The Portland daily press., 1869-05-22
Religious InteIIigence

The Universaist of Skowhegan are talk
ing about building new church.
"A terrible religious riot in Persia recently
caused the death of some three hundred peo-
pie.
The new Universalist church at Springfield
is nearly finished and ready for use. The
dedication service will be OH Wednesday the
I'd of June.
Rev. James Martineau writes in favor OF
s'Free Christian" rather than "Free Religious
Unions
Both the Christian Register and the Liber-
al Christian undertake reply to the Congre-
gationalists question:-"Do Unitarans be-
lieve in the punishment of sin after death?''
We learn that the NewYork Legislature has
granted to the Association proposing to estab-
lish the "Chapin Home" in New York, ten
lots of land on Lexington Avenue for 100
years at one dollar year.
The Universalsts OF south Boston will dedi-
cate their new church on the 14th Of the COM
ing month.
The Free Methodsts began their denomi-
national existence in 1860. They now have
6000 members and nine y-four preachers.
The utmost seating capacity of all the
churches Of San francisco is 40S0O. The pop
ulation is 10000 At least 5000 children are
not in the Sabbath school,
since the Springfield Congregational
Church of Boston has adopted the system of
free seats, the rate of giving has increased five
hundred per cent. over that of last year.
The Young Mems Christian Association
in Chioaon boopr ;to raod;nr-rooy,, oman oil
day Sunday. 1t is stocked with all the lead
ing religious and secular papers and maga-
zines.
The Lords Supper was celebrated on
Easter Sabbath in Madrid, in the Protestant
fashion, for the first time since the reign Of
Phillip III. Pastor Ruet oficiated, and there
were fifty communicants.
Dr. -0uint in tla- -Gaxanaaational Ouarterlv
protests against the uncongregationa1, ffi0gfCaf
and dangerous practice of inviting individuals
not representing any church to be members of
councils. :
The old church in bingham, the best pre-
served, if not the only existing, specimen of
the quaint, square, peaked-roofed churches
have new pews.
-Iue Oiu Ooutn CnuIcu tDOSbOn) propose
to hold grand celebration of their approach
ing bisentennial. >Discourses appropriate to
the occasion, will be delivered by the pastors,
on the Sabbaths, May 23d and 30th.
Mr.. Murphy, the anti -Romanist lecturer,
recently delivered one Of his "No Popery'' ad-
dresses in London. Mr.. Murphy, in the course
of his speech, asserted that Mrs. Gladstone
was the patroness of Roman Catholic church
in Westminster.
Three matters of Importance, we are told.
are just now occupying the attention of the
Jews at large. One is the revocation of the
decree of 1895, by which Jews were banished
from Spain. The second is the establishment
of an agricultural colony in Palestine. The
third is the proposal to hold universal synod
in Gremany, next summer. For race of four
thousand years old, these are signs of consid-
cradle vitality.
"A great rush is being-made in favor of free
free seats, The Baptist Social Union lately
endorsed heartily the sentiment, "Free seats
for all. " The Congregationalist thinks the
millennium will not come until this owning
and renting of seats in the House of God
comes to an end