The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-03-11

The Journal says that Rev. R. W. Jenkins,
for two years pastor of the Congregational
church at Winthrop has sent in his resignation,
to take effect in May.
The death is announced of the widow of the
Rev. Peter Cartwright of Illinois. She was
at the time attending religious nesting near
her home.
The revival in the Second Calais Baptist
church seems to be gradually and steadily pro-
crossing, increasing in power and volume as
1t moves on, thirty have received membership.
The Archbishop of Toledo and other prelates
have petltioned the Cortes to grant Catholic
unity, and prohibit any other workshop in
Spain.
Nine members were added to the Congrega-
tional church of Skowhegan on profession of
faith Sunday, March 5.
Rev. o. W. Rogers, who has been preaching
few weeks in FarmingtGn, to the Congrega-
tional church, has been unanimously Invited by
the members of the church to become their
pastor.
Rev. f. T. Hazelwood, pastor of the First
Baptist church. Bangor, baptized five converts
on Sunday. Two others were received into the
church by letter and one by experience.
Mr.. A. X. P. Jordan of Auburn has just re-
turned from two weeks sojourn in Strong and
Phillips, where he has been laboring with the
Y. M. G. A. delegation. The religious interest
throughout the entire section of the county is
very deep. The meetings at Strong and Phil
lips still continue of special interest. The Y.
M. c. A. delegation are still laboring at Phil
lips, but will close their labors there in day or
two They will then proceed to Livermore
Falls. 1t is said that about two hundred con.
ions hnr 1.
OF Franklin county.
The irrepressible DR.. Canning is ont with
new political prediction. Unmindful of for
mer failures, he now asserts that the book of
Daniel fixes the end of the papacy and the
destruction of the Turkish empire for the year
1876
For the first time in thirty years Protestant
services have been held in Madeira In the
Portuguese tongue by Presbyterian minister
from Lisbon. 1t is believed that the move
ment may be lasting, and that no new prosecu
ton will break it up.
The Rev. j. N. Williams, the General Mis-
sionary of the American Baptist Home Mis-
sionary Society to the French Canadians in
New England, states that in the manufactur-
ing towns of New England there are 175, 900
French Canadians. The majority of them have
come to this country lately. A few of them
are French Professionals, but most of them are
Roman Catholics.
The Hartford Post says that of 232 Congre-
gational churches in Connecticut heard from,
LII allow the female members of the church to
vote in church affairs, and of he remaining 1O5
large proportion allow them to vote in the
calling or dismissng of pastors. This change,
says the Post, has been brought about in Con-
necticut within twenty years.
The American board sorely feels the hard
times. The appropriations for the year were
limited to $475, 900, being the actual amount of
receipts for the last year. The reduction has
already cut into the missionaries salaries, and
has tended to cripple the native agency The
receipts do not seem to justify even the reduced
appropriations. Since September they have
been on an average $4,000 less per month than
In the previous year.
A member of the English sect called the
'Peculiar People" has been committed to trial
for failing to have medical attendance for his
child, who died of whooping- cough This sect
believes only in amounting with oil and prayer
as means of restoring the SICK Several sim
liar trials of members Of the peculiar People"
have occurred within the past few years.
The work of the English and American com.
panies of sholars now revising the English YER
sion of the.Bible advances with steadiness and
the best OF agreement, the questions that arose
concerning several rights of the two companies
having been tremendously settled The EGG
lish committee, with three years advantage in
starting have about two-thirds of their work
accomplished; the Americans have about one
third, having finished the Pentateuch and
Psalms and the Gospels and book of Acts, and
being now at work on the minor prophets and
the epistles. The familiar phraseology of the
ton or insure clearness, and it is said almost
the only differences between the two commit.
tees is with regard to the use of archaic forms,
such as prevent in the sense of anticipate Of
"let' meaning to hinder, and of (which for
Book having many years ago given us "Our
Father who art in Heaven our churchmen
are quite ready to use the more modern form.