The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-25

and had not been able to erect church edittce.
The members were intending to make the
needed effort as soon as they could secure a
suitable lot. Those that are left are exceedingly
anxious to retain their young pastor, whom they
all love and highly esteem, and who breaches In
both Welsh and English. He is very desirous to
remain with his painfully stricken people. If he
does he will be compelled to engage in some
secular business to help support himself and
family. / propose that Baptists throughout the
country should do something for this worthy
church in their present distress, that their be-
loved pastor can devote his whole time to the
work of his ministry and so they may be en-
couraged to go on and build.
EPISCOPAL. uisN
The Rev. DR.. Lyman has declined the Office
of Dean of the General Theological Seminary
(EpiscopaD in this city.
THE Rev. James Durborow, of this city,
solemnized, on Sunday, 10Th inst, his one hum
dredth marriage during pastorate of fourteen
years.
The American Churchmdn is much dissat-
isfed with Judge Jameson's action on the
Cheney case, and denies that he is a churchman.
1t says:-"Whie appreciating the feeling which
prompts the religious press of the country,
almost unanimously, to deprecate the inter-
ference of civil courts in ecclesiastical trials,
we desire to relieve the Church from the odium
of Judge Jameson's connection with it. Being
a vestryman does not make man church.
man."
Bishop Huntington. of Central New York
has organized his diocese into six missionary
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| church extension faithfully pushed by dozen
missionaries He is urging his people to support
this work by liberal and systematic contributions.
| He says in his pastoral letter.
Suner me to inquire respectfully, but very earnest
ly and anXiously whether some especial offering to
Christ and his church--special in amount-is not at
this emergency of the development of our diocesan
enterprise and activity reasonably demanded? VIII
you not form for yourselves and your families some
settled system of giving, in the future, proportionate
to your incomes, your earnings, your estate? VIII
not begin now, II you have not begun already, to
bless yourselves by a cheerful compliance with the
law laid down by the word of Scripture and the Head
| of the Church-puttng by every week as the Lord
hath prospered you? beg you to make trial of this
method, and witness the result
CATHOLIC
The Irish Roman Catholic prelates have had
| a meeting, and unite in demanding an 'eXcll-
| siye Catholic college, endowed by the State; a
division of the property of the royal and en-
| dowed schools; an alteration of the Queens
| colleges to denomlnational institutions" They
| will not be content with the throwing open Of
| Trinity College; but demand the endowment of
| their own university. Cardinal Cullen de-
nounces all those who send their children to the
undenomnational national schools, saving that
| all who thus sacrifice theirittle ones to Moloch
show themselves to be unworthy of the benefits
| of absolution."
in view of the approaching Roman Council
| MerleI d'Aubigne, the historian of the Reforma-
| tion addressed letter to Hon. Arthur Kin
naird M. p, suggesting that the Protestants of
| England should take the initiative in making
| next DeCemDef-When that council is to meet
| q commencement for more vigorous measures
| to forward the work of the Reformation, which
| was arrested in the last half of the sixteenth
| century after the meeting of the Council of
| Trent. In accordance with D'Aubignes recon-
mendation, it is proposed that throughout the
week beginning December 5, united prayer
| meetings of Christians of all denominations be
held, and prayer offered for the spread of the
| Gospel in behalf of the work of Reformation
now proceedngin France, SPAIN Belgium, Italy,
| Austria, and other traditional centres of Romish
| influence. 1t seems probable that these meet
| ngs will be held as they seem to find favor with
| Christians of all denominations.
The Western Catholic speaking of the
boast of Father Hecker and Others that the
Catholic religion is gaming ground in this coun-
try, says
| of Catholics, flying from misery in the Old World,
have taken homes in the New, and their millions of
tn the Church, and not gain; for two-thrds OF
least of persons in the United States, born of Cato
lie parents, who now heathens ;Sand will, in all
human probability, die heathens. Many of them fill
the iails and prisons all over the land Many Others
of them are on their way thither There are said to
be five millions still faithful to the faith OF theil
fathers The natural increase Of Catholic pOpula
ton in this country is more than 100 per cent. in
generation. If the same causes which are at work
continue, that 100 per cent will be lost to the
Church as sure as 1t will come"