The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-09
SUMMARY OF CHURCH NEWS.
BAPTIST,


The Rochester Theological Seminary begins
this year with fifty students, and more are ex-
pected.
The Baptist Theological Seminary of Chi
cago is trying to raise 5000 to purchase the
! library of the late DR.. Hengstenberg.
"A writer in the Louisiana Baptist says the
1000 colored Baptists in that State at the close
! of the war have increased since to 10000.
r "A revival at Love Lady Schoolhouse, n. c.,
Sesulted IN thirty baptisms and proposition to
Build house of worship, one gentleman offer
tng five acres Of land for a site.
1t is reported that Rev. John o. Sutherland,
In evangelist laboring in the Mountain Associa-
lions of Kentucky, has baptized 57S into the fell
1lowship of the churches in one year.
Some writer's, referring to the statement that
'of the S47 Baptist churches in Georgia, only 2S
have preaching every Sunday, adds, 81 presume
There are not over Is in Alabama, which have q
weekly service"
The prejudice in England against clerical
celibacy is so great that the proposals in favor
of sending out unmarried missionaries, made
last May, by DIR. Landels, and by some of the
managers of the Baptist Missionary Society," are
almost universally repudiated by the denomina-
Mr.. Trestrail, resigns his post.
The Christian IIldeI publishes note from
missionary among the Choctaws, which says
According to recent statistics there thirteen
Baptist churches, and four hundred and sixty
seven members, in the Choctaw Nation four ma
tive ordained Gone died recently and three ma
Il tive unordained preachers, and two white mis-
sionares. Population of Choctaw Nation over
20, GOO; area, $1,000 square miles, suppose"
METHODIST.
The estimated value of Methodist Church
property in Ontario Seneca, and Wayne coun.
Ties, n. Y, is 100000. Parsonage property
$h2954. Membership, s136.
A meeting house was dedicated in Montana
Iowa, September H. Cost, $4,000, one at Barns
boro', N. j., September a. which cost $500
and one at Waveland, Ind September 10.
The recent Wesleyan General Conference
held in Hull, England, spent several hours dis
cussing the case of a member who had written
"a book to show that attendance at class-meetne
ought not to be rigidly enforced. Many were In
favor of suspending him from the ministry; but
a mild rebuke was all that finally prevailed.
"A young student of Harvard Divinity School
who had previously been Methodist, says OF
the students whom he meets there:--"l believe
thew are more devout and truly pious than the
Methodist students have known. In the con
Xference meeting here there is more real heart
talk more communion OF the soul with God, an(
more moving expression of religious faith thai
have found elsewhere, or expected to fine
here.
nial Jubilee worthily fills large space in thu
Methodist papers. The hero OF the occasion i
said to be one of the four famous Peters-Pete
the Great Peter the Hermit, Peter the Fisher
bnan, and Peter the Cartwright. The old vete
Enn has been Methodist preacher for 65 years
and has served for 80 years as Presiding Elder
|IIis speech on the occasion of this festival wa
Characteristic of the man-fun OF his roug!
rumor. His wife is still living, after the roug
Experience during 90 years OF travelling
preachers life.
The Episcopal clergy of this country have
mutual life insurance league, which is said I
work very satisfactorily.
Both the New York and Long Island Eplf
+ eopal Conventions have met the past week. III