The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1869-09-15
FROM THE NORTHERN STATES.

Rev. S. C. Logan was installed pastor of the Pres
byterian church in Scranton. Pa, on the evening
Of September Sd, by the Presbytery of Luzerne.
Rev. E. Erskine, D. D., late editor of the North.
,CeStern Presbyterian, has received calls to the Viii
the MELVILLE church, Presbytery of Carlisle.
Rev W. J. wylie, of Newcastle, Pa, has been
appointed Secretary of the New-school Sunday
School Committee. He has also been called to
the pastorate Of the DID, school church of Belle
fonte, Pa.
The entire membership of the six Presbyterian
churches in Boston, is something over S00 One
is " Reformed, three are " United Presbyterian
and two are odd School.
Presbyterians and the Pope-.Revs. NJ w. Jacobus
and p Fl. Fowler, the respective moderators Of
the Presbyterian General Assemblies, have ad-
dressed letter to . Plus the Ninth, Bishop OF
Rome" in reply to the invitation of the Pope one
year ago to all non Catholic communions, inviting
them to return to the lone true fold-the bosom
of the Holy Catholic Church." The points of the
moderators' letters are: lst. That the Word OF
God, as contained in the Scripture of the Old and
New Testament, is the only infallibe rule of faith
and practice I'd. Its right of private judgment
Sd. The universal priesthood Of believers that all
men have, through Christ, access by one Spirit
unto the Father, and need no human priest to
secure their access to God. 4th Denial of the per-
petuity of the apostleship.
Board of Foreign Missions of Old School Assembly.
Miss Mary 2. Dascomb and Miss Hatty Greenman
sailed from Baltimore for Brazil on the lst of Sep
TENDER. They will be attached to the Brazil mis-.
sion, and will be engaged in teaching at Rio Janero
On Saturday, September 4th, the following COM
pany sailed from New York for Indla:-Rev c.
w. Forman, wife, and three children, on their
return to India Rev. A. p. Kelso, of the Presby-
terry of Carlisle Rev. Thomas Tracy, of the Pres.
bytery of Louisville; Miss Margaret B. Thompson,
Morrison, of Oxford, Ohio. Mr.. Forman leaves
four of his children in this country for their edu.
cation. Miss Thompson goes to take charge of the
school at Dehra. Miss Morrison is the daughter
of the Rev. DR.. Morrison, of India Dr. Morrison
has already two of his children son and daugh-
ter, associated with him in his missionary work.
Other missionaries are preparing to leave for
China.
Rum and Missions AT recent meeting of the
Glasgow United Presbytery, Mr.. William Melvin
(elder) intmated that at the next meeting he would
propose to call the attention of the Presbytery
to Extracts from Journal of the Rev. Hugh
Goldie, missionary at Old Calabar, Africa, as
published in the Missionary Record for August,
WueTelu III Is SCatcu unat, sau 10 tell, the cargo OF
the Clyde steamers for the Oil Rivers, as they are
called, is ardent spirits also, that there are
those in the membership of the Church who have
far greater capital embarked in the traffic than
the capital contributed by the benevolence Of the
Church for the salvation of these tribes. This
charge has been brought against Christians in this
country as we'll as abroad, and it well deserves ven
tilation by the Church
Troubles Confessed "A correspondent of the Chris
hdn Instructor says, with commemorate frankness.
that there is no longer any use in concealing the
state of matters in the United Presbyterian Church
Whatever be the cause, despite eleven years of in
existence, our Church is not that unit
in thought and feeling, which all that love her
hoped she would become. There are differences
of opinion among her people, and on questions of
such moment as, in the estimation of some, to i'm.
peril her very existence. To ignore these differ
ences is now neither possible nor wise. 1t is only
shutting of our eyes and saying of peace, peace,
when we may be hurrying onward to the brink of
Niagara.
The venerable DR.. sprague, of Albany, preached
at West Springfield last Sabbath, the occasion
being the itieth anniversary of his first sermon as
an ordained minister, which was preached at that
place. In the morning his discourse was the
identical sermon which he preached in that church
ust fifty years before.
The Christian Advocate says that Rev. Mr. Rich
lrdson, of Washington, Ohio, is probably the
oldest living American clergyman. Yet he appears
BY no means superanuated; for, although one
hundred and six years of age, he walks FIVE miles
IN Sundays and breaches sermon.