New-York tribune., 1879-04-26
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

| mas bcCn tue Iule III ItNcH' A'd'S'
A memorial window to Bishop Heber, the
| famous author Of the hymn beginning From Green
lands ley Mountains" Is to he set UP in the church
at Malpas Cheshire being the parish in which he was
| born.
A dispatch from London says the Rev. Dr.
Patton of Chicago is TO be appointed to the cn"ir o,
Apo'ogetical Theology in the Presbyterian College OF
London the synod Of the Presbyterian Church OF Eng
| land having 50 resolved.
! An Evangelist named Haskell, said to be
uneducsted is preaching in Illinois with marked sue
cess lie breaches times day and is unseclarian
Presbyterian. Baptist and Methodist ministers nave IL
| yitcd him 10 fill their pulpus.
! Leo XIII.. saws a letter from Rome. is the
mos; simple in taste Of all the Popes known TO history
! HIS bedroom is paved with comno stoncs-hot even
bricks much less mosaic stones are used-and the room
! is never warmed. His rcceptionrooms are htted up
with luxures his private apartments are as cecl
! less ar a hermit CELL
| II has fallen to the lot of a Lutheran clergy
man named Baltz:ywhcrc living the report says not
10 ascertain to his full satisfaction the Dimensions
OF heaven Isis he says square and contains somewhat
over 9iG 600 600 900 O0O 900 100000 cube ect Eacn
person VINO goes 10 heaven - 20 have an aPiiihe".
about the sze Of an ordn:rv hotel bedroom 2ne "i
suoh apartments he estimate tHn existence ol o'ti
1876 GGG,6GG, ,GG6GGG wtha traction oI t"o-'"ii"' u"
| room remaining.
| The Prcsbytcrians, after SIX years WORK III
Southern aud Central Mexico, report that The gospel mas
bsep prclcBcd I them in more than sixty towns ana
VILLAGES that twcntvtwo churches have been organized
and that more tLan 1900 members have heeh tecel''
theological class with regular attendance OF cNn'
teen has bcou established n the CITY ot Mexico thee
schools have founded there ana fcur h o'her p"
Of the country There tn.ee mss,onarie; ID MoIon-
eru Mexico ana in san Ius Potcsi city OF 4oVoO peo-
! pie a church has been established.
| The total number OF persons IN Holy
Orders in the Russian Empire j. about loO'ooo IhCic
are 42O cahcdras 3s 500 churches and l24os chapes
g.r ,'lU Ia
wear In 1877 about 800 person. euteredtha Orthodox
! Church intending G53 PeJtcsttnts and 1889 Roman
Catholics Ii the mouastc institutions there are lo'1oo
monks and IG 900 The translation or the blDe
into Russian begun in 1886 ana not o. ao
| 1877 The first edition, whlch conssteu m ol - -G'o''
copies, has been exhausted, and second Is h prc9s'
| The Sunday-school Union, an English or
snZatou, intends celebrate the hundredth ahhNer-
| sary OF tie founding Of smday-schools hy Robert
Raikes Hearing Of this the suuday-school Association
which Is Unitarian IN faith, wrote a letter Offering 10
take part in the cclcbration and received in reply
noie saving in substance that while no Difficulty was
found I'm co6oerating with several OF the Evangelical
bodies vet the dogeucc OF opinion between the Sunday
tScy d'ar a fnndgmeuta al portion of Christianity" ap
peared an insuPcrable obstacle TO united actoh'
A Catholic priest OF American birth recently
gave an Italian gentleman sound thrashing In fash-
ionabe beershopi in Rome. The priest who had sat III
his place very quietly and apparently was indifferent to
the ucope about him. was addressed by the Italian In
mpertinent and harasSIng terms. He wore the dIcSs
or his order and remained quiet for sometime under INC
sarcasm of his neghbor but nj last reused himself and
an alteration ensued beginning In words but endng III
hard knocks. In short time the assallat ionhd ne
had caught Tartar, for the priest was shlhH WIN NE
fists and them where hoy did MN the most goOd
Both men were arrested aud taken before police mag
strate but after being reprinauded were discharged
| The raising of Leo XIII. of the Lieutenant
