The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-16

ltshed q tbeOlORical school, which has now
about thirty students preparing for the ministry.
A committee appointed by the last general
assembly at Albany has visited the school, and
was erati6ed with its condition.
The o. &. Presbyterians haze Just organised
a Presbytery In Santa Fe. New Mexico. The
Santa Fe church Is the only one In this presby-
terry. missionary Is on his way TO the Nava-
joes. The Pueblo Indians live in TO Nns, and
are industrious and honest, They profess
Roman Catholicism, but they retain many OF
their beathen rites,
The Rev. J. P. E. Kumler was lately IN
stalled pastor of the Presbyterian church in
Evansville, indiana. Evansville is an enter
prisug city, with population of 30, 900, aud
larger trade than any city on the OHIO below
Cincinnati. The church, founded in 1921, has
two hundred members and handsome house
of worship. Governor Conrad Baker, rest
dent OF the own, is one of the leading members
OF the church.
BAPTIST.
The Sunday school of the Tab b,rnacle
Baptist school, in Brooklyn, \. v, has Collec ed
$4,000 10 buy building lot for their new
church.
tions. embracing 1873 churches, aud two
churches uDassoCated, making l40 churches in
alt; ll3 pastors, lGl preachers, 1917 baptlsms
during the year, and total membership of
20, l59. During the year four churches were
organized.
the will Of Eliza B. sommers of New York
contains the following benevolent bequesss:-
Association for Relief OF Respectable Aged In.
digent Females, S5000 with interest from death;
to Baptist Home Mission Society," $4,000; to
American and Foreign Bible Society (Bapt,st)
$4,000: TO trustees of South Baptist Church.
city of New York, $5OOO to be invested on bond
and mortgage, the interest TO go for the support
of the poor of that church; TO the American
Tract Society, $500, The aeove Institutions
given to Madison University, Hamilton, Ma1i-
son county, N. Y, Sl0,000
This denomination during the past year has
made cre0itable progress. There has been au
iuprpaSp n cent
200 Ievivals have been reported; 1914 have been
received by baptism, and over 1000 by the
adhesion OF two associations of the General
Baptists; 25 have received ordination, "a been
licensed TO preach; Al churches have been
organized; 81 meeting houses dedicated. There
are six more General Baptist associations
probably join the Free-w1ll body, though
without dropping their distinctive name.
The Free-wlil BaDtists have been very active
IN education. They have Hillsdale College,
III Michigan, with $50 students; Bates College,
in Maine which, with its preparatory seminary,
has had 200 pupils; and eighteen other colleges,
academies, and theological seminarieS are under
their control, of which Storer College, at Har-
per's Ferry, Va, has lately been endo we'd,
mainly for the use of the freedmen. The Morn
ng Star, of Dover, N. H., and the CHRISTIAN
Freeman of Chicago are their two accredited
organs, and both superior UNCONVENTIONAL
journals. The former has the prestige of age,
and is the sblest of the two; but its younger
sister has not whit less enterprise, and pro-
EPISCOPAL.
- Forty three Episcopal churches now exist
in the State OF California, seven OF which IN
! san Francisco. Two of these latter have cost
! 100000 each. There is also theological semi
| nary and religious newspaper.
| The Church Home for Or tphan and Destitute
| Children in Boston, Mass, Episcopal Diocese or
Massachusetts, was recently opened. and cost
thousand dollars The present number of
| children under the roof is fifty, and probably
as many more will be received. The bishop OF
the diocese is president OF tue Institution.
| -The late Episcopa! General Convention, OF
| New York, voted to allow the congregations,
with The permission of the Bishop, to make use
| of two collections Of hymns, from whicn hymns
| might be selected for religious worship, as well
as from the ola authorized collection. Bishop
| Whitehouse, of III nois has issued pastoral
| letter to his clergy, glaci0usly allowing them
| tie privilege of singing from that one OF then
which contains Romish hymns suited to the
| faith ofprieStly sacramenta!ists; but torbddng
any of his clergy to usa the other Evangelical
col ection. Says the BptScOpdtldn:-"Here are
two kinds of food, briers aud grass. He drives
the flock to the prlok!y bushes, the thistles, aud
| thorns, and stramonIum, and says, Eat that, or
| will bring down my crook upon you. You
shall not have grass; prefer 67ers myself and
The opinion of Rev. Charles H. Wheeler,
one of the three presbyters on whose decision
Rev. John P. Hubbard was acquitted, is pub
lshed in the Christian Witness 1t supports the
view that the canon which was alleged to be
violated was intended TO keep lmpostors. and
not laymen or clergymenlof other sects, out OF
Episcopal pulpits. He also holds that there
are fatal technical defects in the presentment of
charges which would prevent conviction. The
minority opinion OF Mr.. White convicts Mr..
Hubbard on every charge ard specification
except that of disobedience TO the bishop, aud
acoults him of that on technical grounds. The
modification n of the canon law at the last con-
vention makes the decision of the court of NO
| value as y precedent.
NONER RNMEMT sAIEc