The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-23

by the congregation at the close Of the series Of
meetings. She is now preaching in Boston.
EPISCOPAL.
The House of Bishops has elected the Rev.
Dr. II. n. Pierce Missionary Bishop of Arkansas
and the Indian Territory.
-Rey. Mr.. Leflingwell, Episcopal of Gardi-
ner, Me-, lately preached a sermon defending
the Popish doctrine that the Church and the
Bible are of coequal authority.
The Rev. William Marvin Jones, of Trinity
parish, has been elected Financial Agent of the
General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School
Union and Church Book Society.
The Rev. Dr. Alexander NintOn, of st.
Marks Protestant Episcopal Church, in New
York city, who declined call from the Church
of Emmanuel in Boston, last spring, has accepted
a renewed call to that church.
DR.. Temple, the new Bishop OF Exeter, VINO
takes the place of the extremely High Church
Dr. Philpotts, is Broad Churchman, and the
writer of the least Objectionable OF the famous
essays and reviews.
The Board of Missions of the Protestant
Episcopal Church held its annual meeting in
New York last week. Two hundred and eleven
clergymen are enrolled as home missionaries, of
whom iS are now in the field. Total receipts
for domestic missions for 1869 4l2L71O. The
report of the Foreign Committee was read show
ing the mission force to be 81.
Some English papers are commenting on
the appearance of four clergymen of the Church
of England at a feast given to two hundred
workmen connected with the brewery of Cav
endsh Bridge The rector of the parish made
q speech, in which, not content with declaring
that nothing gave him greater pleasure than
to meet the workmen of Cayendsh Bridge" he
further announced that ''the most important
establishment in Castle Doninglon was the
brewery What then about the Church?-Inde-
pendent.
We published some time ago the statement
of q writer in the CItiTch journal that Bishop
Mcllvaine was in n fair way to become "the
tallest High Churchman in the land;' and that.
while he had previously encouraged eytcmporc
prayer-mectings, he had this year at the meet
| ing OF the Ohio Convention forbidden them.
| We are glad to sec a statement, given under the
Bishops own authority, that this is "wholly
| false" This year on the Sunday following the
convention, at an ordination, as is his custom,
| he himself led an eXtempore praycr-meeting
| Just previous to going into the church for the
public scryices.-IadependeHt
BAPTIST.
| The English Baptists are raising 512 900 for
a chapel in Paris, and American Baptiss are
asked to give an equal amount.
The Salem Baptist Association somewhere
| in the SOuth) has twice rejected last year aud
| thiS) the application OF SwannOnoa Church for
membership, because it holds in fellowship
man with no immersion but by Methodist
| minister.
The Seventh-day Bsptists held their 5jth
| annual session on Fourth-day. Sept 29th. at
Shiloh, n. j. They reported growth. dele
| gate was appointed to the meetings of the Sev-
| cnth-day Adyentists: but resolutions were
| passed disclaiming any faith in the immediate
|
| Two remarkable cases in which men have
| overstepped denominational lines in bestowiug
| their benetactions have lately occurred in the
| history of Bates and Dartmouth Colleges. 1t was
| generally published that Hon. BENJAMIN f..
| Bates, of Boston, CongregatIonalist, has given
| 900 to the Free Baptist College in Lewis
| ton, Me-, of which he has paid S25 600 and sub
sc%riGed % $1,000 conditionalI}y. The other case
| Baptist, of Boston, by whose bequest Dartmouth
| College has lately received 100000.
| Says correspondent of the National Bop
| tjSt, relative to the condition of the Church in
| Wisconsin:-We have 114 churches in Wiscon-
| sin containing few over 10000 members and
| LOG pastors, besides ministering brethren. who
have located. Increase of members during the
year, 1000. Amount received for home mis-
sions, exclusive of aid from the parent society
in New York, $22l7. Pledged during the year
for Chicago University, $1,000, and al equal
amount for the the theological seminary. Fif-
teen young men, who are preparing for the
ministry, have been assisted through the educa-
tional society. Twenty-one ministers have come
| to labor in the State, and seventeen have left.
| The Home Mission Society are willing to send
| $1,000 TO Wisconsin next year provided $4,000 be
| raised by the churches, sum which it is hoped
will be contributed, and which will he, if all put
their shoulders TO the wheel.
| A most important Sunday-Sehool Conven-
tion, in connection with the Baptist denomina-
tion, will be held at st. Louis dnring the first
week in November The st. Louis local com
mittee have made the following announce
ment:-
The brethren of st. Louis extend to the Bap-
tist SundaySchool workers of the United States
IL cordial invitation to assemble with them in
this National ConvocatiOn at St. Louis, Novem-
Der 2, B. and 4, 1869.
All who propose attending the Convention and
Institute, will please forward their names as
| early as possible to E. ID. Jones, st. Louis and
cards of introduction will be returned, assigning
| them homes during their stay. 1t is important
that we learn the number that will probably be
in attendance as early as practicable.
Delegates desiring tickets to the social enter
tainment, to be held at Mercantile Library Hall
| in connection with the closing exercises Of tho
| Convention and Institute can secure them by
remitting one dollar. A limited number Of
tickets will be issued, and it is hoped thai
brethren from tabroad, that may desire
them, will receive them as early as possible.
Rev. Geo. A. PcltZ, chairman of the Genera
Committee of Arrangements, has entered into
an agreement with the railroad companies az
, lollows:-
/. The Pennsylvania Central Railroad and it
| local branches Free return tickets issued a
81. Louis, to all who pay full fare over it il
going. Good until December l.
2. The Northern Central Railroad. Free re
| turn tickets to all points between Baltimore ant
Sunbury. issued at ST. Louis, to delegates wht
pay full fare over it in going.
3. The Pittsburg, Cincinnati, and St. Loui
Railway (Pan Handle route) including tn,
. Columbus Chicago and Indiana Central Divi
! sion. Free return tickets, issued at ST. Louis
to all who pay full fare over it in going.
PRESBYTERIAN.
Fifty New School presbyteries have vote,
| in favor OF reunion, and not one against il. o
= the Old School presbyteries 50 have voted il
favor and against it.
Statistics are brought forward TO prove tha
| during the last year the United PRESBYTERIAN
t Church in proportion 10 their numbers, bap