The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-20

centennial anniversary and dedicated new
house of worship. October 20.
AN Evangelical Episcopal Conference has
met in Philadelphia TO act on the report of q
committee on the revision of the Prayer Book.
partial revision was laid before the meeting.
plan of union was read by DR.. Muhlenberg,
and favorably received.
The final services in the old st. James
Church of this city will be held tomorrow
at 101 A. NJ, when the holy commu-
nion will be administered and sermon preached
by the rector, the Rev. Henry j. Morton, ID. D.,
appropriate to the occasion.
The annual report of the Rev. J. r. Moore,
of the Church of the CrucifXion, Philadelphia,
has been made to the vestry of the Church,
printed and circulated among the friends and
patrons of the missionary establishment.
Regular services have been held twice on Sun
day and part of the year on Sunday evenings at
the Home. The statistics of the Rector are as
follows-Sunday Schools and Bible classes
Teachers, III scholars, 42O. Night school
Scholars ITO; average attendance, Co.
METHODIST
The first Methodist sermon in America was
preached in New York little over q century
ago, to a congregation OF five persons
Mr. Heman Bangs for many years Presiding
Elder in the New York East Conference, died in
New Haven, Connecticut, on the I'd instant, in
the eightieth year of his age.
Orange judd the editor of the American
AgricultliriSt, and an alumnus of the Wesleyan
University, has presented to that institution
fifty thousand dollars, for the erection of
once, and will, we presume, be erected under
Mr.. Judd's superintendent.
The full vote on lay delegation now stands
1O3 476 for and 81, COG against, The ministerial
vote included in this stands 1898 for and COG
against. Three-fourths of the ministerial vote
cast are necessary to the adoption of the mea-
sure, and this large majority has been secured,
thus far, with 145 votes to spare.
The late Mrs. Burton, of Roundhay, Eng
land who was u wealthy member of the Wes
leyan Methodist Church, has left the sum of
1872 100 free of legacy duty, in aid of several
religious and benevolent institutions. or this
sum, els, 900 is to be expended on the erection
| of cRapels and schools for Wesleyan Methodists
| in Cumberland and Scotland.
CoNGREGATIoNALIsT
"A church OF eleven members was organized
at Dixon Solano county, Cal, Sept. 20.
The First Church in Albany, n. Y, dedi-
Gated, on the 18th ult., q new church edifice
which has cost $130000, including lot and
organ.
SCongregationalists have for number of
wears past given over $150O0O per annum for
educational work in the South, being more than
has been done in this direction by all others.
Rev John Dewitt. pastor of the Presbyte-
rian Church at Irvington, has accepted the
! unanimous call of the Central Congregational
Church. in Boston, the pulpit of which was
lately declined by Rev. Dr. StOrrs. The church
has debt of $3.50, 600, for the payment of which
they have provided.
BAPTIST.
We have now four Baptist mission chapels
in Philadelphia, viz, Angora, Fox Chase, Board
| man, and Rittenhousetown.
| The Baptist Church ut Holmesburg united
| with the North Philadelphia Association at its
| last session. 1t was formerly connected with
| the Central Union.
| of the 40 churches in this city 81 are con-
nected with the Philadelphia Association, Z with
| the North Philadelphia and with the Central
| Union.
| There are five Baptist churches in this city
| without pastors at the present timp-the Fourth.
| Twelfth, Passyunk, Shiloh, and Second German
| town.
| From the minutes of the associations with
| which the churches of this city are connected,
we have gathered the following statistics for the
| year with regard to them:-Baptisms, 1872;
| deaths, 16S present membership, IA, 1874.
| The sXty-seventh session in Salem of the
| Massachusetts Baptist Convention brought out
| the fact that here was the first Baptist church
in America. whose building, II by 20, is still
| standing. 1t was mentianed that the Baptists
| were contemptuousy told, about the begin
ming of this century, by the pastor of the Taber-
| nacle Church of Salem, that they could not
exist were it not for the Congregationalists
while now they equal the latter body in Salem
| itself, and are three times as numerous in the
| country. Baptists have 10000 members il
| Massachusetts.
The first annual meeting of the Baptist Lay
| Preachers Association took place last Sunday
evening, in the Madison Avenue Church, corner
of Twenty-fourth street, New York. The Secre
tary read paper giving the history of the
enterprise since the start on the 18th of August
1868. On that day a few earnest men haC
assembled, formed the society, worked hard tt
secure recruits, had been literally assisted fnan
cially and otherwise by laymen, and now thu
organization comprises large body of ou
business men, who have pledged themselves Il
preach the Gospel to their fellows in the man,
places to which the influence of the clergy coul(
not extend. A sermon was preached by the Rev
Wayland Hoyt, from Matthew xvii, 81.
PRESBYTERIAN.
| The Central Church of New York dedicated
new house of worship on Sunday last. Cos
REV. Robert W. Henry, D. D., of the Cen
tral Presbytery of Philadelphia, died in AleXan
dria, Egypt, Oct. 49,
School Presbyterians held Joint services to cele
| brate the reunion of the two bodies.
The friends of the late Rev. DR.. P. D. Cur
lev, of Washington, d. c., have recently pre-
sented his widow with suitable residence.
The Presbyterian Church South has 1896
communicates, S57 ministers, and 1850 churches
OF the churches COS have only stated supplies
, 3S1 are reported as vacant, and only 393 are re
) ported as having pastors; while 443 nearly one
third of the whole number, have contribute
nothing to the various causes of benevolence.
| Mrs. Edwin A. Stevens, of Hoboken, ha
/ given to Princeton College $50 1000, to endow
, professorship in memory of her late honore
father, Professor Albert B. Dod Some othe
person has given another 5000 And With
a short time $50, 900 additional have been give
or pledged, by still other parties for new builC
ings, etc.
LUTHERAN.
The Lutheran General Council, composed {
that party of the Lutheran Church sometime
called Symbolical, from its Difference to the Sym
bols in distinction from the Evangelical party
which support the General Synod, Hhas held il
annual meeting in Chicago. The principe