The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-03-31
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

Washington has sixty-five churches.
Palmyra, H., with less than lour
hundred inhabitants, has three
churches.
Said Samuel Rogers: "Those who
90 to heaven will be very much sur
prised at the people they find there,
and much more surprised at those
they do not fnd there"
Every end of religion requires that
man should be brought face TO face
and heart TO heart with loving God.
For it is this divine heart-pOwer that
is our whole hope.
The Rev. J. NJ. Clymcr, of Wood
stock, Virginia, has received and ac-
cepted call to the church at New
Creek, West Virginia, the former
charge of the Rev. Edward Martin.
The bishop of London has admitted
Miss {. Hart to the office of Deacon
ess in the Church of England, and has
appointed her visitor in the district
parish of st. Gabriel, Pimlico.
The Catholic Telegraph estimates
the communicants in its church
throughout the United States at :, ,25O,-
900; the churches, chapels and sta
tions at j, 1873; and the priests at 6, ,l4l.
The great globe itself is not more
interlaced with golden veins and filled
with precious things, than the field of
revelation, the storehouse of the un-
searchable riches of Christ.
A number of Spanish Christians
have obtained license from the Portu-
guese ministry TO form themselves
into an Evangelical church, with the
recognition and under the protection
of the lsw, in Lisbon.
Drew Seminary, Madison, n. j.,
has received a bequeSt of 100000
from the late Abel Minard, of Norris
town, TO be used as permanent fund
for the aid of INDECENT young women
in obtaining ministerial education.
William Craig, late of Auburn,
Mass, left all his estate, valued at
$4,000, for benevolent and religious
purposes; SlS,000 is to be divided be-
tween the Massachusetts, Bible Socie-
ty and the American Tract Society of
New y ork.
A Presbyterian church was opened
in Rome, now the capital of Italy, on
the 9th of January. 1t has been erect
ed at a cost of about $4,000, and will
accommodate 800 persons. The pas
tor is the Rev. James Lewis, formerly
minister of the Free Church of Scot
land i'll Leith.
DIR. Baync Smith, of Oxford Uni
versity, who has now succeeded Dr.
Afford, as Dean OF Canterbury, only
a few weeks ago took the chair at q
great temperance meeting at Oxford.
in favor of what is called the permiss-
i've bill, allowing towns TO prohibit
the sale of intoxicating liquors.
The Convocation of Canterbury
adjourned without any concurrent
action on the subject of the presence
of a Unitarian among the revisers OF
the English Bible, the Lower House
having with the consent of the Bish-
Gps) voted TO postpone action till the
revisers made their report
Female Cent Society (Conere.
HatiOndt) ". NEW udlnpSulrc Is val
liable auxiliary TO home missionary
enterprises. During the sixty-fivt
Z wears of Its existence It has collected
S74,S29. The collections for 1S7(
amounted to 81 500. 1t has Memo
rial Fund, created by the payment o
ten dollars tor each name, the interes
of Which is be paid annually to TIT
New Hampshire Missionary Society
Memorial members, whether living
or dead, secure the payment of sun
equal 10 tifty-two cents year. Th'
amount of the Memorial Fund is near
ly $1,000. In 1906, the first year o
its existence, $500 were raised; il
lS70, $500, by the payment OF on,
cent a week by its members.