New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-03-22
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

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Drew Theological Seminary has now no in
cumbrance Within the past year over $4,000 has peen
| received from Philadelphia. At the recent meeting OF
| the Philadelphia Conference, $1,000 was raised as
contribution to help complete the endowment fund OF
! the Bishop James profess0rshlp
| Cardinal Guidi, who died recently in Rome,
was Dominican deeply learned it is said in theology
! and much esteemed by all men, highly 50 Dy DouIn
cans For other things than learning he was not cele
broted His life was simple and retired. In the vlGor
of his wears lie great walser, and used TO trsvel0
The exercise IL gave him He died. It said III absolute
poverty having gwen away all his money to the poor.
The new manual of prayer in use at the
! Advent Church. Boston. is having RAPID sale,
| Three years ago 200 copies were Imported ana
| trouble was found in giving them away Recently
within a short time, 10000 copies are sara 10
have been sold. This church is cassed as extremely
high" and perhaps the highest in Eng m
has movement now In progress by which t~o 81 @
preached every day and two confessions nerdoF
| week
A convention of clergymen is to he held in
Springfield, Mass the 9th and 7th OF May next, Tor
the consideration of the due observance OF the sabbath
All the four western counties Of Massachusetts, are TO be
specially represented and among the prominent per-
sons whose presence it is hoped TO secure are the Ry
DIS John Hall william NJ Iayl9J, StcPhen b. ~; p5in:
Brooks Joseph Cook and Professor T. T. Townsend 81
Boston General r. Ha%y ne ssv KTy csa W. are To
be read. ana good speaking is also expected.
1t is not necessary in England that build
ing registered for pubic worship should be devoted
exclusively to religion. uses. and an anonymous writer
has collected in q pamphlet some curious facts ana
statistics concerning the $4,000 NOnconOrmlst chapeIs
that are registered in England and Wales. Among them
are hake-houSc attached to dwellinghousc, girls
school, commercial gramnar-Scnoo' anu i"nS al;
semby and public halls In Few Instances ran,
WAY arches recognized ana authorized as places oi
worship while in others rooms In public houses ana
hotels aPpcar in the list 1t is further said that rooms
ana Lofts in laborers COTTAGES ana prVato dwelling
houses frequently serve as registered chapeIs.
A former soldier in the army of Pins IL.
relates that in his regiment there was once brave
young Protestant who one day was mOrtally wounded
by a cannon ball. and expressed wish to the Pope.
When the Pope visited the sick aud wounded in the hos
ptal that evening, the dying soldier Is said to have re
your defence y; 10 which the Pope replied Thanks my
son" But, Holy Father am Protestant" said the
Going TO die but feel happy and safe since you are
near me-" the Pope raised his hand and gave him his
blessing Thereupon the soldier declared that he wished
to die in the Catholic faith. lie was then baptized, and
expired soon afterward
The Rev. A. Bunker, who recently returned
to this country from missionary work III Burmah, gave,
in Providence few days ago, address on the condi-
ton, possibilities and prospects of the Baptist Mission
in that country There four principal races be said,
in Burmah each distinct from the Other-the Talangs,
the Karens the Burmans aud the Shans-a! of whom
are OF the Tuscanian race as distinguished from the
Aryan Baptist missions ae among them an, ouI
the Karen mission 10 thus FAR the most successful,
yet small results The Burmans, who are the ruling
race, lght-Ieared, careless shrewd, unrustwOrhy
who are the subject race, are superior They are not
worshppers Of images and this Is one reason why so
much success has boon achieved among them; while
another is that they anticipate through Christi
anty national delIverance and elevation.
