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

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE,
Progress of Religion at Home and
Abroad Ministers, Sunday school,
and Church Matters ~ ...-a
The Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION, .of the United States and
Canada, will hold a convention in
Portland, Maine, July IA.
There have been nearly one hun
dred thousand copies of the Cos.
pels and Epistles distributed from
the Bible stand in Madrid.
The number of Roman Catholic
chapels and preaching stations in
England and Wales have increased
since 1888, from 425 to 926 in 1867,
and in Scotland from IA to 217.
The Chinese tolerate every re-
ligion in theory, and practice none.
In Pekin one may attend service In
as many different forms as in any
city in the world. .s.g la (
At the Massachusetts Episcopal
Convention, just held in Worcester,
Bishop Eastman reported for the
3 year S2l combinations, and the Or
dination of two priests and seven
deacons. -'1
A number of young Protestant
Spanish ladies have been educating
themselves in the south Of France,
so as to return to Spain in the ca
pacity OF teachers or Bible readers.
"A New York merchant, writing
from Seville, Spain, says that the
books of the American Tract So
ciety are taken up by the people as
eagerly as was the mamma by the
Israelites in the wilderness.
The american Presbyterian, New
School, claims that more than one
fourth of the Protestant world is
Presbyterian, and that a Pan-Pres-
byterian Assembly would quite
throw the Pan Anglican Assembly
into the shade
In Sweden the Baptists have
been subject TO persecution in con
sequence Of their religion. Some
other countries have forwarded re
monstrances against this interior
ence with religious freedom. i
An Episcopal clergyman, in In
diana, has beenfound guilty, by the
proper church judicatory, of the
Ofiense of witnessing the "Black
Crook" and the Bishop of the do
ce3e has reprimanded him accord
ingly. ----sF vsE
Some of the ritualistic clergy.
men in the Church of England are
advocating union with the Church
of Rome 1t is understood that rep
,resentative ministers of the High
Church party will attend the Grand
Council in Rome with reference to
such result
There are in Europe 757 branches
of the Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION, and %, 900 members and
in this country, more than 500 as
sociations, with a membership Of
10000. A Pacific railroad COM
mission has in charge the work Of
forming an association at every
important station on the Pacific
road. .....
Rev. Joseph Cadwallader, Mis-
sionary of the American Sunday
School Union, in Iowa, says thai
fifteen years ago there were moi
more than 53 Sunday schools, and
about 1000 scholars in the State.
Now the schools are spread all
over the country, embracing not
less than 100000 scholars, result
ing, to a great extent, from the
agency of the Sunday school Union.
The Episcopal Church in South
Carolina, in 1850, numbered seventy
parishes, and as many rectors.
Now there are but fifty-three
churches in all, and but forty-two
of these are occupied; and Of these
only ten enjoy the stated services
of regular pastors. Thirteen
churches and twenty-six chspels
were destroyed by the war, and
more than a half million of church
funds lost in Confederate money /
Eighteen years ago the British
Parliament, at the instance of the
English Church clergy, passed q
bill prohibiting Roman Catholic
prelates from assuming territorial
titles The act has never been put
in force, and now it appears that,
after the Irish Church bill has been
passed, the Irish Protestant bishops
will be exposed 10 the pains and
penalties which were enacted at
their suggestion against their Ro-
man Catholic rivals.
The report Of Baptist progress in
Great Britain for the last year
shows that forty-nine churches have
been organized the past year, max
ing an aggregate Of 2,447. The in
crease in membership has been
9,9S2, IA larger accession than any
year since 1860, and bringing IN
the total TO 25 500 members. There
are 267, 1876 scholars in the Sabbath
schools, and no doubt over n mil
lion of the British population de.
pendent on the Baptists for instruc,
ton.
The report of the fifty third ami
versary of the American Bible So
ciety, just held in New FORK, show,
another very prosperous year. The
total receipts were S73l,73I 70
The number of volumes issued anC
circulated during the year, 1886,
Gil, making the entire number pub
lished in tie fifty three years %,
24l,73I. BY the rules of the Boar,
no discrimination is made between
the white and cOlOred people. 4
number of colored colporteurs hav
been employed by various auxillia