New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-17
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

formed a Western Ciation" It's annual meetings
Will be held in Chicago on the first Tuc>day III May
The health of Bishop Nottingham prot
estan EpiscopaD Of Maryland has been far restored
tina; he is making appointments for confirmation in
the churches of Baltimore.
The Washington, Kentucky. and New-Jersey
Methodist Episcopal Conferences began this week. on
Wednesday 1ith. The Washington Conference is COM
posed wholly OF coorcd ministers.
The Town Council of birmingham, England,
has adopted memorial to the Posmaster-Gencral re-
guessing am 10 relieve the lctcrcar1ers in that city
from their excessive sunday labor.
The American Convention OF New-JcTuSalcm
Church Ministers (swcdenborglan) will be held in Gin
cnnati, June l. conference will be held AT Urbana,
lew days In advance OF the assembling OF the convention
The Methodist Episcopal Discipline now pro-
vides for the organization Of yceum in each church,
the object Of the lyceum being the intellectual improve
ment Of the members and the advancement OF educa-
ton.
Recently the two sons of the Rev. Chas. II.
Sturgeon delivered addresses ut the Metropolitan Taber-
nacle one Of them is thought TO inherit his fathers
humOr and eloquence. They BOTH however training
for business.
On the afternoon of the Attn of March a con-
gregaton that filed the First Congregational Church of
san Francisco assembled pray the divine blessing
nItious represented
Each Sunday school and Sunday-schOOl AS
ISOLATION in this state is invited to send two delegates to
the state Convention, which begins in Buffalo June IL,
Tho local committee in Buffalo Off hospitality
10 pastors, officers ami delegates.
The Rev. Dir. Schaif, who has for some time
been abroad, is expected to visit Berout, syria, IN May,
thence travel to Constantinoplc and Athens, and in
July to attend the Presbyterian Council in Edinburgh.
Al present Or. schaf Is in Palestine.
The In III aud North India Methodist Epis-
copa Conferences have now 1864 members and proba-
TONERS. In 1sGi the whole number Of communicates
WAS 900 There are now 100 sunday schools in which
Instruction Is eiyen to S,l90 scholars.
The death is announced of Prof. William
Williams the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Prof Williams appointed to the chair OF Leclosiasti-
History when the seminary first opened, and las
since been connected with the institution
The Boston Young WOmcn's Christian AssO
citation maintains Home" on Warrenon-5t., where
$50 persons received dur ng the past year. The
largest number accommodated in one month was
IA The Il .b OF the association reduced in 1876
from T5J,DUO to $4,000.
The Rev. Henry NJ. Dexter, ID. D.; the Rev.
A. C. Thompson, ID. D.. and the Rev. A. II. Clapp, ID. d.,
will deliver courses lectures before the students Of
Andoycr Seminary next term. DR.. Dexter 10 now Iii
England collecting material illustrative OF the early his
Tory Of Con -regationalisu
The Congregational National Council will
meet next Autumn in Detroit The exact time will be
late IN October carly III November. This Is repre-
sentative body, and consists Of delegate for every
ten churches from each local conference from each
State body, and one FOR each 10000 commandments.
The pilgrimages to Rome to celebrate the
Papa Jubilee, it said, will be very numerous As many
a. 20 900 are expected to be in that city in June The
Swiss srms VIII be under the supervision OF national
committee. A French company will leave Lyons May
II. There will be pilgrimage from Brazil and one
from Canada; none has as yet been definitely ANNOUNCED
from ;he United states
The Moravians have four churches in Phlla-
Gephia two in NcwYork Zone English, tie other Ger
1fo
muncants in one place is found in Bethlehem, Penn.
Il 200. The total number of COMMITMENTS III the
American Province 92l2. increase for The year of
not quite 300 This province is divided into northern
and Il southern district
A preparatory school for the training of pu
pills for the proposed Hebrew Theological Seminary has
been opened in this city under the direction OF the Rev
Dr. Adler and the Rev. Dr. Gothcil. The present mum
Der Of students is % and their studies consist OF the
Nisna" the translation OF the Bible, end Hebrew
II .InnIr. The instruction gwen II free me necessary
funds supplied b. the Elhalu-i-l IheoIoSicdi Hc
mary Association.
Upon the elevation which it has been an
nouuccd will take place at the coming consatory OF
Archbishop Howard the Cardinalate. there VIII be
four English speaking Cardinals. Cullen. Manning, Ne
CIoskey and Howard Archbishop Howard was born III
1879 After serving for time in the English army
he entered the service of the Church III 1913 and III 1871
was cansecraied archbishop IN pdrtGns For num-
Der OF yeats Mgr Howard has resided at Rome
A correspondent Of The ErGngebSt urges as
reason for reducing the representation III the frcsDy-
terrain General Assembly the great difficulty experienced
in providing homes the commissioners. This difficulty
increases continually He says: Committees Of enter
ainment DO not make public Outcry Of the severity Oh
the service which Is laid upon them, but II cannot anu
does not escape alton ASK those Of Cleveland or
grookvn Of the labor that laid out TO secure tc-
porary homes Tor commissioners ana OF the large eh
ncsc incurred for securing mercena'y hospltal! after
what voluntary was exhausted
The Baltimore Methodist Episcopal Confer
ence which met March, in Frederick, Nd, adopted
report on fraternity which expressed the nope I inc
time may not be distant when between these two
churches North aud SOUTH nothing mag come to DIS
~ freudIcst relations, nothing to mar the perfect cN-
bjtion of brothcfy love" The Baltimore Conference
of the Southern Methodist Church, which met simuta-
ncously ut Alexandria Va, PLEDGED III cOupeiauon III
adust.Hg all outstanding diihcutes win tne NJ. IL
Church in the spirit OF the agreement u 'he JOINT oo
mission"
The Virginia Methodist Episcopal Confer
euce North) its recent session. adopted resolutions
explanatory of The meaning attached by s meupers 10
the rlan of settlement with the Southern Methodist
,;b ,ybich was aerecd to in Augus 1876. The first
soutou declares that the Methodist Episcopal Church
..ras full and equal rights with the NJ h Church Sou'h
in all of the States and Territories OF the uuioh ny agree
ment of both churches represented III me
Tho Methodist Episcopal Church Is bound to disnaHd
Within to Withdraw from southern terIo,y . III VIZ
Iation OF the agreement OF the COMMISSIONERS
The annual session of the Sunday school
Convention for Cooks County Illinois tEe county IN
which Chicago is situated. was held IN Fnwell Hal
in that city on March 9 Two hundred and MY dele
GATES were present. The following statistics OF the
evangelical Protestant sundlyschoos In the country
were given: There are in all 10 schools WIN f,'9'
officers and teachers and AZ 939 pupils The Methodists
b,o 90 cbooIs with OBS teachers and S146 scholars
,bo R,ntsts o. schools with 6Jl teachers ANA GGI1
snhoIars lie PreshytcrianS % schools %th 146 teach
,', tir fn.,yiug denominations IN the order gwen
mti.rin CouyrrSot iopal. and Protestant Episcopal