, 1870-04-10
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGHHCE,.

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i-1hs Me.hodisss Of Now Jersey arc to have
! ststo Conference II in New iork. u" Ont !
IL 1ect il to let the politicians know how the !
Nothodiztz sis~ the COMMON school question"
-Ch.ttanooF.,: =, Tennessee, hza = oolored
acupbeEs ID addicted to the use Of toeacoo in
my form
-Thn First Russi.n Methodist Episcopal
Church wAs formed }aaely IN Tultoha, in 1sul
g1ris, boruenng On the Black Sea- It cousists
OF twenty members, in two classes, each
with ita own lebder.
--1he EpiscopAIans 40 opening church
reading rooms In Boston They hope To &C.
cusu = building u an e1pense of ~, 600.
Tho Rev. u Wood. Of Cambridge, Aasa.,
were hso1ght to he ehu1rh By sheir parents.
Tho Hav. 4 l. Bacdord, missionary in
Rio Jaoeiru, says that nearly every Brazilian 1
who wishes to be tlsought reapectab1s belongs |
to the Aasonie order, and thAs even tbs
pFses1a .!e aasons, IN spite OF tho PopSs e1-
-Iha Rapasss Of 1relsnd have doubled since
the revival Of 1859.
Tho American Board sska tor twcnty more
men for the Turkish Empire, Elk for .Nrica,
fourteen for India and Ccy1oI1, SIX for China,
besides the t&o who arc expected 70 90 to
Japan
st Johns German Reformed Church,
Vest Philadelphia, recently voted 10 trsnsiei
their congregation and property to the fresby-
terisns. Legal and ecclesiastical measures
have been taken TO prevent it.
The 1es Jerusalem Aesacs.ger says that
tro Of the professors IN Cornell tniyeraity 40
SwedenLorEians.
There have beer s,1A conversions re-
ported 9y p.ssess Of M tho E shnsshss q ,, u the
"A commission has been appointed in the
Aust1iAn keicbs1ath 10 consider the question
Of this complete separation Of Chn1Gh and
State, obligatory civil marriage, and the entire
repeal OF the Concordnt,
The lssv. G. ". Lewis, Of Poughleep6e.
hAs given out that he and his family viii Boon
unite with the Episcopal Church
There are $4,000 eierEymen Of the Church
OF England Al home. The Church has 2io
| missionaries.
1 The Cnivers.lnt Sunday School At Salem,
Masa.. has 400 nenbers-
Theirs are thirteen di4tSent branches Of
the Preabytcria Church
-Of the 1s0 teachers in the High School Of
Massachusetts. only thEea aEe Nethodists-
! The lock Of John Wes1ey'a hair deposited
in the coruer-atone of N English church is
now said to hAye been cut from his wig.
| The LuAerdn J'isitor sayS that tho South
ern Lutheran Church has not Ringla mission
ary. Md thst it must soon be without passers,
n Ii has not = single theological student
--Mr. Quicken, Superintendent OF the Amer
icxn Baptist Mission In Germany, during lAta
tour in RnsniA, organized threo churches Of 800
members among Ge1mAnB in IusAia, and one
in Turkey Of I'LL members
--Boetun has 90 Church Of CniversAl Unity. i"
| "A CstlnGc Journal says: "N Alr. Deccher
WAS not wel-Enown Yankee, We shoulf ss1s-
pect he IL AG1esiAn blood. for We find him IN
| insisting o creed to which no one il 10 4Ay
C.edo- ! belief which nobody i 70 beliege.1
sir john Coleridge, tha Englsh Solicitor
| General, who ia himself decided churchman,
| will have to choose between estshlAhmGnt
without ita present coda Of taAta, aud di4eatAb-
| lahment with them.
by the death Of Hiss Walker, Of Coatss
An estate valued II upward Of tao, ,0o0 hst
passed into the poaseseion Of the Episoopa
Church in Scotland.
-Great excitement prevails among foreisr
. residents At Saglaali, japan, in conse4ucnc'
Of tho Arrest and depoztAtaon-wlatheris u no
knonn-of more than Athousand i n1tivs Christ
ses as this: "The pervesbe religion Of Jesus
TIC teacher from heaven, IL calamity whie
| menaecs the empire" dc.
THO Bap,ists lave in England aud Wale
2,418 ministers, GO In Scotland, and 81 in Ire
land. In Europe aud tho colonies they hay
makes total Of 1879 churches, which Ii but
smx1l fraction Of the number IL the Unite
States. The ongreKaiouAlist4 claim in lirel
Britain about :, 900 600 adhe,ents, the Baptist
half Il many, anu the Wealsyans So, ,0ou men
besB. or about ], 500 COO, The Wealsyans has
+ ess, and {, 500 chapels in England and Wales,
Tho Holy Father lntely adninistered COZ,
2 tnunion in his private Chapel TO Vlscoun, Field
ing, who bad the lAppjness OF receislnx it #
the frrt time from tie hands Of the Pop,
The Young Yistornt Was accompanied by b
father, the Ea1l Of Deabigh-
This Worcester [Nass-) Spy, says that til
Rev. Vim. i. Huntingdon rector Of Al SAlni
Church il uiat city, hAs received call from 5
Marks Church, in New York, a. = salary Of e
1 tk,AS,a a|H1 S1t1nr "a 44yo Rae 4
T1nton, who wilt return 70 Boston.
