The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-02
CHTx INrELLIGENCE.
THE REFORMED CHURCH.

Annual Meeting OF the General Synod In This
Gaty-A Grand Project for n United Evangeli-
anl Church.
This morning the General Synod OF the Reformed
Protestant Church in America formerly known as
the Dutch Reformed, met i'm this city, at the First
Reformed Church. corner Of Seventh and Spring
Garden streets, Of which the Rev. Thomas X. Orr
has recently been installed as pastor. According 10
the statistics of last year, the denomination gov
400 hcentiates or minister's 59,0OS coLnmu
distributed among $1,000 families ana SyS1 ~
the year amounted to $500, T6s ana those , in bOr
congregational PSrPSSs,ess PsP S,s TO Tbe Church N IS
divided into thirty,two subordinate divisions
known as Glasses, the most important ana nouIlsn- @
IafssUa Sontb Rerpen and Albany The statistics OF
the Chassis of Philadelphia for the last year were as
o ScSooi sohosrs 2592 benevolent contributions
S6issz6 In the city of Phladelphia there are hve
follows:-The First Church, at seventh ana spring
Garden streets. Rev. Thomas X. Orr, pastor; the
second Church, at No; $40 n. Seventh street near
Brown, the pulpit OF which, recently occupied by the
Rev T. De Witt Talmage, is now vacant; the Third
Church. at the OF Tenth and Fnbert Streets OF
which the Rev. Charles Wadsworth, ID. d., late OF
san Francisco and formerly OF the Arch Street Pres
Dyterian Church, has recently been installed as pas
tor: the Fourth Church, on Cresson street, Mana
yunk Rev William Fulton, pastor; and the Bethune
Memorial Church, at the corner OF Twelfth and
Montgomery streets, Rev. p. Stryker Talmage,
The Church supports a Board OF Publication,
which, during the last year for which we have the
and a. 100 copies OF reprints, the total amount OF
sales being Sl6,0s5 During the same year the re
ceipts and donations of the Board of Education
amounted to S10609. There were az that time 5l2
pupils in the parOChia schools under the of the
denomination. Rutgers College, and the TheOlOg-
cal Seminary at New Brunswick, N. j., are also
under the control and care Of the Church. The
Board of Domestic Missions for the last year report
khe following :-Recepts, a2S,4I6; churches and mis-
Bions aided, 70; new organizations and undertak-
tngs, b; families in mission schools, 430I members
62l1; Sunday Schools, SO; Sunday School scholars
6799.
The Reformed Protestant Church OF America is a
branch OF the original Protestant Church Of Holland,
and its first establishment antedates that OF any OF
the other branches Of the Presbyterian Church by
nearly century. 1t was until within few years
past known as 'the Reformed Protestant Dutch
Church" TO distinguished from the Reformed Church,
which 10 Of Swiss origin.
The present General Synod is made up Of l6G dele
gatess the largest representations being from the
State Of New York and the northern part Of New
Jersey, where the denomination, comprising within
its folds the greater number of the descendants of
the old Knickerbockers, is the strongest. Daily
sessi 'ns, open TO the public, will be held, and will
continue for week or more. The synodical sermon
will be preached this evening by the Rev. Ebert s.
Porter ID. d., of Brooklyn, N. Y, the President
elected at the last session of the Synod at the church
IN which the sessions of the Synod are held the
subject of the sermon VIII be Jhe strength of the
Christian Church and its foes"
The Tendency Towards Union.
It is understood that considerable attention will be
devoted by the Synod TO the subject OF general re-
union of all the different branches of the Presbyte-
ran Church in the United States in accordance with
the prevailing sentiment For the convenience OF our
readers in this connection, we republish the COM
paratiVe statistics of these different branche, as
riyan in our editorial columns recenty:-