The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-08

The Annual Reunion of the American Con-
grcgatonal Union, under the auspices of that body
together with the anniversary exercises will
take place at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
on thursday evening, the 18th of May. The
ante-rooms of the Academy win be open for q
leyee at 81 o'clock when the speakers and
| others, gentlemen and ladies, who wish to greet
each other, will enjoy an hour of unceremonious
social and Christian intercourse. Dodworths
excellent band will be i'm attendance TO enliven
the occasion. AZ ~ o'clock the usual public
services IN the Academy will commence. A very
rich meeting is anticipated The Rev. DR..
Price, OF Wales, whose eloquence ia said to be
extraordinary, and who has Just arrived in the
country the Rev ;. II. Tying, Jr., the Rev. DIR.
Ridgeway, of st. Paul's Church Methodist of
New HoIk, and other distinguished speakers, will
give high character to the exercises.
ne annual report for the last year Of Rev.
d. +. Moore, of the City Missionary Society,
| under the auspices of the Congregational
| churches OF San Francisco, says:-''We have in
this city "a churches or chapels and l2 stations.
The utmost seating capacity of these is 40, 799.
| If now our population be estimated mt i50 900,
| there is deficiency of 100, POI. New York, with
| a population six times as great ours, has
| deficiency of only 100 sittngs more than our
| own. Plainly we need some method to bring
| this 100000 to hear the truth of the Gospel Ac-
cOrding to the school census of June, 1868 there
were % 6l9 children in this city between five and
| fifteen years of age while the entire number
| under religious instruction Qncluding those of
every sect is only 1926 if we take all the names
enrolled The actual number will fall far short of
| this, since many of the children attend more
| than one Sabbath School. Still we are aston
| ished to find that at the very largest allowance
| there are 1898 children i'm our city not gathered
anywhere for religious instruction. If we reckon
| one-half of this number as Protestants, we have
1865 not provided for. Surely there is still
chance for Sabbath School effort The receipts
| of the society for the year have been $3243; eX
penses $32l3. Tracts distributed, So 142; books,
5430; Bibles and Testaments, 444; magazines and
papers, l7,7S1; persuaded to attend church, GO;
conversions, 20; persons relieved, SS7; employ
ment obtained Tor lOl articles of clothing fur
nished, SO99 of which upwards of 500 were new
garments from sewing societies connected with
the several Congregational churches ofthe city,"
LUTHERAN.
DIR. T. Stork, of the Lutheran ObserUer, is
urging conferences on the subject of union
between the adherents of the General Council
and the General Synod. The effort does not
look very encouraging, as the parties seem mu-
tually glad to be rid of each other. The adhe-
rents of the Council are old High Church Lu-
therans while those of the Synod believe in
revivals, in sympathy with other saints, and
hesitate to express an unboundcd faith in the
confessions of the Church as in the Scriptures.
episcopal.
By the eXertions of young girl the last
eight years, the beautiful little church of St.
Sacrament has been built in Bolton on Lake
George at a cost of $4,000.
An exchange says:-'Of the fourteen Epis-
cOpal churches of Boston, six are free churches
to hear about the remaining five"
Bishop Huntington's (of New York; new
field OF labor has a population of $4,000; 95
church parishes, of which but 81 are self-sup-
porting, and 80 church edifices. 1t is u mission
field. in the church sense.
Ascension Church (EpiscOpaD, in New
York, is setting good example to her sisters,
by opening the doors both of her yestibule and
of her pews, to the public every Sunday even
ing. No one need ask the sexton for a seat, all
being for the time free.
The Episcopaans in Kentucky have inau-
gurated new system of church extension, en-
ploying two evangelists to build up churches in
destitute places, and to do much of the work OF
a Methodist travelling preacher. missionary
of the Church Missionary Society has during
the last year organized congregations in five
towns in Missouri, averaging twenty communi
cants in each.
The great central conference of the Irish
% Episcopal Church. which consists of 42S lay and
clerical delegates met in Dublin last month. All
the bishops were present except the Bishop OF
Cashel, who is eighty-seven years of age. Reso-
lutions we're passed condemning the principle OF
Mr.. Gladstone's Church bill, and protesting
against the alienation of church property, anC
appointing committee TO assist in opposing the
bill.
Rev John Anketell, an Episcopal clergyman
of Western New York, supporting the plan o.
Bishop Coke for a union between the Episcopa
lians and Methodiss, urges that the latter should
'accept rectifcation of their episcopate at th(
hands of the Morayian bishops" so that the for
mer could recognize the canonicity of the
orders. So far we see, the Methodists do no
see it in that light, and do not seem to care
whether or not a tactual succession from Pete
can be proved for their bishops. Independent.
- Grace Church, of Brooklyn, is one of thu
most enterprising High" Episcopal churche
of the city. During five years of DR.. Hoffman
ministry, 54S COMMITMENTS were received, ant
r $1S6,eo0 spent for support of the church ant
benevolent objects. Dr. Paddock has accepted
} the call of the church. We have mentioned tn
> fact that he warned his flock in Detroit agains
: the publications of the Evangelical Society. Tn
l Hartford Churchman, in its comment, compares
1 without intending any compliment, the Churcl
Evangelical" Societies with Red Republicanisn
: and Unitarian Christianity. We had assumes
+ that, though voluntarily, they were Evangelical
in fact as well as in name. The Churchmdn
we think, had not previously pronounce
! against these societies, which have the endorse
Ns. -. a tl,o hnst hisho,,s