"A Church OF England clergyman recent
l aekel Lis healera, (Which Of us waa crs
fonnd IN teaza during tho general confession {
| the Itany."
The Kev. Christopher 3. Stafford, VII
died recently iu Rochester, Ill, never receive
any salary during his forty ycA1a career -
Baptist minister. although lie mado 10 obje
tion to other ministers being paid.
a missionary IN India l., lately preached
Abraham And IAaac, with surh magnetic al
quepce, that one OF his native LeareEa inlt1,
diate1y went homo and e1SughteTed Il
son, and offered him to the big God" AZ
sacrifice.
The Adrocate sums up s,1s4 clerical vot
thus lar in favor, aud s15 agsinst Nelhodi
Episcopal lay delegation It re..kons that Il
remaining yotes will make I total Of 4, ,446 10
md |, Goa againat It, which would make
negative votes in excess OF The oua-Qua1t.
I AFENAE44S " uG4c4l &A4EAoWQ
hefollowing announcement which appes
ed in Rhode Island Newspaper OF recet
date, may awaken emulation among tho
cleTgymen who may equAl the advertiser
memory, but not in candor: "At Arnaotr III.
Weonsoeaet: the Rev; 8. L Holman, v
The Rich Fool LaviAg the Same eutirs
committed to menory.
The Government Of India has consulted t
Bishop Of Calcutt1 10 reference to aiscontin
ing he SUPPORT Of tho Anglican Church
The A9r'nons have mado sixty conYesta
The proposal to withdraw The Athanaai
Creed from the service Of the Churrh of En-
land has been defeated in the Ritual Coz
mission.
Il. is not true, u has been stated, that si1
Jewish phtsicians Of Vienna have entered
protest against circumcision. They only c
jected to the vsy in which the rte vas p
formed.
,-Anosher Of the Tyng family, Rev. Nor
4. Tying, has beeu ordained ~ Presltyte1 4
becomes Professor Of Biblical Literature
Gambler (Ohiol Seminary. He has for so1
time been Ills fathers assistant IN St. Georg
Church.
,, The Cniversalist Centena-y Offering
,e satisfactorily progressing. Akron, Ohio. b
~ ptedgei 80. .oGo Tor the projecte! state scho
Il The Second Congregational Church.
II Greenwich, Conn, and the Fourth Of ua
8 ford, have decided to allow women aud minc
-, ~ 10 vote for church officers.
ot The Grand Traverse Congregational CO
-. ference Of Michigan has passed reso!uuo
~ AgAinst Masonry: AMI. III retaliation, most
i the Aasoue have signed a ple1ee not to aid
~ support OF Congregational churches until !
10 conference "ithdra.h it, RESOLUTIONS.
r. There il genera! impression that the ';
A. ican Council Will soon he prorogued. not
- meet again till next winter. OF until the 20
- | thl1l 6urnmnr $hn fuarb}AtH
T. The revision Of tue authorized version
~ the Gible Is opposed by the E1nyocatiou Of !
~ Province Of York, England, but the supports
:. Of tie proposal have the moral, not I
IL known that officiating clergymen may ado
r. aur OF tho existing Bibles. amply becau
the-+ authorized" Translation h1e no legal 4
Ia thority except when Quoted in tie PRAYER box
10 ~ TO the letter OF which the clergy are bound
" thBir ur,1inthon vowr.
- Thirty years sgp, FAYE a winter IN the Z
p p an,iner and Chronicle, ths Baptist and Xett
sP dist churches in Philadelphia were about eal
~ in number. Now there are 10 Baptist churehI
- 60 Methodist, 65 rEeabytari1D+ and 70 Epast
~ isct in keeping themselves before the publ
Il ~ illustrated By the fact thAs last yeAr !
II n forty Baptist ministers married $50 coupl
- while The si1s! Methodists rnAsried $50.
+ 1t was threatened to express high eecle
=. asticsl censu1e on Bishop Temple. In AIM
sr Tue Only AfkuAple IuAOIelt Oy Ie1uhlnS ~ tl
= him Vice President OF the Society for tie TT,
- aBa,aon Of the Gospel. D1t the effort Has
ha failure, even the Rsshops most opposed to
w w Eishop Of Exeter At last cpposing tho plan.
n Tho B'.hop Of Ratisbon has sddreased
w young man from his diocese to attend tho !
~ lures Of DR.. Donin6ey, leas their iaitli shol
81 ba injured by exposure to 10 no1ious II mi
eis euce "a that Of the chxtnIiou Of those who
M ~ pose Pkpal infAlht1fty.
- --Many Catholic priests, Including FAs]
- uyscirthc, b1re attended seterai ct the 3
vices At the Tatbout Chapel. PNis, where
Bgrie1. one Of the pastors Of The French In
pe1ldeut Church, md one nt the 1oost oloqul
11-n,rhArr m Px1s hns 4pAt f{nfahesi Sariea