RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
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AMERICAN MIssIoNs-The thirty-sixtl
annual meeting of the American Board o
| EOrel ga MlssIons commence its sessions
(all of which are public) in Brooklyn. IN


Y J the 9th of September, to be continued
for three davs. The Hon. Theodore Ere
| inghuysen Is expected 10 preside. and the
Rev. President Hopkins. OF Williams Col
iege is to deliver discour Sc. to be followed
by other interesting exercises. The re-
ceipts of the Society for the past year have


amounted to S155.000. Il has now about


go stations. occupied as so many important


radiafing points of Christian light aud In


fluence on the surrounding nations, and


sustalns at present clerical Missionaries,


besides go male and female assistants


from this country making in all in con


nection with native assistants, 4a4, with
their numerous schools, churches and


printing establishments sustained by the


Board.


Costly INDUCTION INTO OFFfcE.-T The


Rljah of Travancore (says receu. cor.


respondcnt) though a very INTEL gent nan
and evidently distrusiful of Hindooi- m was
indicted into office, In accordance with i'm
mem orable usage. by the brahmins causing
him to pass through a golden COW, worth
from S25 900 to $4,000. "This makes
him" says the writer, "all but brahmin
aud qualities him TO be The magistrate and
collector the brahmins, who claim to Be
the lords ofthe soil F" At the close of the
ceremony, this golden COW was cut to pieces
AMI divided among them. The Ralah
was then permitted to feed them and to
eat in their presence but he may not eat
with them.


IMPORTANT CRIsIsIN INDlA u nques-
tionably (says Bishop Wilson. of Ca lcutla }
crisis seems approaching in IndIa. with
rapid rides. Education has been e gSing
on for so years all offices, up to a certain
class, are thrown upon to Hindoo taleLt
and character; the native mind is bn rsting
out with knowledge; commerce is op ening
her riches medicine is following the steps
of western science railroads are ab GU: to
accelerate internal communication the
present Governor General, Sir Henry Har
din &c, is full of heightened zeal for nativs
i'm provement; the invention and application
of steam vessels is rendering Calcutta
sub urb, as il wei re, of London. In such a
nom ent Christ ianity must sac ntify the pro-
cess or inordinste luxury and selfishness
will big hit me gifts of God. Christianity
must "s!and upon her watch, and set her
self upon the tower,' to seize every favor
able opp ortuaity as ii rises for at any mo-
ment a sudden downfall of east ern idolato>
ry and superstition may take place. and then,
if we re ready to enter in, India may
quickly be the Lords.