The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-22

town avenue ana BerkS street. over one nun
dred persons were baptized. The Rev. l.. T.. Hart
man is the pastor.
SUMMARY OF GENERAL CHURCH NEWS.
CATHOLIC.
The Roman Catholic prelates of this country
have concluded a sCCret COnClavc in Baltimore and
their pastoral letter is published in the Catholic
papers. The first point they make is strenuous
opposition to secular education. The faithful are
warned that their children must be taken out OF the
public schools and put into parish schools, where
Romansm shall be taught, as ''thousands Of souls
annually stray away from this cause No doubt
this is true. They then endorse their publication
society, and then follows denunCiatiOn Of the "Mur
der OF the InnOCents.' This "crying sin Of infant-
eide they say, is 'most prevalent in those localities
where the system Of education without religion has
been longest established' and they confidently be-
lieve that those whom they address care strangers
the innocent blood of their own unborn, unregene-
rate a. unbaptiZed) offspring" They next attack
dangerous amusements, including ''Obscene theatr
cal performances and particularly German or
round dances, as shocking every feeling Of deli
cacy and fraught with imminent danger to morals
They then urge effort for the colorrd people, sup
port sof orphan aSylums, and submission OF the
clergy to the bishops. 1t is an able and fearless
There have been violent discussions in the meet
ngs Of the committee which prepared propositions
peror of the Benedictnes OF Bavaria, indignant mt
the pretensiOns of the Jesuits has refused to
! longer, and returned home. The majority has
agreed on propositions asserting the Popes ntalli-
bty, the temporal power, ana the impious nature Of
! modern liberalism.
| About 1900 people were confirmed last Sabbath
| in two Catholic churches OF Brooklyn.
-Ans ecclesiastical dictionary, in two large octave
volumes, comprising theology, canon law, hago-
graphy, liturgy, ecclesiastical geography, history,
biography, and photography has just been published
by the Able Claire, Paris. We anticipate that this
work will be great success for the Holy Father has
| stamped it with his special approval, conveyed in
letter written at his command to the Able by Fran
| co.'s Mercurelli, the Popes secretary for Latin
| letters.
| The Russian Government is said to have under
| consideration new plan for the reorganization Of
| the Catholic Church throughout the empire. For
long time every measure OF the Russian Government
with regard to the Catholic Church or to Poland has
been an act of Darbarism, unworthy OF the cyiliza-
| fear that the new plan will in no respect be better
The Feast Of st. Paul of the Cross the founder
of the Order, was soemnly observed at Hghgate, on
| April 2S. High Mass was celebrated 10y Mgr. Eyre,
| and panegyric of the saint was preached 10y the
| Right Rev. DR.. Morris, Bishop of Troy.
The total amount of the gifts presented to the
Pope on the occasion Of the 5Oh anniversary of his
entering the priesthood is estimated at twenty mil
| lions OF francs.
The onertory collections, for the Holy Fathers
Jubilee at the various Catholic churches and ChapelS
in London, on Sunday the llth of April, amounted
| to something more than e5OO.
| PRESBYTERIAN
The Presbyterian church in Kansas City, Mo-,
| was blown down year ago, was rebuilt with con-
| siderable effort, and has now been burned down.
The Declaration and Testimony Presbyterians
! OF Kentucky have perfected the arrangements for
! an Orgaoic union with the Southern Presbyterans.
| 1t will be cOnsummated at the meeting of the
|
The Synod of Texas, in their published report,
slate that though the Presbyterian Church has eX-
listed in that State more than thirty years, not
single young man born in that State or even grown
up on Texas soil, has ever entered the ministry OF
The synod fthe English Presbyterian Church,
at its session. April 90 passed resolution authQrz
ing the establishment OF an order of lay-eyangests
| in the Church. That Church contains only 12O con-
gregatons, which had last year membership OF
u 697 and 1929 Sabbath School teachers and 1894
! scholars. The average stipend Of the pastors was
1909 and he total collections OF the Churcn Tor all
purposes was e65OOl, or nearly Sl5 (gold) for each
DR. Albert Smith, of New Rochelle, has pur
chased and nresented TO the PRESBYTERIAN church OF
that place a fine house and lot, TO be used as par
sonage. A worthy example for others
The First Presbyterian Church New SCHOOL, OF
St. Louis Missouri, of which Dr. Nelson was the late
pastor, have rendered unanimous call to the Rev
Charles A. Dickey of Plttsburg, Pa Mr.. DlcNey Is a
minister OF the United Presbyterian Church.
AT the recent meeting Of Cayuga PresbyteIy
fourteen students in Auburn Seminary were licensed
AS part Of the fruit of the great revival in Buff
falo 80 were received last Sabbath to the First Pres
byeran Church 20 to the Latayette street CnrcR Cr
IN Lockport, 1870 have united with the First Church
about the same number to the Congregatlohal
Church. ana 4I to the Second Presbyterian
The Southern Presbyterian Assembly comprises
10 Synods, 4S Presbyteres, 7S6 ministers, 81 llcen-
tiates, 92 candidates, 1898 churches and I69lO COM
The United Presbyterian Church has Synods
80 Presbyteries and about 200 ministers, ana 6o6l4
The Cumberland Presbyterian Church has q
Syonds so Presbyteres, 1900 ministers, ana 10000
COMMITMENTS.
The Reformed Presbyterian SyQpd has u minis
ters and S4ST communicates.
METHODIST.
| According to a correspondent of the ChriSttdi
! Regi.ter the lntaran lion and the Methodist aml
are lying down together in the sweetest harmony II
| Meadyille Pa. Tine graduating theological class IN
| Cludes five Unitarians and one "Christian;' whit
| the Junior class has four MethOdists, TWO coOret
| brothers, and two ladies. 'lhe fraternal feeling
| between the Unitarian and Methodist students Is
quite as close as that between the Unitarian and TIT
| Christian Methodist and Unitarian ministers
exchange pulpits there; and the Methodist PROBES
sOIs of Allegheny College have aided IN the ordina
tiOn of Unitarian ministers. INDEPENDENT
In Cincinnati there are four German and twenty
English NJ. Il. Churches For local church improve
ments, and in centenary offerings, the EnglsI
Churches have lately contributed about S35OOOO
, ON Sunday, May 9, the Free MethOdists OF Brooh
/ lyn n y, dedicated house of worship
: Clark Street Methodist Church block, corner o.
Clark and Washington, Chicago, erected few years
SINCE at cost of two hundred thousand dollars, ma
been rented this year for niney-two thousand dollars
= | all the church rooms being reserved as usual.
| There are now at work in the Methodist Eps
, | copal Church 1880 effective itinerant ministers
| The demands OF trade have decreed the doWnial
Of Light Street Church, Baltimore, the Old citadel