The Portland daily press., 1869-03-08
Varieties.

The Methodist Missionary Society will
hold its jubilee or fiftieth anniversary, on Sum
day, the 4th of April next, throughout the
country, taking up collections for the erection
Of Missionary House in New York.
The Baptist Home Missionary Society and
the Institute for the Education of Frssdmen's
American Baptist Publication Society are
moving in the same direction.
The Church Union has changed hands. It
is now edited by the Rev. Crammond Ken
nedy, gentleman OF talent and character,
whose ideas of the proprieties of religious
journalism differ so widely from those of the
former conductors of that paper that in this
week issue he publishes "a Rstraction." It
confssses that in times past it has been noto-
rious for its personalities. Nothing has
shielded from its attacks-neither piety, age,
learning, love to God, nor service to man
rothing except advertising; it has judged as If
its judgment were final, and there were no
God behind it, and more to the same effect.
so far, the editor adds, "as a man can re-
tract what he has not said, or Journal under
one management can repudiate certain char
acteristics which have belonged to another,
we wish to free the Church Union from the
odium which it has richly merited in the past,
and from which it will seek 10 be free here
after"
The members of Rev. DIR. Chapin's COZ
gregation ID New York have inaugurated an
enterprise that every lover of his race and of
true Christianity will pray may succeed. They
propose to erect "Chapin Home" for the
aged and infrm. Such an institution will
preach the Gospel with noble eloqoence gene
rations after the spell of the orator has be-
come tradition.
Rev. Orlando Kinds, an aged and faithful
pastor of the Methodist denomination, died in
Chichester, N. H, on the 1st inst, at about
81 years. He was born in Sandwich, and for
more than half a century he was widely and
favorably known as an active and devoted
minister in New Hampshire, as well as in
Maine and Massachusetts
The Rev. R. p Cutler, formerly of the
Park St. church in this city, is at present
preaching in Charleston, S. G. Letters from
prominent members of the congregation speak
of his services, both in and out of the pulpit, in
glowing terms. Since his return from San
Francisco, Mr.. Cutler had seemed quite retir-
ed from the active duties of his profession;
and for two or three years past has suffered so
much from form of opthalmia as 10 fear he
could never resume them. We rejoice to find
that after preaching for a short time recently
at Brunswick in this State, he has thus far
been able with impunity to keep up the regu-
lar preparation for discharging asceptably the
stated services of the pnlpit.
"A handsome new church in Washington,
called the Metropolitan Memorial Methodist
Episcopal Church, was dedicated on Sunday,
Bishop Simpson leading the services. The
windows Of the church are memorial tablets,
commemorative Of men and incidents promi-
nent in the history of the Methodist Church,
to Windows severally are dedicated to
the memory Of Wesley, Bishops olin and
Bangs, DIR. F,oy, DR.. Kennerdy, Mr.. Summer
field, and many others. One window called
the missionary Window" commentaries
the labors of various faithful missionaries
male and female. As this is o national church,
there has been set apart one pew for each State
and Territory in the Union, and one for the
President and his Cabinet officers.
"A beautiful and captivating young lady in
reduced circumstances, who gets her living by
giving lessons to bashiul young gentlemen in
the art Of proposing, is the latest Chicago SEN
sation She instructs in the abrupt, the grad
ual, the deprecatory, the fearful, the labial,
the cottage with love" and the "opers and
diamonds" proposal, to say nothing of the
special ones.
Rev. George Trask, of Massachusetts,, the
ant-tobacconist, writes that his antidote
against tobacco "consists of three things;
Resolution. gentian root and the grace Of God,
in dina nronortions." No doubt Of its efioi-
ency. ....
n lono editorial on the Charles Reade-S Sweetser
libel suit at New York, with Offering to bot a
wears subscription to the Round Tabls that
:he jury will find: First, That they have no
evidence that Charles Reade ever wrote "Grif-
fifth Gaunt;" second, that there is an equal
lack of evidence that the defendants ever
wrote the criticism upon which the action il
brought; aud thirdly, that the matter is of
very small account anyhow
Joachim is the most popular v;olinist to-
day with the London public, and the Musical
World goes so far as to say that he is beyond
comparison the very greatest master of his
Instrument since Paganini.
The son of Rev. Mr.. Montague, residing ss
Whitewater, Wis, was delivering college
valedictory address a short time ago. when' IN
taking his handkerchief from his pocket he
pulled out pack of cards which fell on the
floor. .sHulloa," he exclaimed, i've got on
NV fatber,s coat" The worthy divine, who sat
in front of his promising son, was more con-
eused than his hopeful scion. That boys
.'cheek" will carry him through anything.
The favorite horse OF Rev. DIR. Charming,
recently died at Portsmouth, R. l., aged forty
nine years. At the decease of the doctor
person was selected specially charged to take
good care OF him as long as he might live.
Rev. j. w. Hanson, the former editor of
the Gospel Banner, now of Dubuque, Ia,
writes that he has lately encountered sucn
snow-storm "out on the prairie"as convlnces
him of the ability ofthe West to"beat ailD DOWN
East" even in this, one Of the points OF ITS
fancied supremacy.