The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-28


logical iSemiDary were ordained for special
parish work, or in their respective diocesses.
St Stephens College, Annandale, New York,
laid the cornerstone of a new hall, June l3, DR..
| Francis Vinton officiating.
Rev. II. G. stowell has resigned the rector.
ship Of Trinity Church, Northaeld, Massa-
| chusetts.
Rev. DR.. Edward NJ. Van Deusen, of Utica,
has been elected President of Trinity College,
| Hartford. rr s.H.- nn .gH..-.H
the GREEK CHURCH. A-a
Hitherto it was the practice in Russia that
| when criminal, not a Christian, embraced
| Christianity pending the proceedings taken
| against him, a more lenient sentence than would
otherwise have been given was pronounced.
| This mode of proselytng has now been abolished.
| The MITIGATION OF the punishment of criminals
on religious grounds has been declared inad-
| missible by recent law.
The Russian Government has succeeded in
| raising to the patriarchate of the Armenian
| Church a man devoted to Russian interests. It
| has for years been the policy of Russia to en-
courage the absorption of all the remnants of
| the Eastern Churches into that of Russia. The
whole Georgian Church, and nearly the whole
| of the United Greek Church, has been united
with the Church of Russia, and it is expected
that the union of the Armenian Church will
| soon follow.
JEWISH.
The New York Je,pish Messenger denounces
| the Common Council of that city for donating
property of the city corporation for sectarian
| purposes. ave care not" 1T forclbly remarks,
whether the beneficiary be Catholic, Protest
ant, or Jewish, it is contrary TO the spirit of
republican government to encourage or to
repress sectarian institutions. tits not within
| the scope of the Common Council to give away
the city property for any such purpose. If any
| body OF citizens desire to maintain college or
cognate establishment for the propagation OF
| their peculiar religious views they have no
claim upon municipal assistance"
DIR. Steinhem, a Jewish author of great
| eminence, died at Zurich Switzerland, in his
| seventy-eighth year. In his younger days he
was an eminent physician and medical author
at Altoona. Later in life he retired from the
profession, and travelled about great deal. 1t
was after his retirement that he composed his
| principal classical works connected with Juda.
ism. His love of art was great, and he spent
much of his time in Rome.
Baron Rothschild of Vienna has appropri-
ated the sum of 1000 forins for the benefit of
such poor Jewish families the fathers or brothers
of which should have been called to the Austrian
| army.
LUTHERAN.
| The Third English Lutheran Church. Balti-
| more, has received ffty-eight persons, mainly
from a Bible class held once a week by a
| layman. .H.
| Most of the students in the Lutheran Theo.
| logical School in this city are preparing to
| preach the Gospel in both German and English.
METHODIST.
The Primitive Methodist Conference of Eng
| land met at Chester June 6. The statistics Of
| the Connection exclusive of the Canadian
| Societies. were:-Total members, Isl, ,3O7; in
crease 20O7 deaths, 2178; travelling preachers,
$50; local preachers 1927; class-leaders, 9lO3;
| Connectional chapels, 1892; increase of new
| Correctional chapels, 1856; rented chapels and
rooms, 1888; Sunday Schools, 1886; scholars,
| 227, ,476; teachers, 40, ,203.
| The Mission Rooms are in receipt of the
| Quarterly Report of the New Orleans District of
| the Mississippi Mission Conference, showing an
increase in members of lls0; of probationers
| 81; of churches, l. Increase in value of church
property, $25OO.
The Camp Meeting of the Newark Con.
ference is appointed for August 20, near Morris,
town, n. j., on Speedwell Lake. A great gather.
ing is expected. .......
| "A letter from Southern Methodist minister
describes the state of feeling as quite unfriendly
| to Northern laborers in The churches. Many
| instances are given OF malicious interference
! with worship. '....
Philip EmburY and Barbara Heck were the
| only Methodists in America one hundred years
ago. Now there are twenty bishops, seventeen
thousand ministers, twenty-seven thousand local
preachers, Sunday School teachers, etc., two
million communicates, nineteen thousand
churches, two hundred colleges ana acade.
mics, and twenty bookstores. These figures
show to what mighty power Methodism has
grown in one hundred years.
Mr. Redtord, book agent of the NJ. E. Church
South, announces that in conducting his busi-
ness he must confne himself to the cash system.
| The Massachusetts Legislature has appointed
| Rev. Henry W. Warren of the New England NJ.
| E. Conference, to deliver the next annual elec-
ton sermon before that body.
Bishop Baker, after reaching Denver City, en-
route TO attend the Pacific Conferences, became
so i'll as to render it important to return at once
| to his home in the East.
The African Methodist Episcopal Church has
been in existence fifty years. 1t embraces ten
annual conferences, four bishops, two hundred
travelling preachers, and $4,000 members. They
| own two hundred and eighty-six churches, have
thirty nine circuits, forty missions, and fifty
stations. Their Sunday School scholars and
teachers number 2l,OOO, and they have over