The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-18

jected to the arrangement because he was a
man who, though born In Albany, took the part
of the South during the war, and was rude and
uDkind TO the Union prisoners. They said they
would not stay to hear him. Some Southern
papers have made considerable complaint on the
matter, and the deacons have written to the
Richmond Herald defending their action.
PRESBYTERIAN.
Tho Presbyterans have founded a German
Theological Seminary at Princeton.
The Presbytery of Tuscaloosa Alabama, has
designated fifteen lay gentlemen as suitable to
be appointed lay preachers, and has appointed
committee to superintend their labors.
William Gamble the Superintendent of the
American Presbyterian mission press in Hong
Kong, China has resigned, and after a briel
sojourn in Japan will return to America.
Rev. Samuel Steel d. D., died at Ilinsboro,
Ohio, November 22, aged seventy-three years.
Rev. William H. Foote. ID. d., died in Romney,
West Virginia, on the same day, in the 10Th year
of his age.
The Presbyterians, especially the New
School, have for year or two past been very
active in Kansas, where they have, within
eighteen months, grown from one presbytery to
q synod, and from ministers TO SO. The union
of the Old and New Schools Synods will give
about seventy ministers and churches As many
as twenty Presbyterian churches have been or
ganized during that time.
In Union Theological Seminary, Virginia
DR.. Iabney has been formally transferred to the
chair of Theology, which DR. Wilson had nomi-
filed for some years past. DIR. Peck remains
substantially as before, as Professor of Church
History and Government. The principal change
ls in DIR. Smiths department. This is divided,
he retaining mainly what belongs to the Old
Testament, and Dir. II. C.. Alexander taking
mainly what belongs to the New.
LUTHERAN.
Marshall Academy Il Norwegian institution,
was dedicated at Marshall Wis. last month. 1t
is in the Augustana Synod, which prides itself
upon Orthodox Luthcranism; yet the principal
is n Congregationaist and his assistant BIp-
tist. This fact is attracting criticism.
"A writer in the Lutheran ObSerUer says
there are in the Gettysburg Theological Semi
nary, founded in 1926, 2 professors; at the Hart
wick, founded in 1876 professor; and in the
Selinsgrove QS5S) 1. He pertinently inquiries
-"Could not these learned and pious men
accomplish more for the Church if they were
together in one institution"
OF the 100000 of population in Norway,
Sweden, and Denmark, about 5000 came to this
country last year. We notice a large emigra-
tion to Kansas and Swedish Lutheran churches
just organized in Topeka, Lawrence, and Salina.
At home, the great Swedish University at
Upsala has 1867 students-more than ever be-
fore.
"A correspondent referring to the late meet
ing of the Lutheran General Council at Chicago,
gives some facts in reference to other Lutheran
bodies. He says:-
'The Synods of North Carolina South Caro-
| lima, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia,
| number together about 1900 communicates;
| the Synod of Wisconsin, 15S15 communicates,
| and the Norwegian Synod of the United States,
| $4,000 communicates; the General Synod of
America, nearly as large as the General Coun-
Gil, and the Joint Synod OF Ohio, 23, 1873 commu-
| nicants; and the Joint Synod of Missouri and
other States, 81, 500 communicates Neither of
these bodies have any organic connection with
the General Council, and were not represented
! in the convention
| CONGREGATIONAL.
I'm Sharon and Milwaukee Wis, church
edifces have recently been dedicated. That in
| the latter place cost $6G,00O
The treasurer of the Bangor Theological
| Seminary acknowledges the receipt of five thou
sand dollars recently from gentleman OF
| Brooklyn, N. Y, in aid of that institution.
"A new house of worship has just been
erected for the Congregational church in James
vile, Wisconsin, at cost of about $50, 900. Ii
| is said to be one of the most tasteful and COM
modious edifces in the West.
| On the 1st inst. Rev. John De Witt, late
pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Irvington,
| N. Y, was installed over the Central Congrega-
tional Church, Boston. Rev. DIR. X. Storrs Jr.,
| preached.
the English Congregational Union this year,
| holds views no. common among his brethren
respecting the immortality and the future des-
tiny of the wicked.
| The Aduance says:-''Some friends of Rev
r. d. Parker, of Manhattan, Kansas, put fine
COW in his yard one night just before Thanks
giving, and refused to take her out in the morn.
| ing" Mr.. Parker's Thanksgiving sermon was
unusually good.
CATHOLIC.
As the result of ''rnisslon"-i, g. revival
meeting-held in Albany by two Jesuit fathers
one hundred and eighty were confirmed, o
| whom fifteen were converts.
The chief members of the commission ap-
pointed by the Pope to consider the difficulte!
of Protestants are Cardinals Cullen and Reisach
and the ArchbishOps of Westminster and B9lti
more.
Notwithstanding Cardinal Cullen's threat tC
withhold the sacrament from parents who scnC
their children to the public model-schools, there
are one thousand such children still in attend
ance in Marlborough street, Dublin. His las
demonstration is against Fenianism
The American correspondent of the LondoI
Post gives the statistics for January OF thu
Roman Catholic Church In this country. There
were then archbishops, 80 bishops admins
traitors Sede cdcdRte, mitred abbots, and 363
! priests. There were 1868 churches and PSI
chapels and stations; 66 theological seminaries
in which l59 students were preparing for tn
| priesthood 126 male religious institutions O
other kinds than theological colleges or pur
| monasteries; $50 monasteries and male converts
290 female converts with schools attached: IA
converts without schools, the nuns being o
those orders which are devoted to works O
mercy and charity; 122 male academies: 81
female academies; 144l parochial schools il
which the education is free; "a hospitals; II
asylums; 10l charitable institutions; and 14l
conferences of such charitable lay societies a
the Confraternity of ST. Vincent de Paul societ
of the Rosary etc The Catholic population h
estimates at 9255 900, The priests enumerate
above include only the pastors, and not thOs
engaged in teaching or those in moDasteries.
THE JEWS.
An English paper says that the Jews hav
| at length after much negotiation with the Ru.
| sian Government obtained permission to erec
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