The Portland daily press., 1869-03-27

The Universalists of Brittan's Mills, Liv-
ermore, propose to erect new church edifice
during the coming summer.
Mr.. S. L. Beal recently a member OF the
Bangor Theological Seminary, having be-
own request, been dismissed from that insti-
tuition, with view to engage in the Univer-
salist ministry. DIR. Pond, in his letter of dis
missal, speaks in high terms of the character
of Mr.. Beal as student and a man.
Rev. Mr.. Earl, the revivalist, is preaching
in Lewiston.
Rev. Mrs. P. A. Hannaford has accepted
an invitation to supply the pulpit of the Uni
versalist Society at Waltham, Mass.
Rev. Thomas Hill, d. D., late President of
Harvard College, has received call from the
Unitarian Church at WaItham, over which he
was settled for many years
Rev Russell P. Amber of Portsmouth,
N. H., has accepted call from the Universal
list Church in Medford, Mass.
The Friend publishes statistics to show
that the Friends in Pennsylvania are decreas-
ing in numbers. Since 1880 but five new
meetings have been established, while 81 have
been abandoned.
in Boston, on Sunday last, the Rev. Samu-
ell johnson gave the tenth of the Horticultur-
al Hall series of sermons, taking for his sub
ject the Piety of Pantheism, as illustrated in
the higher forms of Hindu philosophy and
faith" He thought these had. been too long
mlsrepresented. They had sprung from the
thoughts of men who could think and reason
only of the soul. He did not wish to exalt the
Orientals at the. expense of what is good in
Christianity, but to render justice where few
will allow that any debt is due. Like all de-
vout people,. ,.but in higher degree than any,
the Aryan Hindoo believed in supreme un-
ity. The Vedas are both pantheistic and the
istic He worshpped the One in the Mani
fold-the infinite substance masked in endless
ILLUSION. The speaker read passages from the
sacred books of the Hindoos, to show that
their pantheism was consistent with theihigh-
est spiritual worth, with freedom, morality,
prayer and sacrifice. Having said good
word for pantheism, he did the same, in pass
sing, for fatalism. A religion without fate he
thought unsound; for fate was the impregna-
bly, certain, not the desperately bad. Theism
without fate is Atheism: the saint and the he
TO are fatalists, not because there is no free
dom of the will, but because that freedom con-
sists in recognizing the laws of nature A
God whose sway is not fate, is not venerable"
In sharp contrast with this discourse of
Mr. Johnson's and with the views of his
school, is the sermon delivered in Trinity
Chapel, New York, ON Palm Sunday, by the
Rev. DR.. F. g. Ever, on the subject OF Par
ties in the Protestant Church. He briefly re-
viewed the five great movements which have
risen in the Protestant Episcopal Church dur
ing the last hundred years; first, the Wesley
an; second the Low Church; third, the High
Church; fourth, the Puseyite, (so-called;) and
fifth, the Catholic; to show that they are not
disconnected disturbances, but merely the
successive stages OF one grand development
the end of which is the triumph of Catholi-
cism The mission of Catholicism was, he
said, mot merely 10 substitute reverence and
care in the conducting of public Worship for
irreverence and slovenliness, but also to sub
stitute clerical self sacrifice and hard work for
selfshness and gentlemanly ease; free seats
for the sale of holy things; open churches for
closed, to substitute the parish priest pleading
at the altar, not weekly, but daily, the sacri
fee of Christ for the sins of ''all Gods whole
Church. ever ready to listen to the tale of 81
lent sorrow, the word of concealed but har-
RAISING doubt, the story of sin, the low, deep,
pentent wall, and to meet and to satisfy all
this growing and spreading hunger for spiritu-
al direction, in place of the gentlemanly rector,
spending his days in oscillating between writ
ing his sermon and stepping from door-beIl to
door-bell on his round of social calls; to sub
stitute Catholic authority for wild individual
ism; the simple truth for manifold error; ear
nest, energetic religious action, instead of
sloth, and to restore and then fan to an ever
burning fame the lost spiritual life"
The seventeenth session of the New Eng
land Methodist Conference was held at Low
ell this week, Bishop Thompson presiding.
The Providence, R. T.. and Newark Confer
ences have also been in session.
Among the Chocktaw Indians there are
sixteen Christian churches, HOO communi-
cants and 1900 Sabbath school children. A
translation of the Bible into their language is
now printing in New York under the auspices
of the American Bible Society.