The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-27

by sufpliced choir has been dismissed by the
court on the ground of want of Jurisdiction.
AT the frstannual convention Of the Diocese
OF Easton, Pa, first resolution was adopted,
dividing the diocese into three convocations for
the purpose of furthering the work of diocesan
missions and church extension
The Archbishop of Canterbury has addressed
letter TO all the members of the Ritual Com
mission, insisting that their report must be
ready before Christmas. The report of the Lee
tionary Committee was made up long ago.
though not yet published. The lessons from
the Apocrypha for saints days are reduced from
26 to 4, and for ordinary days from 106 to 40.
A second series for Sunday "even song" is pro-
vded.
-Rev. j. X. Stone. Episcopalian. whose con-
version from Episcopalianism to Roman Catholi-
cism has been denied, has asked the eccesiasti-
cal authority of the Diocese of Western New
York to displace him from the ministry, thus
giving color to the report. The Church Record
denies that this change is the result of the
Catholic" movement in the Church, as he was
always Low Church" in his sympathes and a
special friend of Bishop Coke.
The Church Missionary Society convened
| in New York, on the 10th instant, in the Church
| of the Epiphany. Judge Conyingham presided
The total receipts for the year were S9S, l72'39
This was the first year in which the receipts eX-
ceedod the expenditures, and this result was
owing to a reduction of the work. The number
| of missionaries had been reduced from 10S to
| 63. The society holds bond for the support of
| a seminary in Rhinebeck, N. Y, for 500 000
| Also, for church and parsonage at Rhinecliff
| $4,000. During the year the first financial
| secretary, Rev. Mr. Rising lost his life in the
| Ohio river disaster, December s. 1868, and Rev.
! Mr.. Newbold was appointed to fill the vacancy.
| AT large Evangelical Episcopalian Con-
| ference meeting lately held in New York, it was
unanimously voted on the motion of Dr. Vim
ton, 'that the Evangelical bishops be requested
to prepare alternate forms in the disputed offices
of the Prayer Book, and present them to and
demand grant of them from the next General
! Convention" further resolution, advising q
full full and thorough revision Of the whole Prayer
Book, was passed by a vote of 70 to 46. Yet
| another requested the Evangelical bishops to
| strive for q repeal of the canon forbidding
! ministers not Episcopally ordained to ofliciate.
resolution of DR.. Vinton's was passed request
| ing the Evangelical bishops to inquire whether
there were reason to institute proceedings on
! the charge of false doctrine against any of the
bishops. plan proposed by DR.. Muhlenberg
was adopted for Evangelical brotherhood
| devoted to the purity of the Church.
METHODIST.
! The North Georgia Conference of the
| Methodist Episcopal Church, South, will meet
this year in Rome, on the Sth day of December.
Rev. Henry Boehm is said to be the oldest
| living Methodist itinerant preacher. He is %
years of age, and breaches regularly.
The Methodsts of the South have made pro-
vision for the publication of CoJored Chris
tidn AdUocate, to be under the management of
Rev. Samuel Watson.
| The religious debate at Millersburg, Ky,
| between Mr.. Miller, of the Methodist Church,
and Mr.. Briney, of the Christian Church, closed
! on the Both of October, after having lasted six
days. The Methodists think Mr. Miller came
| out triumphant, while the Christians are salts
| fed with Mr.. Briney.
| "A member of the New Connection Methodist
| body at Sheffield has given e26 600 towards the
| erection and endowment of an ediice at Shelf
| field to contain "thirty-six almshouses for the
| accommodation and subsistence of forty-eight
| aged and INDECENT persons. 'DIark Firth, Esq,
| is the donor, as an expression of gratitude to
| Almighty God for His favorng providence.
The Methodist Almanac for 1870, recently
| published, furnishes the following interesting
| figures:-
| Methodism in the United States embraces
eleven distinct and independent sects, and repre-
| sents 14,O76 itinerants, with membership of
| 2,33I5l9. In Canada there are 905 ministers
| and " 3Sl members; in Eastern British America,
| 151 ministers and 16, 576 members; in the West
| Indies, so ministers and 40,306 members; in
| England and Scotland, 1854 ministers and 743 531
members; in France, 80 ministers and 6063 mem
bers; in Germany and Switzerland, SO ministers
and 1852 members; in Spain, Italy, and Dem
mark, % ministers and 800 members; in India
and Ceylon, SO ministers and 1913 members:
in China, 40 ministers mi! and 1Ms7l M
members; in South America, Turkey, and Hayti,
| IL ministers and 81 members. Aggregate,
| 19,251 ministers and 3, ,647 members The
last General Conference organized Board of
educational fund wamountingt to $24, 1854, and
to appropriate the interest in aiding young men
preparing for the ministry. There are six theo-
| logical institutions, three of which have endoW-
ments in excess of $3.50 000 There are twenty
three Universities and Colleges, with 1873 instruc-
tors and 5000 students; also S5 Academies and
| Seminaries, with 504 instructors and IA, 100 stu
| dents. The total property of these institutions,
| in buildings and endowments, is estimated at
| $4, ,S39, ,S74
The publishing interests represent fund of
| 81, 165, 624'55. There are two monthly maga-
zines and one quarterly, nine official and six
unofficial weeklies, and five Sunday School and
missionary papers. The Missionary Society
collects and disburses over six hundred thousand
dollars year, and employs in the foreign field
about one hundred missionaries, and one hnn-
dred and fifty assistants. The Sunday School
Union represents 10 S95 schools, 1S2, 566 officers
and teachers and ,152, 825 scholars 1t collects
and disburses something. over twenty thousand
dollars year in furnishing libraries for feeble
schools. The Tract Society collects and dis
burses from fifteen to twenty thousand dollars a
| year, and the Church Extension Society col
lected and disbursed last year about one hundred
and twenty-five thousand dollars.
LUTHERAN.
"A new church has just been dedicated in
| Wappakoneta, Ohio.
The first German church established in Ar
kansas is Lutheran. They have recently dedi-
Gated house of worship.
Within the last year, Franciscan monk
named Jaeger, formerly private secretary to the
Archbishop of Prague, and Father Confessor to
the King of SaXony, during his sojourn in
Prague, has abandoned Popery, and become o
Lutheran.
The third annual Council of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church of North America was held in
Chicago, November So Rev. G. F. Krote
presided. The Committee on Foreign Missions
reported, through Rev. DIR. Passavant, the fol.
| lowing important resolutions, which, after consi.