The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-04-02
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

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uhe curious name a -cIAPel d the Holy
Ineense.'
DR.. Hugh Miller Thompson has accepted
the charge of Trinity Episcopal Church.
New Orleans.
Eleven were received into the Fourth
Presbyterian Church. Boston, Rev. William
M Baker pastor. pom the first Sunday of
the year.
The Rev. r. C. Palmer has been expelled
from the enesee Baptist Ministerial Union
on account of his liberal views on COM
munion.
Emmanuel Church, Toronto reformed
EpisecpaD, has struggled through poverty,
and is now doing well. The Rev. Johnston
MeOormac is pastor.
DIR. Boardman, Of Philadelphia, for many
years pastor of the Tenth Church, at the
corner of Twelfth and Walnut streets, Phil
adelphia. resigns his passionate.
The Rev. John Brown, Of st. Georges
Methodist Episcopal Church, Newburgh,
has preached his sixtieth Christmas SER
mon. Mr.. Brown is eighty-four years old.
Christ Church, Chicago, has new carpets
and other nice things, at an expense of
twenty-five hundred dollars. A Church fair,
without rafies or lotteries, did the bust
ness.
Arrangements are in progress, by means
of which DR.. Hepworth's Church will prob
ably get safely through it's financial trou-
bles, and retain its present house of wor-
ship.
The Baptist Church at Yonkers, N. Y,
has called the Rev. Henry NJ. Sanders, and
he has accepted. Mr.. Sanders is a young
and promising preacher, and of great per-
sonal magnetic power.
The new Roman Catholic Cathedral in
New York is being proceeded with with all
speed. A good deal of the roof is already
on. The visits to it are frequent by those
interested in its progress.
The Rev. DIR. Matson Meier-Smith, Rector
of st. Johns Protestant Episcopal Church,
Hartford, Conn, has been elected Professor
of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology in
the Philadelphia Divinity School.
DIR. Henry C. westwood. of Lancaster,
terrain Church, in Philadelphia. The Rev.
John Chambers. who died a few months
ago. was pastor there for half a century.
The Rev. c. H. De Bevoise, of North
Brookield, Mass, has undertaken to make
a collection of Church manuals, especially
those of Congregational Churches. His
special purpose is to get the creeds together.
The Rev. John H. Vincent, DID,, editor
of the Sunday-school and Tract publica-
tions, has been confined to his home by ILL.,
ness for a couple of weeks past. He is now
much better, and hopes to be at his work
this week.
The Rev. T. w. Goodspeed, the Junior
pastor. and sole acting pastor the past year
of the Second Baptist Church of Chicago,
has resigned his passionate in order to enter
the Centennial work in behalf of the Theo-
logical Seminary.
Trinity Congregational Church, in Bos-
ton, is the new organization of which the
Rev. H. NJ. Parsons is to be pastor. A
commodious hall on Concord street, seventy
members, and an earnest minister consti-
tute the capital stock of this new enter
prise.
The Board of Missions has shipped a fine
bell. with the frame necessary to mount it,
to the Rev. James H. Ballagh, for the
native Church at Yokohama. The bell
weighed six hundred and six pounds. 1t
was mainly the gift of Garrett K~ouwenhoven,
of Newtown, L |.
The project of sending out colonies of
English Jews to Palestine is still enter
tanned. A recent interview between the
Cao;o4- ,rI;,l ba. AL ,.o44o, =: -
the Turkish Ambassador in London shows
a disposition on the part of the latter's
government to encourage the plan.
The Rev. J. GOWNS writes from East
Newark Our beautiful church in this
place has at last been saved to Methodism.
Since March last it has been in the hands
of the Sheriff. We have just made an hon
orable settlement with the builders, allow
ing them their full claim. paying a part of
it. and funding the balance"
The Irish census, just published, gives
the following religious statistics. Roman
Catholics, 4.150,s57; Protestant Episco-
p%alians, 667,99s; Presbyterians, 497, 64s;
all others, 1864. Since 1861 the proper
ton of Roman Catholics has diminished /
per cent; that of E~piscopalians and Presby-
terians has slightly increased.
DR.. Scudder's Congregational Church, in
Brooklyn, is said to be one of the most
prosperous in that city. It opened the
years work by receiving ninety-fve men,
bers. Sixty-fve of these were on profession
of faith, and the rest by letter from other
Churches. Over six hundred persons par
ticipated in the communion service at which
these members were welcomed.
Mr.. Charles Nordhoff, discusses the mat
ter Of Bishop Haven, and says of the Meth
odist ministry that they are not to be
charged with a propensity to interfere in
political questions j" but what some of
them "can be charged with, is that they do
not refuse to use their influence as Meth
odists with the President to further appli-
cations for Office" Mr.. Nordhoff's conlcu-
sion Of the whole matter is that he would
be every happy if the next President should
prove to have an u~nconquerable aversion to
all Methodist clergymen."
The Reformed (Dutch) Board of Publica-
ton unites with the Publishing Committee
of the (Southern) Presbyterian Church in