The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-10-04
RELIGIOUS NOTES AND ITEMS.

Fourteen Roman Catholics gradu-
ated from Dartmouth this year.
The Swedenborgian Church re-
Gently held its fifty-third annual con.
vention In Boston. They report nine
teen sOcieties in Massachusetts,, and
about ten each in Ohio, Illinois and
Minnesota.
The Presbyterians will celebrate,
the coming fall, with good deal of
spirit, the three hundredth anniversary
of the birth of John Knox. This event
will be made use of to review the his
tory, progress, and present condition
of Presby terianism throughout the
world.
The Pope will shortly Issue an
encyclicsl letter declaring the Society
of Armenian Catholics separate from
the Church Of Rome and placing them
under the ban Of major ex-communica-
ton. The Pope has recognized the
Archbishop OF Baltimore and the
Bishop Of Richmond.
"A considerable number of the
"Order Of Jesus" expelled from Ger
many, will soon be in the United
States, including not a few eminent
doctors. 1t is said, however. that they
will not remain in New York, their
destination being new towns and SET
Elements along the line of the Pacific
Railway.
Rev. James Kent Stone, d. D.,
was admitted to Holy Orders in the
Roman Catholic Church a few days
since, by Bishop Rosecrans, of Ohio.
DIR. Stone, it will he remembered, was
formerly an EpiscOpalian and was
successfully President of Kenyon and
Hobart Colleges.
-Mahomedan!sm is said to have re-
vived greatly Of late years. Business
partnerships between Christians and
Mahomedans are now rare. In Abys-
sinia and Central Africa, numerous
emis,aries are engaged in teaching
Mahomedanism with extraordinary
success.
-Rabi Solomon splitter, Of Vienna,
has published the decisions of 400
Rabbis of Germany, Austria and Rus
STA, who all agree that the 'omission
of prayers for the advent of Messiah
and the restoration of the sacrifices,
involves a denial of the Heavenly
promises, and that those who omit
such prayers, and not allowed to be-
come members of the religious body"
The Methodist thinks there is room
for improvement in the topics chosen
for discussion i'm Y NJ. C. A. Conven-
tions. "How shall a Bible class be
conducted ?" is very well, but allow
shall young man in this lying and
cheating generation be honored 2" is a
question that goes clear to the root Of
character.
The Religious Ielescopc, of Dayton,
mOurns over the temperance opinions
of Henry Ward Beecher. Total alb
stinence, says Beecher, is TO be prac-
ticed for the good of others, but to
ordain it cOercively as q universal
moral obligation, sis a palpable in-
fraction of Paul's first great principle
of Christian Liberty"
The belief in Shamanism is Gniver-
sal among the natives of Alaska, Es-
kimo as we'll as Indians. Even the
AIeuts, long nominally converted to
Christianity, still retain superstitiOus
feelings i'm regard TO it. 1t is essential
ly q belief in spirits who are controlled
by the Shaman; who come at his call,
impart to him the secrets of the future
and the past, afilict or ease aff1ict-
ing men by sickness at his behest, and
enables him to advise others as to sea.
sons and places of hunting, good or
evil Omeps, and the death or recovery
OF the sick. These, however, are not
spirits who were once men.