The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-24

271, and Colorado the smallest, namely, 9. In
local preachers Philadelphia also exoels having
o51; Nevada reports only 9, which is the smallest
number.
The total memb bership reported is I,0s2, 1874 an
increase during the year Ut 1872 025. THIS Is In
exceas Of the plumber we gave last week, the diff
ference arising from the correction OF the report
OF one OF the conferences by the secretary. This
is an increase during the year of over eleven
per cent The number of baptisms stand thus:-
Adults, 4,4l9; children, 35,536; total, S29b5i
being an increase of is, ,269 adults aud z646
cbiluren, or a total increase of baptisms OF
20,0l4. During the year I2,214 members died,
These are not included above. Ii we ada TINS
number to that showing the increase ,se G we aas
united with the Methodist Episcopal Churcn.
The number of churches (houses oil Worsnlpl
is 10, 462 being an increase OF 42O. Cne esumateu
value il $29 694, Goa, an increase OF 81, 6O2.
The number of parsonages is 1914, valued at
So 400 g5S an increase Of III in number aud oil
S24. oh in value. The total value of church edi-
fees and parsonages is $34,0l4,962 being an in
crease of So, ,S67, ,729. ....
The following are the summaries OF the con-
tributions of the principal benevolent causes,
omitting all receipts from legacies:-Conterenc
claimants (worn-out preachers, and widows and
orChaus OF ministers who have died IN the
work), $l07, ,SO239, increare of $l4, 1906 for
Missionary Society," S671 ,090'66, an increase of
S69,026'S3; for Tract Society, $23,349;36, an IN
ereasd of $l026'96; for American Bible Society,
Sl07, ,23S'54, an increase of S5495'l9; for Sunday
School Union, $40, ,S5O'89 an increase OF 1882 a.;
the total contributions for these causes is S929,-
22l'34. This is an increase over the returns OF
1865 of S9l. O73'47.
Total schools, Ia O45. an increase of 90; Off
GERS and teachers, 1872, ,l9l, an increase of s492;
scholars, 9SO,622, an increase OF 4S,69o; vol
umes in library, 2,644,2Sl, an increase OF
leo, 1876.
the volume in October issued a regular edition
of 300, 900 copies, large increase over the pre-
ceong year. ..
The Missouri Synod of the New School
Presbyterians, al their late meeting in st.
Louis, passed resolutions approving the action
of Congress- in resisting the usurpations OF the
Presikent, and indorsing the Constitutional
amendments. TheySatso deprecated the con-
duct of the President in his late journey, and
that of the local officers who received him, as
calculated to introduce Incorporate habits into
the land, TO demoralize our youth, promote
dissipation, and encourage mtemperance."
These clergymen represent the morality and
patrlatism of an immense section.
"A North Carolina paper says that the Rev.
Thomas Tate, the Oldest Presbyterian minister
in that State, died a few weeks since, in his
ninety-fourth year.
AT a late meeting of the Synod of Balti-
more, a Presbytery organized 10y missionaries at
Rio JaneirO was received into connection with
that body.
Unitarian,
"A meeting of delegates from the Unitarian
and Universalist Churches has been held in
Brooklyn, to arrange for a union of the two
bodies. They,invited all Unitarians and UniVer-
salists of the vicinity, and all clergymen who
wish for q better acquaintance, closer fellow
ship, and more efficient cooperation with each
other and between these two denominations.
Union.
THE GENERAL ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA
met last month at Sacramento in the spacious
and pleasant edifce of which DIR. Dwlnell is
pastor. About thirty churches were represented
by body OF able and earnest men, strong
blow was struck for temperance, by the passage
of resolutions against the manufacture and use
Of wine. A step was taken towards the found
ing of a theological seminary for the Pacific
Coast, plan adopted, trustees chosen, and
measures started to procure the first fifty
thousand dollars.
The Christian Union New York is about
| to lay before the public important suggestions
which, 1t is thought, will be received with favor
Missionary.
The General Missionary Committee of The
| NJ. h. Church met in New York CITY Novcmba,
| s. and, after a session of five days, settled the
missionary appropriations for 1867. This wa;
first approved bv the Board" and then "con
Cured in' by the Bishops" who were assembled
lion dollars, of which $40, 900 is for Office eX
penses, and S306,674 for 'foreign missions
including exchange" -...
The American Church Missionary Society
report that for the year just closed thirty-eigh
Missionaries were employed, of whom twelve
were new appointments, and twenty-iour re
commissioned. The receipts were $50, 4l2 3S
and the expenditures, $54 227'62.
Rev. DIR. Cuyler's church, Brooklyn, is nov
| sustaining two mission Chapels among the des
| titute in its neighborhood. The main churcl
is full to ov overfowing, and the two chapels ar
| highly prosper Gus.