The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-08-21
Religious Intelligence.

The death of Cardinal Mathieu,
Arch bishop of Bescancon, one of the
five French Cardinals, is announced.
lie was eighty years old.
At recent meetiag of the Trustees
of Chicago University (Baptist) II reso.
luton to to reconsider the vote by
which the President was removed was
lost bp IL to IA.
The corner stone of n Franciscan
Chapel was laid in Peekskill July q.
1t will be, when erected, the gift of
Protestant gentleman to the Sisters OF
st. Francis.
Great interest was created in Fort
Dodge, July II, by the sermon of Il
native Sioux Indian, the Rev. Luke G.
Walker. A crowded audience of whites
listened to him.
Saturday, July "a. was fixed by Sir
Robert PhillimOre, Dean of the Court
of Arches, rs the time for hearing the
arguments in the case of MIR. kcet, the
Wesleyan minister, whose right to de-
scribe himself as "Rev." has been dis
puted 10y the Vicar of Owston Ferry.
There are reported to be 5000 Ger
mans in Charleston, $500 in Savan-
nah, and 1000 in Atlanta, AT Charles
ton the German Lutherans have built
a church which is claimed to be the
finest in the city. The Rev. J. i.
Probst has been appointeg by the Lu-
theran Synod of South Carolinaa Il trav-
cling missionary among his country
men.
Baron Won I.oe, the President of
the Roman Catholic Association of
Mayence, has been condemned to six
months Imprisonment in fortress for
reasonable language uttered 10y nm
i'm a speech OH October 26, 1873. DIR.
Sigl, the editor of the Vaterland, an
Ultramontine paper has been imprison-
ed in Munich, where he will undergo
ten months of solitary confinement.
A new Presbyterian Chapel was ded-
icated in Toxic, Japan, on the 18th OF
June. The society was fo;med in
1873, and consists of 6S members. 1t
employs two native preachers, and
sustains eighteen preaching places in
the city. The building is 50 feet long
by 30 wide, and will seat 300 persons.
The dedication sermon was preached
in Japanese, by the Rev. DIR. Verbeck.
An address was also delivered by Okla
no, a native christian, in charge of
church ut Yokohama.
At the Protestant Episcopal annual
convention, recently held, the follow
ing statistics were reported: Southern
Ohio-Clergy, 80; parishes in union
with the convention, "A; communi-
Il SUNDAY
school teachers, in % parishes, 353; pu-
pills, 3,lS9; contributions, total in 20
parishes, S62,SSi So. Massachusetts
Statistics of the Diocese: Clergy, l4O;
parishes, 100; confirmed, ,l5l com
municants, present number, l3,OIl;
Sunday school pupils, $3.50; contribu-
tions without the parish, Sll6, 766 Go;
within the parish, $3.50, 1876 56; total
S532, 1868 l6. Missouri-Clergy, AS; par
ishes, A; confirmed, Asa; communi-
cants, 1889; Sunday school teachers,
1913; pupils, 3,62s; contributions, total,
Sll6,4O2 80.
DIR. Dollinger has issued general
invitation to the next Old Catholic
Conference, which is to be held at
Bonn on Aug. II, and the two follow
ing days. Upon the preliminary mu-
tual recognition of Nimitite Truth, the
Conference will ehdeavor to base a
confederation and intercommunion
among the separated churches. 1t is
hoped that reciprocal recognition Ii
not impossible, which without going
SO far ns actual fusion or sacrificing
national or traditional peculiarities o
doctrinal phraseology, church cOnstl
NyAt ala annI
church TO admit the members OF othel
communlOns to those privileges IN re
spect OF divine worship and the Chris
tian sacraments that are secured to III
own.
The annual summary of the stntis
tics of the Presbyterian Church for thu
wear ending May, 1875, has been pub
Iished, as follows: SynOds, 36; Presby
teries, l73 Candidates for the Minis
try, 676; ticentiates, SO4; Ministers
.SO6: installations, 1856; Pastoral dis
, solutions, 27S; Ministers deceased, ~
Churches, 4,090; Churches organizes
during the year, 12S; Churches dis
| solved, 54; Members added on exam
: ination, S2,O59; Members added b
t certificate, 20,3S5; Communicate
: 5O6. .O34; Sunday-schoOl scholars, $40
! 452. Contributions to Home Missions
l S5Ol ,6OS; Contributions to FOreig
5 Missions, S4l2,7l6; to Education Boar
o S3S4. .424; to Publication Board, SOL
Y 464 to Church Erection, SIT, ,00l
r Relief Fund, S75,642; to Freedmen
: 4I.BS2: to Sustentation Fund, S4l ,40l
r to Ministerial Salaries, Sc, 9OS, ,526; Mi
Y cellaneous Contributions, SSO7,5S
a total for an contributions
v 1875, S9,626,594,
l. The details in relation to the form
8 ton in London of the Presbyteria
< Alliance show that the proceedings
It the delegates were marked by gre
= unanimity. A social reception WI
Is given by the Presbyterians of the m
's tropolis. Addresses were delivered
1t the Moderators of the various Gener
y Assemblies. 1t was found that fort
lie eight Presbyterian bodies, numberil
al twenty thousand congregations, we
n represented at the sessions, either pc
e. sonally or by letter. On Wednesda
Iy July 81, two hundred delegates dim
s. together at the Freemasons' Taver
III A public meeting was also held
h. Thursday evening, July y, in u
Presbyterian Church, Upper Geor
1e street. DIR. Stuart Robinson, of {
OF Southern Presbyterian Church, NOV
u the first resolution: "Tbat, in Z
=. opinion of this meeting, 1t is high
desirable that means may
ne devised by which the Presbyteri
10 churches distributed over the wol
OF NAV come into inore formal and s.
Us ted intercourse with one another"
US second resolution was moved by r
y n tor Decophet of the reformed Chur
u. of France "That this meeting |
IL learned with much satisfaction that
gs has been resolved to form a Presby
rian Alliance, meeting from time
he time in General Council, and cordia
h, desires that the Divine blessing N
x rest on the scheme which has been
ad hopefully begun.n DIR. Duff, Of
ed Free Church of Scotland, moved
ng third resolution "That notwi
I'M standing the aggressive attitude of
III manism, and the widespread pre-
as lence of infidelity, and other ey
by this meeting looks with perfect co
Of dence to the coming of the time VIII
I'VE according to the word of Script
all prophecy, the earth shall be filled v
car the knowledge of the glory of God
md the waters cover the sea- All the
to olutions were unanimously adopte'
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