New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-14
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

In Rhode Island there arc sixty Baptist
churches. with membership OF 10.9O6. Last Winter
an addition Of 1O17 members was made.
The Archbishop of Canterbury believes there
are signs on the religious horizon OF coming great
change III spiritual matters among the people OF Asia
and Africa. In Africa where MaDometaIism Is
striving with Christianity for supremacy the chbngs
lily steady progress
Among all the churches Of Rome, until re-
Gently, not devoted to the Sacred Heart But
an old edce has now now been trans ormed and
secraed under this name 10y Cardinals Nina ana ChiEi.
The ceremony was imposing and lasted three days The
eddce is what was formerly called the Church Of san
Giachomo. in the Place Nav3rco Rome indeed Is to
have two Sacred Heart Tor ahoIher one is 10"
being built on tue Esquillne Hhi.
What is known as the "Oid Swedes
Church. in Philadelphia, celebrated last sunday the
two hundred second anniversary Of It's organization
as parish Steps taken to create An endowment
fund OF s2J 600 The financial condition OF tie church
Is good and this provision viii be made to meet
future emergencies which might demand the rebuilding
OF the church its removal The present edihce
In 1000 win he exactly two centuries old
Seven years ago there was not Protestant
church Organization in Japan; now there forty
three with membership OF 1900. There are IN add
ton I4O preaching places; thirty boarding aud day
echools dfy-tour 5undaychoos. with 1000 scholars,
and three theological schools students while The
number Of missionaries is oshtyo1c too number of la,
tive assistant preachers 0netyNe ana inc huuoer Vi
ordained native pastors ten
The programme of the assembly now in
sesslon in the Yosemite Valley brings the meetings to a
close tomorrow. To-day excursions Will be made TO
Glacier Point and Sentinel Dome, and tomorrow the
farewell meeting aud other services VIII be held In the
wooden chapel which has been put up m the valley.
Next week the excursiOnsts will 80 to San Francisco,
where they will remain few days and VIII tben pro
coed 10 Monterey. The meetings al Monterey viii be-
gin Friday, June q. ana continue week large
from san FRANCISCO JOlheu tue isttiH e3CusO-
lists at Yosemite.
The population of the Island of CeYlon Is
about 100000 Of whom $1,000 belong to the Church OF
England. Newspapers in London Of Liberal sympathies
mention with show OF indignation, that these 49,,
600 people contribute $4,000 year for the payment Of
"a bishop and chaplaus and II is notorious that tho
present bishop exercising extreme ecclesiastical
tbority has done hi. church harm than good.
heathen population ought not, they say, 10 pay a
bisbop 81 BOO a aud add that the wrong is too
fragrant TO remain much longer unredressed.
The church of San GiOrgiO isO VelabrO at
Rome which is in that city the representative church
Of English Catholics and from which Cardinal Newman
has received his special ttle now, for the first time
since the Reformation thus identified with English
Cardinal Cardinal Wsenan received his title from ST..
pudentians supposed 20 the most ancient Christian
ediice in Rome and Cardinal Manning took bis from IS
Andrea 0rogorio, believed 70 have Deen founded m
Ihe seycnteenth century on the site of The family maa
sion Of Gregory the Great
The sum of $4,000 has been raised by
subscriptions as an additional endowment for the Har-
yard College Divinity School, $4,000 Of it having been
owen by Mrs. Thomas TlestOn. OF this CITY, Daniel