The New York herald., 1871-01-15


Religious Notes. Personal and General.
At . Roman Catholic meeting In Nashville Tenn,
last week, resolutions were passed denouncing
Victor Emmanuel, and calling upon the Holy Father
to reassembe the Council OF the Vatican. An
address to the Pope was adopted, declaring that at
his call millions Will rush to his standard and pro.
claiming that q retinue would be provided for the
Bishop Of Nashville that would insure his safety In
attending the Council.
Two years ago the congregation of Trinity church,
Rock Island, H., numbered but fifty communicates,
and their property, parish, was valued at $500
Now they number about eighty members, and have
built aud paid for church which cost them over
$4,000.
the erection Of q Methodist church at Buenos
Ayres South America is an event OF ordinary in-
terest. The corner stone was laid last month"; Hon.
Robert q. Kirk, United States Consul Rev. Dexter
E. Capp, and the pastor, Key. H. G. jackson, ociat-
ing. the lot cost $4,000.
Philadelphia street preachers complain that when
they try to convert boys in tine streets the boys say,
'.Put a head on him. and when he talks TO them
about hell they say. ''You know how 1t is yoursefn
and when he passes around the hat they ask, .'How
does the Old hing Work!' lie Is going TO resign.
A widow III Connecticut, whose means are limited,
but whose deceased husband was lay commissioner
to the General Assembly at the time Of the dsunion
Presbyterian Memorial Fund, with The desire tnat 1t
may be appropriated to the training school Of the
Gaboon Mission In Africa
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seven In the same house in Boston the spot In
which she was born. She mad attended the old
South church seventy years, and never heard ser.
mon outside OF Its walls.
Rev. r. M. Chapman, d. D., rector of st. James,
church at Pewee ky., was on Christmas, presented
with check FOR $500 by the members OF his congre
CATION.
The will Of the late James Reed bank president.
Of Boston. gives $4,000 TO benevolent associations
In that city.
member OF Henry Ward Beecher's church has
given $4,000 to establishing the Beecher Lecture
ship" In Yale College.
The christian Recorder, the organ Of 200 600 Afr-
can Methodists, has barely 5000 subscribers and Is
In greatly embarrassed circumstances. The paper
Is ably edltcd and deserves q much larger patron
ei books Tor It's support, and the publisher makes
an earnest appeal to the members VI the African
Methodist Church In Its behalf
IL is estimated that the Jewish population OF New
York city Is 7o O0u and that there 22O Israelite
congregations in the United states, iortyof whcn
are in TINS city.
Ninety new members were received last Sabbath
by Or. I. Dewitt Talmage into the Tabernacle Pres
byternan church, Brooklyn, OF waom hity were on
profession. .
The rst Protestant service in Madrid was attended
by not more than fifteen persons. Taere are now
two congregations that number ZOO EACH
one Of our exchanges corrects an error in pre-
vIous announcement OF the substantial result OF a
donation visit TO country minister, whereby So 5O2
are reduced 10 S32 IS.
All cha, Su Jung, Wang, Epng, and An Yoke who
were lately conv cted In California Of torturng and
burning Chinese woman to satisfy some snoer-
stitiols whim, have each been sentenced 10 TWO
years III The State Prisonsann to pay iine $780,
The Northern Methodist Conference In Texas has
sixty travelling preachers and 1884 members. Ia
many places societies have been formed Among the
whlte population.
Bishop Marvin has found two members or the
Northwestern Iexas Conference guilty Of attending
n circus and has called them TO account before the
Conference.
The average salary OF the Presbyterian clergy OF
South caroliiia IN 1865 was $500. IL l5 now 500.
In the Charleston Presbyiery tue average is over
$i,50o.
AT salt Lake the Mcthodists have church OF 100
members, ana In Ogden and C0rune churches or
Sixty members eacn, and the numbers are steadily
Increasing.