New-York tribune., 1879-05-10
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

At Eversley, near London, where Charles
Kingsley labored 50 long aud we'll chapel for Mctho-
| dist worship has recently been opened.
1t is said to have cost the Presbyterian
Board OF Foreign Missions only about AZ per
ceve ana expend last year It's income OF F450,000.
The Rev. DR.. Cans, of Baltimore, who re-
Gently left the Reformed Church to become a Roman
Catholic does not Intend said, to betOme priest
1t is proposed that statue of the late DR..
Nelson be erected grounds of the seminary az
Wyoming. Penn, and committee to secure funds for
the purpose just been appointed with Governor
! HOyt chairman
The annual report Of the Scottish Reforma-
ton Society contains these words OF warning and
ret "It shatl be written for generations TO tnat
one of the darkest years which Scotland has ever passed
through has beeu che year wnen her reformation from
Popry WAS formally reversed Dy the seesIaOhShinent
Of the Old Poplsh hierarchy Ia her land
The recent gift of $4,000 to the ROchcs-
ter Theological Seminary has been increased by
of several donations from persons B this city $ljO
600. The late Dr. Buckland, Of The seminary irit
library Of about 1000 volumes, including valuable
collection of books church history John II. Dean. Of
NcwYork has purchased this library and presented 1t
the trustees OF the university Of which the seminary
Is part
The true GregOrian chant is soon to be re-
stored to the Catholic Church by the publication
OF official editions OF plain chant music prepared under
the supervision OF the Sacred Congregation OF Rites.
TX restored In the Church the unity Of liturgy and IN
der Leo Kill will thus be resisbshed the unity of
PLAIN chant al q not very remote day
Most preachers have long admitted that
RobertsUn's sermons good models 10 study and
few have been willing to learn something from them.
Perhaps the highest tribute that has recently been
them was by IA "a small town Ia Pennsylvania.
He not only admired Robertson and and re-fcad
his sermons but preached them from his pulpit az
though they hIs How many he preach, q Is
reported but at last somebody found out the
OF new eOquence and made public scandal of H.
The partial translation of the Bible into the
languages OF the Zus which DR.. Colenso made Is not
the oniy has been undertaken. American mis-
sIOnanes have been work translation for forty
years and at the time OF their last rerort only one or
twJ books Of the Prophets remained be corrected
When they are finished the work viii be complete The
Amerc1n missionaries the first to translate the
New Testament for the Zuus and has been IN use for
more than twenty-five Not good :" writes
one WHO interested in the work, "has Coenso done
for he suit ms private beliefs which
| vary IKE the wind"
The General Synod Of the Moravian
Church, as announced this column several months
| ago, viii assemble az Hcrmhut, SaxOny, on Monday,
May 20. This gathering has interesting feature Ia
beng the only synodca body OF the kind estant
ChristeudOm, the entire Church throughout the world
Ia ITS provinces and its missions being repre-
seuted In the General synod. The Church Rome is
the only other body OF Christians in which such Organ