, 1872-10-20
RELIGIOUS.

RELIGIOUS.
! The Rev. Stephen Gladstone. the British
Premiers son, has a church-iving worth $4,000
| yearly.
| Elder Slower, of Paris, Ky, who has preach
ed for five years, is now IL years old:
The Methodist Episcopal Church is talking
Of making its missionary. contributions for the
| coming year reach 81, 100000.
The Rev. Mr. Taylor, of Glasgow, has re-
signed his connection with tile United Pres5y-
| TRAN Church because organs havo been intro
! duced into the congregation.
| Since the reunion Of the two branches Of
| the Presbyterian Church the Board Of Publ
| cation has issued 10000 copies Of the West
| Minister Shorter Catechiam.
-Cleveland, with population of little more
| than 100000, has niaety-tive churches.
| The late Bishop Eastburn, Of Mas sachusetts,
| during the last ten years, gave of his income
more than 5000 in aid Of religious objects in
| his diocese, and has wl1led his whole property,
| widow, to benevolent objects connected With the
| Episcopal Church.
| -Monsignor Capel asserts that the next Pope
| has already been fixed upon in the person Of
| Cardinal Antonio Panebianco, q Sicilian. who is
| said to have made vow to restore the Society of
| Jesus TO its former greatness.
| The English Church Times says: "1t is
| commonly reported in political circles at Vienna
that the three Emperors have agreed to unite in
| q joint note to the Pope demanding the sup
preston of the Jesuits, md promising if be will
agree to their demand to take the other religious
| orders under their protection. and to come to
some understanding with the italian Govern
ment regarding their property.
| -Ritualistic worship is seen in perfection IN
| Advent Church EpiscopaD, Boston. There aro
| Il large glded Cross, flaming altar and super
altar, two candelabras, with seven candles each,
| and two immense candles.
| Rev. Il. Z. ZiegenfDs5 has closed bis pas
| toral relations with the Lutheran Church in
Rhinebeck, New York, for the purpose Of taking
orders in tho Protestant Episcopal Church. This
is tho third young Lutheran minister who has
gone over to the Episcopal Church.. in that
| State. within a few years.
The Rev. DR.. Schaff has returned from Eu-
rope and brings intelligence that the great Con-
ference Of the Evangelical Alliance, to be held
next year in the City of New York, will be attend
ed by representatives from all the foreign coun-
| tries.
| A list Of recent converts to Rome has just
been published in England. It contains over
! eighty names Of A1arquises, Earls, Barons, Cen
erals, and Admira1s, some belonging to the most
influential and noble families Of the Nation
The number Of converts from the Established
Church ia set down at 200.
The Rev. DR.. Meese, pastor Of q Lutheran
Church, in Chambers. Ohio, says that no person
of his congregation has been excluded from
church communion on account Of being mem
ber Of G secret society; but e number of his
people. belonging to these societies, have gone
from his fold and formed o now organization.
because they we're no longer willing to subject
themselves to the chastiEement Of the Word Of
God.'
The Paris journals announce the appear
.ance in few days, of . pastoral letter OF Mgr.
Guibert, addressed to the clergy Of Paris, On tho
subject Of the emotion produced in the church
by the new attitude Of several priests. Similar
publications are expected from the Bishops Of
Poitiers, Lucon, Grenoble, and Coutances.
-Pigrimages are now en- regle in France.
The various holy places throughout the country
quarters The Grotto Of Lourdes, where an ap-
partition Of the Virgin is said to have recently
appeared. has been visited between the 1st Of
May and thu 1st of September by $1,000 pill
grirns. The Pail Hall Gazette quotes glowing
account Of r. admirable arrangements made BY
the railway companies for the accommodation Of
pilgrims. I;>a devotees, with their baskets Of
provisions c-awd the trains q chattering and
laughing cr<Ed, and the pilgrimages are only
pic-nics on d grand scale.
Cardinal Patrizi has addressed letter 'to
Giovanni LAMA, Minister Of the Interior and
President of the Piedmontese Court" protest.
ing against the anti-Catholic plays now being
acted in the Roman theatres The Minister re-
piled that the dramas are, no doubt, objection
able; but that Italy is 3 FREQ country. and that
the Government cannot undertake to exercise
rigid censorship over the utterance OF its citi-
zens. Some evil will result from this liberty,
of course; but the ultimate and complete result
will bo better than could come from the policy
of repression.
The New York Evangelist Presbyteriau)
says: ''1s it not good omen that our churches
are seeking ministers to become pastors? The
number Of installations is certainly increasing,
ago, in the Synod Of Michigan there were only
twenty ministers of the one hundred and forty,
sustaining to the churches the relation Of pas
tor; about one in seven. At the present time
there are in the same Synod twenty-seven, or
one in i've nearly.
The Rev Dr.. Ormiston, of New York, visited
the big trees on the Pacific, and preached on
the stump of one which had been smoothed so
us to make an even floor for the summer-house
erected over it. Fifty-fye persons we're present,
and a hundred more could have been accom1uo-
dated, leaving room for the pulpit and melo-
deon.
The Rev. S. 3Iinton, Clergyman Of tho
Church Of England, has been preaching in Lon
Congregationalist. Mr.. Hall made graceful
address in announcing the preacher, in which he
said that Surrey Chapel had always been open to
the preachers Of other churches, and that Scott,
ians. had frequently assisted Rowland Hill in
preaching common salvation. N1r. Minton
preached from "Blessed are the Peacemakers"
and boldly justified himself in the course he had
taken; declaring that, though there vera legal |
obstacles in the way Of . thorough fellowship |
between the Episcopal and other churches, some |
churchmen were laboring with all their might to |
get these impediments removed.
Recent news from Geneva assures us that |
the Swiss Government is proceeding vigorously |
against II. Mermi11od, the recently appointed /
Bishop Of Geneva. AS that gentleman persisted T
in accounting himself Bishop according to the |
Pope's appointment, contrary to the Swiss 1aws |
and Constitution, which require the conjunction !
Of the authority Of the State as we'll as the Pope
the Council of State has decreed his removal |
from his blshopric (ia partib4s tnjideliuna) Of |
Hebron. Not only will the civil power not
recognize the new Bishopric of Geneva but it
declines to allow the exercise Of any episcopal |
functions by virtue Of fictitious bishopric Ac- |
cordingly the Council of State prohibit H. Mer-
millod from exercising episcopal functions within