The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-16
SUMMARY or RELIGIOUS NEWS.
noNGRE ATiONAL.


Church, Newark. N. j., formed less than ten
months since, made It's contribution recently to
the American Missionary Association, amount
ing to S40l. That church will DO something
when she Is grown up.
The Congregational churches in Kansas,
either from principle OF from paucity OF male
members, are adopting female Office. bearing as
well as female suffrage. Thus, one Mrs Wood
is clerk OF the church IN Cotton wood Fails, aud
another Mrs, Wood holds the same office in
Lowell while IN WaOaunsee Mrs. II. N. Jones
has been elected deaConess.
The sale of pews III Plymouth Church Mr..
BeeChcT's-took place last Tuesday week. There
| are 298 peWs in the church, the majority accom-
! modatng either five or six persons; and as
! there are always many persons willing 10 pay
! largely on seats the only way to dispose OF
! them seems TO he 10 give them TO the highest
! bidder Tor a choice, After a few remarks from
| Mr. Beecher, preceding the sale last week, the
| auCtiOneer began the work OF the evening. Toe
| first bid for a choice was 5000, and this was
speedily run up to S420, Mr.. II. G. 30 gen's Did,
! at which the competition stopped. Mr.. Bo ven
| selected pew No. 81, the annual rental of which
is Sl20. The next highest premiums were OF
1855, awarded to Dir. II. b. Calln: $500, r. S.
| Benedct; S340, III. w. Sage: $500, Moses 8.
! Beach; and 20 down to SIP. the lowest re-
| ported. 1he bidding was lively, the interest
| very great, and good humor every where p1eVa-
| lent. The Amount of premiums footed up
! Sal, 955, the rentals of pews amount TO Sl0,02S,
! and the chair rentals to $780, making a total
! income OF S54 ,6S3; more by about $4,000 than
| that of the preceding year. On Thursday even
! was held. Tue treasGrefs report showed that
! the receipts the previous year were S62 479 G7,
| of which over $50, 600 were from pew rents. The
! total expenditures had amounted to So, 1857.
! The tax for water for running the large organ
! was Sl97 The affairs OF the Society for the new
! year we're attended TO, and Mes RS. James Free
! land, X, = Benedict, and fl. B. Claim were re-
! elected trustees.
METHODIST.
The Rev. Charles Elliott, D. D., one of the
| Oldest Methodlsls IN Iowa, died at Mount Plea
! SAINT, Iowa, Oh Wednesday, 6 h inst.
Peter Cartwright is III his hftieth year as
presiding elder i'll the Methodist Church. He
| has preached thirty times since the meeting OF
the General Con ierenCe i'll CHICAGO.
! DIR. Lovck Pierce. ut the late session of the
South Georgia Couererce, received rom his
son, Bishop Pierce, siXtS.tourth annual
| appointment in the itinerant ministry
-"Boston" reports in the New York AdDOCate
that several OF the once devotet to,o @ers OF
! Theodore Parker ''have been converted, and
are now Jealous members OF the Methodist
| Church"
At the meeting of the Methodist General
/ Conference the maCter OF a great central
building for book-Ioom WAS referred to a
committee; but nothing has been actually do
although one eligible site after another is being
put out of their reach.
The Methodist Trlennial Conference refused
to elect German bishop, but Bishop Simpson
is supplying that lack He has been studying
Germ an so successfully that az a late conference
in Gaena he conducted the business in that
languages and he Will soon go to Germany TO
The African Methodist Episcopal Church
has % members in the South Carolina House OF
Representatives and one III the Senate; in North
Carolina, in the House and two in the Senate;
in Florida l3 in the House and in the Senate.
The majority of the expelled representatives in
Georgia were of the same Church.
The New York city fathers have adopted a
resolution donating $4,000 to the Ladies' Union
| Aid Society: al the same time they gave TO the
House OF the Good shepherd $25 0OO The former
is a Methodist institution tor aged and infrm
: Of hot A ha l.ttn
Catholic institution, nominally "Magdalene'
asylum, but notorious not long since as the
place where young Methodist girl was land
still is) imprisoned for becoming Protestant.
80 The NewY ork correspondent OF the Cincinnati
CHRISTIAN Advocate says that there are several
nlllioDaIes, and quite large number oil
wealthy bankers, merchants, and publishers, Ia
New YORK, who could build fity-tbousand
dollar church aud give II outright TO the demo-
mlnation-and that, too, without being anything
like as reckless in their gifts as the widow who
gave the two mites in the days OF the Saviour;
while the dreadful, solemn fact is that not one
of them has either built a church or given
ten thousand dollars towards building
one ia this wicked city, where Satan has
his seat The only exception to this remark /:
late contribution OF twenty or thirty thousand
dollaIs by master mechanic OF our church
who has become greatly interested in our city
mission work. The intimation has been made
tnat our rich laymen themselves have 0eeI
{ going over this ground already, and that 1
movement among them IN advance ofany eXhOr
York Methodism one million OF dollars, Wi
, which 10 begin the ork of her second century.
T, | An earnest movement is promised 70 establish
forty new Methodist chapels in New York.
PRESBYTERIAN.
) The Presbyterian church in Cedrou, Ohio
| has been enjoying revival of remarkable
r power. Already over hitY have been uuite
, | with the church.
g Sixty persons-half by profession and hal
T by leueT-have been added 10 the South Wester
I Church OF this city, the Rev. John Mcleod pas
tor, during the year.
The Mission Presbyterian Church at Kola
POOR India, the Rev. r. g. Wilder pastor, ha
e twenty members. The field is large and open
/. and there is great need OF help.
On the 23d of December last the Presbyter
, OF Raritan organzed the Kirkpatrick Memoirs
y Church at Ringoes, New jersey with ftty-tW
IS members, and installed three elders.
!. The FIRST Presbyterian Church of Rich
IS the removal OF the Rev. Dr. Moore 70 Nashville
g. has extended call to the Rev. Thomas I
% Preston, of salem Roanoke county Virpini,
to become their pastor.
y The Presoyteraus On. S.) ask for S35. 90
this year for the support OF students prepariu
~ for the ministry, being about twice as much a
= was received last year from contributions Tn
v, number OF benedciaries viii number $50 ,
)s least, who would then receive Sl40 each OF ali
r. In Salem, Ind, the New School Presbyt,
% rians apd the Moravlans have united in bull
'1 ing q church, which they supply with preachlr
ut on alierpate Sabbalhs. Bishop Edwards of ii
ot Morayian Church, and the former Presbyterla
"A pastor united in conducting the services
~ dedication.
7e The installation of Rev. datthew Newkir
re as pastor of the North Tenth street Pres6yterl,
a Church of this city, will take place on Sd6ba
- evening, the 18th inst. (to-monow), AT half-pa
lie 7 O'clock. The Rev. Dr. Musgrave and Re
ut Messrs d. A. Cunningham and MutchmOre VI