The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-12

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is true. In one church, it is said over $1,000 are
paid year to keep up the choir, Including of
| course, the organlst. In others, persons who
are found on opera, and sometimes other stages,
| during the week, are engaged in the choir on
| the Sabbath
Tie Rev.. Baron Stow, D. D., of Boston,
Mass, recently received as a present from his
| former society an annuity policy for $1,000 per
| anuum. The list OF donors includes about sixty
| of the leading business men and merchants of
| Boston.
The Rev. j. Lewis pastor of the First
| Church in Syracuse, New York, accepts the
| Proiessorship of Rhetoric in Madison UniveT-
sity, made vacant by the transfer of Professor
Behee TO the chair of Church History.
The Rev. ID. E. Burns, late of New Orleans,
succeeds the Rev. A. B. Miller in The pastoral
care of the First Baptist Church, Memphis,
The Rev. William NJ. Pratt, D. D., of Lex
iDgton, Kentucky, has accepted the call of
the Bank Street Baptist Churrh, New Albany,
The Rev. w. Codyille. formerly Methodist
minister in Canada, was ordained and installed,
last week, TO the ministry in Calvary Baptist
! Church, IN this city.
PRESBYTERIAN.
The deputaton Of Synod sent TO investigate
the conduct OF the Presbyterian CONGREGATION
of st. Stephen, New Brunswick, have reported
as the result Of their inquiries that the people
we're not actuated by eonumaciOus spirit in
procuring the questionable instrument: but that
the organ was introduced ''as a matter of neces-
sity for conducting the psalmody IN public wor-
Snip IN Jne very peculiar ana exceptional state
of the said congregation i'll not having any com.
| petent persons 10 lead or engage without such
! aid in the public singing and so they let 1t
remain: the more readily in that the people we're
| ready 10 become CONGREGATIONAL il the leave
| was refused. Two years ago the Philadelphia
! yearly meetiag of Friends consented, after
much elaboration, that one OF their influential
| members might retain and use in his family the
! elegant piano which he had purchased, Before
! that, it was customary to "Tead out of meetingn
any member who kept a piano.
- AT late meeting of the United Presbytery
of Chilhcothe, paper was read from the pastor
! of the United Presbyterian Church of Chilli
cothe, Ohio, setting forth their formal with
drawal, by an almost unanimous vote, from the
jurisdiction OF the Presbytery. This step was
! taken, II was stated III view of the recent decl-
sion of the United Presbyterian Church. in the
matter of instrumental music in public worship.
Mr.. James s. Dennis, graduate of Prince
! ton, New Jersey, who has for some time been
supplying the pulpit of the Rev. DR.. Poor of
Newark, has just been appointed 9, missionary
| of the American Board and Will 60 out to
Syria with DR.. Jessup in October.
"A committee OF the Presbytery of Tuscaloosa
organized a church al Carrothan, Alabama,
few weeks since. Three ruling elders and TWO
deacons were elected. Measures were taken tor
securing house oil worship at once, which, it is
hoped, will soOu be entered by the congregation.
The Rev. J. w. Bain OF Sidney, OHIO, il is
VI elstood, will accept a call TO the pastoral
! charge of the United Presbyterian church in
Newcastle, Pa. (Rey II, A. Browne, D. D., late
pastor), and will remove thither in October.
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! bus Ohio, has gone to Oregon to take charge of
a collegiate institute established at Albany by
| Presbyterians, who hope that it viii grow, ere
long, to be their college III that State.
The Rev. George +, Chaplin has resigned
the pastorate of the New School Presb terian
church at Lawrence, Kansas, and will return to
the East, on account OF the i'll health OF his
| vile.
The annual report of the American Congre-
Eatiolal Union furnishes abundant evidence that
this association is accomplishing "a great work
for the advancement OF common Christianity.
1t has, during the last year, done more than in
any year preceding III assisting Feeble churches
to obtain places Of worship. While the Home
Missionary Society Is giving to the new churches
pastors, the Conversational Union is vigorously
supplying these new churches with houses Of
worship. Grants OF money have been paid the
past year TO seventy churches, and pledged to
thiIty-eight more, while a loug listot ADDITIONAL
applicants was LAID over TO the beginning OF the
present J ear.
-According to statistical table of Congrega-
tional churches in the provinces Of ontario and
Quebec, there are l02 chu1ches of our polity in
the dominion OF Canada. With total member
ship OF 36S2, 369 OF these having been received
during the past year; 2l9 by profession, $50 by
letter 81 churches have pastors acting pastors,
and So are vacant. There are 67 Sabbath
schools with a total membership Of 58AS. The
entire amount contributed during the past year
is S56,5l2.
The Rev. william A. Bartlett of Brooklyn,
New York, has been called to the pasrorate OF
the Plymouth Church, Chicago, Illinois, the late
pastor OF which, the Rev. L. E. Matson, was his
brolheI-n-laW.
The Rev. DR.. Stove has just received from
some of his personal friends, most OF whom we're
members Of his former congregation, an annuity
policy for $1,000 per annum in the Continental
Life Insurance Company Of New York.
PRESBYTERIAN AND CoNGREGATIoNALIsT.
The following table gives the relative men,
bership OF the Old School and New School
PRESBYTERIAN and the CONGREGATIONAL denomi-
nations IN the more Northern States New
ENGLAND is omitted, as there are scarce dozen
Presbyterian churches in those States connected
with these two branches OF the order; ana the
Southern States are omit cd as Presby yterianism
there is not yet reconstructed, and COngrega-
tionalism is yet feeble.
StoteS. Q. 81 N,S Conq
New YORK 3S,647 1851 Il l5l
New Jersey 2S,140 l0,03I I,42C
PENNSYLVANIA 1867 20,233 4,l4(
Ohio 3S, 3S6 l5327 1886
Michigan 500 II ,O3O 9,67C