New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-09-22
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

The Welsh PresbyteTians Of the United
states opencd their General Assembly Chicago. sept
Is. The session expected 10 last about one week
Ii il sand there has.never been such col
lection Of Bibles various editions brought together as
displayed ct the recent Caxton Exhibition in Lon
don.
The Rev. DR.. Cyrus Hamlin, for this year
Prof ssor of Theology at Bangor has prepared Work
on the civil political and religious changes in Tur-
key, during the last forty years"
The twentieth anniversary of the Fulton
Street MONDAY PRAYER Meeting will be held Monday
next the oath in the Collegiate Reformed Church. Lara
yette-piace, 90 - o'clock
DR.. Bellows and the Rev. E. Z. Hale were
present Ut the meeting OF the Maine State Unitarian Con
ference. which was he'd at Bangor, September Is. DIR.
Bellows made an address upon missionary work la tbs
State.
The English congregational Union viii meet
Leicester October 10 two days before the tine VI the
opening Of the Congregational NatiOna! Council, at De
troit Tne Rev Dr. Nscarcn, OF Manchester, breaches
the opening sermon.
The American Board o. Commissioners for
Foreign Missions ba- increased It's debt during the fiscal
year just closed, $1,000 As much $4,000 of this
deficiency owing falling Of in the contributions Of
eight men oi large means.
The New-Yorl. Baptist State Convention viii
meet Troy. October -. The Pastors conference vii
assemble the Gay proceeding. Local Baptist assocs-
tons are entitled 20 appoint delegate Tor every fom
OF Inc associated churches.
On the 9th of September, The Ade0noc of
Chicago, celebrated It's tenth anniversary The sum OF
$4,000 has been expended in placing it on It's present
pccuuiary ioua aton Tie Adcanee aims to represent
The Cousre gGtiouai Churches Of tAe Northwest
At the recent session Of the 81. Louis Con-
ference Of the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church the
Publishing Agent, SIR. BEDFORD, made appeal in behalf
OF the Book Conform. m Nashville. The Conference
acccpicd an assessment oi enc thousand ooHfs l'I 10"
relief
The Murphy temperance men have formed
a state organization IL Pennsylvania, and held CON
vention at Plttshurg September j.. Joseph Il Hunter
was elected chairman. Delegates were cccted 70 the
National Convention, which viii be held IN Cleveland
next month.
At the session Of the Indiana Methodist
Episcopal Conference held AZ Washington, last week "
C. De PAW made hi eighth annual gift Of $1,000 the
Preachers Aid Society. It Ia bs purpose TO found iund
Of 600 for the relief Of sick and WORKOUT preachers
of the Conference.
The Delaware Bible Society held its Sixty
fourth Annual Meeting at Middletown. September 10
This although State society, has jurisdiction OF single
county ouly-Heyvcastle. The Kent and sussex BOie
Societies have hitherto declined cooperation, pcfcniug
to operate independently.
The Fourth United Christian Convention
will he held in the Exhibition Palace, Dublin. next
month. These conventions were begun by Messrs.
Moody and s.rusey ~hcn in Ireland IN 1874. Al the
evangelical. churche, o Ireland viii he represented in
The speakers and sadiesses
The Warren Avenue Baptist Church, of Bos-
ton defends rs practice Of open communion o. the
ground that such practice is forbidden by Con
fcssoE OF 1876, under which the church organized
The faith aud isuages OF this church under
investigation by committee az the Boston North Baptist
AssOCiation, appointed last year
The Board Of Publication of the Reformed
Dutch church Will need for its relief $4,000 before
EoYc1Uer9 II the money is nor raised, the stock Of
bss stereotype plates aud furniture must be sold,
satisfy the claims Of creditors. Mr. Samuel y. Sobeeln
It the Treasurer OF the special fund which II proposed
TO ralse for the relief OF this Indebtedness.
The death is announced of the Rev. Dr.
Benjamin Schneider, Of che earliest Of the American
missionaries tho Turkish Empire lie graduated from
Andovern 1888 and left immediatey fol Constannople
stationed at BroGsa, where he spent many labor
ton where ne had beentaken for surgical treatment
The Ministerial Association Of Philadelphia
are taking action in relation to tho opening Of the Per
Inauent Exhibition on Sundays. The Baptist ministers
meeting on last Monday adopted condemDatory reso
lutions The Methodist preachers meeting appointed
committee Of five to cooperate with other committees IN
calling public meeting TO consider The Sunday question
The Roman correspondent of The London
Times under Of SEPT g. writes thus Of the health OF
the Pope There doubt that the health Of the Pope
has considerably doteoratod. lie may still linger for
some time but that serious spprehensons felt In the
vatican that II s just likely he pass away at
not 10 absent themselves T0n Rome
At the adjourned meeting of the Annual
Convention OF Protestant Episcopal diocese OF North
Carolina, which closed az Raleigh September IS, the
farther consideration Of the resolution to divide the
diocese was indefinitely postponed In relation TO the
change OF OF the church II resolved thnt It
iueNpeGient 10 mako change at this time" The
delegates 10 the General Convention were instructed &C
c0idngy.
The statistics of the Roman Catholic Church
ia New-Engand were thus given by the Rev. j. Dor
chester Of Boston. recent meeting 0f the EvanRel-
ical Alliance, that city Archbshop, bishops,
prcsts $40 churches, 508 chapols and stations g.
colleges students los academies and select schools
% parish schools. SO asyums, - hospitals. g.
unated population, SVOoOO In Boston there are 80
Roman Catholic churches ana chapes and 80 priests
The question, much debated, how TO make
the Congregational National Council more effective Is
discussed by correspondent Of ne ConGTeQatonaief
this week. He the opinion that the Council
should o. Make strong Impression the vital centre
OF the Congre gatOnal churches o. Devise some scheme
o! advisory supervision Of Congregational churches and
pastors TO occupation for the pastors and
10 keep the churches supplied 81 Consolidate con
centfate the work OF the Congregational benevolent so
cetios.
The San Francisco Theological Seminary
Presby tereu) dedicated with appropriate
sept g. Addresses delivered by The Drs Scott
and Burrows and II. II. Haght The building purchased
for the uses Seminary cost with tho furnishing
500 900. Six srdcnts have already entered The Rev.
Dr. Scott 10 Professor OF Systematic theology the
Rev. III. Burrows OF Greek Exegesis; the Rev |" M.
Alexander Of Ecclesiastical History, and the Rcy Dr
EelIs OF Pastoral Theology and H0metics
The Convention Of the Young Mems Chris
an Associations Of Eastern Massachusetts, which met
at somerye October -. adopted resolution declaring
that in view OF the purpose OF Messrs Moody and Fan
key to spend tie coming Winter IN kewEnsiand, the
first step III their opinion. be taken the
RrafaR Oef II zta
suggested that tie pastor and delegate from each
gelIcai church. and delegate from each Young