Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-07-21
Miscellaneous.

CoNGREGATIoNAL.-At the sixty-fourth
annual meeting of the Massachusetts,
General Convention, the Secretary re-
ported 10000 members of Congregational
Churches in the State; $1,000 Sunday
School pupils thirty ministers dismissed
during the year fifteen died; twenty-one
ordained, and twenty-six installed as pas
tors benevolent contributions from the
churches the past year 1880, 600.
At the General Conference of Maine,
in the last days of juno, the pillow on
which Harriet Newell, the missionary,
r~eclined in death, was exhibited to the au-
dience.
PREsBYTERIAN-The Cumberland Pres
byterian General Assembly had a harmo-
NOUS meeting at 0wensboro, KY, with
one hundred and fifty-six Commissioners
from nearly all the states from Pennsyl-
vania to Texas. All political questions
were ignored by a large vote.
HEsO s0OOssrUn movement - tn9 OIu
School Presbyterian Church continues TO
make progress in Kentucky and Missouri.
The secession party have called a conven-
ton of the members of the party, which
is to meet at Louisville in August.
Mr.. Cyrus Il. Mccormick has endowed a
Professorship in the Union Theological
Seminary, Virginia, by giving $4,000 for
that purpose.
EPIscoPAL.-A Spanish service has
been established in connection with DIR.
Hawks congregation, in University
Place. The book of Common Prayer Is
used, and the preaching is in Spanish, by
Rev. Angel H de Mora
Rev. William Z. Armitsge, Rector of
Christ Church, Detroit, has been unanim-
ously elected Assistant Bishop of Wiscon-
sin.
METHoDIsT.-A great revival is report
ed in the Spring street Methodist Church,
Charleston, South CsrOlina. Two hun
dred have been received into the Church
all colored. The old Bethel Church is
prospecting greatly, and the Wentworth
street Church has received lis on prOba-
ton.
Reports from Methodist ministers in
Charleston, South Carolina, and Jackson
Vile, Florida, indicate little or no SYM
pathy between the white and colored PEG
pie. In a Virgins Conference it was
stated that a well knewn and esteemed
clergyman had been deserted by his peo-
pie because he had accepted aid from a
%NtA AAAoSAQAAAAN DbdAN-
UNITARIAN.-The Western Unitarian
Conference at Bnffalo reports as the re-
suit of the last two years efforts a gain of
twenty-one ministers, seventeen new soci-
cites seven new churches at a cost of
Sll5,0O0, all Of which except $4,000 was
raised in tho West. Three new churches
will be erected this year, costing $50, 600.
They have rrised $4,000 for Antioch Col
lege and $4,000 for missions, fifteen mis-
sion stations established. They have now
forty-four ministers engaged in their
work.
MISCELLANEOUS. - Assistant Bishop
Bedell, of the Episcopal diocese of Ohio.
sailed for Europe in the Arago on the 9TH
inst, accompanied by his wife. He goes
to Switzerland TO recruit his impaired
health.
Rev. DR.. Cox, of St. Louis, n Of the
most prominent and loyal members of the
NJ. E. Church in ST. Louis, is about leav-
ing for San Francisco, where he was trans
ferred by the authorities of his church.
AN Oklahoma Mississippi, paper of a re-
cent date contains the remarkable an
nouncement that "Rev. Matthew Daven-
port, Sen, who, on the 18th day of July |
1866, will be 100 years of age, will on that
day, God willing, preach in the town of
0kalona. He has been a member of the ]
Primitive Church for so years, and n
minister of the gospel nearly as long. He
desires to meet on that occasion the min |
listers of the gospel of every persuasion
Bishop Baker, of the NJ. Z. Church, re-
had an attack of paralysis in Colo
RADIO, which nearly deprived him of his
speech. he was, at last accounts, better, |
but his speech was still effected, and had
only an imperfect use of his limbs
The Bishops of the United Brethren
Church have appointed Friday, August
3lst, q day of fasting and prayer for the
help of God in aiding the missionary eff
orts of the denomination.
The first annual report of the St. Louis
City Missionary Society shows hat there
are 2OO,O OO people in the city, who dwell
in $4,000 houses. Two missionaries have
been employed the past yesr. The report
is strongly In favor of employing female
missionaries. One lady of prodigious
energy made, in the course of the wear.
), s46 visits held 903 religious converse
read the Bible to % persons, read
to 93, prayed with Sc, induced IS
to promise TO attend church, gathered 3O4
children into Sabbath Schools, sold EOS
volumes Of the Scripture, distributed So
l67 pages of tracts, and was rewarded by
10 conversions. The erection Of Il house
If refuge for fallen women is projected.
Church building by individuals seems
o be quite common. The Congregational
Church at Georgetown, Mass, divided
ONE time since, s part Of the members
on account of the peculiar senti-
nents of the pastor, Rev. Charles Beecher.
the seceders was a sister of George
'eabody. That gentlemen has decided to
uild q church for the seeding party as a
to his mother, who was a menu |