New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-04-20
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

The fiscal year Of the Presbyterian Church
Boards closes April 30.
The receipts of the Five Points House of
Industry for the past year S29373; the expend
lures were s3O,39G. The present debt is S02s5.
The overture of the Presbytery of Philadel-
phia to the General Assembly in relation TO the Inter
national Sunday Lessons WILDE discussed at its
May meeting.
The Rev. DR.. Richard Newton retires from
the cditorship The Sundoschool World the organ
the American Sunday school Union. He will be sue
cecded by the Rev. Edwin J.. Rice.
At the recent annual meeting of the Prcsby
terry of Utica six graduates Of Hamilton College adj
mtted hcentiatcs and Il. C. Hastings, class OF 7J
was ordained as missionary to Ceylon.
The General Theological Library Of Boston
now contains II 03s volumes and 1880 pamphlets.
Its property estimated at $4,000, and during the
past year 2,30s volumes and lO5 pamphlets were dded
to the collection.
The Southern Presbyterian General As
sembly in Knoxville, Tennessee, May 10. On the
came day the Northern Assembly meets in Pttsburc
The General Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian
Church will meet In this city, May 10.
Bishop McLaren of the Protestant Episcopal
Diocese OF Illinois, has been disabled by railroad acct
dent He will not recover IN time to attend the PanAn-
glican synod, next July. Bishop sehGrescheWsky sails
to-day for China, which 10 his field OF labor.
A new ordinance of the Common Council
provides that minister of any denomination may
preach in any place in this city, If he shall have obtained
the written permission OF either the superintendent OF
Police, the Mayor, OF one OF the Aldermen"
President ChadbOurne, of Williams College,
viii deliver the lectures next Winter before the Union
Theological Seminary on the Relations of the Bible
Science" on the Morse Foundation, and the Rev Dr. r.
3 Stors, or BTO0kyn tLe ,GciuIes Oh ,he LILY fOuha-
ton, on the Evidences OF Christianity"
The election of the Rev. DR.. William B..
Brown Of Newark secretary of the American Con
grcgational Union, appears to give satisfaction to the
churches OF that denomination The work Of the Union
will be limited hereafter TO church extension than
formerly. The Western Congregational papers have
the administration of this, of the American Home
Missionary Society," more economical.
The supplying of work for ministers with
churches has become subject OF earnest discussion
I'm the Presbyterian Church The Rev. Dr. Poor
tary ofhe Presbyterian Board OF Publication, yises
the candidates not TO swarm around the vacant
places" correspondent OF The Observer asks Can
not the rcprOach of neglect 10 provide work for
whom the church has encouraged TO onter the ministry
be wiped ont There are churches which provide WORK
| for their ministers
The text of the AllOcution delivered on March
% by Leo Kill has appeared las translated into Eng
hsh in The London TABLET The passage the temporal
| power is follows: " We are dismayed by the most
sad condition TO which has reduced almost every
where not merely the civil society OF the world, but
also the Catholic Church, and especially this Apostolic
See which by the violent spoatOn of it's temporal do
miniOnIs brought TO that pass that cannot altogether
exercise its power fully, freely aud independently"
An important convention of laymcn and
ministers OF Church the United Brethren will be
held In Dayton, Ohio, May 21-23. Its business will be
the discussion OF important church questions Among
these ~ Lay Representation (2J The possibility and
utility OF organic union Of the United Brethren Church
with the Evangelical Association. () The Secrecy Law
Its unconStitutiOnaity and want o! harmony with the
spirit OF the Gospel az Unofficial Journalism in the
Church OF the United Brethren. (5) The rights Of miDor
ties under legislation by unequal representation
The closing examinations of the Union The
illogical Seminary for the year ending MAY O. begin
week They will be attended by committee Of direct
ors and committee OF the SYNOD OF New-YOrk The
closing examinations OF the Princeton Theological SENT
nary, the present year. began April 49, The annual
meeting OF the directors takes place Monday next
April o. at p m The sermon before the board will be
preached by the Rev. DIR. WIN. NJ Paxton. The Alumni
Association will hold its annual meeting on Tuesday,
April 90 Besides the neurological report papers Will be
read on the methods of theological education followed IN
various countries of Europe.
At the quarterly meeting of the American
College and Education Society held this month"; the d
rectors were able TO make the usual appropriation
The sum Of S1j each voted TO 303 students in thirty
three colleges and theological schools. The directors
adopted paper in which they say that they cannot In
conscience appropriate the funds entrusted TO their
except TO those who hold good faith the common doc
triues Of old Eew-Eugland churches." They refer
especially 10 the agitation aud discussion touching the
doctrines OF the atOnement future endless punishment