Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-21
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
Churches. Pastors, ReyIyHIs-RelIgiOn
at Home and Abroad.

Rev. A. j.. Blackboard, after an
absence of nine years, has arrived
in New York from Rio Janeiro.
DR.. John Halls Presbyterian
Church, in New York, last year
contributed $4,000 to educate
theological students.
A minister at Braintree, Vt, Rev.
Ammi Nichols, is eighty three years
Of age, and has preached in Brain
tree fifty eight years.
Lord Hetherton, the new Lord
Chancellor of England, has for the
last thirty years been a devoted and
successful SundayschoOl teacher.
Unusual religious revivals are
progressing along the Hudson river,
and in Sing Sing; and in Suffolk,
L. l., there is also lively shaking
among the dry bones"
DR.. Bellows church have leased a
large hall for Sundays, in New
York, in which preaching will be
maintained, pews he free and no
money collections he made.
Springfield, Massachusetts,, will
open, this spring, four new and
large houses of worship, belonging
to the Congregational, Methodist,
Universalist, and Unitarian denom-
nations.
An orthodox lady once said to
Father Ballou, You do not believe
in the devil ?" The ready Christian,
thinker and preacher playfully
answered, "No, madam; | believe
in the Lord Jesus Christ y
The Congregationalists of Mime
sofa have seventy churches, two
thousand eight hundred and sixty
FIVE members, and fifty-five minis
tiers. In Missouri they have forty
seven churches.
A sensation preacher has arisen
at Vienna He is q Jesuit and a
Count, and the highest nobility OF
Vienna, including the Archduchess
Sophia, the Emperor's mother, reg
ularly attend his preachings.
1t seems to be settled that a papal
hierarchy is to be established in
Scotland, with two archbishops-ot
st. Andrew and GlasgOw-and with
ten bishops. We have yet to see
how this will be received in the land
of John Knox.
| There are in ALTERNATE county
| Va, about 10000 white people ant
$4,000 negroes, with sixty churches
for the white people and three fOl
the negroes, to all of which there
are fifty preachers, and twenty-five
of them Baptists.
Last year Rev. DIR. Tyngs societ.
| (St. Georges and chapels) contri
buted $3.50, 1873 for various purposes
while Trinity Church, St. Paul
Chapel and st. Johns Chapel, alsC
in New York, mitedly contributed
> but $1OS,23S.
Rev. Mr.. Hazen, a missionary O
the American Board at Bombay, re
ports the burning of a widow o.
the funeral pile Of her deceased bus
band. She applied the torch herself
! This is the first instance of the kin
, known for many years.
The first Protestant Church o
Spanish soil has been opened latel
e at Mahon, in the island of Minorc;
e Stimulated by this good example
the municipality of Barcelona sen
of It's own accord, q request to I'll
Protestant inhabitants of the cit,
inviting them to petition for pc
? mission to found a church of the
t own.
Q Rev. Mrs. Hanaford has bee
, supplying the Second UNIVERSAL
. Church, in Portland, Maine, and h;
e aroused q fair degree of interes
= The Portland Press speaks in hig
# " eulogistic terms concerning h
! efforts, and says 1--WE believe 5
Paul himself would not object
such a woman standing before t
N public and preaching the Gospel
tie The Board of Managers of Il
r American Bible Society, at their Ia
S, monthly meeting, adopted resol
70 ton reported by the standIl
- Committee on Anniversaries, to d
u continue the customary public e
is ercises, heretofore always held
ry connection with the annual meeti
of the society, on the secol
he Thursday of May, The busine
a meeting, for the acceptance of I
" reports and the choice of office
II Will be held as usual.
II One hundred and forty perso
of have recently Joined the Sixth Str,