OF tho Sovereign Order Of St. John Of Jerusalem to the
dignity Of Grand brings into notice institution
whose very existence was for a long time almost lg-
norcd 1t was founded in the Holy Land in the year
1O4s and lost its last Grand Master in 1905 since
which wear It's affairs have been administered by
haif holding the title Of lieutenant. With the out
break OF the FrancoGerman war, the Orde- acquired
reuown in Europe-thOugh renOwn OF different hlud
from that gained by their predecessors in the early
acesby good services among the sick and wounded on
thq field of battle Its scat at present is ~ Rome Whele
II possesses magnificent home in the midst of large
garden on the slopes OF the Avenne Hill. The
! institution Is also known ds the Order OF Malta
I'm commenting on the celebration of what
IS sometimes called the silver wedding OF the Bishop of
NewYorE being the twentyhtth anniversary OF Bishop
Potters conservation, The ChuTchmdn says: The de-
cision seems be O give this celebration an affection
ate and religious character and instead Of burdening
with any exacting undertakings that call for
labor and large contributions it has been thought
70 make the friendly and devout spirit OF the occasion
! encouraging toward fraternal union and church pro-
cres as 10 favor eectuay the comprehensive and far
seeing measures Of diocesan policy, which will fty
| hand" The committee intrusted with the arrange
mcus will uake an official announcement OF their
| plans. The anniversary occurs November %
! Three Young women in South Wales have
started a religious movement, which they call "The
salvation Army and wide interest is said TO have been
awakened by it, Miss Sheppard s the leader and the
| addresses which the women haRe have made deep I'm
preston on rough class Of miners who attend the
meetings They often hold their meetings at night ana
/ 9frnn IA nr1 uplu
! Welsh hymns. At OF the meetings men and
women have been 10 throw away their ornaments
| and mines the women occasion tearing off the
aounces from their dresses. Young men," Gays
porter rushed to the penltents table, calling TO God
10 bless them and one OF them tuoh on MS coat ana
tucked up his sleeves; while the rest of the audience
embracing and shouting 'Hailelujah, shock hands and
sang and prayed DY tuiEs lhIs "cht Oh 'Hl uaNgnl'
After the death Of William Cullen Bryant
questions were often asked respecting the precise
ture of his religious faitn, and II Is well known how
.. .Thanatopsis has been called Pagan and materials
! tic The Rev. DR.. joseph Alden, Of Albany, has just
published, through G. p. Putnam's sons, volume
called Thoughts the Religious lifc,' TO which is
preixed an introduction written by Mr. Bryant, that
was found at the time OF his death lying the table in
his study. BY some means II afterwards mslaid,
and when found recently several pages Of 1t were miss
ing In this fracnentary condition II is now published,
stars being used 10 denote the missing passages. In
INV view" SAYS Mr.. Bryant OF the life, the teachings,
the abors and the ucrngs of the blessed Jesus there
| can be no admiration too profound, no love of which
the human heart is capable too warm. no gratitude too
earnest and deep Of which He is Justly the object II Is
with sorrow that NY love Tor HIM IS 90 cold. and my
gratitude so inadequate" Mr. Bryant adds that If he
! thought the religion of sccptcism were 10 gather
strength and become the dominant view OF mankind,
he should despair OF the fate o. mankind III the years
10 come" lie trelabl,s " to tlAk what The
world would be without Him (ChrsO,' and continues :
Take away the blessing OF the advent OF MS ne ana
the blessings purchased by His death IN what an abyss
of guilt woul man have been Cftl It would seem TO
be botng the out Of the heavens-o leave our sys
| ten OF worlds In chaos. frost and darkness"
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