Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-08-07


with his literary earnings, his income is Sl2,-
600. E. H. Chaplin has 81, 900 per annum.
and makes as much more by lecturing. DR..
Bethune has 50 800, but Is the possessor of a
fortune outside of his professional earnings.
DR.. Adams has $4,000. and rich wife. Dir.
Hawks has S6,000 year and house. DR..
Taylor, of Grace Church. has $40, 900, and
line parsonage adjacent to the Church. Rev.
Drs. Tying, Bellows Osgood, Cheever and
other Leading clergymen, receive from So, 600
to $4,000 per annum. What Of it Is it
any more than the income of men of equal
ability among their Pensioners
A writer in the Congregational Herald,
cautions ministers and churches in the North
west, against Mr.. Strowbridge, who repre-
SCENTS himself as a congregational minister.
but is an imposter.
Some weeks since the Congregational church
IN Concord. at the suggestion of their pastor,
Rev l.. ii. Angler, sent a delegate to the
council called to install Rev. Mr.. REYNOLDS
over the Unitarian church in the same village.
In communication of considerable lenpth
printed in the Recorder last week, Mr.. An
gier says that he ''put it entirely on the
ground OF Christian courtesy, and not of theo-
logical fellowship"
The Rev. jeremiah Atwater died at his resi-
dence in New Haven last week on Thursday,
at the advanced age of 81 years He was a
native of New Haven, and graduated at Yale
in 1893, was tutor at Yale, and afterwards
President of Middlebury College, VT, and
Dickinson College, Pa.
In Scranton, Pa, the Presbyterian Church
was nearly doubled in numbers at a recent
communion-ninety uniting by profession;
more than fifty of them heads of families.
Minister'S and Deacons Meeting. held
at Lewis Fork, Wilkes county, N c., has
decided that feet-w washing is a church ordin-
ance, and should be practiced as such.
man who was formerly a Congregational
pastor in Vermont, walked two hundred miles
to meet an association of his brethren at Du-
buque, Iowa, lately. A correspondent of the
Independent says: Gan were deeply affected
by this brothers account of the burial of his
wife last fall, himself performing the service,
no other minister being within forty miles,
and his children singing their mothers fune-
raj hymn"
Not long since the Bishop of Delaware
held confirmation in old Trinity church,
formerly SwedesD Wilmington, being the
first time the rite had been administered
there for fortY gears. On this occasion u
venerable lady was present who had received
the laying on of hands from Bishop White in
the year 1893, iu the same place and roth
er who had been confirmed there by Bishop
Claggett in 1908.
Twenty two persons were received into the
First Baptist Church in Beverly last Sabbath.
nine of whom were baptized on the morning
OF that day, and nine on the preceding Sab
bath. The whole number added to the
church since the first Sabbath in June is eigh
tLy-four, and forty-fve of them are heads of
families.
A new Congregational church of fourteen
members was organized at Hammond, Wis.
July 7th-the sixth of this denomination Or
ganized in that vicinity within year Rev.
George Spauldipg is pastor.
During the past year the Rev. DR.. Bush
nell of Hartford has been able to preach lint
once on the Sabbath, aud the church has cho-
cen to hold but one preaching service, occu-
pyIng the afternoon with Sabbath school ex.
ercises, which have been closed BY short
address from DR.. B. in application of the les.
son.
AT the meeting Of the Association of Con-
gregauonal Ministers Of Eastern Kanzas. con-
vened at Topeka June 18th, the reports from
the several fields of labor, embracing terri
Tory OF sixty miles square, were encouraging.
The action of the Tract Society at it's late nm
was voted to recommend to the churches to
withhold their funds so long as il maintains
its present position.
The following missionaries sailed from Bos-
ton, TOR Smyrna, in the barque Henry Hill.
on Monday last Rev. DR.. e Riggs Mrs,
Riggs, with their children, Misses EGlzabetb
Margaret, and Emma, and Masters Edward
Jameo, and Charles Rev. Daniel Ladd. and
Mrs' Ladd, with two children, Miss c. K.
Ladd, and Mr.. H. NJ. Ladd; Miss Mary
Loveland, and Rev. I. L. Ambrose. Dr.
riggs is to be connected with the Armenian
MISSION at Constantinople. Rev. Mr.. ladd
returns to his former station at SMYRNA. Mr..
Ambrose will labor among the Mountain Mes
torlans. The usual embarkation seryiees were
held. Dr. White, President of Wabusb Col.
lege, officiating on the occasion.
Miss Calista Vinton, daughter of the late
Rev DR.. Vinton, Baptist missionary in India
is now on her way to Bnrmah. TO ioin her
mother in the missionary work. Deeply in.
terestlnS tareN ell services were held one evp.
nlng last week at the fremont Bantist
church, Roxbury collection of over five
nundrea dollars was taken for the missjona-
res and the day but one following, Mr.. and
MIS- Harris and Miss Vinton sailed from Bos-
ton.
=, me last arrival from Europe brings news
that revolutionary movement has broken
Gut against the Christian population of SYRIA,
1t is said that Tripoi and Latkia are in a state
Oh lnsurrecton' In Gambia the Christians
nave either barricaded themselves or taker
fight. Va ''N'H
Inc hrst Congregational church in Illinois,
was organized at Mardon IN 1888, consisting
OF eighteen members now there are one
hundred and sixty churches and one hundred
ana twenty Congregational ministers. These
are manly north of the center of the state,
Some excitement has been created in cir.
cieS IN London, by the attempt of the rector
Oh beisrava Episcopal Parish, in that city.
70 introduce the confessional into his church.
an Indignation meeting was held-at which
many members of the House of Lords were
present. The unlucky clergyman who had
Bishop of London.
Brighton MarkeI-Aug. s, 1853.