Omaha daily bee., 1874-06-29
RELIGIOUS.

Belmont, Nevada, has contributed
1000 for an Episcopal Church.
One hundred and Straightforward
pilgrims are said to have visited the
tomb of Mahomet this year.
Mormonism in England is repre-
sented by Is elders, 80 priests, II
teachers, 16 deacOns, and 400 men,
bers.
The Universalist Church, In Win
chester, n. H., still listens to music
from the first p~ipe-organ ever made
in the United States. It Is Is years
old.
The Presbyterian Ministerial As
ISOLATION, of San Francisco, has de-
cided that it would b. inexpedient
to revise the confession of faith at
the present time.
Bishop O1enheimer, of New Jer-
sey, has been granted leave Of alb
sence for six months, with a $1,000
green3ack in his pocket to make
his holiday happy.
Mrs. Van Colt, the Methodist re-
vivalist, has arrived in California.
At Sacramento Sunday she raised
by subscription 8, 200 for the benefit
Of Kingsley Chapel.
The Methodist Is in favor of reduc-
iag the number of presiding elders
and enlarging the districts in the
Methodist Church. 1t costs the
church now $500, 600 annually to
support $50 presiding elders.
A Lutheran minister in Hesssia Is
about to be expelled from the Ger
man Empire because he read the
burial service over one of his old
parishioners after the German Gov
eminent had refused to renew his
clerical license.
The Dunkers, or German Baptists,
have 1900 ministers In the United
States. They dress very plainly,
and at the late national conference
decided against the partial shaving
of the beard, against sending boys
to college, and against allowing the
members to engage In the banking
business.
The fifty-fifth annual Conference
Of the Primitive Methodist Church
Of England has just closed its ses.
sions in Hull. The reports show an
increase of over 1900 members, the
total being 64,680. The same in
crease Is noted in the Wesleyan
Church, the largest Methodist body
in Great Britain,
According to recent advices the
Mexicans who r implicated in the
burning of Jacobo for sorcery have
been imprisoned, and are awaiting
trial. The only one who can read
Is the village schoolmaster, and the
others say he led them on to the
deed. He says the execution would
not have taken place but for the ex-
press commands Of the Project.
There seems to be no disposition to
punish them severely.
The General Assembly, of the
Presbyterian Church in Ireland de-
clared last year against the use Of
musical instruments in public wor-
ship, and directed that all such
denominations" should be excluded
from the churches. Notwithstand-
ing this law, a harmonium was re-
tanned and used in one of the
churches, the pastor Of which Is to
be arraigned at the bar Of the AS
sembly.
Canon Kingsley, who is the most
distinguished of ell distinguished
tourist at present visiting Colorado,
is, il not the originator, at any rate
one Of the leading champions and
apostles of Muscular Christianity.
The author Of HYeast,n "Alton
LOche,n 'tHypatia," etc., Is said to
be the best pedestrian of his age in
the ranks Of the clergy anywhere.
He rivals White of Selborne in
his love for nature and the affec.
tiOnate study with which lie exam.
ines her miuutest manifestations.
Since he began to recover from his
recent illness, which attacked him
just as he reached Denver, he has
spent five or six hours daily at Man
itou in the mostexciting and fatigu-
ing rambles around the foot of
Pike's peak, always accompanied
by his daughter, a young lady of
elegant mind and splendid physique.
At the recent session of the Old
Catholic Synod at Bonn, SO dele
gates were present; Bishop Reink-
ans presided. A modification of
the confessional system was adop-
ted, and q declaration made that
priests could not forgive sins. A
committee was appointed to prepare
a liturgy to De presented at the next
synod for acceptance; another COM
mittee was directed to frame q cate
chism and q Scripture history. The
Synod condemned self-enforced fast
ing, leaving it optional with mem
bers to observe OF disregard fasts, 8
circumstances may require. A de-
sire was expressed to have the
church services performed in the
vernacular, instead of Latin, and
some wished to have the celibacy of
the clergy abolished, but no az lion
was taken In this direction. The
Congress will be held at Freibure
Breisgau, next fall.