New-York tribune., 1877-09-15
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

lied by the sultan to resume excavations at Nlneyeh
The Rev. Samuel Colcord's Chickeiing Hall
preaching services TO be resumed o-morrow Prof
Gum has 200 singers III training Tor the new choir.
over quarter of the population of Ron
dout, n y nave signed the temperance piGese. TINS
would make the number Of pledge-gner not less than
! 5000.
The applications for admission to the JUNIOR
Glass OF the Yale Theological Senool already number
forty The incoming class viii be the largest Win Tue
| exception OF one, la It's history
The annual reunion of the Presbyterians oil
| the Cumberland Valley, Pennsylvania, August 20
brought together 5000 persons Judge Fmdley ana Dr.
Wills delivered the addresses
The Rev II. A. Nder, a missionary OF the
American Board to The Zulus Of south Africa died IN
| Hartford, September 6. lie had spent t"eniy-eisht
years IN Africa, and returned home last February in
| feeble health.
At a meeting of the StoughtOn Street Baptist
Church. Boston, held last week. pastor, the Rev NJ
Ansso Dougherty. read his letter OF resignation He
as. gned the change Of his views IN relation
! 10 bapusmai immersion.
Bishop Haven was lately taken i'll at Xenia,
ONO where nc presiding over an Annual Confer
encc, and Bishop Simpson was summoned TO take MS
place Bishop Haven has not been IN good health since
his "trip 10 the West Coast Of Africa
The removal OF the Southern Baptist TheO-
logical Seminary from Greeuyle. :. C.. to Louisville
Ky, was effected during the summer The Baptist Of
Kentucky have offered 100000 to endow IT. About
sixty students already entered
The Conference of Protestant Missionaries
held IN Shan gha Cnina recommended the Observance OF
the fest sunday IN October day OF special prayer for
the spread OF Christianity throughout that empire. An
address U the ministers and ~ inbcis 0f tEc MehodsI
Churcnissued by the Missionary creares ana bishops
requests them so to observe the 0ay.
The Presbyterian Church in Ireland has
synods SO presby,ees, $50 congregations, 659 minis
ters IS .445 families aud lO7262 communicates. The
sustentaton fund amounts TO Sl22000; the total minis
teIia for the past S5l3O0O. Ine aver
axe salary Of the ministers was $50.
The Rev. James A. Bartlett, late OF the New
England Methodist Episcopal Conference, was installed
pastor OF the Second Presbyterian Caurch Of New
burypOrt, Mass September 3. He gave as reasons
for the change. that the presiding eldersIp was iea
tue in the church he about to leave hat was very
disiasefu him." aud that his theological views had
undergone modification.
No less than 1900 refugees are reported
by The Lerant Herald Of August 10, 60 be crowded
together in Adrianope. They are Turks, Jews and Bu-
garians, and all desitUie 10000 more were at that
time expected Ii their distress, the relief provided by
the Christian women OF England looked or with great
xict}. IN This work Lady Srangiord and Mrs Layard
have been especially conspicuous.
The Raptist Home Mission Society will open its
eighth among the Freedmen, at NatcheI October
l. The building was constructed IN 1856 for Govern
ment hospital, at a cost OF 100000 Ii purchased
at public sale by &r G. r. Sampson OF North Adams,
Mass and gwen the Society. The Rev Charles Aver,
Webster, y. y wll be the Principal l. IS expected
lO1O pupils wi this attend the Baptist school
! Tor Freedmen at Nashville.
The Seventh-day Adventists are holding a
camp-meeting at Jefferson Park, Carthage. ~ y.
This denomination Of Christians has been in existence in
this country between thirty and forty years They agree
with the scyenthday BaPusts in tie Observance OF the
seventh day OF the week day Of rest The publishing
and educational centre at Battle Creek Michigan
branch publishing house has been established in caor
and also one III switzerland, from Whlch paper in
| French ana German Is Issued
A correspondent OF The Evangelist, writing
from Stuttgart Germany, thus describes the preaching
Of the Rev George Muller who has just arrived IN this
country He is not eloquent in the general acceptation
Of but he possesses strange powers for carrying
conviction TO the hearts OF his hearers Whoever listens
! TO him must awey impressed with the earnest,
apOstocl character OF the man. lie SIMPLY tells the
Story OF life and OF Gods mercy in allowing him 10
be the instrument OF good to the orphan and the poor"
Among the many outgrOwths of Sunday
school work the Foreign Sunday school AssOcia
tion" which has It's headquarters in Brooklyn. Its OBJ
| feet is the planting and support OF Sunday-schOos
the Continent OF Europe The Sunday School has not
been readily adopted by the Continental Churches, but
| meets with growing favor. In Germany and German
Switzerland this society now reports 5GG schools, 1919
teachers and O95 scboar- In Holland there also
been rapid progress. Mr.. Albert Woodruff Is President
| The Annual Convention of the Protestant
Episcopal diocese OF Illinois opened in the Cathedral
ST. Peter aud Paul, Chicago, Tuesday, September H.
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porant topic before the convenlonis the division of the
diocese which is et to he large for the strength Of
the present bishop Ur. McLaren. The diocese will
have either Quincy Springfield for its cathedral city
Among tue Candidates I" ihe Episcopal Once "hch VIII
thus be created, the Rev Dr. CorD!n, OF Quincy very
prominent.
The General Committee of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in the United states Will in Phil
adephta on the 1Oth OF october The church at Broad
and Archss will be used for the sessions This body
or Councils at Lutherans in this country The latest
Lutheran statistics show for the United States 81 synods
-g5 ministers 1922 churches. ANA 600.3j3
! cants. Tue General Synod NEE at Carthage. H.,
NAV 1877. aud the SynOGcal Conference at Chicago.
July All these bodies are Independent OF each Otncr
Ii is now understood that Messrs. Moody and
sankey Will spend the Fan and Winter among the small
er cites-tne towns OF NewEnglaud, giving To each
visited one weeks Of labor OF the present effects
following the meetings ned IN Boston last Winter,
tne New gland aondent Of The ChristiGn Lts
l,ge,cer SAYS ut leaves broad wake behind There
s current, OF courage ana confidence, spirit
ofaggrcssiou, revival tone among the Evangcllcas,
which far ia advance OF one ear ago some OF our
churches have carried forward their work with great
success during tie summer"
AT the Chicago Methodist Preachers meet
Ing on last Monday. there lively discussion oi the
merits and dement's Of modern campIneetincs. The
dnate reyoved about the following resolution offered by
the business Committee ResOircd, That revival OF
the old canp-meetng system is desirable" Dr. Jutkns
said that there appeared to DC too little sincerity
among the brethren nowadays. He regretted tosay IL,
but many went with but little heart in their WORK lie
had been TO campmeetngs which he considered nothing
but preaching matches. where each one attempted
OutdO his predecessor ETC.
Great efforts are making in India to enlist all
tbe Mohammedans Of Asa and Africa in active com
bination support the Turks Appeals have been
10 the Persians Afghans the people of Arabia Egypt
and Morocco According 10 The Indian Mirror OF Cal
cuta the Indian Mohammedans are Informed that the
fact Of their bens subject to tolerant and compare
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