New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-27
RELIGIOUS

AELIGIOICs
The Philadelphia Christ Church Endowment
Fund already amounts TO $4,000.
A Methodist layman convention Is to be held
IN Watkins, y. Y, on the Sd Of January
The NJ. f. Church at Canton, Pa, is to be
dedicated on the second Thursday IN January.
BsbOp ID. W. Clark of Cincinnati has been
made the recipient of a certificate Of deposit for $500
The Rev Henry b. Ellsworth has been or
daned and installed pastor Of Plymouth Church IN Pits
burgh.
Mex Sunday week the Hanson place NJ. I.
Church, Brooklyn, vii sOlemnze the completion of us
1irst decade.
The steeple Of the WeedspOrt N.Y.) Presby-
tersn Church fen on the evening Of Dec but 10 one
DIR. VIM. R. Dewitt of the First Church,
Hauisburgh closed long, useful and honoIed LIE on
Monday morning.
Dr. Cobalt, Bishop of Jerusalem, recently adj
mnstcrCd the rite Of confirmation III the English Church
AT Amsterdam, Holland.
The Rev. DR.. Eells and the Rev. Z. B. Walls
worth are TO edt religious weekly newspaper 81! eo INC
Occideiit at San Francisco.
The North Broad-st. Presbyterian Church
philadelphia has called Prot. r. H. Mather OF Amherst
College at a salary Of 5000
The chapel of the Grace VI. T. Church, Port
Richmond Staten Island. the Rev A. H. Mead, Pastor
Is 10 be dedicated on sunday next
The NeC- York Observer thinks that the employ
Of OpeFangers in chuTclchoiIs s fOr the pleasure
Of the people and not for the glory Of God
The anniversary service of the Missionary So
ccty OF the NJ T. tuulch is 70 Ot uelQ IN Albany inc
10th and 9th Of January. GOV Ienton Will preside.
The LawTenceburg Qnd.) Presbyterian Church,
where Henry Ward BeechSr preached the rs two years
Of his pastoTae and which is Sc years Old has just re-
ceived q 500 worth Of repairs
The pastor of wealthy Cincinnati church re-
Gently resigned his charge on the ground that Cncin
his church was likely to become failure.
Senator Patterson of New Hampshire has intro
duCed into the Senate motion 70 incorporate the New
Jerusalem Society Of Washington aud to erect church
and parsonage not exceeding 100000 in value.
The Examiner and Chronicle thinks that. in
enough to DO without desiring to purchase Cuba and
Porto Rico under the plea Of extending abolition.
In Lexington Presbytery, Mo-, a neat meet
testifes the wonderful changes that have recently
taken place on praiueland. The place was wilderness
six months ago.
To accommodate the increasing population of
Washington Nights, the Church Of the ntercesson Of
New York City has bought y lots Of ground for $4,000
ffty-second.st. and Eleyenthaye.
A Presbyterian Union Convention is projected
Tor "Wednesday Jan ~ TO convene al p M ia the Pres
counties Of Riclland Ashland, Wayne, Holmes stark,
Tuscarawas, Carroll, and Coiumbaua.
1t is proposed to hold Presbyterian Conven-
ton IN sieu0enyllle ONO in January for PRAYER and
IN the United Presbyterian Church in steubenve
on Wednesday, the 18th, al o'clock a. N.
The property, bought one year ago by Amos
Phillips Tor the Ladies Union Aid Society Of the NJ +.
being announced by that gentleman the formal open
ing OF the Temporary Home, Tenth and POplarsts. Pima
The Wayland Seminary for colored preach
eTs, al Washington has been established about a year
S me It OF les Ja1uoy tne walls Of the new house
tended.
The thirty-fOu subscription anniversary of
Boston Horticultural Hall Wednesday, Jan. o. The
object is to enable the American Antavery Society TO
continue its operations through the publication me
bcti0nai 4 ntt SaUery Standard
Since the resignation Of President Mclean Of
Princeton College, the names OF Prof Joseph Henry,
Ii D., Of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington;
the Pew Dr. Awaer Professor OF Metaphysics Of Prince
tOn the Rev Dr. Kirk Of Boston; the Rev. DR.. McCOsh
Of Dublin Ireland, have been mentioned, but without
authority, for the succession
The Corresponding Secretaries Of the Baptist
Home Mission announce that during the Society year
eDdDg March 81 1861, the Home Missionaries built
% Io SIeIy ~ gay Oh tLne Or
JOr each a. the % sabbaths OF the year.
JAe Christian InteHigencer says that The
pest that IT'S infancy spent In the cradle Of wbr
reduced 10 narasuus by scanfy fare that Mr. Beecher
gave first emetcs and then auoculent herbs and that
charge Mr. Bsecher placed IT,
1R1ee Methodist meeting houses are soon 10
be dedicated IN the Newark District That al Mount
me st Of January The basement OF the new eddce
a. Raaes IS TO ae dedicated on THURSDAY next Atstan
opened VIA appropriate services also ThursdayDext
VIII take part IN the dedicat0Ty exercises
At the Newark residence of the Rev. and
Mrs f. A. Osborne, their children and grandchildren az
sembled, Christmas Eve % celebrate the Old folks
nfeth marriage anniversary After few autObiograph
ica rtmarks Nj Osborne said that 40 the commencement
OF bis married and ministerial life the SabbahschOO and
FOreiga Mission work was at low ebb little nothing
was done for the suppression OF drunkenness and slavery
was triumphant lie then briefly and brightly cOntTastad
the apathy Of half century with the energy Of To-
day, ana one OF his sons, presenting him Welnlled
purse mace happy response
The following is the bill Of assignment for
the next session Of the Bridgeport District Preachers
Meeting, 10 be held In the Second NJ T. Church Of
walk January 20 2, and 2: l. Sermon. Monday
evening by j. j. Abbott Tuesday evening by George
stilnan. q Review, by z. H. Platt Of The Reign on
Law" g. Review by w r. Collins Of Liber Librorum"
= Essay, by T. simmons, on 1.-THE Race It's Origin aud
Antiquity addresses on the same topic by W. IL Warde
end j. Pullman s. Essay, by s. H. Bray, on Want of
Discipline IN the NJ. T. Church," addresses on the same
tope by W stebbns and ". r. Webster G. Essay, by
Mead, on The Presiding Eidership; jus Necessity and
k1abaTrssspents" Address, BY W, /, I'LL on Minis