The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-19
BAPTIST.

| Baptist Association of Rhode Island, the folio w.
Ing resolution was presented by Heman Lincoln,
ID. D.:-
Wheegs. The Warren Association has from its
with Christmas Of every name It. accspts IN tbe
9vineIy apponted order of baptAm before the Lord
ResolSed. That This Association regards nm ,nver.
table hose VINO have been baptlSe l. contrary to
sp n @ Gnstom OF chr stendom as infringe
proprlety. -
This resolution was aimed at Mr.. Malcom and
the Second Baptist Church of Newport Mr..
Malcom spoke at great length in opposition 10
the resolution, showing that his church had
practlced open communion for about fifty years;
that the early history and the constitution of
the Warren Association we're In direct antago
pism 10 any secluslve policy, and charging DR..
Lincoln with having written him letter threat
ening the excision of his church from the Asso.
ciation. Not speech was offered in support of
the resolution, except by Dr. Lincoln, VINO did
little more than to defend himself against the
charge OF having used threatening language. On
the other hand, the resolution was opposed by
President CaSwell aud Professor Lincoln, of
Brown University, By DR.. A. Woods, Dr. Cald-
well, and DIR. Benedict, as injudicious, inasmuch
as the question whether baptism was a necessary
prerequisite 10 admission to the Lords table
was an open one, not definitely settled in the
Word of God, and thus LETT to private judgment.
The resolution was then practically buried,
being referred TO committee which is adverse
to 1t, and which Will report at the meeting a
year Independent.
Madison University, at Hamilton, N. Y, is
in q prosperous condition. A residence and
homestead of ten acres have been presented to
the institution, and the college buildings have
been renovated thoroughly. The endowment
now reaches Sls0,000, yielding an annual reve-
nue. of $l5, 900. DR.. Eaton has retired from the
Presidency of the University, a position which
he has held more than thirty years; and the
Rev. DR.. Dodge is his successor. Two new pro-
tessors have been installed.
The fruits of adversely are strangely illus
tTatp nv hn in Ijujn,
Baptist paper, IN the case of a Southern Baptist
clergyman who, before the war, failed to receive
an adequate support from the churches under
his charge, though rich and prosperous By the
war they suffered severely, and we're reduced to
great poverty; but since lis close they have by
system and lioerality, given him an ample salary,
and paid it punctually.
-"The Rev. G. W. Warren, Prolesor of Biblical
Literature and Exegesis in the Chicago Theolo-
gical Seminary has declined the same Professor
ship recently rendered him in the Rochester
Theological Seminary. "H
The Rev. j. S. Gubelmann, late pastor of the
First German Church, ST. Louis, has accepted
the call OF the First German Baptist Church of
this city, and entered on his laborS on the lst
instant.
METHODIST
AT the recent session of the Cincinnati Con-
ference Rev. W. G. Stewart, a minister of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, after the usual
examination before the Conference, was admit
ted to the ministry of the Methodist EpscoDal
Church. AT the same Conference Rev. E. owen
an elder of the Methodist Protestant Church.
was recognized as an elder in the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
AT the late session of the Detroit Conference
at Ann Arbor, ministers were received into the
Methodist Episcopal Church from the Methodist
Protestant Church, Canadian Methodist Episco-
pal Church, and the Wesleyan Methodist Church.
The Board of Trustees of Dickinson College
met on Tuesday, Sth instant, and unanimously
elected the Rev. r. t. Dashiell, D. d.. Of
NewarkiCopference, Methodist Episcopal Church,
to the Presidency OF that institution.
-Bev. J. L. Peck, OF the New York East Con-
ference, and pastor OF the Second Street Metho-
dist Episcopal Church in that city, has been
transferred to the Colorado Conference and
stationed at Denver city.
The Western Advocate says that the agent of
the Ohio Wesleyan University reports recent
pledge Of $4,000 from Judge d. j. Corey, of
Findley, Ohio.
EPISCOPAL.
st. Clements Church, IN Amity street, New
York, near Macdougal was opened for the first
time since the summer recess on Sunday
morning last. The interior in the interim has
been so changed for the better, that the ha-
bitual attendants could scarcely recognize it as
the same edifce. The adornments of the chan
Gel are characterized by a correct taste. The
Sc1iptural texts, in old English characters, are
an admirable filling up, of previously blank
spaces-while the retouching of the roof with
light Colors give an improved appearance to
the edifce. We congratulate the worthy rector,
Mr.. Eaton, upon these changes, and trust
prosperity pros for the parish Of which EcS"'fe he
is pastor. In the ordinary course of events, it
cannot be long before st. Clements must be
made free church. All the old "Church fami-
lies" so to speak, have moved, or are moving,
up town, leaving in their places dense, floating
population, living chiefly IN boarding houses.
These people, for the most part, are birds of
passage here to-day and away tomorrow. 1t is
useless to attempt to adapt The new system to
their case; and the sooner it is dropped, there
fore, the better for them and the church alike.
st. Clements is IN position to do much good,
but rector and Yestrymen alike must not wait
till the masses come to them. They must go to
the masses.
MANY persons act very irreverently during
the consumption OF the remaining elements;
and, therefore, something like the following is
communicates to continue kneeling until the
consecIated bread and wine are consumed
When it happens that you are required to re-
ceiVe again, be very careful that you do it as
directed, 'reverently y-that is, upon your knees
andiwith much secret prayer."- Pacific Church
man.
The Rev. Mason Gallagher, an Episcopal
clergyman, declared recently in Detroit that
the Tying trial as ''oird of the same
feather with the doctrine of secession As
the one disrupted the States, the other will rend
asunder the Protestant Episcopal Church, un-
less put down by the prompt uprising of the
laiiy.
The Rev. Paul Trapier Keith, long rector of
St. Mchaeps Church, Charleston, South Caro-
lima, died lately.
call to the reciorship OF st. Paul's Church, Har-
risburg, Pa.
LUTHERAN.
"A Third Evangelical Lutheran church has
been organized at Easton, Pennsylvania Up
wards of fifty members form the nucleus of the
new organization; fourishing Sunday School
has been established; charter has been OBJ.
tanned, placing the congregation in connection