The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-13
RELfGIOUS.
Lent has commenced.

Disciples Of Christ has been organized.
The First Presbyterian church in the
city OF New Haven, Conn.,, has been dis
banded.
The First Methodist Episcopal church
at Railway, N. j., Is In the mdst OF a
gracious revival.
Archbishop Purcell recommends that,
ON Good Friday, the faithful abstain
from the use OF milk, butter and eggs.
The Catholic Union Of England has q
correspondent In Germany who watches
and notes every movement OF Bismarck.
The new Roman Catholic church of
Ing, ID. o., will be dedicated next SUM-
day.
According to the Liberia, the next
Consistory will be held in March, at
which nine new Cardinals will be
created.
There is great religious interest at the
chapel on Schooley's Mountain, N. j.,
and it is said that there have been over
fifty hopeful conversions.
The boys OF tho Catholic Protectory,
New York, it is said, are about forward
ing to His Holiness Pope Plus TX mill
iature ship laden with gold dollars.
The weekly conversions to Christiani-
ty in China exceed the whole number of
little more than a generation ago.
The Very Rev. DR.. Chatard, rector of
the American College at Rome, was one
OF the special preachers appointed to de-
liver the sermons for the Octave OF the
Epiphany in the Eternal City.
A Scottish association tor the "Mafn-
tenance OF National Religion" is to be
formed. The object OF the Association
is to save the Established Church of
Scotland from disestablshment.
Rev. Dr.. Thompson, Of Ohio, has been
appointed interpreter to the United Leg
alton at Jeddo. Mr. Thompson was one
OF the earliest missionaries to Japan
under the care of the Presbyterian
Board.
The trustees of the Prospect avenue
church, (Giendenning's) in Jersey City
have concluded not to extend a call 10
any pastor till the troubles of that
church have been settled by the action of
the Synod.
A Universalist Conference was held
in Brooklyn, last Wednesday and
Thursday. A similar conference will be
held next week in Athens, Pa, when
Rev. Rees Williams will be ordained
and installed pastor over the society.
A revival is in progress in the Zion
Methodist Episcopal church in Jersey
City. The action Of the pastor, Rev.
Cyrus Oliver, in denouncing the conduct
OF two members OF the congregation ior
levity during Divine worship has been
1ndorsed by the congregation.
The Archbishop oil Canterbury has adj
mitted in the private chapel OF Adding
ton two ladies (mother and daughter
who have been working at Maidstone Tor
some time as deaconesses. The Bishop
of Ely has likewise formally admitted u
deaconess in his private chapel.a
The Evangelical Gazette, Protes tant
organ of Prussia, foreSees and foretells
the ruin OF the Protestant Church in
tJat Empire. Bismarck's policy, it says,
has been detrimental to the work of the
Reformation and an unwilling and unin-
tentional ally OF Ultramontanism.
On a recent Sunday morning the Cal
vary Baptist church, New York, made u
generous contribution of $4,000 to the
New York Baptist Missionary Union.
Other pledges to be made will swell
the offering to about $4,000. In times
like the present this is q noble donation.
The Baptist Associations of Illinois
number Al; churches belonging TO the
associations, 49,; pastors, 4Sl; member
ship, 6l,Si6 persons; baptisms reported
during 1874, 1850. The number OF Or
dained ministers in the State is SS3; liz
centiates, 100. The Sunday school stat
istics give $3.50 teachers and scholars.
Get to the root of things. The gold
mines of scriptures are not in the top
soil; you must open a shaft; the pre-
cious diamonds Of experience are not
picked up in the roadway; their secret
places are tar down. Get down into the
vitality, the solidity, the veracity, the
divinity of the Word OF God, and seek TO
possess with it all the inward work of
the blessed spirit.-Spurgeon.
In the regulations Tor Lent in the Arch
diocese of Cincinnati we find the follow
ing, that is worthy the careful considera-
tipn of Protestants as well as Catholics {:
1--WE earnestly beg those who have made
themselves the victims Of intemperance,
to begin with Lent sober and pIous life,
and to show spirit Of true, repentance
by a pledge of total abstinence"
One of the results of the Ministerial Con-
ference ON intemperance which was
held in Liverpool, England, Dec. IL, has
been a memorial which was recently
presented to the Liverpool magistrates
by number of clergyman. The petition
asks for increased police activity i'll the
suppression OF drunkenness.
The Old Catholics have now in Prus-
sia one Bishop, Reinkens, and twenty
two priests. Regularly appointed priests
serve in tho following fifteen parishes: !:
Cologne, DR.. Tangerman; Bonn, the
Bishop and four professors; Crefield,
Essen, Dortmund and Bochun, Hagen
and Witten, Breslan, Kattowitz, Bop
.pard and Coblenz, Saarbrucken, Glei-
witz and Dusseldorf. Twelve other
towns will have regular services when
priests are procured tor them. The old
Catholic church in Austria was recently
opened at Warnsdort, Bohemia.
The Catholic Directory of England for
1875 gives the number of Roman Catho-
lie Archbishops and Bishops in Great
Britain as q. England and Wales are
divided into 13 diOceses; in the former
there are 1,728 priests, serving LOAF
churches, chapels, and missionary sta
tions; in the latter, 23S priests serve 227
chapels. Scotland is divided into three
districts. under Wears Apostolic. The
Diocese of Westminster has the largest
number of clergy. The smallest diocese
is Northampton, which has 81 clergy and
40 churches.
The Catholic Telegraph says: "The
same sin that drew angels down from
Heaven, drove Loyson from the sanctu-
airy of the Church. Father Hyacinthe
once told me-" SAID the late Father Cap
tier, sthat when he was monk at Bros
sey, Carmelite monastery near Bor-
deauX, he formed the acquaintance OF an
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