rev. Thomas
4. Fermilye, d. D., and Henry
Dickinson to attend, as their rep
resentatives, the exercises at LOn-
don, in May next, on the opening
of the new House for the British
and Foreign Bible Society.
Rev. II. D. NOrthrOp went to
London in 1862, and preached to
the poor in the eastern part Of the
city. He organized COngrega
tional church and built an editice
with 1900 sittings. This now
overhows and a new edifce with
$500 sittings is about to be opened
for that congregation.
In the Friendly Islands, where
fifty years ago there was not one
native Christian, but gross and un-
broken darkness, the regular at
tendants on worship now exceed
10000, and contributions to re-
ligious objects are over $4,000 a
year. Two hundred and fifty day
schools contain 10000 pupils.
Berthold Auerbach, the German
novelist, has offered to devote the
whole proceeds of his next work,
the subject of which will be an
episode in the history Of Bohemia,
to the erection of q synagogue in
the little town of Eyer, in Bohe-
mia. Fifty thousand copies Of the
book will be issued by the Jewish
Publication Society.
The Board of Managers of the
| American Bible Society hesitate,
on second thought, to discontinue
their anniversary in May. So
many and great are the advantages
resulting from the annual celebra-
ton that the older members espe-
cially are unwilling to believe that
the time honored custom ought to
be suddenly abolished. One OF
them remarked in the discussion
with Irish felicity, that he would
prefer two anniversaries in yeal
rather than none
| Old School Presbyterians arr
pushing a number of subordinate
educational schemes with vigor
| One in Terre Haute, Ind, contem
plates a female college, with an en-
dowment of 100000 another 70
the same class at Chambersburg, Pa
has secured means to pay for
, handsome site, proposes to rails
$4,000 more, and aims at an Ell
dowment of 100000. The NeN
School Presbyterians have som
well endowed institutions, but the,
are far too few.
One hundred and four colleges
the Southern States report $40 II
c structors, of whom 7S9 profess II
= ligion; I7,49S students, of whol
3 1864 are church members, LAB
candidates for the ministry, an
; lOI have the foreign mission wol
J. in view. They have l56 pray'
: meetings, and had during the pa
f year 30 revivals and 365 profession
of conversion. Forty-six SOuthel
o institutions report $40 instructor
le of whom 2S5 are church member
st 1929 students, of whom 2,432 a