Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-01-24
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
Ministers, Church Matters, and the
Progress of Religion.

Ministers. Church Matters, and ihe
Progress of Religion.
A German Presbyterian Theo-
logical School has been founded at
Dubuque, Iowa.
| Tive new German Lutheran pa
pers, in addition to the fourteen al
ready published, have been recently
issued-one in Indiana and the
other in Canada.
The Hon. Colin Lindsay, widely
known as President Of the English
| (Ritualist) Church Union, was re-
Gently received into the Roman
Catholic Communion.
An interlinear translation of the
Bible is in preparation by DIR. Leon
ard Tafel, of Philadelphia-the
Old Testament to be issued in
twenty parts and the New in
eight.
A clergyman who is never guilty
of such things, says it is a poor re
ward to "shy an old sermon at the
devoted heads of the few who have
ventured out on rainy Sunday. "
Nielsville, Wisconsin, has a news
paper but no church, and the coun-
ty courthouse, which has been used
for such purposes, has been closed
against religious meetings by the
Board of Supervisors.
The organization of an independ
ent Catholic church is talked of in
Spain, and preliminary steps are
being taken to carry the scheme
into effect. Such a revolution in
Spain would be still more amazing
than the fall of the late dynasty
that has ruled Spain SO long.
The Rev. A. d. Phillips, a mis-
sionary of the Southern Baptist
Board, after thirteen years resi-
dence in Central Africa, has re
turned TO his native land, to remain
a few months. He is now on visit
to his relatives in Mississippi. While
in England, Mr. Phillips collected
81 500 for the Board of the South
ern Convention.
During the year 1868 seven hun
dred and seventy new Protestant
churches have been dedicated, dis
tributed rs follows: Methodist, l29;
Baptist, 100; Presbyterian, 100;
Congregational, 65; Lutheran, 43;
German Reformed, II; Episcopal,
-, Reformed 8; Moravian, l.
The Rev. II. S. Wynkoop, of the
Second Presbyterian Church (O.S.),
of Huntingdon, l.. l., who sailed as
a missionary to India lately, is said,
by the Foreign Missionary, to be
the first instance in which a settled
pastor of the Old School Presby
terian Church has left his people
to go to the heather.
There are two Protestant Episco-
pal Sisterhoods in New York city,
one founded by Dr. Muhlenberg in
1915, the Sisterhood of the Holy
Communion, devoted mainly to the
charge of st. Luke's hospital, and
Independent organization, and the
SisterhOod of st. Mary under &c
clesiastical control with Rev. Nor
gan Dix for its chaplain The lat
ter is modelled after the Roman
Catholic SisterhOods, and has done
excellent service for fallen women.
1t is said that Hungary presents
field of missionary interests un-
paralleled by any in the world. A
religious reform commenced ten
years since. At the beginning
numerous conversions were report
ed. Little churches have sprung
up i'll numerous places, yielding a
bright and shining light in Bohe-
mia, MOravia. and Tyrol, Southern
Austria, down to the Adriatic, and
eastward to the remOtest point OF
Pennsylvania.
Several individuals are engaged
in propagating the gospel in Mex
leo. The London Bible Society
sustains a Bible depot in the city,
the sales amounting to about forty
dollars a month. Colporteurs also
travel about the country in the dry
season. In 1866 about II 900 copies
of the Bible, OF portions of it, were
put in circulation. In 1868 the
humber bids fair to exceed thai
amount. The American Bible So
ciety also sends out about 4,OO'
copies a year.
, A citizen of Prussia is by brit
a member of the Lutheran Church
If he wishes to become q Baptist
he must 60 before a magistrate ant
declare his purpose. After two
I weeks-the Lutheran pastor is OK
Y pected TO exert his elOquence TO re
, claim the wanderer-if he adher,
to his determination, he must re
peat his declaration before tn
magistrate, and is then allowed t.
Y depart in peace. This is not re
| quired of Methodists, as they d.
: not differ from the Lutherans il
their views of baptism. Persecu
ton for opinions sake has nov
a ceased in Protestant Germany.