, 1874-05-31

| fore the Louisville General conference.
The new Methodist Church in Romeo. Mich,
will bo dedicated to-day, June l. The Rev. Or.
Ives, Of Now York, will ofiiciate.
The first Protestant Chnrch built on tho Pa
cil:c Coast Of America from Cape uofn 10
Behring's Straits, WAS put up BY the Methodlssa
at Oregon City, Oregon, in 1s42
The new Methodist Episcopal Church IN Now
Yorl. GU Sixty-iirct street. near Third avenue,
| had its cornerstone laid Tuesday by E'ahop
James, assisted By DrB, Curry, Eddy, and Lying,
| Jr.. and others.
The annual conferences OF the II. E. Church
OF Canada ha- law which requires every
preacher to contribute s2 Der annum to ths su-
pe1annuation Fund. It is suggested that tho next
| General Conference will probably repeal the law,
| which does not operate Satisfactorily
Tho Presbyterian li General nl Assembly is e1-
pected to leave st. Lonis on an e1curalon to
| Denver, Col, about June 4.
t The Westminster Presbyterian Church, OF De-
| troit, Mich, dedicated it's new chapel Mar IT,
It ia 90 feet in length BY As in width, and will
form part OF very imposing and ooatly
| church odldce, soon to be erected.
| n Presbyterian Church organized in tho Town
| OF Rowley, Iowa. Aug. 81, during tho winter
erected neat little chapel, and occupied it
during the lattor part of January last. Iho
| membership has moro than doubled sluce the
organization Of tho society.
The Rocky Mountain Presbyterian shows =
| bad state Of things In Colorado, in the liue Of
| religious destitution. It says:
The impenient sous and daughters Of Presbyterian
minister's, eldora, and l.ymen are in the West and
without preached Gospel Shall this stats OF things
eentinu.' Ministers arc ready to sG nd M he Board
furnish the money! Brethren In the Ministry thers
are your own brothers and sisters according to tho
plead with your people TO remomber their steward
| ship7
! CONGREGATIONAL.
| Si1ty-two members wo:e added to the Congre-
| gational Church at Moline, ILL.,, recently.
The Alliance saya: During the past year. the
First Congregational Church has given $l5o,00o
for charitable purposes, Including the building
OF their new sanctuary.
TIE cornerstone Of new Congregational
| church, to be called the New Bethany Union
Church, Was laid at Washington Heights last
Saturday. The Rev. DR.. Roy took part in tho
services. The bui1dingis 4o1co feet in size and
will cost 81, 900. The Booiety is q union Of Con-
! grcEatioualists, Free-Wiu Baptisss, and Episeo-
| palians.
A Congregational Church OF nineteen mem
] bers hns been organized st Barrett Station, on
| tho Chicago j. Pacific Road.
| MISCELLANEOUS.
| Tho American Board have appointed two mis-
| alonarles to 20 to Mexico in place Of Alr.
Stephens, recently assaslnated.
| The Mora vians have opened nav missionary
! station iu the northern part OF Labrador. It is
SAID that Us yet they hare met with little en-
oouragsment
Arrangements haye been made for holding 1t
MoutrexL next October, conference of the
| Canadian branch of the Evangelical Alliance. TO
| which tho leading clergymeu aud laTmen OF tue
| various provinces Of Great Britain aud the
t United States have been invited.
religious paper says that the Roman Catho-
| Lie Society for tho Propagation Of the Faith has
tho largest incone Of any Of the missionary
This $l5, 900 loss than in 1872 wi'en special
! efforts were made, in Wow OF tho hfteth uuni-
! versary Of the Society.
A Nav York paper says the gallery and upper
| part Of the old Du1ch Church, on Fulton and
william streets, is to be retitted for the use OF
tho daily prayor-meetlng. The vacant lots
around are to be built on. and the lower part Of
/ the church adapted to business purposes, 30
| that by and by this time-hohored building Mill
| disappear.
4 printing-press has been set up at the foot
| Of Mt. Ararat. Tne paper ia called 1phit5 from
Ardrdt. 1t is largely devoted to local matters,
and quotes tho price OF girls sold for ma,rimony
at from $40 to 2100. The natives behave that
angelic hosts ere stationed on the top Of the
mountain to keep gnnrd and drive away any
profane person who may be Disposed to steal
| and ca1ry of any portion Of the lndes.ructlbla
Ark.
| Tho ooai.tr fnr thA prnrasa.ieo " tll1 uospel
recently held its 173d anniversary, Lord Lyttel-
ton in che chair. The contributions during 1878
amounted to $551, 600 The Society las provided
wholly or in part for the support Of 4Si ordained
missionaries. They arc thus distributed: Amer
lea and West Indies, 220 Africa, 81; Asin, 125 !;
Australia and tho Pacific, "a !; Europe, l. Among
| these are included Is native clergy in India.
| There are also about e22 catechs:B and lay
teachers, mostly native, and 141 students in
colleges.
Tho question Of temperance is now agitated in
Scotland, to the sorrow Of the heretofore Chris
tian topers. The question whether . brewer is
eligible to the Office Of Elder in the Free Church
| Of Scotland has been raissd by three gentlemen
| connected with that Church a. Inverness, who
| believe that the business OF brewing il det1i-
| mental to the best interests Of society and tue
advancement OF religion, aud wish the Free
Church to raise its testimony against the trade
by declaring that a brewer, however unimpeacha-
| ble may be his character, or however sound the
doctrine be processes, is not ct to assist in tho
oversight OF congregation. Their views are
| not sanctioned By session, Presbytery, or synod,
and tleg have appealed to the Assembly.
| Acorrespondent Of the Boston Journal, writ
ing from Washington, D. c., aays of tho churches
| and their worBhipern
President Grant and family regular attendants
| ut tho metropolitan Meshusli3t Episcopal Church,
which Ii showy struet,.re. with chims Of bells and
memorial stained-slasa windows unt1l Mr. Lincons
day the Presidents used to ettcnd 1t st. John'h Epis
eopal Church, Which now numbers among its congre-
their families, aud is regarded the most arisocrac
place Of wor=h!p in the city. The Episcopal Church
Of the Epiphany has weals1ier congregation, and the
forms Of the serstce there strictly adhered
to. Ths Roman Catholic churches always we'll at
tended and Of the bos families devout
shippers. The staging a: st. Augustus. which Ia under
the control Of the Jesuir. IL especially excellent.
Tha Preabyc1i4ns numerous here, tlss Rev. Dr..
Sunderland being their finest pulpit orator. Many
New En8lRuders, including Speaker Blaiue Senators
Buckingham, Ferry, and Wasaburn ex-senator Pom
eroy, Jndgo Poland, and Mz. Dawes, worship at tho
| Congregational Church. The old Unitarian Church
has aprrecativs congregation under t,s preaching
OF the Rev Frederick Hncklcy. Tho leading Baptist
church Il tho Calvary which was buils by Amos Zen
dali md rebuilt by him after 1t had been destroyed by
hra- The Lutheran, who believe in the unaltared
Augsburg confession, have churches, four Of
which principally attended by Germans. The or-
thodox and tho HckKite Quake1s have each their
meeting. .houne. There is New Jerusalem Church
Capitol t1i. and the Hebrews have their Synagogue
where thero Is serTcs overy Friday aTcrng aud Sat
nrdAy morning.
| PERSONAL.
The Rsv. Il. E. Manning, recent graduate Of
tho Baptist Theological Seminary Of this city,
has accepted Gull to the church at Beaver Dam,
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