New-York tribune., 1874-08-15
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.



,non ,1s adults have been confirmed and the church
offerfngs amount to S56l5S5.
II Is not generally known that Protestant
Episcopal services read in NewYork every Sunday
in the German Spanish, and French languages. Re
Gently mission has been opened among the Italian
community under the care of the Rev Mr. stander, the
the services being of course in the Italian tongue
Father O'Keefe of Callan has appeared be-
fore the public again litCant and has been success
ful. The action one for libel against the Rev Dr'
Moran, a bishop, and q nephew OF Cardinai Cu'ieu'
Father OKeefe conducted his case The hoel grew
out of the trouble Caan schools The defendant
discaimed all personal iwi The Jury gave verdict
for the plaintiff. with $50 damages In seeohI atoR Z
for libel against Dr. keatlng' fd'ner v h0oio 0
Sl5 damages.
The first case in Germany under the new
law giving Catholic congregations the power TO eieeta
asto in the place OF the turned out by the Govern
ment occurred Grasdorf in the Province OF hanover
On the day appointed by the Government for the eec
ton the parshoners appeared In great numbers ana
unanimously declared that they would neither elect nor
acknowledge any other pastor but the one a0poq,eG p9
their Bishop The people, OF course rein"in "''"'"'
pastor -,
The Zion Colored Presbyterian Church at
Charleston S. c., which has been under the pastoral
care Of Rev Dr. Grardeau, who was Moderator ot the
late Southern Presbyterian Assembly has resolved 10
accept the plan the Southern Presbyterian Assembly
for a separate cOlored organization Dr. Grardeau mas
accordingly retired and the church will be served 3y
cOlored pastor. few other colOred s0clecs eo III
similar steps. The Cumberland PresOYteIlaus aIc ~ I'M
wise organizing their colOred COMMITMENTS INTO seP
ardte church.
movement is in progress III the roman
Catholic Church In Germany and Italy for reform IN
church music numerous society has been formed In
Germauv 10 exclude "that kind of music" from the
churches (Which only lt for the STAGE The society
fayors the Gregoran chant above all ese ancient and
other polyphonc music suitable; and instrumental
music II it complies with canonical law and is used TO
support singing. In his brief, giving authority TO the
the " worldly ana sentimental
style of singing in vogue IN the theateTS ana Mhlch
been extensively introduced In Gath0c cRufche
can never be sufficiently deplOred. Tue late Cathohc
Congress Of Italy took action III harmony WIN 'he9e
views.
The Wesleyan Methodsts of England
held their 13lst annual Conference at Cam
borne, beginning July 29 The Rev. Will
liam Morley PunshOn, LII. d. was choseh
President by large vote and the Rev. Garvase Smith,
Secretary. About $50 ministers were present The re-
port OF the Chapel Committee showed that erectons and
enlargements during year past were 1885, at cost
of Gg7OO0 There are now 5,712 chapels, with 1,563e7
.ittinas Bishop Harris and Dr. Macauley, fraterna
delegates from the Methodist Episcopal Church
Of the United States were presented to the Conference
and both delivered addresses. committee was ap
pointed to draw up answer TO the American dele
gates and Bishop Harris requested to preach before
Inc Conference The latter in his address gave an
account Of HE missionary tour and said the workings
OF lay delegation in the American Church were satsia'
tory The Bishops he remarked were not pIeates Out
presbyters.
The London Tablet (ArchbishOp Manning's
papoI gives the Roman Catholic opinion of the new
law for the regulation OF public worship, designed to
put down Rituasm. 1t says the attempt to "undo the
Reformation has failed" 9" The Church OF England,
which began by casting down Catholic atars
md aboshng the Christian sacrifice is stl what 1t
always was, and always VIII be. For such incapable
crimes the only atonement Is extinction To purify a
sect long saturated with deadly heresy is work
which cannot and God will not perform
The Riuasts will understand at last that Christians
who believe they profess DO in the Adorable sac
mice Of the Altar Of which the Roman Church has been
for nearly 200 years the lhvncDe gnardln are oO OF OF
place that mpenitent sect, which has existed only 10
they will come one by one few here and few there
There appears to be no doubt of the religious
persecution going on in the Turkish Empire. The Rev
Jas Davis Secretary of the British Evangelical Alliance
is informed that three Asaryeh converts 10 Christianity
who had been living peaceable and blamcless lives as
teachers a Christian mission school in Syria were III
Septomher last. suddenly seized, put in chains, and,
after being denied food and drink. marched TO Jebi,
and thence Damascus, whore they were thrown into
prison, repeatedly beaten, rcyled, and other
wise cruelty treated-the only reason assigned
being that they were rencgades from the Mussulman
faith return TO which would insure them liberty and
kind treatment No crime ofiense whatever against
,Glfo ~ ohar@ the Christian faith they have been
rurocdn the Turkish army, and refused the exercise
been presented the Porte by the British Emoassador
acting instructions from the Earl OF Derby whose
efforts have aided hy the representatives of France
aud America. but the persecution continues Tue Grand
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CHRISTIAN converts 40 Constautnope but this promise,
as well as others, has not been fulhlod
AT the last meeting of the Protestant Epis-
copal General Convention committee was appointed
10 report upon plan for the division OF the Church
into prov aces similar those Of the English establish
nent aud the Roman Catholic Church Bishop Smith
was Chairman OF this committee, and circular has
tust been printed which is attributed TO him,
proposing the following plan Of division: l. Eastern
Province-Mane, Massachusetts, Ncw-IIampshire Con
necucut lode Island York, Long Island. Albany.
Central New-York Western New-Yorll-u doceses. 2.
East Central Province-New-Jersey Pennsylvania,
Pittsburgh Delaware, Mary land Elstou, Virginia..
To tits must be adied Central Pennsylvd-
mia g. West Central PrOvnce-Kentucky. Ohio, In-
diana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsn-6. 4 North
Western Province-Iown, Kansas, Minnesota Mis-
souri, Ncbraska-5. 8. Southern PrOvince-Alabama,
Tenness see Mississippi, Florida, Georgia North Carolina
South Cardinal. G. Southwestern Provnce-Arkan-
Eas Louisiana, TeNas-3. T. Pacific PToVlnceCalOrnla,
Nevada, Oregon Montana-i Ihs c9aise Is sussGsteG s
on account OF the rapid increase OF d0ceSes making
the house Of Bishop too large to retain s calmness,
dgnity and senatorial character and the home Of
de egatcs uuwiedy Meetings of the provinces would
De held trtounitlly and national councils oI all the
provinces, GeccHldN.
Congregationalists are discussing the pracu-
cabty and expedcucy certain changes in the opera
tious Of some OF benevolent societies. II s pro
posed that the American Board transfer its missions
among the North American Indians to the American
Home Missionary Association, and thus operate wholly
on foreign ground, and that the latter give
ND its missions in Africa, Siam, the West
Indies and the Sandwich Islands, and confne
Itself TO its work among the Indians the Chinese and
the Freedmen OF the United States. The Congrauonal-
ist missionary work among the white race in this
country is carried by three soceties-the American
Home Missionary Society, which plants churches ana
aids in the support Of the pastors the American Con-
gregatona Union which furnishes means for the build
ing OF churches. and society which establishes and
all fhf xvprls