Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-06-20
RELIGIOUS INFELLTGENCE.

and Church Matters.
A few days ago twenty person,
were received into the fellowship O
the Universalist Church in Zanes,
vile, Ohio. .-. .....-
Rev A. Richie has been received
from the United PRESBYTERIAN
Church as a member of the New
School Presbytery of Cincinnati.
During the last eighteen years the
Calvinistic Methodists of Wales
have built 321 new chapels, the In
dependents 1lS,and the Bsptists 142
Rev. James Skinner, formerly Of
the Presbyterian Church of Stock
ton, California, has gene to labor as
missionary in Arizona Territory.
The Baptists of Philadelphia have
nearly doubled their membership
since 1850. They now have nearly
$4,000 members and forty churches.
The Missionary Herald reports
by its correspondence an encourag-
ing increase of Hawaiian pastors,
many of whom are laboring faith
fully and doing much good.
London employs 1000 Sabbath
school teachers, 3, 240 ragged school
teachers, 400 city missionaries, 100
readers and lay agents, 230 Bible
women, and 120 missionary clergy.
Rev. John Whitley, for thirty-six
years a missionary in New Zealand,
was recently murdered by five Of
the natives, while on his way to one
of his Sunday appointments.
The Bishops of the Methodist
Episcopal Church call for a contri-
button of 100000, over and above
Ordinary collections, to relieve the
missionary treasury from embarass-
ment. ..... Id
The Swedenborgians have estab-
lished public worship in Lynn,
Massachusetts,. There are now no
less than five places in the State
where this church has regular wor-
ship on the Sabbath.
The Episcopalians of Kentucky
employ two missionaries to go into
destitute places and preach the Cos
pei, and plant Sunday schools and
form church organizations wherever
practicable.
Rev. John, w. Sullivan, Chaplain
of the Indiana State Prison, has or
ganized religious society in the
prison, composed exclusively of
convicts, under the name of "Chris-
tian brotherhood" Ninety-nine
members were taken in at its organ
ization.
The General Assembly of the
United Presbyterian Church, just
held in Chicago, after very full dis
cussion, adhered to the rule pro-
hibiting their members from belong
ing to secret societies, and directed
the sessions to enforce it.
The New School Presbyterian As
sembly propose to raise, next year,
for foreign missions, 1914, 600; do
nestle, S250,000; education, $780,
600; disabled ministers, $4,000 /;
church extension, $4,000; and for
the freedmen, SS5,000-making a
total of $4,000.
A correspondent of the Examiner
and Chronicle, Baptist, who has
been IN England and taken some
pains TO inform himself of the char
acter of English preaching, thinks
that of the Baptists is far the ablcst.
The best Church of England preach
ing he thinks is not extraordinary.
In Washington and Georgetown,
ID. C., there are eighteen Methodist
churches and chapels, with a prop
crty valued at $3.50, 900, embracing
a membership, including preachers
and probationers, of 3,697, and
1882 Sunday-school scholars.
The Baptists of Illinois are NOV
ing vigorously in planting mission
Sunday schools in destitute neigh.
borhoods, which will, in the future
prove the germs of church organic
ations. Several laymen are giving
some weeks of earnest labor in ait
Of the movement. The membership
of the Baptist Church in IllinOi:
now numbers $4,000.
Quite an interesting revival has
been going on in the Baptist Churcl
in Montgomery, Alabama, for som,
time, and several additions hav,
been made TO the church in the way
Aof new members, seven of whom
were baptized on the 18th inst. TIL
right of confirmation was admins
tered by Bishop Quinlan in tn,
Catholic Church on the 18th inst. Il
thirteen applicants. .
During a recent debate on tn
educational bill in the Legislator
of Bavaria, one of the most Catholi
States in Europe, the Prime Minis
ter, Prince HohenlOhe, brother O
one of the cardinals, criticised tn
Pope's famous encyclical letter a
contrary TO the spirit of the age, an
as one of the causes of the differ
ences which have arisen betwee
the church aud the State. Nearl
every Catholic government in FL
rope has dissented from that decl.
ration.
The corner stone Of 3 Presbytt
rian Church was laid in Valparaiso
Chill, April 4, by Rev. David Trun
bull. He was assisted 10y natiI
Gillian minister, who rejoiced j
this evidence of the establishmeI
of liberation and liberty of COZ
science, which he trusted wOul
soon be admitted by the other SOut
American republics. Some of Il
secular papers noticed the ceremOn
as a social event of high cons
quence, aud a proof of the iiber