Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-07-22
Personal and Ministerial.

Personal and AIInIsterIaI.
The Rev. E. D. Miller, well known
in and about Dayton, is said to be SICK
and destitute, at Fort Wayne, Ind.
A gentleman in Yonkers, N. Y, Is
building 100000 Baptist Church as
q memorial to his deceased wife.
Forty-four persons were received
into full membership at the Pearl Street
NJ. E. Church, Richmond, Ind, on the
5th inst.
The Rev. ]. W. Tilford, formerly 3
missionary in China, has accepted q
call from the Baptist Church in Hamil-
ton, Ohio.
The Rev. A. I. II. Bernal, learned
Jewish rabbi, died at Louisville on the
8th inst, aged &c. He was native of
Jamaica, and had lived in the United
States about twenty years.
The Rev. George T. Day. editor of
the Morning Star, organ Of the Free
VIII Baptist Church. has received the
honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity
from Hillsdale College, Mich.
The Rev. Mr.. B. B. Smith and wife
from the Freewill Baptist Society, and
Miss Mary N. Wilson from the Wo-
mans Union Missionary Society, sailed
for Calcutta from Boston on the 9th.
The Rev. W. NJ. Blackburn has de.
cided to accept the Professorsbip of
Church History in the Presbyterian
Theological Seminary of the Northwest,
to which he was elected by the last
General Assembly.
We learn from the Montana Demo
crat, of June 20, that Bishop Tuttle,
recently elected to the Bishopric OF
Missouri, was then in Virginia City,
and had not yet determined upon
accepting the charge conferred upon
hlm.
The Rev. W. II. Punshon has arIan-
ged for a home in Toronto during his
residence in America. A pleasant
residence on Bond street in that city
has been secured for him. Mr.. PUNISH
on is TO spend two or three years in
Canada.
Bishop Scott, Rev. DR.. E. Thomas
and Rev. ]. B.. Hill, all Of the NJ. E.
Church, sailed for the Pacific Coast by
the California steamer on the 9th.
Bishop Scott hopes to reach Oregon in
time for the Conference session, which
opens at Salem August, l.
There is a scarcity of Baptist candi.
dates for the ministry in all the four
classes of the nine Northern colleges,
chiefly or wholly under Baptist control.
There are l9l candidates for the Bap-
tist ministry. and in the seven Baptist
Theological Seminaries, l62 students.
The English Government is about to
abandon its opposition to the consecra-
ton of new bishop for the diocese OF
DR.. Colenso. The Bishop of Capetown
has satisfied the Ministry that there is
no intention to interfere with any
rights which DIR. Colenso may pos
sess in virtue of his appointment, and
that the new bishop will exercise epis-
copal functions only over those who
prefer submitting to his authority to re-
main in connection with Colenso.
The Trustees of the Protestant
Episcopal General Theological Semina-
ry, at New York. have received from
Miss Ludlow, of New York, o gift Of
S25, 900, to be named. from her de-
parted parents, "The Charles and Ellis
abeth Ludlow Professorship of Eccle-
sisstical Polity and Canon Law"
In France there are about eight
hundred Protestant Sunday Schools
with about forty thousand scholars
The Empress recently presented ban
ner and silver medal to the Sunday
School Union. These were displayed
at the annual festival of the Sunday
School scholars held in Paris.
The Rev. Lewis +. Matson, pastor of
the Plymouth Congregational Church
at Chicago, died at Lyons, France, on
the 2lst ult., aged %. He had gone
to Europe in the vain hope Of getting
better Of disease Of the lungs, which
finally carried him away. His death
was painless and peaceful.
The Rev. Henry B. Ellsworth, who
succeeded Rev. II. D. Moore, of Cincin-
natl, as pastor Of the Plymouth Church,
Pittsburgh, has resigned, and accepted
an invitation from the Second Presby-
terisn (Dr. Howard's), to serve there
as supply for several months, owing
to the continued indisposition of DR.. H.
The late General Abtah Thompson,
of Woburn, Massachusetts, gave to the
American Bible Society, 81, 900; TO the
Home Missionary Society, $1,000 =
Warren Academy, $4,000; town of
Woburn, for cemetery, 5ssi - Inigp First
Congregational Church o. oburn,
81 900, to be expended for - poor
and for Sabbath School books.
The death is announced of the Rev.
DR.. Vaughan, one of the leading men,
bers of the Congregational body in
England, and formerly Professor of
History in the University of London.
DIR. Vaughn was an author of consid-
cradle repute, his writings being of a
miscellaneous character; but he has
contributed largely to the written his.
tory of nonconformity in England, and
his labors in connection with the Brit
ish Quarterly Review are also well
known. DR.. Vaughan was upward Of
seventy years of age.
The Rev. W. F. Broddus, D. D., of
Charlottesville, Va, who has. devoted
fifty years to the work of the ministry,
has resigned the psstorate Of the Char
louisville Baptist Church, in order TO
engage in the collection of funds for
the education of the children of de-
ceased and disabled Confederate SOL
diers. During the past two years he
has had under instruction, IN different
portions of Virginia, more than FIVE
hundred of these unfortunate children.
The Central Christian Advocate
states that the venerable DR.. Charles
Elliott, ex-President of the Iowa Wes-
leyan University, was able to be pres
ent at the late commencement exer-
cises of that Institution, and, support
ed by the President, DR.. Holmes, and
Prof. Burnes, ascended the platform
and made q short and most affecting
address. He continues to write as far
as his strength will permit, is deeply
interested in the work Of the church,
but daily awaits his call to another
world.
The address of Brigham Young at
the funeral of Heber c Kimball is q
novelty in its way. The sentences are
terse, short, and to the purpose. Brig
ba,,, Un,,v,,, savo that he haI Lnovn