The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-03-18
TEE RELIGIOUS wORLD.

AHC hiHtuN phi-s p'SeoiS PAVpVoO
inviting the National Societies of the
Baptist denomination to hold their an
niversaries in that city in May next.
Raven>croft's tables give the follow
ing as the religious state of the world:
Heather Sl6,915, 200, Mohammedans
I0j, SIS. 600. Jews 6,216, 700, Chris
tians 334,752,960.
\ clergyman at Taunton, Mass,
lately asked his parishioners to reduce
his pay, as many members Of his
church havehtely suffcreda reduction
in theirs. They cheerfully complied.
Rev John P. Newman has returned
to the pastUrate of the Metropolitan
Methodist Episcopal Church in Wash
ington, after two years absence in the
East in the employ of the Government.
Rev. j. w. Roe, for the last eleven
months, has had a continuous revival
in the Baptist church at Malvern,
Iona, of which he is q pastor. Not
less than l25 Of the very best citizens
Of the place have been added to the
church, and the work isgoing forward
gloriously.
The Noce de Verita says the Pope
confers the Cardinals hat on Arch
bishop McCloskey, not only on account
of the personal merits Of that prelate,
but because the Holy See is DESTROYS
of honoGing the Catholics of America
and Of marking the progress of
Catholicism in the United States.
The Reformed Presbyterian Synod
that censured Mr. George II. Stuart for
singing and communing at the Lords
Table with Christian people not Of
their particular denomination, has
well nigh gone to pieces, for of the
forty-seven ministers belonging to it
il 1868 but thirteen remain, ard of
those but ten have pastorates,
We understand the difficulty con-
corning the NJ. E. church at Urbana,
" ashington county, has been AMIGA
bly, settled, all suits against the NJ. Z.
Church having been withdrawn by
the NJ. E. Church, South, the former
paying all costs thus far incurred.
The latter makes no charges for rent,
and hereafter both denominations will
occupy the Church.
A benevolent gentleman from Yer
mont applied to a Boston gentleman
for aid in sending a Vermont mission
airy to Turkey. The reply was as fol-
lows 81 have invested much in Yer
mont securities, and lost many thous-
ands by the acts of your railroad men,
sustained by thepeople and the courts.
I have also lived in Turkey, and had
much intercourse with her people. |
would far rather give nv money to
send Turks as missionaries to Yer
/ mont.
The Milan Gazette says it is report
ed from the Vatican that categorical
instructions have been issued to the
priests in reference to confessions to be
heard next Easter-at which season
all Roman Catholics are bound to
confess themselves, under pain of ex-
communication. The confessor will
! he required, in the first place and
above all things, to ask his penitents
explicitly whether they believe in the
| infal ibiity of the Pope. In case of an
affirmative answer, the confession will
proceed; but if the reply should be in
the negative, the penitent will be at
once dismissed with the warning that
he has incurred the sentence Of ex-
communication.
The New Era, the well-known Jew.
ish monthly magazine, has remarka-
bic article by Mr. d. f. deLara against
christianity. He attacks Unitarianism
and Trinitarianism alike, but directs
his loudest thunderbolts against the
church Of Rome. He contends that
Jesus Christ was simply a Free Mason
in the full sense of the term. In the
course Of his disquisition he refers to
Dr. Larder, St Jerome, Bishop Marsh,
( Michaelis and Origen. 1.-The Jews,
he SAYS, ''as body are and ever have
been attached TO their religion, moi
because they believed it to be of di
vine origin, but because it is the only
rational system Of religion" His essay
is to be continued in future numbers
of the New Era, and it cannot fail tC
receive wide attention.
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