The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-15
-PHILADELPHA SATURDAY MAY 15 1869

the largest ana most encient c6nreSes in the state
Miu m mas mousse surpassed by n,nc, with perhaps
Ihe exception OF the church at KeOkuk."
"A correspondent OF the STANDARD SAYS 1.-THE
tirst Church, Minneapolis, Mimi, keep In the field
preacher, aud two missionaries in Minneapolis The
parent society adds 5000 TO the 5000 which they have
recently raised Tor home missions, making 800 Our
missionaries receive ON all average $500 each from
lhr hrsucioty This iund keeps two men I'm the field
WHO are pastors of four or five churches. How much
lltlc money wisely spent will accomplish
The fHtCpon cHt repr sents the that First Baptist
Chufch OF New YORK, now In course OF erection, will
he one Oi the finest In the country. The baptistery
VIII bc OF white marble, and hall the front made Of
plate glass, go that the ordinance itself, ana not
merely lhc standing IN water Of the candidate and
Tho Rev. W. II. Penlleon, pastor OF the Fifty
third Street Church. gave the hand Of fellowship,
last sunday, 90 20 persons, received during tic
month past. or these, % were received by baptism,
aud J. were Young people, members Of the sabbath
SCnOnL During the three years that Mr.. PendletOu
has served the church IN their present house, 2I5
persons have been baptized.
"A special meeting Of the Baptist Ministerial Con-
ference Of this city was held on Monday, May TO- mt
No. $50 Arch street Rev. William Cathcart intro
duccd lttV. Dr, Thomas Price, OF Wales, aud Rev
IL. NJ Henry Oh lreland-a deputation from the irish
Baptist Home Mission Society The President. Rev.
j. ). kennard, welcomed them in few well-chOsen
remarks Dr. Price stated the object OF their visit to
TINS country, and gave an interesting account OF the
baptsts In Wales and Ireland-peadng, in strong
terms. for aid for the latter country from the Ban
lists in America Mr. Henry presented "a concise and
Interesting statement on the history, present COndi-
ton. and prospects OF the Baptist caise I'm ireland
After listening to their representations committee
consisting Of Rev. Drs. Boarlman, Winter and Hen
son, was appointed TO prepare resolution express
Slye OF the sentiments OF the Conference The
luton they reported, which was unanimously
adopted, was az follOws:-
Rsoie5 That IN the immense influx Of Irish emgrants
70 our sounuy IN the impending disostabshmcnt of the
Dr. Peand nl n y y3 TS' anp I our % ]
taton iron tho British and lrisn Baptist Home Mission
Society recognize critical facts TO be interpreted
proyidenta summons to our sympathy and practical
operation; and therefore heartily commend them TO
the confidence of our churches.
At the recent annual meeting in the interest Of
the Pastors College, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle
London, Mr. Spurgcon said that all the needs of the
college had been supplied more literally than in
men nave been received for training In its regular
classes, and at least 800 had had instruct on in the
evening classes one hdndrcd and eighty-siX stu
dents had settled IN the ministry, of whom 1IO still
remained in the work; "A new churches mad been
formed by the agency Of the college, and 30 new
chapels had been erected in the service of their
agency. The Nice-Presideut Qhe Rev. j. A. Spur
geOn) reported upon the college studies, and stated
that in visiting many of tLp students i'm their
places of settlement, he had been struck with the
fact that many OF them were in rural districts, and
vel able t. sustain themselves by means of the
voluntary principle. Most of them had succeeded
in laying hold of the working classes and this not
by novel methods, but by the preaching of the old
evangelical doctrines. The result of the years sta
tstic5 the said shows less percentage OF increase
per church, bat it is owing TO the better regulation
of church rolls The Rev. D. Rogers dhe theological
tutor testified to the general esteem in which the
students were held in many important provinces.
As their one desire was to proclaim the Gospel in its
simplicity, SO had their success been-CdaadiaH
BaptiSt.
CATHOLIC.
-CatnoC papers report 100 confirmed at Newport.
KY, OF whom 10 were converts; and 69l in Cncin-
natl, Of whom p converts. In Portsmouth,
~ H. the Catiolir Standard reports the conversion
Of 10 tresncctaile neopIe" within three wears
among whom are Romasti Chase, Edwin Ryder, and
Charles Williams, Esqs. In st. Louis, the Arch
bishop recently confirmed over 1000 persons at the
ingatherng for the year-mainly, of course, chill
dren. The first Catholic church in Chicago was
built in 1888 Now there are in that city 10 converts,
20 churches, Catholic population of 1OS,5OO and
15,2OO parOchui scholars.
Very RevJ James Madison Lancaster who has been
very i'll with typhoid fever ana pulmonary affection
for nearly three months, but who was Thought
convalescent, died at 90 p. NJ on Monday, Feast OF
the Invention OF the Holy Cross, in the Episcopal
residence, Covlngton, Ky. The deceased was born
October 1905, in Washington now Marion county,
Ky He exercised the holy ministry for many years
in his native State and for some time in Pittsburg,
Penna-CinctHati Teegyalh, Nay 5th.
1t is reported that three Catholic missionaries in
the province OF SeChuen, China, with several hun
dred converts, have been massacred by the natives
An address was delivered on April II at Moor
fields, by Archbishop Manning, in celebration OF the
Jubilee Of Pope Plus the Ninth.
appeal to the Catholics of Alsace, who have already
sent a contingent to the Roman Legion equal to a
twelfth of its whole number, not to relax IN their de-
Rngard, Of the Legion, has been authorized by Mar
shal Mel Marshal of War; to enrol recruits and for
ward them to Rome.
ON April IS, in st Joseph's Retreat, Highgate,
the feast Of the Patronage of st. Joseph was OBJ
served with great solemnity and devotion. High
Mass was sung by the Very Rev. the Provincial,
deacon the Rev. Father Athanasius, subdeacon the
Rev. Father Vincent. The Rev. Father Paul Mary
preached most interesting discourse upon the life
and virtues of ST. Joseph
The Rev. Father Corr, who, for the long period
of about fifteen years. was connected with ST. Igna-
thus Church. Preston, England, has just been re-
moved, instructions having been received that he
has TO proceed to Barbados, and there found Il
mission Father Corr was highly respected.
1t is announced that the Imperial Government
has given its consent to the attendance of the
French hierarchy at the forthcoming General Coun-
Gil Of the Church, but that it has not yet decided
upon being represented itself on the OCCASION
The Jews OF Leghorn have sent the Holy Father
some cloth for his Soutanes.