The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-30
SUMMARY OF RELIGIOUS NEWS.
EPISCOPAL.

AT meeting of trustees of Norwich Uni
versity, held at Northdeld. on Friday week, the
Rev. Roger S. Howard, d. D., OF Woodstock,
formerly rector of Trinity Church, Rutland,
was unanimously elected President of the Uni
E-The Rev. A. I. McMurphey has resigned the
charge of the Church of our Saviour, Salem,
Ohio and has accepted that of the House Of
Prayer, BIanchtown, near this city.
a-Tbe Rev. DR.. Nanny, Professor OF Systematic
Divinity in the Seabury Divinity School of the
Episcopal Church at Faribault, Minnesota, died
on the 18th inst. His death was occasoned
by the smputation OF his leg on account of
bishop McIlvane, OF the Episcopal Diocese
of Ohio, in answer 10 the letter OF a member of
that body, as to the duty OF bowling when the
name of tie Saviour occurs in the creed, says it
Is not required in the formulas OF the Church,
and is no test of churchmanship but step in
The direction of rituallstic and euperstltious
usages that no rector has right to exac. OF his
congregation.
the pastor ateof the Emmanuel Church of Bos-
ton Mass, to accept the Bishopric OF the Do
cese of Central New York. The Diocese of
Central New York, of which DR.. Huntingdon
was made Bishop, is half as large again as the
State of Massachusetts and has more Episcopal
parishes than Massachusetts, has. DR.. Hunting
don enjoyed in Boston the largest salary OF any
clelE ~ The last meeting OF the Convention of
Central New York, at >whica DR.. Huntington
was elected its ,Ocesan, Bishop Coke oesongnt
the convention TO recOnSlutI INC uSC 'SlOn MutCu
settled the name OF the diocese, ana call " the
Diocese of syracuse. but the convention
Thought the plan savored too strongly OF the
See system, aud would not do lt-notWlthstand-
ing the cbUrchmen OF Syracuse olered 10 give
the diocese a see house worth $50 OV0 II II Would
adopt the la ter name.-IndependeH
l. PREsBYTERIAN.
The United Presbyterian church in Roches;
ter N. Y, has grown, under the pastoral care oi
Rev, j. p. Sanl1ey, TO the fall capacity or Iii
new house of worship.
The Second Presbyterian Church, Chicago,
III. (the Rev. DR.. Patterson's), has raised a
committee to canvass the matter OF a removal
up town, its property having come TO be worth
/ $3.50 000
s-The Rev. Cyrus Byngton, one OF the most
I earnest and selfsacrihcing miD'sters OF the
1 Presbyterian Church, died at the residence Oi
bis son inlay, Belpre, Ohio, on the 3lst OF De
cember, aged 7G years. He spent forty years o
! his life as a missionary to the Choctaws.
The Rev. DIR. Gardiner Spring, OF New York
Church, in that city for the space OF tifty-nint
wears. There are but three people living, to hi;
! knowledge, who were members OF the coLgre
cation when be became pastor.
"A United Presbyterian congregation, nun
! herring in the very outset eighty mem bers, has
been recently organized IN Lawrence, Mass,
i bv Rev. John Hogg, late OF Port Hope, Canada
q w11der whose earnest, devoted, and most laOo
dous exertiOns for the past six months 1t ha
been gathered.
street, New York, OF which the Rev. DR.
"a Iastings Is pastor, has been burdened with
II Saht of S57 900 This fact coming TO the knO W
isSse of James II. Benedict, Esq.. who, thOugl