The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-30
SUMMARY OF CHURCH NEWS.
METHODIST

The Van Buren Centre On. Y) Church has
Just dedicated $1,000 meeting house.
Concerning the vote on lay delegation, the
Methodist says:-'Thus far we have the requisite
three-fourths vote of all the conferences re-
ported, and 13l votes to spare"
Rev. Samuel Lucky, ID. D., of East Genes
see Conference, and one of the Regents of the
University of the State of New York, died on the
I'LL instant. He was editor of the Christian Ad-
UOcdte from 1886 to 1S40.
The Central Illinois Methodist Conference
has passed resolution asking the Constitutional
Convention to insert a clause into the State
Constitution forbidding any grant OF money or
lands to be made, either directly or indirectly
to denOminati0nal schools.
"A Methodist minister in East Cambridge
Mass, had some converts who wished to be i'm
mersed. Accordingly he appointed time a few
Sabbaths ago to administer the rite in Charles
river. The time came and so did the candidates,
and large congregation. But the tide was out;
and, as it was thought hardly scrptural to i'm
merse in mud, the ceremony was deferred. He
had consulted his almanac, but had taken the
time of New York instead of Boston for high
tide.-Er.
BAPTIST.
The Baptist Theological Seminary of Chi
cago pays $4,000 for Hengstenberg's library.
The Baptist Bible Union held its 2Oth ami
versary October 20. The receipts were $5S, 800,
the expenses $61 ~. The Books of Exodus,
Judges, and Ruth have been revised by DR..
llackett, Joshua and First and Second Samuel
by DR.. Bliss, and nearly 100 pages of the Psalms
as revised by DR.. Conant are in type.
The Baptists of England are calling for
more effort for church extension They pub
lish the statement that last year there were in
Yorkshire county 1900 towns and villages with
out Baptist church; and that, while the Inde-
dependents contributed G14S0 for county evan
gelzation, the Wesleyans G46SO, and the Epis-
copalians eS59O, the Baptists gave but G214,
REFORMED.
1t is announced that Misses Vaudeville and
Chaplin, recent graduates of the Claverack Insti-
ncp1ty TO ME
work, and will depart for India about the first
of October. Miss Vaudeville goes out under
the auspices of the First Reformed Church of
the city of Hudson, aud Miss Chaplin under that
OF the Reformed Church of Clayerack.
MoRAvIAN.
The statistics of the Moravian Church. inst
published, show 1851 communicates, of whom
4o95 are in Germany, 320S in Great Britain and
6161 in North America The communicates in
mission fields are not counted in, but there are
49, 123 persons in their foreign mission congrega-
tions ministered to by 305 missionaries, which
| gives an average of one foreign missionary to
every forty-nine members at home.
CONGREGATIONAL.
Mr.. L. Wheaton Allen was ordained as pas
tor of the Congregational Church in South Brain
| tree, Mass, Oct. 13.
| -Rev. j. a. Barrows, late pastor of the First
| congregational Church in Exeter, n. H., will
sail next month for Cesarea, in Western Tur-
| key.
| u.
| tor of the Congregational Church in Derry, N.
| H., has resigned. For the present he accepts
the prncipalship OF the Pinkerton Academy, in
| that town.
Rev James T. Hyde. late of Middleburv.
| Vt, has been elected to the Professorship OF
| Pastoral Theology in the Chicago Theological
| Seminary. An Eastern friend has recently given
| $4,000 to the seminary. There are about fifty
| AT the meeting of the California Congrega-
| tional Association 1t was stated that nine church
| buildings had been completed and four others
| commenced during the year. The churches
have paid 1886 gold into the Home Missionary
| treasury, and the hope was expressed that Cali
tornia would be the first State to assume its own
| home mission work.
| We learn from the late report that Maine
| has 240 Congregational churches connected with
| conferences, of which 81 have pastors, S5 stated
| supplies, and 81 are supplied by licentiates.
| The total membership is 19969 of whom 1916
| are absent, and 546 were added during the year
on profession. The real gain, after deductng
deaths and emigration, is ia. Maine has an
active Home Missionary Society, which supplied
preaching at about 100 stations last year. Yer
| mont does q similar domestic work. with 40
aided churches and 10 itinerant fields. There
are reported 1876 churches, with 49, 593 members,
of whom 1927 are absent. On profession S66
| were added and there is a net increase of 423.
The Orthodox Congregational denOmina-
tion in Massachusetts comprises 500 churches,
S0,057 communicates, and COL ministers. Its
Sunday-schoo attendants number 93, S44, and its
| benevolent CONTRIBUTORS, Tor 1862 amount to
| $500, ,092'S0. Besides the General Association,
includingl all the churches in the State, there
are twenty-five Local Conferences included in
the General Association, and each one embracing
from ten to twenty churches. These hold an
nual sessions, continuing two days. The Forty
eighth Annual Session of the MiddeseX Union
of Congregational Churches was begun at Fitch
burg, October Goth, at o'clock A. NJ, and Rev.
e. Loomis, of Littleton, was chosen President,
and Rev. w. j. Bait, of Lominster, Secretary.
The exercises consisted of addresses, sermons,
reports, ETC., and were of special interest. The
attendance was large.
EPISCOPAL.
The Episcopalians of Syracuse, n. Y, have
purchased for Bishop Huntington beautiful
residence in that city, at a cost of S22, 800.
The cornerstone of the Church of the
Ascension, an Episcopal edidce, was late at Troy
New Yolk, on Tuesday of last week. The church
win cost $40 600, and will be erected entirely al
the expense of Mr.. F. w. Farnham, of that city
The EpiscOpalians hold regular preaching
services in large hall in Salt Lake City, and
have fine school with one hundred scholars
some of them the children of Mormons. They
do not feel that their lives are in danger, anC
have recently purchased with aid from the East
a beautiful residence and a large lot of land fol
$l1,000.
Bishop Cox, of Buffalo, N. Y, has father
Samuel Hanson Cox, ID. d., II scholarly man, q
| genius, and PRESBYTERIAN well known to fame