New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-29
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

The annual camp-meeting held at the Paclhc
Grove Retreat California Is TO open this year on June a.
The Presbyterian Sustentition Board" re-
cal year
1t is stated that the litigation over the right
Of English Wesleyan ministers to the title Of Reverend"
has cost that body the OF $4,000.
The Methodist ministers of Chicago arc
discussing tnis resolution That as means oi
ev.ngel Ltdon our Sabbath-scho0!s are faHule'
The Upitarians OF Boston are making active
preparations Tor their annual festival, watch fixed for
Thursday June l. The Hon. E. lockwood Hoar viii pre-
ste.
The Reformed ClassIs of RaritaD, at its re-
cent session. recommended the pastors within rs bounds
to set aart Sunday April 80, day OF prayer FOR the
promotion Of the Temperance cause.
A Protestant Episcopal Church Society has
been organized at Riverside, Iowa, and the chuch Wi
be known st. Paui's. A handsome chapel Is 10 oe
erected this spring.
The receipts for the year OF the California
Branch of the wonans Missionary Society OF The Pres
bc,crn Church were reported at its third anniversary
which recently held, as $2'OIS
The proposition has been put forward in the
French Assembly to suppress that item in the Buose'
which provides for the salary OF French Minister az tne
PgIa 1onr This viii eventually abolish that mission
Mr.. Henry Irving the tragedian, has ap-
pearcd In London helper OF the Church OF England
Temperance Society. Alta recent meeting he READ Tor
its benefit paper on "AmusemeEts, aud particularly
the stage
A tract published in this city some time ago
describing the WORK of Water Street Mission Fourth
Ward has translated into Chinese, and is now err
culated in China. 1t written by the Rev. W. H.
BOOle.
meeting of the Protestant Episcopal clergy
and lay of Boston WAS held in that city April 49, III
order to make of the necessary arrangements or
the reception OF the Church Congress, which viii meet
there next Autumn
Two Jewish conventions take place during
III, T.,,v "A NJ Dele = If
Iaees will meet at Philadelphia MAY 81, aud the con-
ference upon the proposed Hebrew college VII be held
in New-YOTk May "a.
At public meeting held at Calcutta India,
April H. which Lord Norhbrook' the reurns vice
row presided resolutions were passed mgug as
memorial of the late Bishop Mman of India the creation
oil bshOlric at Lahore
The " Emerson Institute at Mobile, Ala,
one of the schools American Missionary Association
was recently set fire by neendiary and destroyed
1t was built before the war college l0r "ies anu
originally cost 100000
The Fifty-frst Provincial Synod of the North
ern Division OF the American Province OF the Moravn
Church will meet at Nazareth. Penn, May IL Inc
Synod will consist OF H. members beng he largest oh'
ever held in the United States.
The third annual Mass Temperance Con
vention under the auspices OF the Women's Christian
Temperance Union of indiana, will be held in the FRS
Baptist Church Of Indianapolis ON Wednesday May o.
and will continue in session uli May D.
1t is reported from Paris that serious doubts
are now entertained whether National Church OF the
Sacred Heart can lie built upon the nights Of Mont-
marre. The soil has been found to be laOe 20 E'hu
Slides and very much undermined by Ola dnafIieS'
The Baptist Missionary Union during its
fiscal year which has Just closed received f2aj997 ana
disbursed S223I76. Tue receipts were Sf0+6 greater
than those OF the preceding year. The deceicy i, .!
the wear before OF S529J6 has been reduced 10 4'Ao
The "Home for Aged and 1niirm Hebrews
is to he removed May large house upon the corner
of Eiehty-seyenth-st and Avenue A, which has been
leased by the MANAGERS Tor term OF years The house
is surrounded by grounds which extend TO the Eas 'e1
The "Veddern lecturer before the students
of Rutgers College aud Theological Seminary for THIS
year the Rev Dr. Talbot W. Chambers OF this city HIS
subject is The Apologize Force of the Psalter OF
Book Of Psalms The third lee ure OF the series viii DC
delivered next week.
The Central PRESBYTERIAN Church OF this city
have removed the stores Dr.. Halls old edice and are
puttlng them together again in their former order on
Fifty-seyenth-st near Broadway. The chapel OF the
church thus constructed will be ready for use by sepe
Der, and the main building by Christmas
The regular session of the Dutch Reformed
Chassis OF Albany was held April IS 10. The Casals Is
composed of Il churches which it was reported have
os57 communicates and 2,7l0 Sunday school scholars
The amount of S50,296 was expended during tue year
for congregational purposes, and the amount OF so-99
was contributed for cDaTlues'
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York
have issued a letter which they say tat desire hay'
Ing been expressed that the Observance OF the day Of
praver for Christian missions, which has been pactced
for the past four years should not be discontinued have
designated st. Andrews Day Nov 30 to he SO Kept
This Is the day which has been heretofore named
On Tuesday, the 18th inst, the Guild of St.
Fizabetn visited the CITY Charity Hospital on Biloxi
wells Island and made gilt Of flowers or fruit to every
Invalid inmate The number Of patients in the warts Il
about one thousand Drs Woodruff and Gallaudet lei
the party Proceeding next to the Contagious Diseases
Pavions the members OF the Guild stood OUTSIDE ana
sang Christian songs.
The anniversary meetings of the Baptist
secetes which are held this year in Buffalo, occur upon
the following days: TIE Missionary Union will meet
u,ou May 1924; the Woman's Foreign Mission So
cety Nav "a; the Education Commission upon the
afternoon and evening Of May "a the Home Mission
socjety NAY 25 and the Publication Society, May 20
Ihe annual meeting OF the American Baptist Free Mis-
sion soeety viii be 6eld in Jersey City May IS.
Unusual interest was attached to the Easter
services held in the old Christ Church, Boston Protest
ant Eplscopa, account OF the fact that Easter fci
upon the same day in 1775 and upon that occasion The
Rev Mather Byes the Church Of England held his last
service church The occasion was made further re-
arkabe by tue presence OF the son Of Robert Newman
Revere. upOn the night OF Easter Tuesday, April 49,
The Rev. DR.. E. p. Rogers of the Reformed
Church ON Fifthaye. aud Twenty rsi-s, has gone 70
Georgia to recruit his health. Some months ago "tne
bursting of blood vessel behind the eye suhusod That
organ" and compelled him TO desst from work The
Centennial discourse assigned him on the "Liturgeal
Features of the Reformed Church will be delivered ny
the Rev Denares Professor in the Theological sem
tnary at NewBfunswicK.
The IslingtOn and Highbury branch of the
Young Mems Christian Association Of London at re-
cent meeting passed series OF resolutions conerainla'-
ing the Associations in the United States upon the com
pleon Of the Centennial OF their country and upon the
growth and prosperity OF the Associations themselves
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