The Portland daily press., 1871-12-09
PR ESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, DEC. o, 1871.
Religious Intelligence.

1t being Impossible to get get the India
street Universalist church in this city in Or
der for the meeting of the York and Cumber-
land Association on the 14th and 18th in
stants, as heretofore announced, the date Of
the meeting of the Association Is postponed
10 Thursday and Friday, Dec 21st and 22d.
The Universalist church in Pittsield is
ntearly completed. 1t will be re-dedicated in
three or four weeks.
rS eS; " w. Nj. Ober, recent pastor ofthe West
En1 congregational Chapel in this city, left
oS on nioh9ay last Tor Newcastle, where he has
az nstatlon to the pastorate of the
congregational society of that town.
Mr.. 0. X. Hunt was ordained to the work
of the Gospel ministry, by a council called bv
the Baptist church in Windsor, Nov. 23d.
Rev. Geo. Levens of Durham, is for a few
weeks supplying the Baptist church in Els
worth.
Rev. S. C. Aver, pastor of the NJ. E. church
at Bowdoinham, has been unable to attend
to his labors for several months past, and
Rev. C. C. Cone is supplying his pulpit. The
Baptist church at Bowdoinham, has been
holding evening meetings for two or three
weeks past, which promise to be highly bene-
ficial to the cause of religion.
An interesting York County Quarterly
Meeting of the Baptist churches has just
closed at Goodwins Mills. Good has already
resulted The next will be held with the
Baptist church at Wells Depot, during the
present month.
The late Mrs. Susan G. C. Pullen, of Au-
gusta, left the sum of two hundred dollars,
to be placed on interest in the savings bank,
to be used in liquidating the debt resting on
the First Baptist church in that city, when .
concerted effort shall be made in that direc-
ton. f-.H..s.s....r.
The Brunswick st. Baptist church in Gar
diner has sustained heavy losses of late in
the removal of many of their members to 9TH
er places; but the remaining ones are hearth
ly assuming the additional burdens, and the
work goes on as ever. Recently they have
visited their pastor in large numbers, and put
into his hands, in cash and other useful arti-
cles, about SIP.
The pastors of the several churches in Hal
| lowell have arranged to hold a series of unicn
| meetings in the City Hall on successive Sun
| day evenings. Rev. A. r. Crane preached
the first sermon of the series last Sunday
evening.
We understand that the Unitarian church
in Augusta will be re-opened for religious
services during the ensuing winter. Rev.
Mr.. Shippep of Boston will supply the pulpit
on Sunday, Dec. 18th.
Readfield District Pennington NJ E. Minis
terial Conference will be held in the Metho-
dist Chapel in Pennington village, next week,
commencing Monday evening, Dec IL, and
continuing two days. Preaching and devo-
tional exercises each evening.
The revival in Centre Freeman, and on the
New Portland NJ E. circuit continues with
interest. This increase of religious interest
in that whole section is attributed to the
camp-meeting held in New Portland in Sep
tember last. Arrangements are being made
for permanent meeting in that part OF Read
field district.
There has been considerable religious in
| terest in Columbia Falls. Seven have Joined
the church on probation since this Confer
ence year began, and Others will soon join.
Rev. Mr. Whitney writes that very inter-
esting attention to the subject of religion ex-
lists in Easton, at the Bangor settlement.
Some thirty are anxiously inquiring for the
right way.
Next year National Camp Meeting is to
be held at the camp ground in Richmond, be-
longing to the Kennebec Valley Camp Meet
ing Association, The State camp meeting
will be merged in the National meeting. 1t
is already arranged that Rev. Messrs. Inskip,
Boole, Mcdonald, and others of the most
prominent managers of the National Camp
Meeting will attend the meeting at Rich
mond.
Mrs. DIR. Prentiss, of New York, second
| daughter of the late DIR. Payson of this city,
| author of stepping Heavenward," ''The
! Percys," "Aunt James Hero" &C., will
! write series of tales for the New York Ob-
seruer, running through next year.
The women of the Presbyterian church in
O. e Il l. II IL.
| is pastor, are endeavoring to build a church;
| and, in aid of their project, they ask five
thousand women of their denomination to
contribute an amount averaging five dollars
each as Christmas gift toward the erection
| of this church.
| Rev. Horace Fletcher, DID,, of Townsend,
died on the 9th of November, at the age Of
| seventy-five years. In early life he was
teacher and lawyer, but after studying theol-
ogy in 1874 he was settled as pastor of the
Baptist church in Townsend, and remained
its honored and beloved minister to the time
| of his death. He was brother of the late
Hon. Richard Fletcher of Boston and ex-Gov-
| ernor Fletcher of Vermont. The Brattlebor-
| ough PhCpnic pays warm tribute to DIR.
| Fletcher's life and character, which closes
with the remark that he was ''a true gentle
man of the old school.
The progress of the London Methodist
Cudpci Is SATISFACTORY. The
| sum of $3.50, 900, it will be remembered. was
| promised some time ago by Sir Francis Ly
| cett, on the condition that an equal sum be
! contributed by subscribers in the provinces.
| thus enabling the committed to give $4,000
toward each of fifty chapels to be erected in
London. The sum of 100000 has already
been subscribed to meet Sir f. Lycetts liber-
al offer, and there can now be no doubt that
| the whole will be forthcoming. The building
of a number of chapels is already in progress,
| while Others are in contemplation.
Here are few scraps of news from the Old
! Catholic conflict in Europe: The Swiss
Council OF State have suppressed all outdoor
| religious ceremonies and professions. The
people of Cologne, regarded as a pre-eminent-
| ly Catholic city, has rejected the Ultramon-
tame candidates for the Town Council, and
returned Liberals, who win grant the Alt
| Catholics church. The Archbishop of Mu-
mich, while banning parish priests in small
Bavarian towns who refused to accept the
| DEGREES of the Vatican Council has been with
stood to the face by the offending parties and
hooted by the people.
The Rev. T. Sandys, for nearly forty-two
| years missionary of the Church Missionary
Society in North India, died in England on
the Sth ult., from the effects of fall from
carriage.
| Rev. c. Benzine, pastor of the Second Re
formed Church of Cleveland, has been sus-
pended from his Office by the Chassis of Erie,
on the charge that he had attempted to carry
| over to the Presbyterian Church both his
| congregation and church building.
At meeting held in the First Presby-
terian Church of st. Louis, on Monday, seven
delegates were appointed to the National
| Convention to be held in Cincinnati on the
| 31st of January, 1872, for the purpose of OBJ
tanning definite acknowledgment in the
Constitution of the United States of God as
the author of our existence as a nation and
the source of authority.
Washington papers refer to DIR. CHECKER
| ing's renewed and welcome labor there in
behalf of Temperance in all things, physical
self-culture and control There are several
new members of Congress who will swell the
ranks of the Congressional Temperance So
ciety.
The Rev. DIR. Maclay, of Foo Chow, China,
writes to the Methodist Board of Foreign
Missions, giving details of fresh outrages up
on the native preachers in csnnection with
the Methodist mission at different places in
the interior. In one case the preacher was
beaten almost to death and LETT for dead on
the ground. The charge against them was
poisoning the wells. AT Hokchiang, forty