The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-10-16
Religious Intelligence.

Tho Prussion Ditio ,ooiety -4,a. a;..-;ha.es
three million Bibles since 1874.
Rev. Edward Bracket. NJ E. Minister al
Harrington, died at that place last Thursday.
-Bev. George Harris, jr., commenced his
pastoral labors with the High st. Congrega
ional Church, Auburn, on Sunday.
"A society in Nahant. Mass, is composed OF
Unitarans and Trinitarians, who work togeth-
er in perfect concord.
The Houlton Times says the new Catholic
priest at Van Buren, is effecting radical change
in the morals and general character of the
Madawaska French people O. SaEEE t5&0
The First Unitarian parish of Marlboro
Mass, has given a call to Rev. Calvin Stebbins,
who has just resigned his pastorate at Chico
pee.
The author of "Ecce C@lum," Rev. E. f.
Burr, D. D., is writing another book. to be en-
titled "Pater C@lestis, or Modern Science Tes-
tifying to the Father in Heaven ..
On Wednesday, Oct 9Th, Rt Rev. Bishop
Bacon administered confirmation in st. Jo-
seph's church, Lewiston, to 300 children. The
evening of the same day, at Waterville, he con-
frmed $50 others.
The Maine Farmer says that Chas A. Lam
bard Esq, of New York, and Horace Williams,
Esq, of Clinton, Iowa, both formerly of Angus
ia, have pledged $4,000 each toward the erec-
ton of a new Episcopal church, in the last
named city. -toE SSss@s 3t8saA NSabn.
Brown University has elected John G.
Whittier as one of its trustees in accordance
with provision of its charter which requires
that the trustees shall not all be Baptists, but
that certain number of them shall be Con-
gregationalists, Quakers and Episcopalans.
The Rev. DR.. Skinner, one of the pioneers
of Universalism in the State of New York. for
merly editor and publisher of the Magazine
and Advocate, and long and favorably known
throughout that denomination, died at his res
idence in Utica, N. Y, Saturday morning, Oct.
I'd. za7s7tt 90 or sH,ai
Mr.. Spurgeon asserts that in England.
open communion churches prosper greatly.
This seems to be true to some extent in orr
own country. Some of the Baptist churches
in North Carolina, which act upon this princi i
pie, are enjoying revivals aud increasing in
A new Baptist church has been or.
ganized at Fort Smith, Ark. The exclusion of
a member of the old church, because he COM
muned with his wife at Methodist church
set this enterprise in motion.
AS a step in practical consolidation, Fl.
two Presbyterian papers in Cincinnati, the Her.
ald of the New School, and Presbyter of the
Old School, have been united, under the Joint
control of both editors, DIR. j. G. Monfort and
G. E. Bulb. The declaration of Union will
doubtless be made by the two General Assem-
blies at Pittsburgh, III November, and there
will be but one assembly in May next. Rnt
tho union of synods cannot be consummated
luti the fall of 1870, and the presbyteries must
wait for their union and boundaries for the AZ.
lion of the united synods For ministers and
churches, the distinction of O. s. and N
will fall into general disuse.
The Protestant Episcopal Board of Mic
'ions held their thirty-fourth annual meet;no
n New York this week. Bishop Green of Mis'
'issippi presiding. Rev. Dr. A. T. Twinp soo
'etary and General Agent of the Board ro.d
The report of the Domestic Committee. Will,
recommended the propriety of ESTABLISHING a
pecial fund for the education of such naive
Chinese as may have been led to seek holv or
lers. The report states that 211 clergyman
ire enrolled as missionaries, of whom 178 ara
low in the field. The total receipts last vear
we're $131 $50, being a deficit of SIG s7s
There are 10000 children enrolled in the Home
Mission cause. Reports were also read from
he foreign field.
Rev. James freeman Clarke writes as fol.
ows: when preached in Milwaukee a few
Sundays ago, it happened that three churches
# three different denominations all sang the
anne hymn the same evening, Nearer, nv
Tod, to Thee, nearer to Thee" That HYMN
vas first published in America in our own
lynn book. 1t was taken by me from little
o'ume called Hymns and Anthems for
Vnich 1t was written by Mrs. Sarah Howe
Adams, to be sung in William j. Fox's church.
n extreme radical in opinion Now, not an
Dr. shodox society in America but values that
lynn es one Of its very best. All this shows
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