Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-07
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENOE.
Personal and Ministerial - SuusIa-
schools and church Matters.

5cnoO1s anu Nnureh Matters.
Archbishop McCloskey latel,
. confirmed one hundred and thirty
; tenants of the almshouse and hos
: pitfalls on BlackwelTs Island.
The Mormons have a Sunday
, school at Salt Lake City which is
conducted about as such schools
are elsewhere.
The worship Of idols is finally
| abolished by law in Madagascar,
and the native Christians hold open
air meetings in the Queens camp.
The annual meeting of the Bish-
ops and Board of Domestic Mis-
sions of the Southern Methodists
will take place in St. Louis, May 6.
The Religious Telescope, of the
oath of February, estimates that
over one thousand persons were
added to the United Brethren Church,
during the preceding week.
The colporteurs of the Baptist
Publication Society organized last
yeal, in the West and South, fifty
eight churches and two hundred and
fifty-seven Sunday schools
The first Methodist Episcopal
Church in Kentucky was organized
in the cabin of Thomas Stevenson,
near Washington, Mason county, in
1856, by Rev. Benjamin Ogden.
The New York Observer reported
last year Ala dedications of church
buildings, of which the Methodists
had 120, the Baptists and Presbyte-
rians 100 each, and the Congrega-
tionalists IS.
The American Bible Union are
making steady progress with their
revision of the translation and text
Of the scriptures. Meetings are be-
ing held in New Y ork and elsewhere
in the interest of this work. 1t has
cost quite heavily and is far adj
vanced.
Lord Hatterly, Chancellor of
England, has written letter to the
London Times, strongly recon-
mending the Parochial Mission
Women's Association, the object of
which is to employ approved women
to visit poor people and teach them
domestic economy and religious
truths, and minister to their dis
tresses.
The Bible Society and several
other national religious societies
have resolved to abandon the sys-
TEN of May anniversaries in New
York. These anniversaries have
all originated during the present
century, and have for some years
been considered by many Of doubt
full expediency.
The American Bible Society at
New York, has recently come in
possession of S151 900, legacy left
by Mr.. VIM. Defoe, who died twelve
years ago. Mr.. Defoe provided for
his widow, and made the Bible So |
ciety a residuary legatee. The
property being mostly in real es
tate, rapidly advanced in value,
and on the final disposition of it by
the administrator, Mr.. j. J. Cisco, |
brought the amount above stated.
The Evangelist, speaking on the
modes of home evangelization, says
that "no class of men are better |
qualified to judge of the value and
efficiency of various measures for
church development and success
than the Bishops of the Methodist |
Episcopal Church. As their at
tention is constantly called to broad
general interests instead of those |
which are local and parochial, as
they are ever intent upon lengthen-
ing the cords Of Zion, and carrying |
on her coRquests even to the from
tier and into the wilderness, their
opinion as to the methods which |
promise permanent success are GER
tainly worthy of great respect.
1t is not creditable to the Christi-
an churches of America that so little |
has been done hitherto for the con-
version Of the Chinese in California
The Old School Presbyterians have
supported a single missionary to
labor for them, and he has evinced
no want ofzeal in his work, but has
had little success. The MethOdists
have at length put Rev. o. Gibson
in the field, who is beginning with |
brighter prospects. He is founding
a Chinese college at San Francisco,
for teaching the English language,
and establishing free Sunday
schools for the same purpose. He
began last August, and already has
fourteen Sunday schools, with an
aggregate attendance of 800 Chinese
learners. The Chinese show great
eagerness to learn, and make rapid
progress. This movement is in
character for Methodism, and prom
ises brilliant results.
A pamphlet containing the min
utes of the seventy second session
of the Virginia Annual Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, held in Charlottesville, Vir-
ginia, in November of last year,
and which has heen lately pub
lished for the conference by Rev.
=. A. Peterson, contains many mat
tiers of interest. The conference
has under its patronage Randolph
Macon College, at Ashland, Virginia,
and three female colleges-one in
Murfreesboro, North Carolina, one
in Petersburg, Virginia, (having
each about eighty pupils and one
in Danville, Virginia. The Rich
mond Christian Advocate is the
newspaper organ of fhe conference.
1t is stated that steps have been
taken for the organization Of an
annual conference for colored PEG
pie, to be called "The Virginia
Conference OF the Colored People"
to be presided over, for the present,
by the bishops, as provided by the
discipline. The presiding bishop is
authorised to appoint a superin-
tendent to "take steps preliminary
to the organization of this confer
ence, and encourage and promote
in every way his wisdom shall sug-
gest the intellectual and religious
culture of the colored people in the
limits of this conference" The