New-York tribune., 1879-05-24
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

| Nineteen missionaries have died i'll China
| within year.
The successor of the late DR.. DeKOven in
the presidency Racine College. will be the Rev. DE-
Stevens Parker who recently resigned the rectorhp OF
| an Episcopal Church IN Elizabeth, y. D.
I'm this State there are 1,223,00 Roman
Catholics and IN the archdiocese of New-York CITY,
witch includes several suburban towns there are 60o-
600 The number OF priests in the archdiocese Is 2oo
| I'm France there are fifty unauthorized R0-
| man orders which possess total 0f 39S houses anu
74I4 members. The or Ter is that OF the
Jesuts who have sixty houses and 497 members Tae
Capuchus have thirty0ne houses and the Francscans
| twtnty-six.
Preparations for a Sunday-scbool assembly
! in Minnesota making on very large scale An Gu
tire peninsula comprising 225 acres ana extending into
one of the lakes has purchased ZOO are to be
expended on hotel, and pavilion is to be erected
| with seating capacity for 5000 people
| 1t was recently said that no new neathen
temples were now building in Northwestern India, but
Presby teran missionary writes home that the people
| are "s mad on their idols; almost every house has
them; new temples constantly being built IN honor
of these idols and rel gious bathngpaces and as
scmbly grounds crowded" The Presbyterian con
verts in province having population OF 7.oOO'oOo'
| number 300.
The heart of the late Mgr. Dupanloup,
Bishop of Orleans was quietly taken snort time ago to
the little village Of san Fece, in Savoy where he was
born and deposited the church according to the drec-
! lions given In his WILL The Archbishop Of Chambery
and three prclaes neiShboing doceses were pres
| ent Tie heart was contained III urn, which was
deposited I'm q niche specially prepared 70 receive ~
SLAB black marble with an appropriate inscrlpton
was placed near the spot AT Orleans statue OF tie
famous bishop soon TO be set up IN Tue Cathedral
More than 100000 pilgrims visit every
| year the monastery at Kev-the richest and most ia
nous of Russian snrInes 1t the monks OF this
| monastery that Alexander l., during his wars with
Napoleon borrowed 900 roubes giving for the loan
his personal bond When mis- Nicholas to the
throne, he visited hiey and Was presented by the
monks with this bond, Dut he begged them with much
| emotion to preserve the valuable souvenir wththe
| greatest care
1t is expected that about 700 delegates will
be in attendance during the three days session OF tho
state sunday-scnool Association at Kingston, June g.
and s. The indications that this will he of the
largest sunday gatherings ever held III this State
since every county Will probably have full represen-
ation. The Rey Drs. John Han, Thomas Armitase ia
who Will be present.
| One Herr Miarka is the proprietor and edi-
tor OF religious newspaper In Upper Sesia, Prussia
He announced In late number OF his paper that he had
Just returned from Rome, and had brought with him
quantity of earth rom the graves OF the Holy Martyrs
some OF the sacred earth which ST. Helena brought from
Golgotha Rome. and several packets of seeds and
cuttings of plants from tho garden OF the Vatican.
These precious objects he offers as premiums To sub
scroers for his periodical He prints religious al
manac, aud 20 persons who purehase this he promises
! ear,h."
| Governor HOyt was once student under
The late Dr. Reuben Nelson, and in February last. when
Dr. Nelson died. he addressed letter of coincidence to
| Mrs. Nelson, now first published in which he said !;
Personally, cannot relate the impression Dr. Nelson
| made on my miHd and my own course Of life. He
has always been present to in his benignant interest
and in strong, unyieding though nofensve, cham
ponshp OF the right. Few important steps have been
| taken by me without the conscious inquiry OF myself
What would Dr. Nelson say OF TINS l could nor per
nit this occasOI-solemn 20 yourself, amented by all
pass without venturng to TO YOU the respect
tie Affection the honor III which hold the memory or
your husband"
| Waldensian preachers recently posted upon
the walls of Rome various anti-Cathoc pacards,
Of which denied that the Virgin Mary the Mother
| of God" Intense dspleasure thus given to the
Catholics and The Cardinal Vicar took steps to organize
series Of ceremonies to testify the belief Of Catholics
the dogma, and make pubic reparation for the in
| suit conveyed In tie pacards The first ceremony
held I'm St. Mary Major, with pilgrimage from St. John
| i4ateran to the Basica of Santa Croce and from
thence to st. Mary Major. Thousands of people took
part in the pilgrimage and received the communion,
| while they marched. II 81 Mary's the hymn " Ave
Maria Stella was sung by the choir, and sixty gentle
held torches before the confessional. Some
10000 persons or more. says correspondents took
part in this monsier demonstration without confusion
disturbance" In the evening several churches and
| houses In the city were Illuminated.
| Mr.. Moody is satisfied th;S tabernacle work
outside OF churches in the large cities is mistake
since has often happened in his experience that the
converts have attached themselves to any church
II is better he believes to address small audiences In
the churches where results of his work Will be
| certain TO remIn. Mr.. Moody will pass the coming
summer at Northfed, and early In the Autumn will go
to St. Louis, where he will remain six months having
| the ard of Mr.. Sankey, who returns from England.
Mr. Moody recently in Boston, and at IA reunion Of
Christians he said If he understood this Christian life 1t
was a battle. He had been IN the fight twen ty-fOur
years He started with the idea that after he
yerted all lie had to do fold ms and float
right along into Heaven" But he found that the
| Old Man WAS not dead in him, mat the nesh still lived
and that the world and the devil yet alive From
his ana from careful reading OF the Bible he
had learned that when person Is converted lie mas
ONLY enlisted the weary Marches the hard fights the
dos fms