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

Dr Linn in the pastOrate OF Broadway Churcni
Louisville. DR.. Linn will take charge of Central
Church, Baltimore.
W. w. Wakeman, n layman in the Presby-
terian Church, recently deceased, bequeathed 20
the Methodist Episcopal church at Southport
Connecticut, $1,000.
The edifce lately occupied by the New Eng
land Church. New York (Rev. Lyman Abbotts),
has been purchased by the Methodlsts. Drs.
McClintock and Foster of Drew Theological
Seminary, arc temporarily supplying.
Roberts chapel, indianapolis Indiana, has
been blessed with glorious revival OF religion
during the past three months, resulting thus lar
in nearly three hundred conversions, OF whom
nearly all have connected themselves with the
church. The work still continues.
The Vermont Annnh Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church met at Waterbury
April 10, and adjourned on the evening OF the
18th. Six young men were ordained to the
work Of the ministry, and the various reports
exhibited good degree of prosperity during the
year.
An members of the NJ f. Church, male and
female, above twenty-one years of age, are
eligible to vote next June on lay delegation. If
a majority vote for it, supported by three
fOurths of the membership of the annual con-
fcrenccs, IL can be consummated by a vote of
two-thirds in the General Conference of 1872.
The edifce known as the New England
| Church. on SiXty-first street, west of Sixth
avenue, New York, has been purchased by a
committee of gentlemen connected with the
| Methodist Episcopal Church. This is the first
| fruit of the movement, set on foot some months
| ago. to devote half a million of dollars to
| Methodist church extension in the city of New
| York.
We clip the following from the Protestant
| Churclmdn:-"A Among some of the oddities of
the statistics of the Methodist Church in this
country are these:-The cheapest parsonage is
valued at 80 CENTS Newark, n. j., has one
worth $25000 In the Alabama Conference, with
| II, ,5a members, there is not one parsonage, and
| the 1O6 meeting-houses are estimated at $l20
apiece The average amount given by each
member in the whole country, to benevolent
| causes is 722 cents a year. In the Alabama
| Conference, but 80 cents was contributed to the
| cause of missions last year"
| Elder Heman Bangs, a veteran of Connecti-
| cut and New York Mcthodism, has lately been
| placed on the superannuated list at his own re-
| quest He has built some forty or fifty churches
| in Connecticut, and twenty parsonages, though
he never lived in one He claims to have been
| the first Methodist in this country who preached
| on temperance; and says ten thousand souls
| have been converted under his ministry. He
has never complained but once about his salary
and then he objected to an increase on the
| ground that the example might have a bad iniu-
! ence upon his brethren. The old veteran was
! presented with $4,000 on retiring.
| PRESBYTERIAN.
! The Rev. II. f. Hickok. pastor of the Pres
| byteran Church, Savoy Hill, New York, has ac-
cepted the care of the Second Presbyterian
| Church, Orange New Jersey.
| -Sixty-three new members have been added
to the Presbyterian Church in Skaneateles, New
| York, including some OF the most substantial
| men of the place.
The Rev. DR.. A. r. Thompson has declined
the call of the Second Reformed Church of this
city, his church in New York not being willing
to part with him.
| The Rev. j. g. W. Cowles of East Saginaw.
| Michigan has welcomed some forty new mem
bers to his church since the religious interest
| commenced there.
| About seventy persons were received TO
membership Gall but eight on profession of their
| church Wakeman.
first Sabbath of April. The ordinance of baptism
was administered to twenty-nine adults.
The Rev. DR.. Davidson, formerly pastor. OF
the Presbyterian churches in New Brunswick,
| New Jersey, and Huntingdon, Long Island,
sailed for Europe last week, to remain for a
number of months. The Rev. DR.. Cattell and
| family sailed on Thursday of the present week.
The Rev DR.. Alexander Reed, the Rev. DIR. r.
w. Henry, and the Rev. S. A. Mutchmore, OF
this city, sail to-day for few months travel
in Europe. 1t is announced that the Rev. DR..
Hall and DIR. Murray, of New York city, will
also cross the ocean this summer.
"A statistical and financial report of the
Scotch Presbyterion Church in Elmira, Illinois,
for the year ending April l, 1869 has just been
| published. In connection with this congrega-
tion there are 40 families, AZ communicants-t
were added during the past year, there are
elders; about thirty children attending Sabbath
School, and the same number in pastors Bible
class. The church can seat 250 and there il
about $50 of an average attendance on Sabbath
They have parsonage and glebe, which is free
from debt They paid their pastor $500 fo
salary, and expended $500 in repairing and re
modelling the manse. They contributed in al
for congregational synodical, and benevolen
purposes, $1505. Their church property is valued
at $4,000.
CATHOLIC.
"A Roman Catholic priest received
February II, into the Lutheran church nea
saltwater, Minnesota.
1t seems very hard for Mary Ann Smith t,
secure release in this Catholic city. 1t will b
remembered that she was domestic in Metho
dist family in New Jersey, and left Romanisn
and Joined the Methodist Church. Thereupol
her father had her confined in the House of tn
: Good Shepherd, where she declares she is com
PEELED to associate with prostitutes, and is no
allow to converse with her Protestant friends
One of the witnesses who swore to her bai
character has since owned that he was hired Il
commit this perjury. Still Justice Sutherlan
refused last Saturday to interfere, and il seem
! as if she would be compelled TO remain a pris
!, oner for her faith till she is of age-Nelo Hor
: Independent.
The Pail Mall Gazette SAYS that there
trouble about the Papal Council 1t asserts tina
! the special committees which were appointed T.
J get the business for the Council ready, and Whic
, were to elaborate the two points for which tn
Council has been conyoked-the personal infal
{ libility of the Pope, and the condemnation O
political liberalism in accordance with the Pope
f declarations in the Syllabus-have fallen on
! amongst themselves, and cannot be brought t.
any agreement. But dissent on these two point
l. | ruins the whole project which was breaches
q | in the conviction that the formal acceptanc
n | by unanimous Church of these pet articles O
! Jesuit doctrine might be secured The Jesul
advisers have, therefore, il is asserted advise
4 the Pope to postpone the Council indefinitely
>. But he had set his heart upon it, and ''fleW int
, one OF his constitutional furies." Furthe
\ efforts have been made to induce him TO put