New-York tribune., 1878-05-04
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

The next international sunday y-ScnOOl Con-
! vention will be held at Toronto in 1881
The Rev. DR.. II. S. Storrs, of Brooklyn,
lectures on St. Bernard and His Times" at Princeton
| Seminary next term.
The anniversary Of the Seamens' Friend So
ciety, which will be celebrated on Monday evening next
is the seml-centenary celebration.
The General Eldership of the Church of God
Winehcnnarians will meet at Kosciusko, Ind on the
29h day OF this month 1t will be the twelfth trennla
session.
DR.. Burgess will be consecrated as Bishop
of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Quincy Ill., at
his own church in Springfield, Mass. Bishop Hunting
ton will deliver the
The Reformed (Dutch) Board of Publication
have successfully surmounted their pecunary embar
rassnens and will Immediately business in this
city. The rooms are in Vesey-st.
The following State Sunday y-schOol Conven-
tions will bes held this month Maine, at Bath, 14th;
East Tennessee. at JonesboIo 16h Illinois, at Deca
tur, 2lst; Missouri, at Sedaila, 2otb.
The Southern Baptist Convention will meet
at Nashville May o. 1t will represent the associations
and churches Of twelve States, and the Indian Terri
tory The Rev. Dr. j. r. BOyce Is expected to preside
The receipts of the Baptist Missionary Union
for the presant year just closed I $780, which is
81 600 less the receipts of last year The debt OF
nearly 81 OOO with which the year began. has been
paid of.
The American Board of Commissioners for
contributions OF $4,000; this deficit is more than made
$i7,6So5 &c 5i' 'N'''' - "'' w
The receipts of the American Missionary AS
socla,lon, for the six months ending March 81 were
Ss5, 1852 The Association has also received $9921
toward the payment of its debt, with the conditioner
pledge OF 5000 more.
Eight hundred persons have joined the
churches Of Hartford the fruit of the meetings held in
that city by Messrs Moody aud Sankey Three hundred
conversions have followed the labors of Messrs Pente
cost and Stebbns In MiddletOwn, Conn.
The Southern Methodist Episcopal Church.
whose General Conference in session at Atlanta,
reports year 1877, 77l7i2 ministers and mem
bcrs The Sunday-SchoOl scholars 3j3.163 The
travelling preachers are 3430; local preachers 56sf<
Dr. Tamage's Lay College will hereafter be
in charge OF Board OF Trustees. He will himself be
Presidents addition lectures by the Faculty, lee
lures Will be delivered by Bishop Foster Drs DuIyea
Armtage and others Tue next term opens the second
Tuesday in October.
The death is announced of Miss Priscilla
Nicholson, of the missionaries of the American
Board at Erzerum, Turkey. Erzcrum is scourged with
typhus fever which the American missionaries are doing
their utmost roeye while engaged in this service
Miss Nicholson lost her lie.
The decision given by Bishop Andrews at
tho New-York Conference that the Methodist discipline
does authorize the licensing of women to preach, is
harmony with previous decisions of bishops Of the
church. Preaching by women is, nevertheless an es-
tib!ished Methodist practice.
The German Baptist Publication Society took
possession OF their new building, In Cleveland, few
days ago This society organized in 1866, at the
trenuial Conference of the German Baptists OF the
United States and Canada, held in Berlin Ontario. 1t
represents l3i pastors and 900 members
The income of the Peabody School Fund
has fallen from 100000 In 1876 to 100000 in 1877
The fall the decline OF revenue from real estate
About 900 900 been dsbursed from the fund in
ten years. said that the disbursement OF this sum
led 10 the appropriation oI nine mlohs py oou'eh
States.
The National Union of Young Mems Catholic
Societies will hold their Fourth Annual Convention In
Buffalo May o. The object OF this Union TO band to-
gether the various sOdaes, literary and benevoent
associations throughout the United states and to form
new societies every parish, where none exist" II has
been in operation for three years
At the anniversary of the Surgeons Pastors
College, held in London last month, was stated that
tfyhrec chapels had been erected In the London DIS.
trct alone through the Of that institution Since
1863 AT persons have been bapsed by pastors edu
Gated in the college, and the number In church fellowship
Of the churches III their charge Is 37,o91.
The 9th of May will be the jubilee of the
abolition Of the corporation and test acts In England,
which was effected IN 1928 Lord John RUSSELL one OF
the advocates of this Of justice, still lives BY
the terms OF the act pubic emouments and honOrs
were limited TO those Engsmen who partOok OF the
Lords suppeaccordng 10 the rites OF the church by law
established.
The meetings at Thousand Island Park, in
the St. Lawrence River, will Le held with short intervals
from July 10 to Angus, %. The Annual Camp Meeting
will open July 10 and close July u. scientific con-
ference will be held from July % to 20. There will
be an International Temperance Meeting from July 81
to August Young Mems Christian Association Con-
vention presided over by IL Thane Miller, from August
to % %. ''''N Wv '''
The Methodist AdrOcate of April 10 contains
complete tables OF the statistics OF the Northern Meth
odis Episcopal Church in the South There are ii con-
fcrcnccs OF white ministers and members, containing In
all 2OG 2Oi members II coored conferences, contain
ing S0sO5 preachers and members, making total OF
nearly 600 ministers and members. In the confer
epccs Of whites the total value OF church property
SO s6i 1873 in the colored conferences, not quite ST.
100000.
New-Yorl leads the other States in the num-
ber OF Sunday school teachers and scholars the
total of both being 003390; Pennsylvania has
sGO29O; Ohio, G2l .7O2 Illinois, 529,s29 Massa-
chusetts 30O,472; Indiana. 363,712; Iowa, $780,
OG6 Canada has total OF 3S1 ,G36 teachers
and scholars. Thirty States have State Asso
Citations: seven have County Association IN every
county; states and Territories have no state
organizations
The Scotch heresy cases have been carried
up from the presbyteres to the synods The Synod of
Aberdeen declaring the only charge in the OF Proes
sor smith, found relevant by the presbytery. TO be
irrelevant. The Free Synod OF Glasgow, in the case
OF Dr. Dods, adopted by vote OF 81 to 81, motion
sustaining the complaint against him. III far the
Presbyery did not condemn with sufficient emphasis the
view that there errors III Scripture as originally
given" Appeal from the synod was taken.
In taking the sccrctaryship of the COngre
gational Union, to he society Tor church building
the Rev. DR.. Vim. b. Brown Of Newark, says: " l am
expected 10 take myself the responsibility and work
of two secretaries and clerk am to become or time
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