The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-08-08
Religious Intelligence.

FORTY Thousand persons were pres.
ent at the annual icte of the National
Temperance League OF England which
was held at the Alexandra Palauce
The one hundred and dCiycth an.
nivesary Of the opening Of the "Great
Synagogue" was celebrated in Rotter.
dam 10y the jewish people Of that city
on the 18th Of June.
The Rev. Dr. Sawtelle of san
Francisco has declined the position OF
member of the BOard Of Managers OF
the American Baptist Missionary
Union.
A Chinese coIporteur has been en-
ployed by the Young Mems Christian
Association of Honolulu to labor
among his countINmen living on the
Sandwich Islands
Over twenty thousand patients
have been treated in single year at
the Presbyterian Medical Mission in
Canton, China. An assistant for the
physician in charge, DR.. Kerr, is called
for.
The Southern Methodist have pur-
chased aud will occupy the Columbia
Square Baptist Church, San Francisco.
The building is eIigibly located and of
some architectural merit
The Prussian Government has ar
rested and placed in solitary COnliue-
ment Canon KWowsii, on the suppO-
sition that he is the "sccret Apostolic
Legaten appointed to administer the
diocese of Posen.
One hundred and fifty delegates were
present at the Third Annual Council of
the American Hebrew Congregations,
which met at Buffalo this month.
SevGGty-oue congregations were rep
resented.
ON August Miss Sarah Bassctt Of
Crawfordville, Ind, and Miss Anna
Page Of LA Grange, Mo-, will sail from
this country rs missionaries to Persia.
They 90 under the direction e the
Presbyterian Board.
The third volume of the "Specches
of Pope Plus TX" las heel published.
1t contains abstracts of l23 discourscs.
delivered between September 30 1873,
contain total Of ll3 speeches,
DR. Henry NJ. Field writes to The
New York Evangelist that the Ameri-
can chapel in Paris is very prosperous.
The pastor is the Rev +. w. Hitch.
cock, formerly of the Fourteenth street
Presbyterian Chtrch, in Chicago.
Tie Sultan of Zanzibar has been
presented with Il copy of the Billie in
Arabic by the British and Foreign BIZ
bic Society. In expressing his graft
iication, he said that he was aware OF
its contents and that the words Of
Jesus we're always acceptable to his
people.
The Legislature Of the Cape Colo
ny, South Africa, hass passed the bill
abolishing State aid to religion. The
bill, however, provides for the contin'
uance OF existing grants to churches
during the lifetime Of the present in
cumbents, and for five years to their
successors.
The Evangelical Association, con-
monty known as Albright MethodlstS,
are discussing the question OF chang
ing the denominational name. Ihe
Annual Conferences have, formally or
informally, expressed themselves in
favor of change. Bishop Esher is OPP
posed.
A writer in the Western Record re-
calls the fact that Henry Clay was OF
Baptist parentage. His father was
BAPTIST minister in Virginia. Ills
younger brother Porter Clay, was also
II Baptist minister and died III ms 'oti'
year, whileon preaching tour through
Arkansas.
The treasury of the Presby terrain
Board of Missions is in Il depleted con
dition. The receipts for the year end
ing June, 1875 were $4,000 short OF
the expenditures. \ committee of the
Board has been appointed to ascertain
ifany reduction can be mace IN TIC
estimates for the coming year
The Rev. Mr.. Chauncey LanSdon'
late of Geneva, Switzerland, after a
service of ten years has just retired
from the WORK Of promoting and found
ind Protestant Episcopal Chapels IN
the principal centers of population IN
Europe. He has contributed much to
the erection of the Episcopal Church
in the city of Rome.
The British Syrian schools Tor
girls which were organized i'll looo'
soon after the great massacre, are now
attended by nearly 1000 pupils. Ol
these 1874 are in Beyrout, 303 i'll Da-
mascus, 3G4 in the Lebanon region,
and OK in Tvrp. of the whole number
not over 26G are Moslems the rest are
Catholics, Greek Christians, DruseS,
Maronites and ProtCstants.
The American Palestine EXpedl-
ton left London for Liverpool on 0aV'
urdav, July |. They expected to en-
bark on the Campus for Egypt, Ell
route for Beyrout. The members OF
the expedition are Col. Lane, chlel
Prof. Merrill, archaeologist, and Mr.;
Treat. surveyor AT Beyrout they WIZ
be Joined by u photographer ana ny
some of the young men from Vhe
American College in that city. lhey
received in London all possible alien
ton from the members of the Engllsh
Palestine Exploration Society.
On Thursday, the 2Sth ult., the.
statue of Richard Baxter, the author ot
"rhe Saints Rest" was unvaileu AZ
Kidderminster. AT its base is the i1l'
lowing inscription " Between me
years lG4l and 1860 tins town was the
scene of the labors of Richard Baxter,
renowned equally for his Christian
learning and pastoral fidelity; in a
stormy and divided age, he advoceteu
unity and comprehension, pointing ne
way to the everlasting rest Church-
men and Non-conformists united TO
raise this memorial, 1872