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cation have been fully recognized, am prepared to
give 1t respectful consideration.
"J0HN 3. PURCELL,
Archbishop of CINCINNATI


"JoHN b. PURCELL
Archbishop of Cincinnati"
LUTHERAN.
On the 1st of September, we learn from the
J,,lberon Observer the Danish Norwegian
branch of the Augustana Synod opened school
in Marshall, Wisconsin, called the Marshall
Academy and Theological Seminary. Professor
John Anderson is the principal, assisted by two
professors of theology.
CONGREGATIONAL.
During the last year the 10000 members of
the Congregational churches in Illinois made an
average contribution of twenty-five cents to the
Home Missionary Society, while the so, 900 mem
bers in Massachusetts contributed an average
of seyenty-fve cents each. At the same time
the AdUdnce admits that the average wealth of
these churches in Illinois is not much less than
the average in Massachusetts,
The Chicago Qllinois) Seminary has opened
with forty students, while more are to come. A
goodly number of the students have been
preaching as missionaries during the vaca-
ton. The walls of the chapel are going up
rapidly.
Tie Congregational Union, in its sixteenth
annual report, says that, from the organization
of the society to the present time 375 churches
have received aid, and 3S3 houses of worship
been built OF these, thirty-seven are in New
England, sixty-two in Illinois, and sixty-one in
Iowa.
Rev. w. c. Smith, formerly q Congrega-
tional pastor at East Saginaw, Michigan, has
accepted a call to the Presbyterian church in
Urbana, Illinois.
The congregational Club" is q new orcani-
zaton of ministers and laymen in Boston and
vicinity. Its first monthly meeting was held
September IA.
Rev. Francis Norwood has been appointed
Chaplain of Essex County Asylum, Ipswich,
Conn.,, in place of Rev. Dr. Fitz, deceased
- The college building at Benzonia, Michigan,
costing about $4,000, is now completed, and
was dedicated September 10.
A nn Snt,to ,1,or1
Portage river, four miles east of Bowling Green,
Ohio.
METHODIST.
Now that out of q vote of a quarter of mil
lion the laity have decided in favor of lay repre-
sentaton in the Methodist Church, the ministers
who compose the conferences are voting on the
same question. 1t is necessary that three
fourths of the members of the conference should
accede to 1t in order for the matter to be pre-
sented for final action to the next General Con-
terence. Thus far reports have been received
from ]S conferences, which have given 1905 votes
in favor and but 372 voted against the measure.
This is the full three-fourths required and -
over
There seems to be not a little trouble in
Seneca Falls, n. Y, in connection with the
church which lately left the Wesleyan Metho-
| dists Tor the Congregatonalists. The minority
have claimed all the church property, and uu-
seemly conduct has characterized some of the
public meetings. The pastor, w. w. Lyle, re-
fuses to occupy the church again until the rival
claims to the church property are adjudicated,
or the proper authorities can give assurance that
| the disturbances will not be repeated.
1t is stated that in the Methodist Church the
net increase OF houses of worship last year was
$40. Besides these, over 140 new and improved
churches were built i'll place of old ones, making
| the number of dedications of Methodist EpiscO-
pal churches during the last year no. The esti-
mated value of the new edifces, including the
| improvements on old ones is nearly $6,000000
The statistics of all the Methodist bodies in
England show a decrease
exception of the parent body, which reports an
increase of 3146 only. These results would ap-
pear to us q strong argument against the diyi-
sions of British Methodism, and especially
| against the continued separate existence of the
| smaller bodies.
| PRESBYTERIAN.
| A correspondent says:-"Mathias Baldwin
| established more churches in Philadelphia for
| the New School Presbyterians in ten years than
| have been gathered of the Congregational Or
| thodoX societies in all Boston, with RoXbury
and Dorchester now added in the last twenty
years. What was his plan? He said to some
part of the city, is field of labor. Go there
and work. Open Sabbath School and preach
the Gospel. 1 will foot your bills, and build you
a chapel or church, as the case may require.
This is what he said to the Rev. E. E. Adams.
| ID. D., when he commenced the North Broad
| Street Church, now one of the strongest in that
| city. The same was said to several other minis
ters. They went to the field and the result has
| been seven or eight strong churches"
| One of the results of the Presbyterian re.
| union will be to give the denomination better
| newspapers and better sustained. Already the
PreSJyter and the Christian Herald of Cincin.
natl, which have labored together in favor of re-
union, have determined to consolidate, even in
advance of the meeting of the General Assembly
in Pittsburg, and come out this week in a new
| form, and under the Joint editorial charge of DR.
Monfort and Rev. Mr.. Babb, making a shee
equal in size to any other of that denomination
| in the country.
The Rev DR.. John c. Smith preached hi
thirteth anniversary sermon as pastor of tho
Fourth Church, Washington, d. c., on Sabbath
September 10. In these thirty years the numbe
| of communicates added were 1892 of deaths
and dismissions there were 5S3; the total numbe
| now in communion is 600. Dr. Smith also ha
| baptized 677 infants and l30 adults; total, S01
| The marriages have been 607.
| Fifteen new students have been already re
ceiyed in the Union Theological Seminary Vr
| ginia and they have information of two or thre
more. 1t is probable that the junior class thi
| year may reach twenty; at any rate, the who'll
number will be greater than for many years past
| There has been very interesting series o
meetings at the Philadelphia Church, Georgia
recently. Twenty-Five persons were addet
to the church on profession Of their faith. o
these sixteen were young men.
There is IN interesting work of grace il
Arkadelphia, Arkansas, which has resulted, S,
far, in the addition of thirty members to tn
Presbyterian Church.
EPISCOPAL.
Rev DR.. Newton, of this city, an Epis
copalian of the most liberal and evaugelica
type, and who has the reputation of being on
ofthe most successful preachers to children tina
there are in the country, was lately invited t.
preach sermon in the Congregational church +
the children of Woburn. 1t is an immense build