The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-27
THE RELIGIOUS UsWORLD


Baptist.
Rev. r. g. Seymour has returned from New
orleans, with the tidings that the Crescent City
Baptist Church, OF which he was pastor and for
whose new meeting house be had made earnest
efforts to. obtain Northern subscriptions, has
been dsbapded. He says:-"As New Orleans
has ceased to be aclty where loyal Union people
can 1--we In safety, and have the freedom OF loyal
speech, there IS little hope for such a church as
was contemplated"
Christians.
The General Conference OF this body, usually
called Christian, held its Qua irenna Conven-
non az Marshall, Michigan, on the I'd instant.
Thirty-our Conferences in the United States
and Canada we're represented. Abont $4,000
were reported as pledged towards theological
seminary.
Congrcgationalist.
The General Association of New York met
at 0wego last week. 1t reported the number of
its churches in the State at 230 with member
ship ol 23,0O0 and numerous revivals of religion
during the past year. The vote in favor of i'm
partial suffrage was cordially adopted.
-Connecticut has fifteen Ministerial Associa-
tlons, and 3l4 resident ministers. The contri
buttons of the churches last year we're $257, l64,
an average OF $5.O5 to each church member,
though, of course, many who are not church
members contributed.
Rev. Thomas Easton was dismissed by
ecclesiastical council from the Congregational
Cnurch, south Glastonbury, Conn.,, October g.. Il
Rev. G. b. Boyuton has been installed as
Pastor of the new CONGREGATIONAL Church in
washington, the cornerstone of which was laid
last week. u = II q
The President has appointed Rev. John
Seys, OF Ohio to be Minister Resident and Con-
sui General of the United States to the republic
of LIBERIA
President Finney, of Oberlin College, Ohio,
has SO far recovered his strength as to preach
twice on the Sabbath H. is still felt there to
be spiritual giant. Though not now acting as
President, he still fills the chair of pastoral
theology and poemics
The tenth annual meeting of the General
Conference OF Minnesota was held last week at
Failibaut. Rev. A. B. Smith, OF Sonth Barry,
Conneclicut preached the opening sermon, Mr..
j. W. Copp was chosen Moderator The great
event of. the meeting was the locating of the
Puritan College for that rising State. COM
mittee of last year-Rev. r. Hall, Home Mis-.
sionary agent, as chalrnan-repOrted PROPOSALS
from five places, and recommended Northield,
which pledged Sl8,500 iu cash. After full
canvass of the case, this nomination was con.
tirmed by a rising vote. The name is to be
North6eld College; two-thirds ofthe trustees are
always to be Congregatlonasts. Resolutions
commencing the WORK among the freedmen, and
giving the ring of loyal and patriotic metal
not neglecting to endorse negro suffrage, were
adopted.
Episcopal.
Five American Episcopal Bishops are now
in Europe, seeking health.
Bishop Whppe states that be has been in
Minnesota seven years, and has seen much of
the Indians there, of whom there are about
l8,CO0. He gives them credit for many virtues
except In districts corrupted by the whites.
Bishop Clark has resigned the rectorship of
Grace Churcn, Providence, r. |.
Bishop Randall of Colorado, arrived in
Boston from his diocese recently. He is not
likely to return to that Territory till spring. and
before that time, Il ls sad, he may be called to
the vacant bishopric In Maine.
Mr.. Clark B. Oakley, late graduate Of
Rochester U niversity and Hamilton Thcologi-
cal Seminary, accepts the call OF the Exon
Church, OF til city.
Rev. Daniel s. Tuttle has been unanimously
appointed, by the House of Bishops of the Pro-
testant Episcopal Church, Bishop of the new
Diocese ofMontana and Nevada.
The London correspondent of the American
PRESBYTERIAN says:-
IA general expectation prevails among the
clergy OF the Established Church that the per-
sonaI advent OF the Lord Jesus Is near at hand,
and that all things must grow worse and worse
till he comes; and, therefore, they acquiesce in
things as they are,' almost Without murmur,"
+e German Reformed.
"A German Reformed paper states that th }
most urgent want of the Church just now
ministers. The statistical reports OF the Church
for the last gear sho a total of 372 ministers
and 5l73 additions by combinations, being a n
average of a fraction less than eleven for each
minister.
"A centenary collection at Canton, Ohio, On
the 4th irstan+, amounted to $4,000.
cate suggests that the word "Methodistr b
dropped from the name of the Southern Metho.
dist Church, and that the name of Evangelical
Episcopal Church" be substituted, on the ground
that the Northern Methodist Church has made
the name of Methodism odious by running a
political machine under that once honorable
designation. Anything partaking of the nature
of loyalty has, unfortunately, an 'odiousp aspect
in the ewes of a certain class in the late Con-
federate States. The Methodist Church South is
perhaps more sensitive on the ''odio us' Question
than any other body collection, or class of men
south oil the Potomac.
Rev. Robert Wallace, delegate from the Irish
Conference to the Methodlsts ofthe United States
died OF cholera in Cincinnati, on Sabbath morn
ing, the I'd ult.
AT the Preachers Meeting, held in this city
few days since, Bishop Simpson advocated the
endowment of Dickinson College, and proposed
to divide the city into ten sections each 10 raise
$4,000. The system was approved Of, and Messrs
j. W. Jackson, r. II. Nadal A. Wallace, A.
Goodman, j. B. MadduX, l.. G. Matlack, w, j.
Paxscn, G. w. Lybrand, and @. F. Turner were
appointed to perfect the plan proposed.
AT the meeting of the Illinois Conference,
held recently in Bloomington, Major Briscoe
enrolled In the "Grand Army of the Republic"
the names OF about hfty ministers who had
been in the service, which, with fifteen unen.
tered, makes up nearly one-third of the travel
ling preachers OF the Conference-shoWinc the
patriotic metal of the Conference Encouraging
reports were received as to the condition OF the
literary institutions, Marshall and Quincy Col
leges, the Ladies' Seminary at Jacksonville and
tie Wesleyan University. The contributions to
the latter during the year amount to $4,000.
of the work of the Methodist Episcopa
Church in Missouri and Arkansas the OeRtTa
Christian AdUOcGte says:-
''No part of our great field promised more
than this two years ago, and the results have