The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-03-26
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Religions Intelligence.

The New Jerusalem Messenger says that
two of the professors in Cornell University are
Swedenborgians. lAW
Rev. Newman Hall has been so seriously
i'll since his separation from his wife, whose
prayers have been offered for his recovery in
London.
Burlington University, Iowa, which has
lately appointed Mrs. M. A. P. Darwin, A. NJ
a graduate of Oberlin, as professor of rhetoric
and logic ESQ women can he Logically is under
Baptist control. There are six professors, no
debt, and $4,000 as the beginning of an en-
dowment. A ,---
Rev. B. II. Bailey of Portland will preach
at the Court House in Pennington Sunday af-
ternoon.
Rev Mr.. Davies, recently from England,
| will remain with the Episcopal church at
Eastport for a few months.
The Rev. J. X. Mason, pastor of the Con-
gregational Church, Thomaston, on the 9th in
slant, rendered his resignation. to take effect
the first of May. 1t has not yet been accept
| ed by his church and people.
Rev. Augusta Chaplin, Universalist
preacher, has been giving series of success
| full doctrinal discourses to the people of Iowa
City, as we learn from the Chicago NeU Co..
cnant.
Newspaper duns are almost always conf
ical. A religious newspaper dun is peculiarly
so. A Western religious paper after ~Al,aust
ing all the ordinary forms of appealing to its
patrons assures them that "The Lord will
help" them. The idea of bringing forward the
Lord as an assistant in collecting money from
DELINQUENT subscribers is not a new one, but
we hope it will not become too common.
The Tribune says that visitors to the Vati-
can Council are shown in the Church of ST.
Augustine ''the cord with which Judas Iscari-
OF hanged himself; wing of the Angel Gabri-
ell; the comb of the cock that crowed when
Peter denied his lord; the beard Of Noah; and
the staff with which Moses divided the Red
Sea-"
"A correspondent of the - Independent,
alarmed at signs of laxty of doctrine in Plym-
outh Church and in the Independent also, asks
the editor of that paper to set forth explicitly
his personal religious views. constituting MS
rule of life here and hope of salvation hereaf-
ter. In reply Mr.. Titon prints in full the
sermon on the mount" from the New Tesla.
| ment.
The rite of baptism was administered to
~ converts in five churches in ST. John, N. B.
last Sunday.
| -kev. Samuel Bowker contemplates leav-
ing his Passionate at Wells first of Anril.
The First Church, York. has ;nvited Row
B. w. Pond (of Charletop, Mass 70 ,h.t
pastorate.
The Congregational Church in Farminn
ton has been furnished with Chandelier .nd
| other lights, and with full set of HYMN and
Tune books for the choir from the proceeds of
an old folks concert.
The Congregational church and society of
Skowhegan have invited the Rev. Webster
Woodbury. Of Ashfeld, Mass, to preach for
them and it is expected that he will commence
his labors by the first of April.
The Universalists of East Boston, are
holding protracted meetings in the vestry of
their church, under the superintendent of
their pastor, Rev. Charles j. White.
The first Protestant sermon preached
west of the Mississippi was by Rev. James
Kerr, Baptist, at st. Louis, Oct. 20th 1899, on
the occasion of the funeral of his wife. The
first Protestant sermon in New Orleans, was