The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-16
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

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Mrs. Van Cott the only female licensed
preacher among the Methodists, is preaching
with success in Chicopee Falls, Mass.
Rev Mr.. Leffingwell, Episcopal, of Gardi-
ner, Me-, lately preached sermon defending
the doctrine that the church and the Bible are
Of co-equal authority.
The Jewish Messenger avows the belief
that the establishment of the Suez Canal is an
other step towards the fllnlment of the divine
prophecy that the Jews shall return to the land
of Palestine.
A seminary has been founded near Ber-
lin, Prussia, to educate preachers and teach
ers for the German emlgrants in North Amer
lea. 1t is called the sternehaus (Star House,)
after the banner of the United States.
Peter Bayne says: "There is much doubt
in the higher intellectual world of England !;
it is doubt of an earnest, sad and reverent
cast-doubt struggling towards belief Such
doubt is not so much skepticlsm as it is linn
tied faith"
The American Catholic Bishops have been
regarded as the surest support of the Pope In
all his reactionary policy; but the Figaro, OF
Paris. asserts that fifty American Bishops will
support n. Dupanloup, Bishop of Orleans, in
his defence of liberal opinions before the
Council.
"A Scotch minister, so the story goes, being
asked If he was not tired to death after preach
ing a sermon two and half hours long, of
which he had been telling, replied SAW, no,
/ was as fresh as O rose; but 1t would have
done your heart good to see how tired the
congregation was" ,.g
An English editor, referring to the refusal
of the Pope, through Archbishop Manning, to
hear DR.. Cumming before the Council, says:
"Dr Cumming will think 1t feather in his
cap to.have been written at by the Pope, and
zoe shall have to bear the unhappy conse-
quences of his elatlon.
The experiment of the Duke of st. Adams,
In allowing the parishioners of Reburne to
select their own vicar, worked admirably.
There were 500 applicants, and the English
papers speak OF 1t as remarkable fact that
none of the reverend gentlemen 'canvassed"
for the place. Rev. G. Godfrey was chosen.
Out of $50, 900, 900 of people under British
dominion in India, it is estimated that there
are ITO, 900, 900 Hindoos, 25,OOO,00O Mohamme-
dams, l2OOO,O 900 OF the aboriginal tribes, md
5000, 900 or 100000 Buddhlsts, Jews and
Parsees. The Roman Catholics claim 100000
adherents, and the Protestants 240,0 900.
"A French suvan named DR.. Pagadi has
S,.JNO' "a ~" - .->~---- tttne-
habit into q child, displaclng any normal VIC
iousness or Incidence he may have inherited
from his parents. The Lyceum of the Prince
Impcrial at Vannes is about to experiment
with this discovery.
A Chicago paper has discussed the ques-
tion whether st. Paul travelled on Sunday. 1t
IA now engaged In the attempt to prove that
the apostle was o married man, and the iather
of several children. If successful in this at
tempt, the writer will have taken the VIII anu
poInt out of many Of the best things said ana
written by the 'Sorosls" people about the
crusty old bachelor Of Tarsus.
The Spectator says that General Buffers
elaborate cross-examnation of Mrs. Stoves
evidence Is. we take it, rather to be set down
to dislike of the New England party of virtue
than to any uncomfortable sympathy with
Lord Byron; though, we dare say, among the
rebels AGAINST Puritanism in the Puritan States,
there are not few who indulge passion lot
the one modern Titan who has covered his re-
belon with cloud of glory.
There Is q growing tendency among the
churches of all denominations in Boston and
vicinity toward free seats. At the Old Soutf
the galleries have recently been made free
Rev. James Freeman Clarke's new church Is
free in all parts, and his parshioners find thai
thew can raise more money in this way thar
by the old way of letting. One ofthe Cam
bridge churches, which last year raised only
sl4OO from its rentals, has got over $4,000 TINS
year, with free seats.
-Tlp following is Archbishop Purcells uttt
matun, onsthe school question, now undel
discussion in cincinnati: "The entire govern
ment of public schools in which Catholic yOuti
are educated cannot be given over to the civil
power. We, as Catholics, cannot approve O
that system of education for youth which Il
apart from instruction in the Catholic faith ant
the teaching of the Church. II the Schoo
Board can offer anything in conformity wltr
these principles, as has been done IN England
France, Canada, Prussia and other countries
where the rights of conscience in the matter
of education have been fully recognized an
prepared to give it respectful consideration.
The incumbent OF ST. Matthias, Liverpool
Rev. E. Newton Jones, has announced Ills IN
tcntion of rendering the church entirely fre'
to all. SIT is my full Intention" he says" t(
abolish pew-rents in my church at the end o.
this month, and on and after the first Sunday
in July, to throw It open to all, having the
ofrertory at each service" II hope, (he adds,
the time is not far distant when the unscrip
tural practice of receiving pew-rents I'm m!
opinion a most iniquitous taxi will be done
away with forever, and the offertory, iol
which we have apostolic sanction, be every
where substituted Until this is done, W.
must, fear, look in vain for full churches"
Boston clcrgymen are accused by write
in the Christian Intelligencer of the free us'
of most unclerical language. He says: " Bos
ton has OF late become notorious for the choice
language of its ministers. At the Temperance
Convention, Rev. Messrs. Miner, Thompson
and Usher freely used 'rascals,' 'scamps,
liars &C., and 1t was hoped Univcrsalist min