The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-25
congregational.

his residence IN the West. He was one of what
is called the New Haven company of young
preachers who went to Illinois in 1886. The
territory OF Iowa was organized in 1885, and
the next year Turner crossed the river and
planted his standard in the town of Denmark.
In lS4O he had formed three churches, with
pastors, and an aggregate of one hundred
and ten members. At the end of the
first decade they had increased to forty-eight
churches, with 1904 members; and in 1860 to
one hundred and ffty-one churches, with above
five thousand church members. They have
formed themselves into eleven associations, one
OF which is for German and .one for Welsh
churches. Their benevolent contributions last
year we're $l2 40S. In 1912 they began to agitate
for a college, and in 1S4S commenced instruction
in Iowa College, at Davenport. Owing to
various difficulties the College was removed to
Grinnell. In September, 1859, instruction,
which had been suspended for a time, was
resumed, and the catalogue of 1866 records a
faculty consisting OF president, five pro-
fessors, principal of the ladies' department,
three stated lecturers and two hundred and
ten pupils in all the departments. At the
present time measures are in very successful
progress to give the College liberal endowment.
The new Congregations Church at Wash
ington, ID. o.. Rev. DIR. @. b. BoYnton, pastor.
has recently broken ground for its new edihce
on the.corner of Tenth street, near the Patent
Office. The location is high and eligible, and
the buildings to be about eighty-hve by one
hundred and fifty feet on the ground, including
lecture-room. 1t is to be Of stone, and will cost
about 500, 600. The membership is small, con-
sisting largely of Government employees, but the
enterprise is well backed up by the hberality of
the denomination throughout the country. DIR.
Boynton is not only truly earnest and evan
gelical preacher, but eminently sound and out
spoken on the great questions that are now agi-
tating the country This congregation furnishes
another rallying-point for the liberal and pro-
gressve moral opinion of the capital, the en-
couragement of which is of vast importance to
the nation at large, we'll as to that particular
locality. Yet, says the Eudngeicdt Messenger,
''there is danger that the Congregationalists
will fall behind all others at Washington. The
work of church building is being rapidly pushed
forward at this time by various sister denomina-
tons in the Federal city. The Lutherans are
in the act OF erecting church that Will cost
$4,000; the Baptists have nearly completed one
costing Sl00,0 and one man has paid it all.
The Wesley Chapel Society is making efforts to
secure $500, 900 in order to erect Metropoli-
tan Church. The Episcopalians and Roman
Catholics are also moving in the same direction"
OF the 51G members of the late National
Congregational Council, AL were born in New
England, and the fathers and mothers OF nearly
all the rest were born ir New England; and yet
the council was gathered from 25 different StateS
and Territories.
The First Church in New Haven, Connec-
ticut, has raised $4,000 to be invested for the
benefit of its retiring pastor, Rev. DR.. Bacon,
bcsidee which they propose to pay him an an
nuity OF $1,000.
The number of Congregational churches in
Michigan have been increased the past year by
ten or eleven. notwithstanding the loss of one
or two by death or transfer.
Rev. Silas McKeen, DID,, has closed his
pastorate with the Congregational church at
Bradford, Vermont, after a ministry of fifty-tWo
years.
EpIscopalian.
AT the call OF the Bishop several gentlemen
interested in the erection of church at Allan
tic City met at the Mansion House Hotel on
Thursday, August 0. The meeting was opened
with prayer by the Bishop, and after the APP
polntment of secretary, o full and free inter
change OF opinion was had on the subject Of the
erection OF church building. The decision was
unanimous as to the necessity of the proposed
building, and the importance of collecting
funds, so that the good work might proceed
without delay. An executive committee, con-
sisting OF twelve gentlemen, was appointed for
the purpose of collecting tunds and the Bishop
was requested to prepare an appeal in behalf of
the object.
The Northampton (Mass.) Free Press says
that the Right Rev. +. ID. Huntingdon, D. D.,
Bishop elect of Maine, NAV fairly be considered
as belonging to the Church Militant. On Friday
morning he despatched, on Mount Holyoke, a
rattIesnake over four feet IN length and eight
inches in circumference, the snake beng coiled
under the feet of his horse ready to spring, when
discovered A portion Of the rattleS were lost
in the conflict, making it impossible to state the
age. DR.. Huntington says, however, that he
has been engaged in warfare with ''the old
serpent all his life, and he thinks he has fairly
got him this time.
Bishop McIlvaine has heard from Bishop
Bedell, under date OF July 10. He was then on
the coast of England, expecting to arrive at
Falmouth that night. The voyage had been
very calm and agreeable. He says:-''My throat
still remains weak and occasionally painful, for
bidding eXertion and preventing any freedom of
use in conversation.n He expected TO be in
Paris before the Sunday following date, and
thence to go at once to the mountain air OF
Switzerland. Mrs. Bedell continued quite feeble,
but seemed little improved by the voyage.
During the tenth quarterly session of the
SChuylklll and Lehigh Convention, held re-
Gently, Grace Church, Allentown, Pa, was con-
seCrated by Bishop Potter, of New York, and
the nerstone of another new church was laid
at Allentown Furnace, by the Rev. e. n. Potter,
of South Bethlehem
Bishop McIlvaine of Ohio. reports for the
last year $50 candidates confirmed by himself,
and 287 by Bishop Bedell making in all 1876.
Six admitted to the order OF deacons, and four
presbyters. He laments the small number of
candidates coming forward to the ministry.
The Journal of Convention furnishes the
following summary of the statistics of the
diocese OF Vermont:-Families, 1923; Indi-
viduals, ,5498; Baptisms (adults AZ, infants 1917,
1885, Confirmed, 73; Communications, 2399; Sun
day scholars ll90.
The Bishop of Michigan, in his annual ad-
dress records larger amount OF work than in
any former year. He reports the whole number
confirmed in forty-two parishes and seven other
places at ISL.
The Rev. Francis d. Hoskins, having re-
signed the change of Grace Church, Honesdae,
has accepted the rectorship of Christ Church,
Towanda, in this State.
w. H. Milburn the celebrated blind
preacher, has accepted a call to the temporary
rectorship OF the Trinity (Episcopal) Church in
Chicago.
mi MI.