Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-14
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
Church Matters-PersOnal and Minis.
terIal and tho Progress of RelIgIan.

ana oLhef villages OF ancient Gall
lee number about five hundred
1t is said that the Marquis O
Butte, the millionaire, who has re
Gently left the Church of Englan'
for that Of Rome, aspires to tn
priesthood and will probably b
soon indicted into that Office.
The Rev. R. B Desroches, a Baptis
missionary to the French in Mich
gan, has baptized one hundred ant
fifty Roman Catholics during tn,
past ten years in Detroit; and, 81
far as he knows, not one has re
turned to the Church of Rome.
The editor of the Episcopa
Churh organ at Chicago says Gun
der no circumstances are these
columns open to discuss any officia
act of any bishop in the church, OF
any expression of opinion which 9
bishop makes, OF any advice which
he gives. AS bishop, he is utterly
above any judgment of ours, or any
other mans.
| The religious interest apparent in
the churches throughout the coun-
try has been encouragingly on the
increase during the past two weeks.
More reyiVals are reported in Metho-
dist and Baptist journals than at
any time during the winter which
has just closed. In a dozen Lu-
theran churches in New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio, large num-
bers have been converted.
The forthcoming Council at Rome,
is to be called, it seems, the "First
Council of the Vatican" and is to
be held in the right transept of St.
Peters. The stalls, etc, will cost
some 10000, and for this and the
other large expenses to be incurred,
subscriptions are collecting. 1t is
thought six months will scarcely
give the Council time enough in
which to do its work
The nuns of Quito, Peru, many
of whom persisted or were MANNED
in the general ruin caused by the
earthquake of last August, had to
build a straw cottage in their garden
where, though almost destitute of
the necessaries of life, they were de-
termined to die rather than abandon
the life of the cloister. They APP
peal for aid to the Catholics of the
United States to sustain their exist
ence and rebuild their oratory.
In disestablishing the Irish church,
the British public are assured by
Ministers that while the connection
of Church and State will be dis
solved, no new letters will be i'm
posed, and when disestablished the
Irish church will be left to deter1
mine, with entire freedom, its fu-
ture course. 1t is believed that the
church will gain in freedom much
more than it will lose in State pro-
vision for the support of its services.
The last week there are reported
8,127 accessions to churches and
conversions. OF these, 3,6S1 are
Methodists and All BaptistS Re
vivals continue to be reported as in
progress in New England and in
many parts of the middle and West
ern States. Several colleges share
in the blessing. An unusual inter
est is reported at Ottawa, Canada,
and the country around it, under
the auspices of pious sect of Pres
byterians, called the Plymouth
Brethren.
The Presbytery of Oregon held an
unusually interesting meeting at
Brownsville, on December "a, 20 and
90. The ministers were all present,
and the churches well represented.
The usual routine of business was
attended to with harmony. ResOlu-
tons on the union, on the basis of
the standards of the church were
unanimously adopted. The Com
mittee on Education reported en-
couragingly of the Albany Collegi-
ate Institute.
Repentance is the key to the king
dom of heaven. Many persons
seem to think repentance thing of
bitterness. 1t is such pleasure as
the world never knew. 1t is not
remorse, but escape; it is birth into
the spiritual world, instead Of be>
ing tremendous sacrifice, for the
sacrifice is in not repenting. The
kingdom of heaven is always at
hand to those who repent.
The Mission School for the Chi
nese, lately established by the How
ard Presbyterian Church New
School Presbyterian), is already a
great s uccess. AS many as sixty
pupils have been present at one
| meeting. They are greatly inter
ested, and will induce large mum
Der of their companions to attend.
The following notice Is printed on
red fre-cracker paper, in English
and Chinese: Notice-Mission
school, at DIR. Scudder's church
every Sunday, at , o'clock p. NJ. A
school is opened for teaching the
English language, without charge
ANY Chinaman who wishes TO Learn
may come at that hour.
There have been 300 persons con
verted at Hamilton, Madison coun
| ty, New York, under the late minis
trations of Rev. Jacob Knapp, th
veteran Baptist revivalist Durin!
the last six weeks 100 persons haV
been converted in the Methods
church in Belleville, and 7G hay
already united with the church. i
Rochester the revival is going fol
ward with great power. Many ar
giving much OF their time to Chris
tian labor, and going from house t
house inviting their neighbors t
the meetings, and the actual adol
ton of Christianity as the law {
/, their lives. Rev. Mr.. Hammond,
, PRESBYTERIAN revivalist, is laborin
3 | with marked effect in this work, an
r his visit to the city will be long r
= membered with interest and sati
c faction.
ri Many persons cavil at the cost
a ness of our churches and religion
a observances. But those of the u
t christianized nations are found to
: far more expensive. A missional
+ in China took pains to collect st
d tistics as TO the cost of idOlatrOI