The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-08-06
Religious Intelligence,

The Young Mems Christian Association
for the United States and Canada, recently
met at Portland, Me. About 500 delegates
were present. The annual report embraces
$50 associations, and Of these 341 were rep
resented at the Portland meeting. The en-
tire membership is estimated at 90 00G per-
sons. A successful mission has been main
taned along the line Of the Pacific railroad.
An Episcopal preacher OF Boston in SER
mon recently reported, regards it fatal riis-
take of the day, to erect houses Of worship
for preaching, and not for prayer
The prayer offered at the opening of the
Peace Jubilee in Boston, is criticised by an
Episcopalian as a complete failure while the
speeches and addresses were characterized by
extraordinary eloquence.
The American College of the Propaganda
at Rome has thus far eceived from this coan-
try $50, 600 for its endowment through the
labors of Father Doane, brother Of the Epis-
copal Bishop of Albany.
A writer in the GOSPEL MESSENGER discus
ses the evils of divided christendom, and
finds them immense in several particulars.
How then? What is the theory and method
or their removal?
A Presbyterian mission chapel in Bogota,
the capital of the United States of Colombia,
South America, has been opened recently.
1t is the first Presbyterian church in the
country, and number of the most promi-
ncnt men of the republic were present.
On taking down recently the spire of one of
the churches in Portland, Me-, one of its
gilded balls was opened and found to con-
tain prophecy, that IN few years by the
increasing spread of intelligence, the Calvin
istic system of theology will become extinct.
Sunday evening, July 1lth, the annual
sermon before the Young Mems Christian
Association, iu Rochester University, was
preached by Rev. Samuel Moss, ID. D., Of
Philadelphia, on the religious culture of the
present period as a resultant Of the labors OF
all the past
The eldest son of the late Lord Stanley Of
Aldelly. England, became a Mohammedan
some years ago while member of the en-
! bassy to Constantinope. BY his father S
death he now becomes a British peer and
member Of the House Of Lords-a Noham-
medan peer
Bishops Kip of California, and White
| house of liuois, reject Protestant from the
! title of their Church and are calling it Epis-
copal and not Protestant Episcopal, and the
! late Bishop Scott OF Oregon, regarded FRO
testantism US a blunder. lie thought Lu'
| thpr and the other reformers should have
staid in the Roman Catholic Church.
Reunion between the Old and New School
Presbyterans is being finally adopted almost
unanimously. OF the New School Presbyte.
ries IL have voted for it unanimously, and OF
the Old u, with the exception of one oppo-
sing vote in New Y ork, and four in Phila-
delphia. The change of sentiment and feel
ing in both Schools since the division is very
remarkable.
Rev Dr. Cumming, Scotch Presbyterian
and court preacher, London, proposes, if full
rights of membership will be accorded to
him, TO attend the Popes general council.
lie has since written to the Pope for infor-
nation as TO the liberties of speech and argu-
meutatiou that will be allowed him in that
body.