New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-12-09
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.


Bishop Brown of the African Methodist Epls-
coral Church is shortly sail for Hayti in order to
establish mission in that island
The Rev. DIR. w. r. Williams of this city
bo ON the 18th inst his of lectures Baptist
Church history. The lectures will he IL in number
A London paper reports that Mr.. Spurgeon
is far from well" He had so far recovered however
during the latter part of November aS 10 DC a'ie ~
preach on sunday
A weekly prayer-meeting is held upon Thurs
day afternoons in one of the paOrs of the young Mems
Christian Association building by ths 'ienu' Vi 'H'
g" New-YOrk Fruit Mission 10 Hospitals
Messrs. Whitte and Bliss, the evangellsts,
ere 1T present IN PEORIA ILL., Their services are attended
by large numbers series OF union meetings began nj
Indianapolis on Nov ~ ana sun commune
The Roman Catholic Vicar-General OF Brook
lvn the Very Rev j. f. Turner satos that the colec-
lions in tho diocese for the Association for the Propaga
zion of the Faith" have Of late greatly diminished
The Rev. II. p. Dale, an Anglican clergy
man Of London against whom complaint had been maze
nj Rituastc practices suspended by the Court
Of Arches under the Public Worship Regulation act
The London Tablet says that "a meeting OF
influential Catholics from different italian cities mas Deeh
held at Manseca consider the best means OF ceeprat
ing the anniversary of Canossa on the 2oth oil January
next -
The Reformed Episcopal Church has SO set
Nod nastors Some of these in charge OF several
small congregations. There are four congregations III
Chicago, five in Philadelphia three IN Baltimore ana
Newly ORR ana brOOhlEh
The Massachusetts State Committee OF the
yopnc Mems Christian Associations have received
REQUESTS from "a towns TO hold some Of Their con-
formulated gospel meetings IN them. This is the slAth
Winter during which these meeting have been heio ID
Massachusetts.
The Domestic Committee of the Board of
Nsson Of tie Protestant Episcopal Church has issued
statement of the needs OF the board Its Indebtedness
Is about $63 900 its receipts have greatly laleh on
In consequence Of these facts no appropriations he 10
yet been made for 1877
THE Liberal Christian, of which the Rev. DR..
Henry W Bellows is the editor chief will next ycarake
ts name of The Inquirer" 1t is also announced that
its publication will be inernitted from the middle oil
July 10 the middle Of September 1877, this peod De-
coming an editorial vacation
nc American and Foreign Bible Society
Bautisu has for some time employed coored Bible
readers among the freedmen in the South particularly I'D
the States OF Georgia, Tennessee and NOrth Oatoih'
Such good results have followed this work that e sOc
ETY. has Issued an appear IOi i'ii"' W i"
Der OF readers.
The Row. DR.. R. S. Storrs of Brooklyn de-
yercd the first lecture in the new hall OF the 1Ouns
Mems Christian Association of Philadelphia Ills Topic
was "The New and the Old in Europe" The nan VIII
seat 200 persons Active efforts are making 10 pay on
the debt on building when it will be FORMALLY ue"i
Gated to its intended uses
There is in Philadelphia "Bible Readers
Society" which claims TO have practically solved the
o,,,son how TO reach the Masses" 1t has been III
operaton for six years Fourteen readers are now en-
Moved each in an assigned district and giving IN
monthly account Of work done to S,t 6Re Board OF ~
The MARYLAND State Sunday-schOOl COnven-
zion held Its twelfth annual session at Hagerstown Nov
ooo4 The exercises consisted chiefly OF short addresses
upOn stated topics The Rev. Dr. j. H. vincent Oh Now
York, who attended spoke upon Primary Ieaehmipg
held IN Baltimore during November, 1877.
A SUNDAY school Teachers ParlOr" has been
fitted up by the American Baptist Publication Society in
their buildings Philadelphia series OF lectures upon
fhe international Lessons to be given In IT, beginning
Han D The lectures in January to be given By the
Rev G.. Dana Boardnan, IN February by , william W.
Shoemaker, and i'll March by the Rev. b. D. Iholl's
In the year 1875 the Legislature OF Massa-
ehetts passed On act declaring that no inmate OF the
s1ot prison Mt Charlesown should be denied the free
exercise Of his religious belief and liberty of worshpmg
God according to the dictates of his conscience In
pursuance Of this act demand has been made that me
Catholic prisoners shall be removed roh INC IoHsio'
instruction Of the official chaplain
The English Presbyterians have received
Isl 236 OF the proposed as thank onerng III COM
nemoFation Of the recently accomplished union Inc
objects to which this fund will be appropriated are' l.
Home and foreign missions. 2. Theological education
s. The extension Of P tl%fe eadey
England where it is weak One donor h0Oert he"oeS
has given to this fund the sum OF 42o'OOO.
The Roman correspondent OF The London
lancet writes to that paper: The death of Cardinal
Aufonei has told severely the Pope. For some days
he has been i'll state Of extreme detection or mlhd ana
his physicians entertain serious mlsgyings as 10 Ms
bootb nv their orders he has reduced his business
cares TO a minimum and every precaution is taken 10
o,ate recurrence OF those epileptod seizures, which
I'm his present condition. might have the grdVest eohse
ouences" Other reports however, announce the fOpeS
health 10 be good
Great precautions have been used to make
the Tabernacle in process OF erection Tor MT Moody
in Boston entirely from fire. There VIII De doors
M the four corners besides center doors on Tremont
and Warren-ave The roof will be bOlted together by
ftaRh aEp
and the noor of the auditorium will rest on the ground
The anterOoms and other apartments will be IN eanIto
built of brick with an iron roof IL Is expected IndV S
Tabernacle will seat 5000 persons
The second series of lectures for the Winter
before the "New-YOrk Church sundayschOO Assoca-
t,onp protestant EpscOpaD sJO begin during the first
mart of January 1877. Among the lectures are the FOL
lowing The Churches Use of the Creed" by the Rev.
DR. Mulehahey; The Apostles Credible Descent into
uou lv the Rev DR. Dix "The Place OF the Caechism
IN the Church SYSTEM" by the Rev. DR.. Gallaher and
the Common Mistakes in Teaching" by the Rev. Arthur
Brooks first series OF lectures, winch VIII Close
Dee. 10, have been upon the BLDG
A corresp Jndent of a Chicago paper describes
Mr. W. H. IL. Murrays congregation in the Music Hall in
Boston as consisting OF from 1000 TO 5000 persons.
"Eyery seat is occupied the platform steps are filed,
,tanding room Is crowded. Il glance shows us a man
standing fun six feet slight soop OF the shoulders be-
trays the student dark hair dashed with gray clear
gray eve slightly aquine nose, dark mustache, close
sbut Inns fine chm and as whole, thoroughly earnest,
honest fIusty face" Mr. MuTTays Friday nlght talks
are attended by 700 or 500 people.
1t is admitted by all persons that MIR. MoOdy's
+cmperance meetings held each we IN his Chicago
Tabernacle have had the effect to arouse many intemper
alto men to make the effort to save themselves On
Thanksgiving Day, with the aid OF committee Of ladies',
he gave dinner the reformed men In his own church,
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