Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-11-08
Religious Intelligence.

Rev. l.. Hutchins, Freewill Baptist. is Ia
boring successfully in revival work in Dead
River Plantation. The church is greatly
quickened, there ! ave been several CONVEX
| sions, backsliders reclaimed, and goodly
number anxiously inquiring the way of saliva
ton. The prospect is encouraging.
At Waterv lille, Rev. W. II. Spencer bap-
tiled one Sunday, Nov. 2, and Rev. f. Leger
of the French Mission baptized two converts
from Romanism.
The labors of Mr.. 4. II. Ellis, the evange-
list, with the Second Baptist church in Jeffer-
son, have been greatly blessed. Many have
been converted and others are inquiring the
way.
Rev. c. F.. Harden, State missionary, Bap-
fist, is now in Harrington, where of late
there has been very wide spread religious
interest.
We have not mentioned the rumOr Of Br.
Shows probable removal from Auburn, as we
were in hopes that all obstacles to his re-
manning where he has wrought so long, and
so faithfully and WELL would still continue at
his old post, but we have just received line
from his own hand, informing us, that two
weeks ago he sent in his letter of resignation,
and that, within a few days, it had been ac-
cepted. Dr. Snow has been in Auburn SO
long and has been so identified with the pros
ptTltv OI our CBusc III titut UcautHut. KTON Iuk
city, that it seems difficult and unnatural for
us to think of him rs connected with any
other parish, or as living and working in any
other State than Maine.-Gospei Banner
The statistics of the Protestant church in
Berlin for 1873, reveal some curious facts.
Only 60 per centum of the Protestant children
born there in the year were baptized; only IS
per centum of the marriages of Protestant
couples were solemnized by a ministers and
only AHA of the 1886 Protestants who died
were buried with religious services. If this is
a reactionary movement against what became
to be in many cases mere forms, it also indi-
Gates decline in piety.
Six Catholic churches in Italy have been
| converted into Protestant houses Of worship
and in Rome the Waldenses are building
new chapel in the centre of the city.
According to the Texas Baptist Year Book
the first Baptist church in that state was
formed in 1886. Now the white Baptists
number 10, 900. and the colored 80, 900 There
are nine schools under the care of the Bap-
fists.
Not less than s., 900 idolaters in Southern
India cast away their idols and embraced
Christianity in the year 1878.
| account the Scriptures of God to be the
most sublime philosophy. Sir Isaac Merton.
The Congregationaists have twenty-five
churches and twelve preaching stations in
Oregon and Washington Territory. They
contain l,045 members.
Tennessee is orthodox. In the recent trial
of case in one Of her courts the testimO-
ny Of certain witness could not be received
because he was an atheist.
| A man should never be ashamed to own
that he has been in the wrong, which is but
saying that he is wiser to-day than he was
yesterday. Pope.
At the recent anniversary of the British
and foreign Bible Society. the Bishop of
Gloucester referred to the labor required for
the translation of the Bible. and said that
though portions of the Scriptures had been
translated into two hundred tongues, only
fifty-six had the whole Bible, so that the mis-
sionaries had still an ardous and a holy work
| before them.