The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-29

duu says lndl ''o name OF the Rev. Dr. hlCltln
tock VIII occupy prominent place In the
programme, and will command an interest
second only to that of the distinguished Primer
pal whose inaugural address will constitute the
erand attraction of the opening seryices.n Dr.
ElcChntock is spending n brief holiday in 81.
Johns, New Brunswick,
The Rev. James Lynch, Presiding Elder Of
the JACKSON District Mississippi Conference,
writes that eleven of the fourteen charges in
his district have added to their membership
from nineteen to two hundred members each.
and the increase in Mississippi since December
may be set down at eighteen hundred.
The venerable Peter Cartwright, after an
active service of sixtytour years, is now
reported as seriously failing in health. He is
now Presiding Elder (hs forty ninth year in
that oflice) of the Pleasant Plains District,
Illinois Conference.
-z,ons Herald says that man by the name
OF Tourtclatc has purchased the land surround
ing the colored Methodist church i'm Springfield,
Mass. and has surrounded the church with a
black fence as high as the caves.
Bishop Paine, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, whose health has been very
feeble ior some time past, Is now recovering.
EPISCOPAL.
"A meeting was held at the rooms OF the s. P.
G., in Louoon, on July 20, ia aid OF the Bishop
OF Capetown and of the speedy consecratiOu OF
Mr.. haCrOrie. On motion of ArChdeaCOn Deni-
son, a home association was formed, with Earl
Nelson as chairman, to raise funds for the sup
port of the new bishop, and also for the use of
the church in Capetuwn. 1t transpired that the
Colonial Secretary had offered to issue man
GATE Tor the COnsCCrGtlOn OF Mr.. MacrOrG two
months ago, in order to relieve Bishop Gray and
others from the penalties of DTBn,uRiTe. The
Arch bishop of Canterbury, who IS now on the
Continent had been applied to to commission
two o. his suflraoans to join with the Bishop of
Capetown in ConsecratDg Mr.. MaCrOrie ii the
ceremony could be legally performed in Eug-
land. Bishop Gray announced at the meeting
that he proposed TO leave Tor South Africa on
September 9.
Having drawn the people to a show, the
Rtuallst, cannot keep the crowd when the sho "
is over. At Trinity Church, New York, as soon
as the hymn Is given out preparatory 20 the
sermon, the crowd begin 10 dispeTse amid great
confusion, thinning the house out to such an
extent as 10 shD Nv what the mass come for. At
81. Adams men are posted at the door to keep
people in. Notices are hung up all around for
bidding people from disturbing the CUngrega-
tion 10y 20 ng out. All effort is useless. People
crowd the chapel, cape and stare, stand on tlp.
toe, get up on the seaJs. as irreverent company
as can be found in the State; and when the novel
periormal ces close, and the sermon comes on,
out the curious rush. Presbyterian.
The John BuH of August lot says, that the
last act OF the Archbishop OF Canterbury, before
SITTING out for the Con inent. was to write to
the Queens Advocate, hls Vicar. General, eX-
pressing his desire that arrangements might be
made for the cousecration OF a new bishop for
The Rev. Il. W. Oliver is appointed Dean
Of the Divinity department Of Nebraska College
"A Protestant Episcopal institution al Nebraska
City, Nebraska.
it is stated that Bishop Tuttle has formally
declined the Episcopale of Missouri, and that
the choice OF q Bishop will not be made until
after the session Of the General Convention.
PRESBYTERIAN.
The question Is being discussed whether the
Church OF Scotland is not, like that OF England
now the reprCst ntatvC ol a minority of the
| people. writer goes over all the available
stati5tiCs-prisOn, marriage, education and wor.
ship-ard concludes that the worshippers out
side OF the establishment are double those withiT
! IT, EXTENDING the analysis, and comparing The
! Establishment OF Scotland, not with the whole
! body of Protestant worshippers, but with single
| denominations, 1t appears that III the 6tty.thret
| cities, towns, aud burg of Scotland, the Ere,
thurch, WorshPPers Predomtnate in twenty
seven, the United Presbyterian Church in fifteen
and the Establishment only in eleven. In re
| gard 10 the counties again (hTty three il
number), il is found that the Establishment ha
the majority in fourteen lin four of them tn
| predOnluance is very smalD. Tho Free ChurCl
| predOminates In twelve, and the United PrGsDy
| terian Church i'll seven.
The largest aCCcsSions on examination re
ported in the last minutes of the New SchOo
Pres byterian Church are:-Kensngton church
this city, 100; Central church, Rochester, SS
Easton, Missouri, So; Lebanon, Illinois (Germa1
churcb), So Fourth Avenue church, New York
n: Spring Street church, New York, "; ThiI
teenth Street church. New York, II; Madison
square church. New York, 6s; Ridgebury, Ney
York, G6; Trenton, illinois German church,
65; Eleventh church. New York, 65; Firs
church, Brooklyn, G4; Tabor church, thi
city, 60; Port Jervis, New York, 50; Lyons
81; Third church, this city, 81: Bfockport Nev
York, So; Delphi, Indiana 81; Bevdere Second
New Jersey, 53; Victor, New York, 81. Thi
makes an aggregate of 1882 accessions to
churches.
The Second Presbyterian Church of Ne1
Albany, Indiana, having been thoroughly Tt
paired and painted, upholstered, and complete
in most beautiful and substantial manner, wa
reopened for regular sabbath services on til
morning of the 9th instaLt, when the attendanc
was very large.
The Rev. John Mcleod of Newport, Nov
Scotia, has been called by the United Presby
terian Church of East Boston. in the B0st0
Presbytery, to become ITS pastor 1t is nc
known yet whether he will accept
LUTHERAN.
The Rev. Dr. Valertn has yielded TO tn
| renewed unanimous request OF the Board
Trustees of Pennsylvania College at Getty,
burg, Pennsy lVanla, and formally accepts tn
Presidency OF the College. Th!s creates
vacancy in the Seminary Faculty, which wi
PROBABLY be h!led by he election OF anOthe
Professor IN that Institution at special meet
ilg of the Drec' ors, TO be called in II few weeks
In consequence of the generous bequest c
the late Mr., Davis Pierson, the Boa d determine
20 establish new Proiessorshp, to be know
as the PIersOn PIoiussOrship OF the Gree
Language ana Literature" and Rev. H
BaUgher OF Indianapolis, Indiana, unanimOusl
elected as the Incumbent.
A ieT weeks ago, at meeting of the Wis
COnsin Synod, which forms an integral part
the General Council and fully sympathze
with Ohio and Iowa, at Fort Wayne, athoue
not 10 the extent Of Withdrawing from Tn
Council, formally and sOemny declared itse
in favor OF close communion and non-eXchang
OF pulpiis, as in accordance with the dOCuiu
and practice OF the Lutheran Church. In cor
sequence of this action, two OF its minister
withdrew from its synod
BAPTIST.