New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-12-21
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.


Gently arrived In Rome . $3.50
Nor Ienazio Paol. Roman Catholic Bishop
Of Nicopols and Bucharest has recently estapshe" ~
bucharest seminary for educating natives as priests
The students ALREADY NUMBER H.
Thirty -one Presbyterics of the Presbyterian
church have voted on the question of rotary or
,,,,,od term service Of elders or this number ~
agreed to the proposed change and voted aganstf.
The Lutheran Church in the United States
in 1929 had i7s ministers and 900 congregations. TIC
statistic. of the church for 1876 state that now com
rr,ses 81 synods 2i6 minister's 1895 congregations and
$50 III members :.
Archbishop Manning has had an audience
-, rim Pane who on receiving him said he rJoiced IN
the progress OF the Catholic religion In England ana
bopcd that the enemies Of the Church would not be aDe
10 check its progress
The local courts of Posen have summoned
oil the Roman Catholic Deans OF the Province TO give eV
ideuce ~ to tho OF the Papal Delegate VINO mas
Icon Governing tho diocese since the imprisonment OF
Archbishop Lad0cbowsk' -
Tho American College and Educational So
ciety which Is chiefly supported by Congregationass
now aids 800 young men The Secretary writes that the
Society will need sOOo in January In order to pay It's
ber1 itarins tho promised amounts
series of Union Gospel Meetings is said
~ he held during in the cities and towns OF
Maine under the auspices Of the Young Mems christian
Associations Of the state. similar meetings are now
being held IN New-IIampshire and Massachusetts
Five Norwegian Lutheran churches have
recently been consecrated in Minnesota. They are at
Marnette winneconnc. Bad AK. Greenfield. and Union
Prairie. one was consecrated short time ago al
w sic, Wis another at Glenwood, Iowa. The latter
has $50 members
TIC Mission of the Sacred Heart of IssOudun,
In the Diocese Toulouse has undertaken to obtain he
conservation Of all France to the Sacred Heart The
consent of more than n hundred bishops has been
ohtained ana 100000 signatures have been collected
for the necessary petition 10 the Pope.
The first Old Catholic service was held III
Berlin Now 20. Prof Weber Of Breslau. said mass In
the new Evangelical Church, which had been granted 10
the Old Catholics for the purpose by the magistrates
and the Evangelical Consistory. The congregation
numbered 800 persons, the COMMITMENTS 20 persons.
The late Judge Richard Fletcher left leg
acy to Dartmouth College from the proceeds OF WHICH,
once I'm two years priZe OF $500 was to be Orei Tor
an essay the best means OF preserving CHRISTIANS
from wOrdlincss. Tie first committee appointed 10 al
Judge the prize, recently gave II 10 the heV' H. W.
Fdunce.
the ConstantinOple correspondent of The
London Times tcegraphs Dec. that the Sultan on be-
ing officially Informed OF the approaching arrival of
deputation from the Evangelical Alliance. refused to
promise audience ON the ground that the polio of
The Empire toward It's Christian subjects had undergone
no change.
The interest in Young Mems Christian Asso-
Citations is growing in the South State Conventions are
to be held Ia all of the Southern States this Winter at
which delegates will be appointed for the General Con-
vept,op OF the Associations In the United States and
British Provinces which will meet III Richmond, Va.
next May
The Pope has granted his benedictiOn and
penary Indulgence artcuto Bors the members OF
the commission who framed the new French law on
military chaplaps The cha plains have also received
the no wer to give the benedcton and indulgence
soldiers marching to battle and to soldiers dJ ing on
the He'd or IN hospital.
The Rev. Il. Morgan of Ilourah, India, is ex-
tho. Of tba reVi.
OF the ten Baptist missionaries who went to the
in response to the appeal OF the Late Rev.
W. H. Pearce. OF this number only two Others are now
living, Of whom l. DIR. John veneer. We'-Knowh iOr
his translation ~ the Bible INTO Sinskr!t
There are 81 German Protestant Churches in
Chicago of which number the Lutherans own Ii; the
Evangelical Association Albrghts7 7; the Methodists,
G. the United Brethren. 8; the Baptiss, 2; the sweden
borrsur, the IryiDgites, l. and the ADVENTIST l.
Only of the German Lutheran Churches belongs to
the General Synod. Tue Germans in Chicago Dulnber
$1,000 persons.
Herr Won Thimus, Judge Of Appeal at
Cologne is the only Prussian official who has resigned
his office OH OF the declaration of the Pope that
Roman Catholics should withdraw from the Prussan
Government service rather than assist the enforce
mcnt of the Ecclesiastical laws. This direction of the
Pope was published "a month ago IN Tue Seh'eS'sc"e
VolkSzeituag, Brcslau Ultramontane Journal
In consequence of the great SIZE of the do
cese of Exeter. England separate bisloprc has been
proposed Cornwall which, at present is included in
the bshopric OF Exeter The Bishop of Exeter In reply
TO q memorial from the Cornish clergy states that he
will all he to further the proposed division It Is
said that the Intends to form three other
new doceses, namely, Nottingham, Dover, aud Brad
ford.
The Secretary of the Palestine Exploration So
ciey England reports the discovery OF the fact that
the Mosque at GAIA, which was once q Medieval
Church, was constructed ont OF tho ruins OF still
more ancient buildings. Twenty-nne inscriptions
hoy hoen a midi HC-
brew text. Mr. Maudslay, the engineer is engaged in
tracing the walls OF the ancient city OF Jerusalem. and
discovered the foundations of two towers supposed
to DO OF great antiquity.
A number of the members of the different
Societies OF Friends in America are travelling through
England holding religious services. Hannah Hall OF
Ohio and Hannah Cope Of Philadelphia, Primitive
Friends have since July visited England Scotland, Isle
OF Man. and the Orkneys. and now on their way 70
France. Their meetings, which were chiefly for the
benefit OF not OF their own fah have been well
attended. A delegation of American Friends has also
gone TO AUSTRALIA
The new ecclesiastical laws of Hesse Darn
stalt, which founded on the Prussian laws we're
finally passed Nov. r. In the the discussion
on them it was stated by tho Government. that
Catholic accommodations would exclude from the
Vatican church, Old Catholic Recommendations
from the Old Catholic church. The Parliament also
passed resolution that the Government should
with Bishop Won ketteler of Mayence, respecting the
creation OF q Catholic Theological Faculty.
A convention called by the Congregational,
Presbyterian Baptist and Methodist Churches Of Wis
coDsin Is to be held at Fond du Lac, to-day, for
the purpose OF organizing Wisconsin branch OF the
Evangelical Alliance Addresses will be delivered by
President A. L. Chaplin The Unity OF the CHRISTIAN
Church." and the Rev. g. H. Griffith on "The Work of
Eyangelization." Other addresses are to follow on
Christianity and Culture "Chrstianity and Science"
" Methods Of Coalition ana Cooperation among
Churches of DIN rent Denominations. and Present
Condition and Future Work of the Church OF America"
A number of ecclesiastical bills are to be in
roduced al the next session OF the English Parliament
Lord shaftesbury viii bring forward the revision