The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-04

Concern was laid on Monday, August rs, by
Bishop Clark, assisted by the book agents aud
tue Cincinnati preachers. Brief addresses were
delivered by Bishop Clark and DR.. Wiley 80 is
begun the new building which will furnish head
quarters for Methodsm, we trust, for many
years.
The Methodist Church South have erected a
handsome publishing house In st. Louis, on the
site of the great Lindell Hotel, which was con-
sumed by fire. The building is forty-six by
seyenty-one feet, and fronts on Washington
avenue. 1t is five stories high, and the different
apartments are fitted up to meet the require
ments of the business such as printing, binding,
stereotyping, engraving, lithographing, etc
The first Conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church was held in this city, in June,
l113, ten ministers only being present. one of
whom was Francis Asbury, of precious and
sainted memory The membership was 1160.
In 1913 forty years later, there were several Con-
ierences, 67S ministers, with membership of
2l4,O00. In 1869 there are nearly 100 Confer
ences, 9 venerable Bishops, about 10000 presid-
ing elders, circuit and local preachers, and
800, 600 members. The first Methodist sermon
in America was preached in New York, q little
over a century ago, to a congregation of five
persons.
A church was recently organized at Seneca,
Iowa.
"A Westinghouse was dedicated at Bingham
ton. N. Y, Aug. II. The cost is $4,000.
Rev. Charles Bentley, of Berlin, Conn, died
July 23 He has been in the ministry forty
three years.
-Mr. Edward Bull, of Westbrook, was or
dained as an evangelist on August 20. He is to
labor at Beaufort, n. c., under the auspices of
the A. NJ. A.
During the last year the 40 600 members of
| Congregational Churches in Illinois made an
average contribution of twenty-five cents each
to the Home Missionary Society, while the
$4,000 members in Massachusetts, contributed an
average of seventy-five cents each.
The religious interest in Somers, Conn., is
| increasing. Nearly two hundred persons, of all
ages, have requested prayers, and goodly num-
Der have made profession. On four consecutive
days last week meetings were held morning and
evening, people leaving their work to attend
| them.
The First South, Oakland, and Union
| churches Chicago are all building new edihces
! this summer. The latter laid the cornerstone
| of their new house on August Z. 1t will be of
Joliet stone, in Gothic style, with a capacity to
accommodate nearly 20O0 people, and will cost
| 1925, coo.
The Rev. Isaac P. Powell was installed as
! pastor OF the Congregational Church in Canaan
Ct, on the 2Sth ult. The church celebrated the
centennial anniversary in connection with the
installation services, and Rev. Joseph Eldridge
| ID, delivered the historical discourse.
The COngregdtiOndiSt has this notice A
ministerial friend desires us to say for the bene
fit of clergymen who need u vacation but have
| little money to spend, that at Old Orchard
Beach, near Biddeford, Maine, and within a
| few rods of some of the best surf bathing in
the world, they may find comfortable board at
the house of Mrs. Mary Written at one dollar a
day
Rev. j. w. Healy, who is now spending a
| few weeks in Massachusetts, gives a most hope
full account of the progress of the Congrega-
| tional church ut New Orleans, of which he is
pastor. Prejudice is wearing away and it is
beginning to be possible for men to join the
| congregation without losing their business or
their social standing. Mr.. Healy has just
been elected President of the New Orleans Uni
| versity.
The Boston Journal says-"Several para
| graphs have recently appeared in the newspa-
| pers, which have created the impression that the
| proprietors of the Old South Church contem-
plated the conversion of that edifice to business
| purposes, and the removal of the society to q
| new church building This impression is un-
| founded, as no such change is contemplated.
The surplus funds of this society are used to
| build edifces and carry on outlying missions,
| and it is proposed to establish a third mission,
when suitable site can be secured"
PRESBYTERIAN.
The Rev. G. p. Nichols of Victor n. Y,
has been called to the Olivet Church of Chicago;
! Illinois
The Rev. Alexander Martin pastor of Roa-
noke Church, Virginia, has been invited to the
church at Danville, in the same Presbytery.
The Rev. f. L. Patton, formerly Professor
| in Erskine College at Due West, S. c., has con-
sented to return to the college and resume his
| post as Professor of Latin.
There has been a revival of religion al
| BeuAh Mississippi. All denominations united in
one worshipping community. Thirty-fve per-
sons united with the church
The Rev. Jacob Post, d. D., late pastor OF
the German Evangelical Lutheran Church al
Oswego, n. Y, was recently admitted by the
Presbytery of Milwaukee, Wis, and installed
over the First Holland Church of that city.
The Presbyterian Church at Osyka
Mississippi, has been greatly refreshed and in
creased. Twenty-siX names have been added tc
the church roll, and there are others interested
and inquiring, who, it is hoped, will also before
bn hn NIL
The Sugar Creek Church, near Charlotte
n. c.. under the pastoral charge of DR.. Parks
is now enjoying most precious revival. DR.
Parks has been assisted by the Rev. Messrs
Douglass of Steel Creek and Williams of Hope
we'll. About fifty persons have made profes
sion of religion, and many inquirers yet remain
There are other churches in the same region tina
give hopeful evidence of the presence of God
Holy Spirit among the people.