New-York tribune., 1875-09-25
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

A native japanese publisher has issued a
translation Of the " Pilgrims Progress"
The Massachusetts, Sunday school COnyen-
ton will be held at Springfield, Oct. 20 and Fl.
Twelve Baptist churches in Boston and It's
suburbs are reported to be without pastors
Bishop Kavanaugh of the Southern Metbo-
dist Episcopal Church will spend the Winter on the
Pacific coast.
The next session of the Brooklyn Taberna-
Gle Lay College will begin the third Tuesday In octo
ber The Rev. Dr. j. r. Duryea delivers the opening ad-
dress.
A new movement appears in the Presby-
terian Church in the form OF Conventions OF knhhg
Elders One was held in Baltimore last Spring; others
are expected
A member of Parliament at Southampton,
England and fourteen clergymen have formed chdich
burial society One of the attractions offered by them Is
q model coffin
As many as 33 of the Catholic Bishops OF
Italy have been compelled by The State TO leave their
Epscopal residences refusal to ask the royal e1e
qu0iur.
The First Baptist Church of San Francisco
has been sold TO the Chinese $4,000 The purcha
intend TO spend $4,000 in changing it into business
block.
The Michigan Methodist Conference adopted
strong resolutions in relation to Sabbath observance
They called for the strict enforcement OF the State sab
ba'h laws.
Dong Gong, Chinaman, was ordained in
Oregon as Baptist minister recently after due exanna
ton by council OF ministers Several of his countrylnen
were present
The story is told of Miss Warner, the author
OF the Wide Wide World" that at the funeral Of her
father the clergyman invited 10 ocate not officiating.
she performed the service herself
The Rev. Edward Eggleston, Pastor Of the
Lee Avenue congregational Church. Brooklyn, has been
continued in the relation OF "superannIated" minister
IN. Nffnnas ia Met LIST
The Methodists of Michigan are negotiating
for the purchase OF ground fora Permanent State
Calpp Meeting" 10 be held annually. II will, when Sc
cured bc improved and set apart as park
The Baptists of Prussia are very much en-
couraged by the law recently passed by the Prnssan
Diet which gives them the right OF Incorporation 1t
was government measure, and carried IN the face Of
some opposition
Thirty Sisters of Charity from Westphalia,
who been compelled to leave Germany by the oper-
alton Of The recent ecclesiastical laws have arrived at
City. They have been quertered in an unoccupied
chulcn on The outskirts OF the cl'y
The exact amount of the deficit of the Ameri-
can Board Of Commissioners for Foreign Missions for the
current year proves he $il323 The receipts have
been from donations $3.50 Oil from egaces Se3 097
for work in nominally Christian lands. $l29s53
There are twelve students in the Scandina-
war department OF the Chicago Baptist Theological Sem
mary Prof Edgren, who fills the chair, performs his
dow the department with the sum OF $4,000
The following resolution has been unani-
mously adopted by Of the Baptist Associations OF
Kansas: THAT in opinion the most bchtting part
which the Bspsts OF Kansas could take in The Centen
NAL movement wolid De one concentrated enoit 10 pa!
their church debts
1t is stated that the Reformed Episcopal
Church of Illinois will divide the State into synodical
districts Each district Will have "synodical bishop
and The synodca bishops OF the State will become the
assistants OF the'uIia ,ionary bishop
The Seventh Day Baptists of the United
states have opened a Mission in England. They have
begun there the publication OF quarterly magazine,
called Yhe Sabbath Memorial It's object to prove that
the Seventh bay the only dynely appointed day Of
The German pilgrims to LOurdes who arrived
at Paris were priests and 50 laity They accom-
panied by 600 Begians They were directed by the
gendarmes put their badges i'll their pockets ana in
violence Was offered 10 them.
The Pope, according to the Austrian papers
has invited Cardinal LejOchowski to Rome he
shall be released from his prison. Upon the arrival OF
the Cardinal the berreta will be conferred upon him. The
Catholics Of Posen have formed association which will
be- kno as the Polish Catholic Society" tt attitude
vii be defensive AS against the State.
During the past week Union religious SER
vices have he'd at the Opera House, ST. Paul Min
nesots Large congregations have been present Messrs
inst IL was the intention OF the 70 transfer
the services large tent As the weather ID already
cold in Minnesota, the tent Is warmed by large stoves
At the Albany County (N. " Sunday school
Convention held at Green Island, Sept 1O the whole
numbel.of Sunday schools tho County repO I'd 10
be So: male teachers, 997; female t-acher~ 922
scholars. l64tO The number OF books In the libraries is
81 20 aud the amount of money expended during the
past year was $4,000.
The Standing Committee of the Protestant
Episcopal Diocese OF Illinois have refused to approve OF
the testimonials OF the Rev Dr. Eccleston, BshoDeect
of Iowa The Committee say that the certificate
10 them with the signatures OF only half OF the
ishes represented in the Convention Believing this "
be fundamental defect, they withhold their assent
The Association in Europe known as the
Work ~ ST. Paul for the Support Of the Catholic Press
has begun operations house has been psrchased at
Freiburg aud printing ofoe esabhshed iA director
4, Canon sch0rderet Ia object IA the increase OF the
number Of Catholic writers for the prsss and the diffusion
Of Catholic opinion
The sixty sixth annual meeting OF the Amer
lean Board OF Commissioners for Foreign Missions viii
be held in Farwel Hall. Chicago. Tuesday, Oct s. and
the following days This Rev. DR.. l. v. Andrews will
preach the opening sermon. The meeting OF the
VOmen's Board will take place on Thursday, Och z.
large number OF returned missionaries viii be present
she ssaoDs Of