New-York tribune., 1878-01-19
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

| pleted his sixtysixtb year.
MFR. SpurgeOns health is again feeble. TN the
last Sunday Of the year be able to preach but once
There are more than one hundred sisters
of charity IN ConstaDtnople They have charge OF iou
| hospitals In which 800 patients
| On last Sunday week, under the lead OF Mr.
| Edward KimbaI the Jefferson Park Presbyterian
Church. Of Chicago made pledges for the payment 0f
ITS entire debt. S2l 400
The Rev. DR.. Herrick Johnson will deliver
the lecture before NcwYork Sunday School Associa
ton on Monday evening next In the Collegiate church.
FiftL-aye. and Twenty-irs-st
The Rev. A. B. Earle has Just closed a series
OF successful meetings at Brandon. Vermont. Phiilip
Phiirs ha. for month been holding scngservces In
the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, chicago
A Sabbath Alliance has been formed III
phia It's objects the enforcement of the ex
isu Sunday laws and the furhering OF the enactment
of more precise Sunday Judge Porter is the Pres
dent
Two thousand members have been enrolled
by the Working Mems Sunday Closing League OF Ireland
whose object it to appress the Sunday liquor trade
The league, though only two months old Is growing
with great rapidly
The oldest delegate to the General Conference
of the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church when VIII
meet nj Atlanta May 1st is Dr. Lovick Pierce now in
the ninetyfourth his age His son is one Oh the
bishops OF the southern Methodist Chnich.
The PrcS6yterian Quarterly and Princeton Re
ric,c appears this month The Princeton Rercr The
transfer 10 now hands has led to some Gsasreements
which form the subject of letter OF the former editor
the Rev. J. ~ Sherwood, to The Erangeha
The Baptists of Massachusetts report, for
1877 2s9 churches, 232 pastors, 33f ordained min
isters 1865 baptsms aud 4S,9o6 members The
gain In members for the year 1,j9l in the last
ten years the gain in members has been little over
10000
The permanent funds of the American Edu-
cation Society lConeregationa amount to ss3ooo and
yield az annual revenue of $1,000 The permanent
funds of the Methodist Episcopal Education Board
amount 00O mostly contributed by the children
OF the church.
The Greek Patriarch of COnstantnOple has
issued an ency eca letter inviting the Orthodox Greek
Christians form part of the civic guard Of the city
TIE letter been approved by the Porte The Sultan
has chosen five Christian members of the civic guard as
aides-de-calnp.
The American Board has expended i'll all
over n million OF dollars its missions to the American
Indians efforts have been devoted TO eighteen di-
ferent tribes among which 'y churches have been es-
tahshed rhc Boards prevent annual expenditure Tor
its Indian Missions is $4,000.
Mcssrs. Pentecost and Stebhins have carried
the meetings at Providence into their seventh week.
The Providence Press says of Mr. Penteeos: So far he
has been very successful here, and is considered a
worthy of Mr. Aoody IN his ability to coapel
the attention of the masses and to lDnuence them FOR
good"
The International Confederation, for pro-
noting the observance of the Christian Sabbath, has
offered prize of 1000 francs for the best essay on The
Evils of Sunday Railroad Traffic" The work may he in
English French German Italian, and may be sent to
the Secretary OF the Confederation at Geneva Switzr
land. by the 10Th OF December, 1879.
TIE death is announced of the Rev. DR..
James Bowling Motley, Regus Professor Of Divinity
oxford. and OF the eminent scholars Of the State
Church IL the year 1865 he Hampton Lecturer
and delivered a series OF lectures Miracles. He
also the author Of treatise the Augusinian doctrine
OF Predestnatlon, and another on Baps'nal Resenera
ton.
At the Hartford Rink, on Sunday, admission
was limited to ticket holders. Very many unable
to get in. On Monday evening the building was com
fortaby fun The MONDAY meeting at the Pearl street
Church is also well attended. On Tuesday evening the
rink was filed long before the time OF opening the
vices. II the return from this meeting that the
railroad cccdent occurred.
Mr.. Murphy is in Springfield, Mass, where
300 have gned the pledge. Large meetings have also
been held at westied and Ware. or the effect Of the
temperance IN Western Massachusetts, The
Springfield Union says that two weeks there
two daily OF ntoxcaion at the District Court At
Psfold and last week not single occurred which
makes the court think lis occupation almost gone
The Rev. DR.. Newton, who has left the Prot
estant Episcopal for the Reformed Episcopal Church. Il
william Newt rector OF the Church Of the Nativity, in
Philadelphia, not Richard Newton, the rector OF the
Epiphany DR.. Richard Newton is the author Of the well
known sermons TO Children" which have had large
clrculation he has punished letter III which he star
that he totally dsapprOyoB" the step taken by his
| brother
In relation to the marriage of Miss Hannah
de ROhselnd with the Earl OF Rosebery, The Jeuisa
Times, OF this city, The subject OF
has always been a with the Jews but think
with little The marriages OF Jews with Cbns-
ans extremely and there not much To
fear their Increase Judaism, winch believe has
been preserved so long by the viii Of God is not key TO
be mperilled now by the marriage OF few individuals
i Ot
The statements of Mr. Louis Street, a MEM
Der OF the Society Of Friends in relation To the charac
ter of the work of the London Missionary Society in
Madagascar, have been met by cOuuterstaements of
other members of the Society Of Friends, well by
the secretary of the London Missionary Society All the
parties to this controversy speak from personal Observa
tons made in Madagascar The worst OF the charges
that the Christian church IN the island ap-
pendage OF the government and that the missionaries
were nothing more than government tools. The Rev.
Henry G. Clark, missionary Of the Friends Foreign Mis-
sionary Association, bears tins tcsmony I" I hesitate
say that the Influence Of the missionaries In Mad
agascar, as whole, never higher than II IL at the
present moment. do not deny for moment that the
influence of many Of the native preachers has much in
creased" The charges, when first made produced 4
moved
| The Bishop of Lincoln having strongly con-
demned the OF unfermented wine the adminstra-
ton OF the Lords Supper, contrary to the law OF the
church. legal opinion has been asked in regard TO the
liability of clergyman of the diocese who disregards
the bishops order The points submitted were the fol-
lowing: ~ Is there any law canon which requires
holy communion TO he administered IN the fcrmentod
Juice OF the grapei (2) Is the administration IN infer
mented wine breach OF the law OF tde church
| or or the law OF the landi 60 Has the
bishop OF the diocese the power to prohibit the ad-
ministering OF the holy communion In unfermented
winei lD What penalty would the rector incur If he
took notice Of the bishops prohibition, and continued
the unfermented juice OF the grapei DR.. A. j.
Stephens Queens counsel has given the opinion that
| the PraKcr Book docs not lay down accnraielY the