The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-11-16
RELIGIOUS InrELLIoEMcE

| The yearly meeting OF FRIENDS OF the
Hicksite denomination has just closed In
Baltimore.
The new Catholic cathedral now be-
ing built in Brook yn, ". Y. will cost
$4,000 900. and will seat Is, 30 persons.
At large m Getting of the Clergy held
in Dublin, Ireland, it was decided that
the laity have the right 90 act upon
questions of doctrine ane discipline.
There are q orderaof Protestant
/ Sisterboods,' with over 600 members,
! in the established church in Englani
i The work and organization corresponds
i with the Roman Catholic Sisters Of Mcr-
cy. s 10 a4al - =
- The clergymen. according to th
| Christian Advocate, cost the United
4 States S12, 900 900 annually; the Grim
/ OOO, 600; intoxicating beverages, $500, :
OOO, 900. ea oHN
The Hebrew National, new Jewish
journal published in London, gives th
statistics Of the Jews in the world.
There are 5000, 900 Jews in the world,
one half of whom live in Europe Amer
ica contains $50, 900. satsla za
An order Yves sent to Chicago hoo k
! seller which, among other things, emu
merated Six Primitive Christianity It
was sent back with the response pencil
| ed opposite that item and not at all in
jest: No Primitive Christianity to be
| found in Chicago E s#
+ An original notice was posted about
the streets Of Clupham, England, con
tanning the following piquant invitation.
to worshipers at 'Bethesda Chapel :
| Ned Wright, who, before his conyer-
| sion, was convicted three times of burg
larry, will deliver Gospel address
Come and weIcomc! No collection.
| The Old School Presbyterian assem-
| bly, is in session at Pittsburg. Also the
| New School. The United Presbyterian
Assembly, and the Reformed Presby
| terian Synod are in ses=i On at the same
place. Unions are about to be effected
between the Old and New Schools, and
between the United and Reformed.
| Rothschiid and the Archbishop Of
Paris met at a public dinner, some time
since, and arrived at the same moment
| at the door Neither wished to enter
| first-the Jew showing respect, the
Christian tolerance. Finally the Arch
bishop cried out I: ssM Rothschild, you
are the son of Moses; am the servant
of Jesus; you have the precedence of
age; the Old Testament is more venera-
bic than the New" Aud the banker
went in first.
A lively den and for tract at w Western
settlement recently encourage the hopes
of the Tract Society that an immence
work of revival must be going on there
The cry was constantly for s'tracts, more
tracts at last i. leaked out that the
I faith, not for moral comfort, but to paper
their log cabins with. The Tract Soci-
ETY., since the discovery, is wiser. but
! q sadder in stitution.
Old Father Taylor, of Boston, though
aged seventy seven, is still hale and
hearty, and especially active at camp
meetings. Lately at Eastman, Mass,
he became very much interested In a
young man, for whom he prayed thus:
o Lord, perhaps you don't know who
the young man is. He is Captain -,
son Of, of Harwich, one of our best
friends and most prominent citizens
The English. Church Congress at L;v-
! erpool, presented most of those signs of
dissension and indecision which usually
precede the decline and fall Of any sys-
tenn, and none of the unanimity that
| tends to secure a 'fixity of tenure In
deed, one Of the outspoken Episcopal
divines, Archdeacon Denison, said very
frankly that the Church polity was a
sort Of rubbish and that, in his opin-
ion, the establishment was doomed to go.
A number of Jewish rabbis are in con-
ference in Philadelphia. They are OF
the progressive party Of that people, and
are debating proposed reforms in doc.
trine aud worship. They have adopted
resolutions abolishing the use of the
Hebrew tongue in their worship, dis,
claiming the doctrine Of bodily resur-
recti on, and the renewal Of the Jewish
state. and declaring the Aaronic priest
hood and the Mosaic sacrificial worship
things of the past, to be mentioned only
in an adncationai capacity, aud not be
practiced. f-s-zts
An old lady, who had not been relig-
iously Instructed, attended Methodist
meeting in the West. After hearing
the minister describe the sufferings Of
our Savior, in the most pathetic manner,
she was profoundly affected. She wait
ed to see the Clergyman as he was pass
ing, and as the latter made his appear
ance sue rushed up to him, grasped him
by the arm, aud earnestly exclaimed,
Where did all this happen that you
have been preaching about7' In Pal
estine,' answered the minister, about
1900 years ago. 'Ah, well.' answered
the old lady, as it happened 50 very far
away and SO very long ago, let US hope
that there is not bit of truth in it =
At the recent Church Congress held
in Liverpool, Archdeacon Denison
shocked the Sabbatarians by saying that
he had some years ago encouraged the
young men to play cricket between
morning and afternoon service on Sun
day. The favor this recognition of mus.
cular Christianity received from many
members of the Congress shows that
English Churchmen are considerably