The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-24

I The Forty Hours Devotion commences in
st. Dennis Church, West Haverford, tomorrow.
Bishop O'Hara confirmed four hundred per-
sons in st. Pauls Church last Sunday.
| BAPTIST
The East New Jersey Baptist Association re-
ports the following as the statistics of the
| Church for the year 1S69:-Churches SO; or
dained ministers, So members, S733; baptized
during the year, 43f; net gam, 2oS. Inc cohVrl-
| buttons of the churches and others amounted to
$112, 933'57
Rev. d. T. Phillips, late of Bristol England,
| has accepted an invitation from Enon Church to
| supply their pulpit for four months.
The new church ediice at RoXborough will
| soon be completed, and the basement ready for
occupancy, to the great joy of the congregation
and Sunday-School. A Church Bible Glass has
Just been commenced by the Pastor, Rev. d.
Spencer, under very favorable auspices. 1t
meets on Monday evening, in the chapel The
mission work of this church is also progressing
favorably
Rev. Joseph Perry, the pastor of the Mari
ners' Church, has regular religious service on
board the "Receiving Ship" on Sunday after
moons. Last Sunday the meeting was charac
terized by deep solemnity. About three hundred
were present and eighteen requested the prayers
of Gods people. The following day large
number who attended this meeting sailed for
various ports, some far distant. The Mariners
Church is located so far from most of our city
churches that the extent and importance of their
work is sometimes overlooked. Rev. Mr.. Perry
breaches three times every Sunday, and con-
on Sunday last, there was desirable spiritual
Advancement, and both these missions are ac-
complishing much good.
The mission at Monatawna held its second
anniversary July IA. The exercises were un-
usually interesting. During the year eight per-
sons have been added to the church, making
thirty from the neighbOrhOOd since the mission
was commenced. Two of the scholars have
died, and the school now numbers 122 members.
The expenses for the year have been $780, and
there are now 500 in the treasury. A very APP
propriate address was delivered by Rev. W. p.
Hellings of Germantown. The prospects of this
mission are full of hope, and the hearts of those
engaged in it much encouraged.
The anniversary exercises of the Baptist
University at Lewisburg will begin on Sunday
the 25th, with a sermon, before the Society of
Inquiry, by the Rev. G. d. b. Pepper d. d., of
Grocer Theological Seminary On Tuesday
afternoon tablet in Commencement Hall will
be dedicated to the memory of the Alumni who
fell in the late war. The Grafton before the
literary societies on Wednesday will be de-
livered by Theodore TiltOn, ESQ, of New York.
The commencement and comforting of degrees
on the graduating class will take place on Thurs
day morning.
The cornerstone of the Mission Chapel at
Rittenhousetown was laid July H. More than
century and a half has passed since the erection
in this village of the first residences. Here was
erected the first paper mill in America, and here,
also, was the birthplace of the great American
astronomer, David RttenhOuse, LID. yet,
until the present, no meeting-house has been
erected in this place A history of the enterprise
and of Baptist enterprise in the village was
read by Mr.. O. p. Cornman. Addresses were de-
hvered by Rev. DR.. Randolph and Rev. w. ?.
Hellings Rev. A. II. Lung and Rev. T. A. Gill
offered prayer. The box, containing various
articles was deposited in its place, and the
stone laid by Peter Rittenhouse, ESQ. This gen
tleman had generously donated the lot on which
to erect the chapel to the Trustees of the RoX-
borough Church. The choir of said church was
present and added much to the interest of the
occasion. The chapel will be 30 by 80 feet. 1t
is to be erected of blue stone, from the cele-
bratod quarry opposite the building, and to be
of pointed work The cost of the house will be
$25OO, and when completed will reflect credit on
all concerned in it.