New-York tribune., 1878-04-27
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

South Church. Boston, the sum Of 1853 900 is still TO be
| raised.
The Rev. DR.. John Hall has been described
lately "$20OO0 pastor" His salary is, and has
been for eight years 10000 year In currency Before
| that time 1t was $4,000 IN gold
There is a bin before the Legislature of
Ohio 10 tax church property An effort Is making TO
modify it, to exempt from taxation all houses used
exclusively for public worship.
The next number of The North american
Rere will contain two papers opposite sides discus
sing the dogma OF human depravity. The writer's are
| the Rev Dr. T. W Chambers and the Rev. o. B. FrOth-
| ingham.
The proposal to tax the larger salaries OF
Methodist ministers per cent for the relief Of the MIN
listers who receive small salaries Is growing In favor IL
adopted at the recent session OF the NeW-EhS'hu
| Conference.
On Monday of this week Mr.. Cook delivered
the las; OF his present series Of Monday lectures The
financial arrangements for the next conrse VIII be
! placed in the hands OF the manager of weEknown
! lecture burcau'
On April - the receipts of the Presbyterian
Foreign Mission Board Fs3257 less than those OF
last year AZ the same date surplus from last year of
$1,000 and 5000 saved by the fan in the cost OF cX
| change. vii reduce this deficit 60 S5s.257.
On the 7th Of April the ninc!ieth anniver-
sary Of the settlement OF Marietta Ohio, was celebrated
m the Congregational Church OF that city The church
| was founded IN 1886, General Rufus Putnam and Coz
/
beng among tie ir,t members.
The Standing Committee of the Protestant
Episcopal Diocese q! Springfield, Ill., have appointed
convention to De he'd the last Cf this month, for the pur
pose OF oCcuuG bishop, in place OF the Rev d. Sey
nlour who drciacs Bishop ncI1ren Of tine occse IL
Chicago has been requested 10 cAtIc;sc Episcopal super
vision, ad interim.
1t having been charged that property of the
Trinity Church Corporation, NewYork. was leased for
improper purposes Mr. Waiins the superintendent of
Police has made the following statement: "The records
OF tha Police Department do state show that the
real al Trinity Church has 7Gi OF any other num-
ber Of hqaor-saloons or nn-mliIs.'
The License Commissioners of Boston, IN
their report for the year just issued have recommended
that TIE law uTclaOn 10 the sale OF liquors on sunday
be made stringent The total number of licenses
now In force In the city IS 2353; OF these $50 II
for the sale O Liquor 10 be drunk on the premises
The Rev. C.. B. Kittredge, of Wcstborough,
Mass. states that Yuns Wing, the Chinese COmIn!s-
soucr has charge Of the education Of the youths
now III COURSE Of education in tins country at the ex
pcnsc OF the Imperial Government was received by Linn
into the Christian church at Monson. companion of
Yunc Wing who united with the church OF Monson at
the same tiuc. aicrVard went to Scotch University,
where BE- graduated with ligh honor.
Besides the "Ibcrian Exodus Association"
which own, the ship Azor, Of Charleston, societies 10.
promoting emigration TO Africa have been formed In
North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and
Florida The report OF the American COLONIZATION
Society that nearly 100000 OF the freedmen Of
the South are disposed 20 60 The managers OF the
society express the opinion that - wisely arranged
and moderate and gradually increasing r. mOval would
he good thing for those who 80 and for those who
remain
Two reports on the application of the South
crn Methodist Publishing House FOR S15O000 fcom the
Government have been made to the United states SEN
ate. The for the use of the property and loss
aud damage incurred thereby, during the war. The
majority of the committee have recommended that the
claim be allowed They say that the properly was not
couscatcd but was seized by General Thomas fug Coy
crnncn u-c. Inc application suopuricd hy Northern
Methods, Bishops. Te Eictmond christian .adr9cat-
expresses the opinion that Tie opposition To The clam
by Northern Methodist papers Il untlaternah
The English Frcemasons, at recent meet
ing presided the Earl Of Carnaryon unanimously
adopted resolution refusing fellowship with the Grand
Lodge of France II appears that heretofore the fuudI
mental principles Of the French Iasons have been the
existence OF God the Immortality OF the soul, and
hnman sollda'ic" Recently the existence Of God ani
immortality have been struck out The English Grand
Lodge adopted OF its resolutions THAT while
anxious to srcc brcthern initiated in foreign lodges
could not adn; those initiated IN lodges which denied
ignored the belief in the existence OF Cot
At the International Sunday school COnven-
tion, held. at Atlanta, the number Of schools in the
United states reported to be II 1893 the number OF
teachers and officers sJ3 100 scholars Gj0i OJi max
ing the total of teachers and scholars 7357l5I. The
schools in the United States and Canada together
-3.lss teachers and officers s0i793 scholars G.si3,
g97 making the total OF teachers and scholars 7,73s,-
700 Ia their report the Lesson Committee said OF
Of the objections TO their selections 1t is urged that
the lessons leave for teaching the doctrines OF
the denominations" To this have answered
course Of lessons which the whole Bible must
include essential doctrines OF most denominations
We have aimed not TO omit any vital truth from Gene
Revelation. We have gone over the ground from
which most of the denominations draw their peCuliari
their teachers not found their
Of h,t AZ ls tFnn
some other Textbook" Hospitality provided hy
people Of Atlanta TOR five hundred persons. Frank
lin Aleu- OF NcW-lOrk was chosen Chairman or the In
ccuiyc Committee.
Church societies for church extension are
doing an enormous work the United States in helping
the erection OF churches. The Methodist Episcopal
Church Extension Society organized In lSGi and has
collected in twelve years. 81 l61 ,5l9 All OF this has
been dsUursed a part OF it-S29O j5O-n loans. The
number OF churches aided IL 2132. The Prcsby tcrian
Board Church Erection received tor the year ending
Aprl l. 1877 SlO62i2 and made appropriations to l72
churches in twenty States and Territories. 1t be-
can the present year with applications amounting to
Sl6J 400. During twenty years the Congregational
Union has aided 7Is churches The total receipts for the
ten years ending May |, 1877, SJ0iO O22. Tile
ccips for the year ending May l, 1877, 32s93
This society has closed its Boston Office and VIII transact
It's hereafter in NewYork. The Baptist Church
Edncc Department II an adjunct Of the Homo Mission
ary Society. All grants OF money made by II are III the
form loans, with interest secured by bond and mort
gage. The financial account, on January l. 1873 stood
thus: Amount loaned to 22O churches S2l4035; cash
ON hand 1864 % real estate, 80 900; due interest
S2SI 937 The MOruyinS have very recently organized
A Church Extension Board as have the Luthcrans also