The Portland daily press., 1875-12-11
Religious News and Notes.


The Rev. DR.. T. L. Cuyler estimates that
100000 persons had heard Moody and Sankey
during their stay in Brooklyn. The committee
issued l25'OO0 tickets during the last IL days
A. A. Higgins of West Milan, N. H., writes
the Gospel Banner that he heard a shocking
sermon in the Congress Street NJ f. Church In
i Portland on the sin against the HOLY Ghost.
The Morning Star says of Maine f. b.
churches: There is a precious work Of grace in
progress at No; Shapeigh, under the labors of
| Rev w. Packard, who has been preaching
there during the past season.
| The Christian Register generously says:
THE secular press is almost always unsecta.
rian, and it gives fair hearing to all religious
j bodies that seek to promote the highest human
/ welfare"
After the feast of the Immaculate next
month, the Algemeine Correspondent says, the
Pope will convoke the Sacred College, formally
receive the rev Cardinals, Antici-Mattei and
ueonroy 81. Marc, and preconize the new bish-
I ops recently announced
The Reformed Episcopalians have eight par
ishes in and about Chicago; five in and about
Philadelphia; four in New Brunswick; and up.
ward of 80 ministers in all. Miss Harriet
| Bnttan, the Indian missionary, has Joined
| them.
The Y. NJ. c. A. canvass in Franklin county
continues with good results. Quite a religious
interest prevails at Weld where Rev. Mr.. Tar
box and Col. Shaw are laboring. Ten persons
arose for prayers at the Wednesday evening
| meeting.
The Advocate and Mirror ore still discussing
church communion. The editor Of the Mirror
says that ''all have right to it who are in
spiritual union with Him, the proper evidence
OF winch, IN ordinary cases, is given by credi-
| BILE profession of religion, or what is the same
thing, membership in some recognized church."
From the Mirror: Rev. w. FL. Bolster has
resigned the pastorate of the Congregational
church in Wiscasset.- A. Loring has
closed his labors with the church in Sumner -
800 was raised by the Cumberland Sunday
school in penny contributions for foreign mis-
sions.-Rev Mr.. Davies has accepted The mas
torate OF the Rockport church.
| The Rev. Mr.. Noble is Portage (Wis.) Free
Methodist preacher, who is carrying on his
evangelistic work in an independent and
original way, He has purchased a steamboat,
| and with it he travels up aud down the Wis
consin river, holding revival meetings ami
| blowing the gospel trumpet at every landing.
| Rev VIM. Ford having challenged the Spirit
ualsts to discuss the question: ''Resolved that
modern Spirituaism does not come so near the
| teachings of Jesus as some other ism," Pro.
| lessor George q. Waite of Chicopee Mass, ac-
| cepts the challenge, and will meet him on Sun
day, Dec. 18th, at one o'clock P. NJ. in the
Swanville meeting house.
| MISS johnson, woman preacher, who
gained some note at Bridgeport last winter by
her revival efforts, has been called to the
charge of the church in Southford, Conn.
| Since she began her labors in Southford both
| the liquor saloons in the place have been
closed, and seventy-fve persons have been con-
| verted.
| The Lutheran Church Almanac for 1876.
which has just been published In Philadelphia.
says that there are in North America 1853
Lutheran preachers, and 4,51 congregations
| which have 573,149 communing members
| There are in the United States thirteen Luther
an theological seminaries with 423 students of
theology, and seventeen colleges attended by
more than 1000 students.
The American church missionary society
protestant EpiscopaD is entirely free from
debt, and received nearly 900 in the year
ending October 1. Its only foreign field is
Mexico, in which country it has 81 congrega-
uons, With VIII membership and attendance aver.
| aging 5000 persons Ye the entire number of
missionaries supported by the society in Mexi-
| co and in IS states and territories is 43.
The students of the Congregational Theo-
logical Seminary at Andover have invited the
students of the Episcopal Divinity School at
Cambridge of the Methodist Seminary at Bos.
ton, and of the Baptist at Newton, to hold a
conference with them at Andover Dec 15
| Themes of common interest are to be dis
| cussed.
| We hear of religious revival movement in
| New York among the orthodox Protestant de-
nominations, among the Universalists and
among the Spiritualists, while the Roman
Catholics are holding missions that are in
| the nature of revivals. The only religious
| body there that seems to remain entirely un-
1 affected by the revival spirit of the hour are
| the Jews.
| The disestablishment of the church in Ire
land has not destroyed it as the state-and-
| church party apprehended it would. The an
nual meeting of the diocesan svnods prove
| that it prospers. A fund is steadily sccumu-
1 lating for the support of the episcopate and
the aid OF poor parishes. Increased interest
is taken in the cause of education, and there is
| more active discharge of the duties of the
| ministry. Complaint is, however, made there
/ as in this country, of the few additions Of
| young clergymen to the church. ,fa
The society of Friends are again actively en-.
| gagged in circulating petitions to the coming
legislature amongst their members, praying for
repeal of the death penalty on the simple
grouad that 'tt is utterly opposed to the spirit
and letter of the New Testament" They cor
daily invite other Christian denominations to
take similar action. Great results have followed
the calm but powerful religious awakening at
South China. The young people have organ
lied weekly meetings and their seniors have
followed suit.
Rev. w. H. FL. Murray is not of those who
say "Peace, peace, when there is no peacep'
He, in his Golden Rule, admonishes the churches
of danger and duty. "Boston and New Eng
land" he cries out care already, in the maiori-
| ty of their population, non-church-going. The
church, and hence the word of God, is fast
ceasing to be power ove- the popular thought
and conscience. The average man and woman
care little for either. They neither attend the
services of the one nor read the other as a rule
In short, it amounts to just this: young New
England is growing up Bibeless."
lions Advocate says of Maine Baptist
churches that the Baptist church in Norridge-
wock was dedicated Nov, 18th. Rev. w. c..
Barrows recently settled in Biddeford, already
finds tokens of interest in his charge. The
interest ia the First Baptist church, Bangor, is
increasing. AT South Norridgewock the meet
ings in connection with the labors of Rev. w.
H. Clark are increasing in numbers and inter-
est. Rev. E j, Whttemore, pastor of the 2nd
Baptist church in st. George, baptized three
recent converts Nov. %. The Baptist church
at Hallowell is evincng new interest. Ken
the Baptist church in Kenduskeag. Tuesday,
Dec 21, to continue through Wednesday.
The Episcopal church has made deaf mutes
its special care in this country, and Rev. Mr..
Gallaudet of st. AIMS, New York, son of the
man who had so much TO do With teaching this
class of people, has gone from place to place
for many years preaching to and teaching
them. There have been and are several
churches in the cities that from time to time
draw congregations of deaf mutes, always
sunny, happy and worshipful. One of these
churches is st. Faups in Albany, the charge of
singularly accomplished and eloquent clergy
man, Rev. j. Livingston Reese. where Mr. Gal
laudet habitually breaches to some hundreds of
them in the vivid sign language, which is not
now, as at first, an alphabet language, nor
even word language, but rather a symbolic,
and so wonderfully expressive that a quick
observation, though unpractised, cannot fail
to partially follow the preachers thought, if
the observer only knows his starting point.
The first deaf mute admitted to priesthood lin
the church phrase) since the day of Pentecost
will be ordained in New York, shortly.
Edwin Everett Hale wrote up Untarianism
for the Christian Union His article begins by