, 1876-07-23
RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. Z.


THE CHURCH IN GENERAL
The Bishops Of the Colored Methodist Epts-
copaI Church have appointed Friday, Aug. 4, as
day ol fasting anu prayer.
The Rev. Newman Hall estimates that the
churches Of Great Britain have lost 1900 mem
bcrs within three years by intemperancc.
The sum of $50 900, one-half Of the desired
Centennial fund, has been raised by the friends
OF the Shurtlcir Baptist College, at Alton, Ill.
The North and South Indiana Presbyterian
Synods will celebrate, in October next, the cou-
plction Of the fiftietll year of the organization
Of Prcsbytcrianism in the State. The joint
meeting will be held in the City OF indianapolis
on the 10Th of the month"; when se1ni-ccnten-
NAL discourse will be delivered By the Rev. DR..
Joseph F. Tuttle, OF Wabash College.
Sunday schools Of the American pattern are
making headway on the Continent OF Europe
France has now more than thousand Of them,
eiglty-four Of these being in Paris. The travel
ing agent visited los places in Germany, and
found twcnty-c:ght schools, four of them con-
dtictrd by clcrgymcn, but nearly all by trades
men, wOrkulen, or farmers, In Schlig the
Countess Goctz is at the head Of a school with
twenty-five teachers AMI 260 scholars.
4 convention of fifteen Prclatcs and several
hundred priests uf the Roman Catholic Church
HIS UtCH ElGlu aL DitLllllOIC. Will 8tllEl UAoI-
ness which they transacted IN secret sessions,
they laid within the grounds Of St. Mary's Col
lcrc, to meet tie wants Of IN increasing NUM-
ber Of their 'se.ninaries,n u The cornerstone OF
all editicc to be called ST. Suipicc 1t Is to be in
the form Of an L, extending in front 155 feet,
the wing to be '11u feet, tic whole five stories
1ligh and having 4 MansaTd roof. The lower
stories are to br made of Indiana stone, and
the upper OF brick, and it Is to cost sS0,ooo.
The monument erected by the Methodist
women Of New England to the famous old
Methodist preacher, tho Rev. jcssc Lee, was
dedicated at Mount Olivet Cemetery. Baltimore,
July II. The monument stands in What is
called 'The Preachers Lot," plot where
number of distinguished Methodist preachers
lie buried. 1t is OF Scotch granite, and bears
upon one side the inscription, q New England
Mcthotlsts erect this tribute tn the memory OF
the Rev. Jesse Lee, on the cigltty-sixth alni-
versary Of his first sermon in Boston, preached
under the old elm, on the Common, July II,
17G0.''
DR.. Dollinger does not seem inclined to hold
another Old Catlloli1 Conference at present, aIid
his reluctance arises apparently from two causes
the one, the bact1wardness Of the Anglican
Church to join III the proposed union with the
Oriental churches; the other tho disposition OF
the Orientals, especially under the influences OF
some recent converts from Ronanism, to insist
upon the old lines of division in regard to the
wording Of the Nicene creed and the cont1nu-
ance OF the cclibacJ of the clergy.
The proceedings OF the " General Council Of
the Christian Union of the United States"
which Was held in Hancock County, O., early In
June, have Just appeared. The Union con-
templates the abolition Of sectarianis1l1. It's
doctrine OF union is contained in the following
resolution: ''That all religious associations
built upon a narrower basis than that which
treats Ill the Christians Of place as equal
brethren Of one church Of the place, or which
presents creeds, tests and usages that exclude