The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-06

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from the neghboring church of East whitelsnd.
"A few gentlemen and ladies of this city I
recently, at cost of $780, made the purchase
OF remarkably good portrait Of Rev. Albert |
Of the room used by the Pastoral Association of |
Philadelphia.
The Trustees of the Presbyterian Theoiogi- |
cal Seminary at Chicago but not It's directors, |
are III the interest of Mr. Cyrus II, Mccormick, !
They have notified DR.. Lord that this year they
can pay nothing towards his salary IRON the
ircome OF n the $40 goo paid in by Mr.. Mccormick:
The Third Presbytery of New York met
January Is, in the lecture room of the Thir-
teenth street church (Rev. DR.. Burchari'sl,
and ordained as an evangelist Mr.. Richard G.
Morse, assistant editor of the New York
Observer.
The Rev. W. H. MoAuley. formerly mis-
sioDary in india but who, for many years past,
has been laboring IN the boufds of the Presby-
terry OF South Alabama, has accepted an ap
pointment rs evangelist In a field consisting OF
Pisgah, Bethesda, Mckinley, and Centre Ridge
churches,
The Rev. J. Q. Mitchell and Dr. J. H, Rice, OF
Mobile Ala, resigned their pastoral charges last
November, in order to facilitate movement
then in progress for dI:solving the Second aud
Third Presby terian Churches in that city, and
forming q new church out OF the members.
This church, since organized under the name of
the Jackson Street Church, is as yet without a
pastor.
DIR. Spring has been pastor of the Brick
Presbyterian Church Of New York for 50 years;
DIR. r. S. Storrs, Of the Congregational church in
Congregational church in Leicester, Mass. for
81 years; DR.. lde, of the Congregational church
in MedWay Mass, for % years: DR.. Wilmington,
Congregational, of Newbury, Mass, for SO years;
and DR.. GrieT of the Presbyterian church in
Brandywlne Manor in this State, for So years.
The Presbyterian church on Forty-second
street, New Yolk, OF which the Rev. DR.. Hast.
ings is pastor, bas been burdened with deot of
S57 coo. This fact coming to the knowledge of
James Il. Benedict, Esq, who, though residing
at Tarrytown, spends his winters in New York
itu hn up1 on fhn rtro1n & fhn nd
This he accomplished by liberal subscription
and by his personal efforts to obtain the balance.
The result was happy surprise to the pastor
and The church.
The Trustees of the Central Presbyterian
Church. Orange, New Jersey, have purchased
property in Orange for the use OF the church.
The lot purchased measures l27 by 100 feet, and
there is already on it a house, which will be
used for a manse, the remaining part of the lot
! being reserved for the erection of q church.
! Rev. DR.. Yeomaus who died there last summer
| while pastor of that church, has been succeeded
! by his brother, the Rev, Alfred Yeomons, lately
| pastor of the church in Bellefonte, Pa, and the
! prospects of the church are cheering.
| The Second Presbyterian Church in BalH-
more, Maryland not long ago, sent an earnest
call to the Rev. S. A. Mutchmore, pastor of the
| Cohocksink Presbyterian Church, of this city.
| The Central Presbytery of Philadelphia met on
| Tuesday last to consider the matter when it
was announced that, III consideration of the
great religious interest existing in the Cohock-
tering with pastoral relations at such time.
the church in Baltimore would not press the
Gala very kind and brotherly act on the part
of the Baltimore church. The CohocksinS
Church were ready to protest most earnestly
against the removal OF their pastor, and are
greatly pleased with the termination OF the
| affair.
The opening services of the Fifth Reformed
Presbyterian Church-Rev DR.. McAuley's--
situate on York street, near Coral, in this city,
were held last Sunday, III the lecture room OF
the new edidce, The exercises were conducted
by Rev. DR.. Musgrave, Rev. DR.. Wylie, and Rev.
DR.. Beed The new building is of brick, and
measures 6S by 100 feet. The lot is 100 feet wide
! by l50 feet deep. The main audience chamber
! has not yet been finished. The lecture.room
measures 6S by s5 feet, and will seat about
seven hundred persons The main audience
chamber will have sittings for twenty-five hum
dred persons. 1t will be provided with side
and end galleries, and will be finished in most
substantial manner The lot, valued at $40, 900,
was donated to the congregation. The mem
bership OF the church is about five hundred,
whilethat of the school is four hundred, and
about forty teachers. The building will cost
$4,000.
1t is stated that out of the COG, 900 Catholics
of the city of New York only $50, 900 of them
could go to churchs for want of place. of wor-
ship. More than 200, 900 people came over from
Europe during the past year, and fully 10000 OF
them were of the Catholic faith.
The Roman Catholic st. Martins Church OF
Baltimore makes its vespers approach more
nearly to a concert than any Protestant church
religious service two Sabbaths ago began with
an overture and closed with a march, aud
sandwicbed between were selections from 81.
Paul, Moses in Tgypt, and Lombard
In all there are in the Catholic Church IL
patriarchates, III arcbbishoprics, and 905 bish-
oprics-total 1904. But there are vacant /
patriarchate, 9archbishoprics, aud lO2 bishop
RIGS. The number of sees and vicarIates in the
British dominions is Ito. Great Britain alone,
therefore, will represent above one-tenth of the
pIelates who will have right to sit and judge
in the Gcumenical Council
Forty years ago there was one Catholic
priest in EnglaL who had been a clergyman oi
the Established Church the Hon. and Rev.
George Spencer. Now there are forty such
priests in the archdiocese OF Westminster and
about two hundred III the country. Lay con
verts are probably in proportion. The returns
the last year in themetropos are 2200; and the
converts, or peryerts, are mostly from the upper
and middle ranks of society.
Father Doane is very successful in his effort
for the endowment Of the American Roman
Catholic College at Rome. Newark has added
$4,000 to the fund which now amounts tC
$l03,50O OF this amount New York has given
seven purses OF $4,000 each, Baltimore three,
PHILADELPHIA two, Boston one, Hartford one
and Newark one. The balance is in sums o
$1,000, $500, etc. Brooklyn will be visited after
Easter. Father Doane is now on tour of the
Western cities. II the same energy charac
terizes his brothers management of the Protest
ant pscopal Diocese OF Albany, that missionary
see Will be greatly strengthened.
LUTHERAN.
Rev. Henry Fahr. pastor of German Lu
theran church in hockpolt, Ohio, was latel!
=: called upon to conduct the funeral services of
| member OF a neighboring Lutheran church
who bad died just in time to escape churcl
| ceDsule for the ofense of becoming proprielo
, of drinking saloon. The Clergyman, there
2 tore, refused to perform the entire service
w iOcIuOpg standardization ~