The Evening critic., 1881-10-22
Religious Intelligence.

Religious Intelligence.
ASwcdish Baptist church has been organ
lied and recognized ut Worcester, Mass.
The French Council of State is consider
ing the project of u decree for assuring re-
ligious liberty in the army.
Rev. j. p. Corron, u well.known Baptist
minister, died at his residence in Botctourt
County, Va, last week, aged 20 years.
| The Swedish Luthcrans in the United
States number 300 congregations, 100
pastors and 10000 attendants at different
churches.
The students of the Lutheran Theological
Seminary in Philadelphia, have commenced
the publication Of new paper called the
Indicator.
! Rev. S. s. Hopbron, formerly of the
| Diocese of Easton, has accepted a call to
Hanover County, Va, and will take charge
Immediately.
The Rev. Robert 4. Roche ID. d., has
accepted unanimous call to the rectorship
of the Church of st. Timothy (Episcopal),
Philadelphia.
The Rev. c. l.. Murray has accepted the
invitation to become associate Of Bishop
Lee, at st. Andrews Episcopal Church,
Wilmington, Del.
The Lakeside Baptist Association and the
Chicago association have formed n union.
The new association thus formed embraces
fortythree active churches.
The Lutheran churches of Ohio of the syn
odicai conference are considering whether
they shall adhere to that body or follow
the joint synod in its withdrawal.
A "Pan-Baptist' council is spoken of in
view of the great success of the Methodist
and Presbyterian councils. The project has
| nnI nI lnfinifa m a. yn
The Bishop of London has admitted
twenty laymen to the Office of lay readers
and presented them to the Wears of the par
ishcs in which they are to oficiatc.
The minutes of the Congregational
churches in Maine give the same number
of churches as last year, viz, DAB, and q
membership of 81 ,33S, or 1876 less than last
year.
Rev. A. 5. Stone, ID. d., has resigned
from his fifteen years pastorate of the
First Congregational Church in San Fran
cisco, on account of ill-health, but will re-
main rs pastor emeritus.
With the aid of Mr. Edward Kimball, tn,
, Maverick Congregational Church, in Bos
ton, has obtained subscriptions to NOR,
than sufficient to pay the debt on the
building, amounting to $4,000.
The Associate Reformed Presbyterian
Synod of the South has u school ut Tam
0 pico, Mexico, with IL prayer-meeting regu
larry kept up, at which "goodly numbe
Of conversions" have taken place.
The London Conference of the Methods
: Church of Canada observed Friday last as
day of fasting and humiliation, and as da.
of prayer for the larger outpouring of tn
Holy Spirit upon the churches of the do
minion.
, The English Liberation Society, cncour
aged by the success of disestabishmcnt il
|: Ceylon, is about to renew its efforts to SC
cure the extinction of grants for ccclesiasti
J, cal purposes in other colonies governed b,
the crown.
r The Prcsby terrain churches in Philadel
phia added to their communion roll last yea
1912 members on confession and LAB Of
certificate. They raised for congregations
D purposes $3.50, 293, and for other benevolcn
/, causes $103,2lS.
y Salem Lutheran congregation, of Bethlc
lem, Pa, Just left vacant by the removal c
the Rev. +. w. Weiskotten to Philadelphia
has elected the Rev. Enos Smith, of Greens
burg, Pa, pastor, who has accepted the cal
@ and will remove to Bethlehem in Novembe
d A map of the Protestant Episcopal dioces
i of Virginia is in preparation, which is il
c tended to include the latitude and long
I tude of each church, the material of whic
h il is made and its exact situation wit
v reference to water courses also, the place
of the old churches.
Considerable success is now said to folio,
the work of tho salvation army in Pari
Numbers of young workingmen and thei
: wives have already been brought under TIL
y influence of the gospel. This success i
; doubtless, due to Il wise modification of tn
y methods of tho army, which awakened s
" much opposition at first
T. The Roman Catholics are making mate
f rial advances in Africa, particularly
Algeria, where they have $4,000 adh,
/. rents and missionary society for Centr,
/. Africa. During the past three years the
:, have obtained a firm footing in the interiC
- of the continent, and have sent forth sc,
=, eral missionaries into the equatorial re
n gons.
7. The United Presbyterian Church an
=, the Associate Reformed Church in til
=. South are negotiating for union of til
j. churches. Committees of conference hay
:; agreed upon basis of union, and the Asst
B. ciate Reformed Church has referred this
= its prcsbyteries for their decision rs to i
|, acceptableness. The feeling in favor
:. union is growing stronger.
Q, One of the leading secular newspapers
!. Japan, in recent article, took occasion
y; contrast the results already effected in thu
l. country by the small body of Christia
J. missionaries with the inciliciency of IL
Y, Buddhist and Shintoo priests with who
= the country is filed. The writer conclude
l.; by saying that the Christians had the mo
l. favorable showing in the comparison.
= King Kalakua, of the Sandwich Island
s. is an Episcopalian, and was visited viii
y in England by Bishop Stanley, who col
l. iirmed and married him. He is well verse
J, in the distinctive principles of the Angles
b. Church and its history and literature, an
q has done much to explain them throug
" the native press, but he is friendly to a
- other churches. lie has lately subscribe
NJ 50 900 to the fund for cathedral.
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