Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-05-01
8eligious Stems

Services of the Broad street Baptist
Church, at the Court House, to-mor-
row as usual. In the evening the pas
tor, DIR. Miller, will preach the sixth Of
the series of Temperance sermons.
Rev. Ichabod Clark, d. D., so long
and favorably known in New York, and
in Illinois, died in the latter State ON
the 14th inst. after an illness of sever
al months.
Rev. E. b. Cross, for many years
missionary to Burmah, is now living at
Springfield, Mass,
Rev. A. S. Patton, D. d., of Utica,
N. Y, is on his way to Europe, for a
four months excursion.
w. w. Wakeman, an eminent lay
man in the Presbyterian Church, re-
Gently deceased, bequeathed to the
Methodist Episcopal church at South
port, Conn, $1,000.
The venerable Bishop Smith, of Ken
lucky, presiding Bishop of the Episcos
pal Church, in the United States, was
rector of ST. Michael's church in Marble
head more than fifty years ago.
The Congregationalists have opened
a Theological Seminary in San Francis
co.
In Westfeld, Mass, some 600 per-
sons were lately were present at pray
er meeting.
The pastor of the Bedford street
Methodist church in New York city re-
| ports four hundred converts as the re
suit of recent meetings.
The cumberland Presbyterians North
and South have reunited. They had
before the war 56S ministers and 49,
900 members.
One missionary, since August last,
has organized fourteen Sabbath-schools
l among the Cinnamon of California,
with an aggregate attendance of three
| hundred scholars.
The American Congregational Union
is now aiding in the erection of fifty
| churches.
The familiar old fugue tune "Lenox"
is great favorite among the converted
Chinese.
Protestant worship has been celebra-
| ted at Madrid in new locality A
room capable of containing a thousand
| persons was quite full.
There are $40 Protestant Sunday
schools in France, $50 in Germany, $50
in Switzerland, and 286 in Holland.
There are now sixty Young Mems
\ Christian Associations in France, dis
| tinctly Evangelical, and infusing a
! needed vigor into the Reformed
| church.
The Baptists of Scotland have taken
steps for the organization of an Associ-
alton of the. Churches. A meeting of
Church delegates has been called for
the present month at Edinburgh, to
consummate the project.
The "New .Er gland church" on
Forty first street, near Sixth. avenue,
was purchased last week by commit
| tee of Methodists, and it will at once
be reopened as an uptown Methodist
Episcopal church. This church was
built by the late DIR. Madison, and
after his return to the Methodist
church, went into the hands of the
Congregationalists, under the pastora e
of the Rev. Lyman Abbott.
The great difficulty experienced in
Spain in prosecuting evangelstic labor
is the want of missionaries. DIR.
Schmuttau, foreign secretary of the
English Evangelical Alliance, says
there is the utmost readiness to hear.
and that the revulsion in favor of Prot
estantism is remarkable, and to be ac-
counted flor only because the people
are convinced that the state of ienor.
ance and degradation to which they
had been brought was due to the Rom
ish Church, and its priests. Out of
$4,000, 900 inhabitants. 100000 can
neither read nor write.
| The first Sabbath school in Spain
was opened March 7th. in Seville, in q
building whose walls enclose the site of
the old AutoS da F'e of Seville, and con-
tain the ashes of the martyrs of three
centuries, There were about IS schol-
ars present, not one of whom had ever
heard Sunday school hymn. They
were taught "Happy day, happy day, Z"
and the words took like magic. Pre-
parations are making to inaugurate
similar schools in Madrid, Malaga,
Cordoya, and other places. The Amer