, 1873-01-26

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Elder Miles Grant, Of Boston, will preach this
Ths Lev. james Harrison vii presch this morning
and evening ut the Church nf the Pilgrims.
Elder D. r. aud Mrs. II. G.. Mansfield will hold :
morning and evening prayer-meetang Ut No. GLIB West
The ney; :. Richards vii preach this morning in
the English Observation-Disclosures Church.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Prussian Government has definitely de-
cided to apply the provisions OF the Anti-Jesuit
bill also against the Order Of tie Danes du sacre
Cuur do Dieu.
Tho Rt. Raw DR.. Lay, Bishop OF Easton, has
in a whisper, and is now under treatment by one
Of the most skiliul physicians Of Baltimore.
Mr.. Gladstone again denies that he is Ro-
ulanist, aud sregrets that it is not in his power
to save the cEedulous from the aa1oyanee caused
The Standing Committee Of the Episcopal
Diocese of Massachusetts have resolved not to
call another special convention, but leave the
election Of Bishop toethe animal convention,
which meets next May. In the meanwhile the
Episcopal work Of the diocese will be done BY
Tho amount contributed by Pennsylvania
Baptists during the past year for religious pur-
poses wGs $52O, AGO.
"A Methodist church Of seventy members has
been organized by the Rev. ". Taylor, at Poo
nah, near Bombay, India.
In 1869, 10000 persons we're converted to
Christianity in Madagascar, and in 1871, the
Christian community WAS Increased BY 63, ooo
Bishop Arms is fearful that his Methodist
brethren are cherishing too great d desire Tor
fac churches and an educated ministry. The
only compensation vas, that, where one costly
church vas built, fifty plain ones we're also
that it was better to allow wealthy members to
spend their mopey in this WY than not at all,
aud thus have communion OF misers at the
altar.
Tho Rev. 0. H. Newton, the chaplain Of the
nine a hundred aid sixty Of the convicts ha7o
professed religion since the formation OF the
prison church, a year and q half ago. OF these,
about hundred havp been discharged, and
Joined churches outside, and are living con-
sistent Christian lives. =
Bishop 4. c. COKE, who was recently on q
visit to the Episcopal Mission at Haytf, oonse-
crnted the Church OF the holy Trinity, st Port
au-Prince, as memorial church Of tho late
Bishop OF Maine. On Sunday, Dec. IS, at the
early aoryice to tho English portion OF the peo-
pie, he confirmed four persons, and ut tile
French service, held at a later hour, he con-
fzmed thirty-fve persons, mostly adults, OF both
sexes. The church was crowded, and the ser
The Jesuit priests in Rome a-e exciting their
hearers by declaring the recent floods we're sent
by God as punishment for the recent reforms,
and that the liberty OF the press, as well IS the
civil md the religious liberties, and the e. new e.
work Of Satan; and tho present inundatfons
only prelude Of new deluge which will soon
submeFge onr globe. and especially Italy:
"A New York Methodist minister says he finds
"greater difficulty in converting fifty sinners to-
day than in converting 800 twenty-five years
ago."
And now the clergy arc beginning to strike.
-Four curates at Richmond, England, are said to
have struck on regent Sunday; but the ricar,
telegraph, and was able, notwithstanding the
detection, to get through ten services In two
churches.
-Biahop Bedel,. of Ohio, in late letter,
characterizes theatre~golng and dancing as de-
The Supreme Court Of Connecticut has Just
decided m important case. Tho Methodist
Church at Bridgeport, Conn.,, received, By be-
quest, some property, which WAS taken possess
sion Of BY the Society. Some years after, /: ma;
Society, and conveyed tho property over to tho
Oongregationalistg. The minority disputed the
right Of the majority, and brought suit for the
property and $4,000 damages, which have. just
sas Of t ebareh has como to
the defence Of that institution against the
charges Of wastefnlncss and extravaganza
which have been laid at itB door. He saya that
Trinity gives $40 900 annually to other churches,
besides supporting tho two principal chureheg.
on Broadway down town. Tie corporation has
only two chapels, Trinity and st. dhrysostom,
where the woalthier classes attend. The Church
accumulates nothing, and has, foT the last ten
years, been spending more than it's income. ;
The Independent brings Dr.. Watt to the
point in favor Of bsptisrnal pants. It finds tn
Endorsement OF them in his well-4nown version
Of the forty-second Penlms--" pants for the cool
ing water brooks J"
1t is not an uncommon thing for clersymen
to go into speculation, but it is rare Tor specu
lator to so into the pulpit. Mr. Thomas A.
Hoyt, however, has resigned the Vice Presidency
Of the Now York Gold Exchange to accept charge
Of u church at Nashville. He has preached oc-
cAsionaliy in New York
AT watch-meotipg held in Chrlst's Gpisco-
paD Church, in Boston, on the night Of the 81st
sang "dod Save the Queen,h and
after prayers for the President Of the United
i snd RoyRa Ray.a yay Eere et assn lT rth
prayer for the Queen as I" the supreme govern
Or OF the Church Of England" this is the first
time SINCE the Revolution TINT prayers have
been made in church in Boston for the soT-
ereign Of England"
-fhe New York Metropolitan Record, started
some twenty years h8oo as the of5cial organ Of
the late Archbishop Hughes, has ceased to exist.
The increase Of the Baptists in this coun-
try fast year was 6, ,698, being larger than that
OF any other denomination.
a letter from Rome in the Paris Temps
statos that there are now twelve Protestant
places of worahip Of q temporary character in
tho city, whore addresses aud sermons are
given By evangelical ministers almost every
night. Some Of these places Of wor.hip are
very p1ain and unpretending. One near the
Apollo Theatre consista merely OF Il shop and
back room, tho walls of which have been white
washed and hung with placards containing texts
Of Scripture. A Young minister ofilciates every
evening to congregation Of some twelve or
fifteen persons, protected by couple OF police
men,, i
Tho last cenBus Of Palestine shows total
Jewish population Of Is, 293 souls. OF. these,
1000 in Szfet 1000 in Tiberias, and 800 in He
bron. Tbs remainder, about 400, are divided /
be.Tesu Acco, JaiIa, Haifa, 6ichem, and 6hefs-
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