"Heathen Rome" says The Christian Id
roeate in writing OF the late walking match, has come
10 NewYork" And it continues The rabble of Rome,
vino held tie balance OF power. demanded games and
contests and mortal cOmbats between men, and wild
beasts and between men and men, kept TO amusc the
people and the rulers by killing each other. Il it too
much that we have started in the same direction
This walking match differs from prize nght as sui
eide differs rom murder" A correspondent OF The
COngregdtOpdli6 of Boston, remarks that IN passing
the building and hearing the noise within, one needed
little ana OF Imagination TO believe himself III the palmy
DAYS Of the Roman Coliseum and when he thought ot
the of thousands Of dollars wasted IN this sport
while Chr.srs poor are everywhere suffering for brad
and specially for the bread lie IL almost seemed
If tie old-time of Gods saints fer sport might
lotnc dav he ,cur,tra nearer home" certain writer
once remarked of an athlete that his title 10 mmor
aty seemed to be that he could turn somersauit on
/ earth.
The Rev. Arthur Mursell, the English Bap
list clergyman. who has recently travelled and lectured
I'm this country and written letters to Tie Christian
WOr!d abOunding in sneers and misstaements, is Sc
yercy criticised by the papers Of his own aud other de
nominations. A writer in The Watchndn says the let
tiers display "a recklessness q assertion" "prOd-
galty OF ina gnatiOn n1amed with bile" and parsi
rnony in the matter OF truth" People who chew to-
bacco and close cOmmunonism" have given him a
vast deal OF unhappness. In speaking OF close COM
munon he recently said he would not affect 10 sym
patlzc with system which chains soc,aIian Ceibc-
rus to the leg of the Lords table 10 bark at every
acIiy in our perfect accent" ard 10 tins
The Hammer and Chronicle remarks tia; he must
needs 20 To the inf rnal regions OF a heather my
theology for tipc-he monster nendish mixture
OF bulldog serpent 0nd snake, with which TO caicature
system under which he was every where treated rs
Christian gentleman and minister" MI MuIsell haV-
ing failed TO meet lecture engagement IN forl0rn
halo 4 MIA al mil pf and
! his audience having expressed their dispeasure he
! writes as follows - Show him a dollar aud Uncle sam
| wakes M; show HIM principle, ana be SHORES"
Probably every American, Baptist or not who has read
MIR Mnrsclis letters win share with hm IN the feelings
he EXPIRE sScs Of his last letters There is
emphasis, he writes, " III the gratitude with
which ttark God that NY back is be turned
upon the setting sun ana my lace directed toward the
! home Hight IN the East"
! Stray items from many sources: A mission
airy after thirty years OF service in India in building
school-houscs. largely with his hands complains
that returning TO America he finds churches in large
cities which cost 100000 aud 100000 ana secretary
Of his own foreign board receiving salary OF $1,000
when the oldest mission III India 10 really dying out
for lack OF men and means The Rev. samuel SEQ
VILE of Norwich. y. " is said 10 be eninentiy prac-
teal Christian. III teaching his two recently how
TO cut wood lie his ankle severely; permanent
injury likely g. result from the accident. The First
Baptist Church has decided 10 extend call to the Rev
| DR. George {. DOr1mcr, OF Boston, with salary o.
! - 900 "A Texas man recently told a Sunday-scbool
missionary that he opposed TO sunday schools be-
Mi. Greeley had once said five can't tram up
the rising generation to believe IN Abolition IN other
way We viii do II I'm HnndaycnOO!s. The Bapiists
rcIor "a 900 members of their denomination IN ASIA, Of
whom 20 900 connected with the American Mission
in Bumah The only sister OF Archbishop Purcell
maiden lady eighty our years OF age-las just did IN
Cincinnati. Native Mexican Indians building
chapel twenty miles nom the CITY Of Mexico, aud
are doing nearly all the work themselves. The brick and
lumber already on the ground, aud the struC lure
will not II is thought, be OF cost 10 the Missionary
! Board. ....An nqulSitiye Engllshman wrote 10 Dr.
Newman asking II II true that he had been offered
cardinals hat. ana for his pains gOtt following brief
! reply: Sir: believe when such communications rs
name made they are a ways secret Bishop
Spalding, OF Colorado, writes from Denver appeal
for financial in tho work OF The coming
This work will be grea before, owing
eInectel durng the hprlng and Sum.