The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-01
BAPTIST.

The Rev. Isaac Wescott d. D., has become
pastor of the Plymouth Church. in New York,
new interest about eight months old.
One hundred and twenty-five have protessed
conversion in the First Baptist Church, Peters
burg, Va, and the meeting is progressing with
undated interest.
The First Baptist Church of New York is
erecting beautiful churcn, which Will be one OF
the finest in the country. 1t is designed, as
every Baptist church ought to be, with special
reference TO the pulpit and baptstery. The
baptistery will be of white marble and have
half the front made of plate glass, so that the
ordinance itself, and not merely the standing in
water of the candidate and administrator, can be
seem"
The Baptists in Denmark have never yet re-
ceived the recognition of the State as an autho-
rZed religious BODY. This lack places them in
position of inferiority to the Lutherans, Catho-
lies, Methodists and Jews, who all alike enjoy
this public recognition. The Baptists find their
position a barrier to the propagation of the
truth, besides exposing them to various incon-
veniences. For example, they have to pay
heavy taxes on their chapel, from which the
meeting-houses of the recognized denominations
are free. The ministers of the Baptists cannot
solemnize marriages; they cannot register births
and deaths, which must be done by Lutheran
Clergyman, from whom, in case of necessity,
certificate is to be obtained Application in
their behalf has been made to the ambassador of
the United States and it is hoped that favorable
| action may be the result.-MdCedOnidn and Re-
| cord
Mr.. Timpany, of the Teloogoo Mission, re-
| ports the baptism of twelve converts in Decem-
ber and states that about thirty-fve are awaiting
| the ordinance. At Nellore six were lately bap-
| tiZed, one of whom was Tamil man who had
the priesthood of twelve villages" At Tulla
| Konda Paud, Brother ClOugh baptized sixteen in
January, and others applied for the ordinance.
Thirty natives were to go to Ongola for baptism,
and twenty-five from another section were await
| ing baptism. Brother Jewett sends cheering
| news from new field, Alloor. Seven have been
| baptized there, and Brother Jewett hopes these
will yield three or four preachers. Four of them
are the best scholars in the schools in Alloor and
Cayoor, from twelve to fifteen years of age. All
but one can read. Alloor is promising station.
EPISCOPAL.
| DIR. Cssnfeld's church, in Brooklyn, opened
| mission chapel three years ago. 1t is now self
| supporting, with 200 members, 450 Sunday School
| scholars, and a sewing school of 300 girls A
second mission, one year old, has $50 scholars,
| preaching twice every Sunday, and 400 at the
! prayer meetings. Yet third has developed
into an independent church, with its own rector.
! The Church of the lntercessor, in this city,
of which Rev. j. w. BOnham is pastor has
adopted the free pew system.
AT one of the Episcopal churches of Mem
| phls, Tennessee, Bishop Quintard lately called
| forward the candidates for confirmation. when
several white people presented themselves. After
| they had been confirmed, a colored candidate
presented himself. The Bishop very plainly eX-
| pressed his disapproval of this separation of
colors as utterly Inconsistent with the spirit of
the Gospel.
The fashionable preachers of Vienna have
! made, in their Lent sermons, terrible attacks
| upon the newspapers Father Bremen said In
the pulpit of the Dominican Church," Be-
loved brethren, / tell you read no bad news
| papers, no bad books, but read the Bible, and
you will be certain to be converted" Another
preacher simplifed this advice by recommending
his audience not to read any newspaper at all;
| all of them were bad.
"A portion of the anti-Ritualist party in Aus
tralia have formed what they designate Free
Church of England, and have elected Bishop.
He went through form of conservation, took
the oaths, and held general ordination. The
English Church Missionary Society has 900
communicates in the Sierra Leone, and for 200O
miles of that coast, reachingto the Gaboon river,
on the equator, missionary stations have taken
the place of save-factories. In South Africa
there are 1000 communicates
JEWISH.
We quoted some time since from English
| papers the statement that there were 2000 bap.
tized Jews in London, and 100 Jews who were
ordained clergymen in England. These facts
were stated by Rev. G. H. Wainwright in behalf
, of the Jews Society. Mr.. Emanuel, n rabbi Oi
Southsea, wrote to Mr. Wainwright asking fol-
Wainwright did not reply. Then Professor
Marks came forward, and charged Mr.. Vain
wright with gross fabrication He says
'During the last four years Il Polish and German
Jews have appeared at Exeter Hall in the character
: of Christian converts, and in every instance the
convert has bettered his worldly condition by the
change, ana so made capital out OF his ChrlStanity
During the same period English Jews only have
gone over to Christianity; of one family, including
an NJ. p, have become communicates OF the Church
of England, and Jewish girl OF eighteen has beer
led to Roman Catholicism through the influence of
Popsh goyeness. As a seton to this know of
: Christians who have, during the same interval EN-
, braced Judaism-2 males and females"
, This called out Mr.. Wainwright, who could
/, make no reply except to refer to the Jews
Society in London The statements no doubt
were utterly untrue; as, Mt least, the assertion
that there were 100 such cergymen might
have been easily substantiated. A historical
account of the relation of the Jews to Chris
tianity has been published this year in Germany
by DR.. Kalkar, which we hope is more reliable
in which he states that within forty years 600C
Jews III the single russian province OF Sllesid
became converts to Christianity, and that there
are now 2500 Jewish converts in Berlin. Every
one knows that DR.. Neander was Jewish con
vert, rs is also DIR. Cappadose, one of the lead
ing and most earnest Christians of Holland.-
: Ildependent.