The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-04
SUMMARY OF CHuRUu NEWS.
METHODIST.

IuNO taCn buDHCTlDtu W luG llOUu una Oh the
Church Extension Society of the Methodist
Church the sum of $4,000, payable in install
mcnts OF $1,000 per annum.
The total number of ministers in the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church South i'm 1868 was 2I9J:
local preachers, 44l3; white members, 503, 500;
colored members, 320SS. The bishops arc j. o.
Andrew, II. Paine, G. Il. Pierce, j.. Early, III. II.
Kavanaugh, w. NJ. Wghtman, T.. NJ. Marvin, d.
S. Doggett, II. N. Mc1l eirc.
-Methodism in the United States comprises
membership of ., 2,331, ,51S, aud an itinerant minis
try of 14.O16-a body more than three times as
large, III the first particular, and more than four
times in the second, as the corresponding body
in England and Scotland. The aggregate, in all
lands, is l025l ministers and 1858, S47 members
"A number large enough for nation.
The Connecticut Methodist State .Conyen-
tion, which We announced some weeks ago, was
held last week in New Haven. From its report
il appears that the number of Methodist church
members in Connecticut is 10000 The number
of churches is lG6 valued at Sl,Ol6,OOO, and OF
parsonagcs 1865, valued ut 81 2OSOOO. There are
169 ministers, including supplies ia Sunday
Schools, 1881 scholars, and Ga, Sj3 volumes i'll
the libraries.
The increase in the department of church
edifccs and parsOnages the last year is very
large In the present total, IL. 04S churches, the
increase is 1856, an average of nearly one each
day in the year. In total of 1868 parsonages
there is an increase of 157. The Methodist
Episcopal Church has now invested in church
ediiccs and parsonagcs the large sum Of $751;
Sc, 144,7 ,796. The average value of churches
(houses of Worship is nearly $1,000, and that of
parsonages about $3.50
The Trustees of the Charles Street Church,
Baltimore, have secured an eligible site for their
new church. They have purchased the lot and
family mansion of Charles A. Gambrell, Esq,
northeast corner of Charles and Monument
streets, fronting lfty-one feet on Monument
street, with depth of one hundred and sixty
feet and the adjoining residence on Monument
street, fronting thirty feet, with depth of one
hundred and sixty feet, to the wide alley in the
rear. For the Gambrell property $40 900 was
paid, and for the ad dining house and ground
$50,000, making the entire cost of the property
$l20,000. The present Charles Street Church
has been sold to the Light street congregation
for the sum of f1200O0. The purchase includes
all the furniture of the church, and also the par
sonage on West Fayette street, and furniture.
PRESBYTERIAN (soUTH.)
"A beautiful Gothic church, erected at Hobbs
Depot, near Louisville, Ky, was dedicated to
the worship of God lately. DR.. Stuart Robinson
preached in the morning to a large and atten-
building, in connection with DR.. Hills school
has been erected at cost Of little over $l2,00
BAPTIST.
The Free-Wiu BaptistS now number 1875
churches and &c, G31 communicates, an increase
of 81 churches and 5441 communicates during
the past year.
From the minutes Of the Associations with
which the churches of Philadelphia are con
nected, we have gathered the following statis-
tics for the year with regard to thcm:-Bap-
tisms, 1885, deaths, 163; present membership
ii, 1884.
There are five Baptist churches in Philadel-
phia without pastors at the present time the
Fourth, Twelfth, Passyunk, Shiloh, and Second
Germantown. There are four Baptist Mission
Chapcls in Philadelphia, viz AngOra, Fox
Chase, Boardman, and RittcnhOusctown.
The Baptist Theological Seminary and Uni
versity of Chicago have now over one hundred
students, Most of them are from the North
west, and several are ordained ministers who
have been settled as pastors. The Theological
Seminary charges no tuition, and the University
gives to needy students the benefit of free tuition
the Hengstenbcrg Library, of II 600 volumes, in
Prussia, for $4,000 currency.
REFORMED.
A call from the congregation of the Re-
formed church, Manayunk, has been ten
dered the Rev. P Stryker Talmage to become
their pastor
The Second Reformed7Church of Philadel-
phia has extended u call to the Rev. Isaac S.
Hartley, of the Sixth Avenue Church, New York
The call has been accepted.
Mr.. ID. ID. Williamson has left $4,000 to
the Theological Seminary (Reformed) of New
Brunswick. He also made the Boards of Foreign
and Domestic Missions of the Reformed Church
his rcsiduary legatees and it is thought they
will realize about $4,000 each.
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN.
The Fourth United Presbyterian Church in
this city the Rev. w. G. jackson pastor
elect, was cheered in having thirty persons added
to its communicates list on Sabbath, November
ID. This congregation have just purchased an
eligible site for new church edifice at the
northeast corner of Fitzwater and Nineteenth
streets, and will promptly proceed to erect on il
a new house of worship.
The Fifth United Presbyterian Church
of this city the Rev. A. Calhoun pastor has
| just manifested q most becoming spirit of libe-
in Noxytn Haht tba
| has long encumbered it, and bids fair to prose
| cute its great work with increased encourage
| ment and success. At the Communion in thi
church, on November 81, eighteen persons were
| added to the membership.
| CONGREGATIONAL.
The Rev. e. Y. Garrette has been dismissed
| from his pastorate, in Millbury, and accepted
| call to the Plymouth Church, in Pittsburg, Pa.
| where he will soon be installed
| The new chapel for DR.. Nehemiah Adams
| Church, on Columbia avenue, in this city, il
cruciform in shape, and will seat five hundred
persons. Services were held in it, for the frs
| time last Sabbath.
| LUTHERAN.
The Rev. w. $. Emery confirmed twenty
| eight persons ut a recent communion service
held at the Tinicum Church, in Bucks county
of which he is the pastor.
| AT the recent meeting of the Philadelphi;
| Conference of the East Pennsylvania Synod O
the Lutheran Church, the subject of Benehciar,
| Education was considered, and it was resolved
that an extra effort be made for the collection
| of education money, and that the conference
cooperate with the rest of the churches con
nected with the synod in sustaining the student
| at Gettysburg
AT the meeting of the General Council of tn
Lutheran Church, recently held, the council de
| clared itself prepared to receive proposition
| from the Missouri and any other synods, look
ing to their organic union with it in accordanc
with its fundamental principles. The right o