The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-19

received their diplomas May 20.
BAPTIST.
The Sabbath School of the Memorial Baptist
Church, northeast corner Broad and Master
streets, celebrated their first jubilee meeting on
Thursday evening last. The chapel was taste
fully decorated. Over the pulpit, suspended
from an arch was an elegant bell of the choicest
flowers. The school, as well as the church. is
in the most fourishing condition. Rev. z. s
Henson, ID. D.. is the pastor
Rev. Moses Rowley, Secretary Of the Wis
consin Baptist Missionary Society, furnishes the
Standard with the following fgures:-"At the
meeting of the society, at Mazo Mamie, May 25
the condensed report of their missionaries ex-
hibited the following their first quarters
labor, equal to one missionary one year and
nine weeks;-150 sermons in thirty churches;
councils and 65 other meetings attended; 494
families religiously visted 6 times ordinance of
Lords Supper administered; L new church and
several Sabbath Schools organized 1856 received
into the treasury, and over $400 pledged; 5279
miles travelled in performing these labors. The
society was organized in December last and
commissioned its three first missionaries with
out a dollar in its treasury"
We cut the following paragraph from the
New York Tribune of last Tuesday morning 1t
is one of the signs of the times, and indicates
an enterprise and yigor which, we doubt not,
will yield large and benefcent RESULT
'The American Baptist Home Mission Society re-
ceiyed, some time since, promise from the officers
of the Union Pacific Railway OF lands which to
locate missions on the line of the road. In pursu-
Mission Society, consisting OF the Rev. DR.. Il. Il. L.
Taylor, and Rev. Dr. J. L. Backus, Corresponding
OF Brooklyn, member of the Board, and the Rev.
DR.. A. p Mason, Of Boston, Mass, the District Sec
evening for Chicago, where they will take
the Union Pacific Raiload for California
three ladies being in the party. They propose to
select sites along the line Of the road for the estab
lishment of missions, the lots selected by them to
be given by the management OF the roads, both on
the Union and the Central Pacific lines. The party
Will stop at Virginia City, Carson, Denver, Central
City and Nevada City, and possibly at other places
on the route, and attend to mission interests. on
their arrival in San Francisco, the committee pro-
pose to visit the important cities and towns in
California and Oregon, on the Pacific coast. They
expect to be gone between three and four months
CONGREGATIONAL.
Rev. Samuel Mott, who, at one time for
twenty years was pastor of the church inWare-
ham, Conn.,, died on the 1st at the residence of his
son in Hartford, at the age of eghty-one. He
graduated at Union College in 1908, and was a
member of the second class at the AndoYer
Theological Seminary QSlO); was ordained 9th
of February, 1912, and went out with Gordon
Hall, Adoniram Judson, Samuel Newell, and
Luther Rice, as the first company of missiona-
ries sent out by the American Board. He was
classmate at Andover with Drs. Gardiner Spring
and X. s. StOrrs.
Rev. NJ Gerould, after ministry of more
than forty years in Langdon has resigned on
account of the failure of his eyes.
"A new church of eighty-one members,
Providence, June 2.
Mr.. S. V. McDuflie was ordained at Craw-
fordsville, Iowa, May 25.
"A church of nineteen members has just been
formed at Cheyenne, on the Pacific Railroad,
under the auspices of the Home Missionary So
ciety. Cayenne is an important point. 1t has
| become the capital of Wyoming, has the rail-
| road shops of a division has the Denver Branch
| Fort RUSSELL with 1900 soldiers, and 5000 popu-
| latlon
What gives an appearance of fictitious
| strength to Roman Catholics is the fact that
| they mass into a single church what would
make three four Protestant congregations.
| Two Congregational churches in South Wey-
| mouth, Mass.-one of them $50 and the other
| $50 years old-propose to gain this advantage by
| uniting and building new church. They are
| of about equal strength, and will have a con-
| solidated membership of $50. A fine large edi-
| fee will be bond of union between them
| Independent.
| EPISCOPAL
| The parish of theIHoly Trinity, in New York
! has just closed its fifth year. 1t supports, says
| the Protestant Churchnldn, five mission chapels
and Sunday Schools, Dispensary for the sick,
several beds in St Luke's Hospital and Home
for the incurables, mothers meetings, sewing
schools, employment societies, and other con-
nected charities. There are more than 1900
teachers and scholars connected with the Sun
day School department, whose missionary con
tRlbutions for the past five years have amounted
to $S577. The church school numbers about
400 children and teachers. In money, during
| this period, $24S 401 have been contributed.
| On the Goth ult the Zion Church was con
secrated in Fonda N Y, by Bishop Doane.
An extensive religious interest, under Epis
copal influence, amounting to quite revival
| is reported in the Lexington (Va.) Military
Institute.
/ The report of the committee of the Epis
copal Convention of Virginia on the subject o
innovations is very severe against all Higl
Church dogmas and practices.
The Episcopal Convention of Connecticu
met last week. A plan of life insurance wa
laid before the convention, by which the parisl
should by an annual payment of $50 insure thu
frmed 1107 candidates the last year.
The Rhode Island Episcopal Convention
voted to pay the fees of the counsel which pro
secuted Rev. j. P. Hubbard, his church not bein!
required to contribute. The motion to pay Mr.
Hubbards counsel was defeated.
The last suit against the Trinity Church cor
poratiOn is based on the ground that it has for
feited its rights to its funds because it has
to be protestant Episcopal" its rector having
joined DR.. Ever in calling Professionalism fail
ure; and also because the corporation will civ
no account of its funds. and perverts them to tn
destruction of morals by leasing its property I
those who keep houses of ill-fame
The Episcopal Convention of Ohio on Jun
Sd thanked Bishop McIlyaine for his letter o
the Prayer Book. The Evangelicals were in
majority, and successfully urged the adYisablit
of revision of the Prayer book.
An Episcopal minister at Lafayette, In
, diana, has been publicly censured by his assis
ant bishop for attending the Black Or0ol
, His church, the Wealthiest in the State sustain
him.
, Bishop McIlvaine lately published a lon
+ letter to a clergyman who had difficulties abou
t the Romanizing germs of the Prayer-book, el
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