The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-06
SUMMARY OF CHURCH NEWS.
CONGREGATIONAL.

The First Congregational Church in this
city has ceased to be, and the chapel in which
its services were held has been sold. The Ply
mouth is prospering. The Central is still waiting
in hope for the sight of a completed edifce.
The Andover Association licensed, October
10, twelve members of the senior class in An
dover. Theological Seminary, after well-sus-
tanned examination of five hours.
Rev. ID. c. Green, the first missionary of the
American Board to Japan. who sails from San
Francisco by the next steamer, is a son of Rev.
David Green, q former missionary and Foreign
Secretary of the Board, and descendant Of
Roger Sherman.
The Congregational Quarterly reports 80
Congregational churches organized during the
first eight months of this year. They are at
Caribou, Me-; Essex junction, VT; Worcester
Mass; New Haven, Conn; Newark Valley, N.
Y. Decatur, Ohio; Winchester Ind; Marshall,
Mich: Evanston, Ill; Oak Hill, Wis. Seneca,
Par6ersburg, and Altoona, Iowa; Owatonna,
Merton, Judson. and Granville, Mimi; Platts-
mouth, Neb. Williamsport, North Topeka,
Leavenworth, Corning, and Arvonia, Kan be-
sides a Welsh church 40 miles north of
Topeka" Glenwood, Mo-; Wheatland, Cal. and
Baton Rouge and Lockport, La. It's also re-
ports the ordination of the same number of
ministers and the death of H.
The Congregational Conference of Connec-
ticut is now fully organized, and held its first
meeting in Rockville, October 26 and 81. The
main business engaged in was the assumption
of the home mission work of the State which
was handed over by the General Association.
The subject of systematic benevolence was dis
cussed, and Rev. Mr.. Wilcox, of New London
(who has accepted call to Jersey City), said
that as the result of an effort in that direction
his Sabbath-School had increased from $500 to
$1,000 per year. A committee was appointed to
inquire whether Congregationalist churches
ought not to have larger representation among
the officers of the Bible Society. These churches
contribute to that society in the proportion OF
five to two Presbyterian churches, and yet never
had q secretary chosen from among them.
METHODIST.
The annual exhibit of Rev. DR.. Redford
shows that the profits on the business of the
Southern Methodist Publishing House amount
to over $44, 600 for the past year.
Benjamin f. Cocker, d. D., of the Detroit
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
has been elected Professor of Moral and Mental
Philosophy in the University of Michigan.
"A Methodist preacher in Baltimore was re-
quested to become a correspondent of The Me-
thodist. He brought the matter before his
preachers meeting and agreed to do 1t If his
brethren would aid him by reporting to him
matters of interest. motion that the brother
be requested to do this duty was lost, on the
ground that The Methodist is an unofficial paper
and that it is better to sustain the various AdC0'
Gates published by the Book Concern.
A short time since the old "burying-ground
of the Whatcoat Statlon-the extreme north
western charge in the city OF Baltimore-was
sold Embracing six acres of ground bordering
on Druid Pill Park, the price obtained for il
was very fair, $97, 600. This sum, with what viii
be obtained from the sale of the old church ano
parsonage, will place in the hands OF the trus
tees not less than $4,000. Allowing wha
may be necessary for the removal of the
dead buried in the graveyard, and for theil
proper accommodation, a handsome sum will b(
left for the building of fine church on the
beautiful lot kindly presented by Mr.. John 1
Ford.
-Glenco is small settlement eight miles from
Hudson. Within a radius of one and hal
miles there have been fifty-scyen families anC
one hundred and thirty children, but no churcl
or Sunday school. A member OF the Seventh
street Methodist Episcopal Church, in New Yorl
city is accustomed to spend his summers a
that place. Moved by sympathy for these sheer
without fold, he procured a lot and built upol
it, at his own expense. a beautiful church. On
Monday, October II, he decided it in due form
free from all incumbrance, to the Methods
Episcopal Church.
The Troy Methodist Conference has eXpee,
Rev. Il. $. Pierce Cor c. Il. S. PIERCE from tn
church and ministry for the crime-so says tn
Troy TtnteS-of "seducng youthful members o
his focli." This is the same villain who tW
wears since palmed himself off as n Methods
Congregational minister at Woodstock, Conn
He engaged to supply the pulpit there for 81,
months but before the time had expired hi
real character was discovered, and his engage
ment abruptly terminated, but only after he ha
succeeded in causing difficulties which canno
be healed in years. He was introduced to Tro
on the strength of testimonials unlucllily give
by his supporters in Woodstock. Although h
has most estmable wife in New Jersey, whor
he has deserted, he has claimed in both places {