The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-02-09

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months before
The irish Prcsbyterians are very
earnestly opposing the demands Of the
Roman Catholic prelates for separate
denominatlOnal schools.
The Quakers at their Convention in
New York City, determined that their
usetulness shall no longer be retarded
on account ofreserye and inacti0n.
On the 81 day 0fDecember the New
Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, of
Chicago, was dedicated. This wasju-t
eight weeks to q day after the old one
was burned up.
The First Presbyterian Church Of
Elizabeth, New jersey, was organized
in 1864, and has not intermitted SER
vice for 207 years. In the last ten years
305 have been added to the member
ship Of the church.
The number of ministers in all
branches of the Lutheran church in
America is 2,l75, gain Of 100 during
the past year.
During the year 1871 eighteen min
listers Of the Baptist church declared In
favor ofopen communion.
There has been quite revival In the
Congregational Church In Washington
city. its present membership is $50.
A union meeting of the Baptist,
Methodistald Congregational churches
held recently at Fair Haven, Conn.,, re-
, sultedin the conversion of more than
one hundred persons.
A secret organization called 'rhe
Catholic Unionn has been formed In
the United States, for the purpose Of
extending practical sympathy" to
the Pope.
/ The Episcopal Almanac for 1872,
gives q list of 81 Bishops and 2S9S
clergymen IN the denomination. The
number Of communicates Is 2l4, ,995;
contributions last year, $5,5l4,574.
There were thirty deaths ia the
clergy. .t5.ss
/ A ten days meeting of extraordinary
power and success was lately held In
Boston, Mass. by Rev. J. S. Inskip
and WIN. Mcdonald. Out ola con-
gregation of 400 one half arese .as
professors Of entire sanetlfleation and
a large part Of the balance as seek
/ ers.
/ Elder Weaver, a man who has
preached the gospel with good success
} for forfy-tlve years, who Is now settled
over the Baptist church In Volun-
town, stated iii an address to the Sum
} day School In the Congregational
church in Jewctt City, that he had
heard a man say that he had read the
Bible through iii sixty hours. Deter
mined to ascertain whether the iItdi
vidual told the truth or a lie, he set
about 1t himself, and read the whole Of
it aloud to his wife in fifty-nine hours
and something over thirty minutes.
He read sometimes nm hour and some
times two hours day, keeping the. .eY-
act time, with the result Indicated
above.
Religion is universal; theology is
| exclusive, Religion is humanitarian ;
| theology Is sectarlan. Religion unites
mankind /; theology divides 1t. Reli-
| gion Is love, broad and all comprising
as Gods love theology breaches love
and practices bigotry. Religion looks
| to the moral worth Of man; theology
| to his creed and denomination. Reli-
| gi0n teaches us the common father
hood of God and the common brother
hood oflhan /; theology preLlcstination,
eternal damnation, and that we'should
rather fear the anger of God than trust
to his paternal mercy. Religion is
/ light and love, and virtue and peace
unadulterated and immaculate; but
theology is the apple of discord, which
disunites and estranges one from an
other.
The Episcopalians In IreiARl have
gained q membership Of l0,062 In the
last ten years.
The much-talked-of union between
the Baptists and COngregationalists of
England seems likely to be consum-
mated.
The Cohgregationalists have two
hundred places Of worship in London.
The next meeting Of the Evangeli-
cal Alliance Is to be held in New
York in 1873.
The statistics of the Ohio. State
Convention show that there are. 90
| 628 Baptists in the State.
The American Bible Society have
lately issued the Gospel Of Mathew
In the language Of the Flatheaa III
dams Of Oregon. 81
| The salaries Of pastors Of Episcopal
churchesin Philadelphia are from 81
600 to 81, cooper annum, st. Stephen 1
being the only one paying the last
named amount.
/ The Prussian Government has 70
solved legal disqualiflcations Of the
Jews, and to grant new rights to- the
corporations combining for worship in
SynagOgnes.
/ The Roman Catholic Envoy to Con
stantinople has returned t0 Rome,
having Been unable to obtain from the
Sultan any guarantee for the protection
4 of his Christian subjects.
The Roman Catholic Bishop Bar.
clay, Of New jersey, has ordered the
clergy to refuse Christian burial t
those who die Of the effects, Of liquor,
as well as those who sell 1t to drunk.
ards. '',
ZOO church edifices have been, erect
ed by the NJ. Il. Church during tic
past year, or two and quarter church
es for. each working day.
J. "A set of MOhammeslans has arisen
in Persia, now numbering two hum
dred thousand, which recognizes the
Bible as the word of God, aud at
tempts to reconcile the creed OF Islam
and c Christianity.
Tie Sabbath-school statistics OF the
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