The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-04-17
SUMMARY OF GENERAL CHURCH NEWS.
METHODIST.

METHODIST.
-Methodism in Cincinnati has advanced in
membership less than two hundred in the last
fifteen years.
"A presiding elder said in conference at
Lowell that the salaries of Methodist ministers
in Massachusetts averaged $1,000 year.
In 1862 the Methodist Episcopal Church had
in the States of Missouri and Arkansas about
$500 members; now the membership is 80, $40.
Of this number the st. Louis Conference has
II, ,0SS and the Missouri Conference IL, SOL.
Clarke Durant, Esq, of New York, has
given the Methodist church Of Pittsfeld, Mass,
$4,000 as fund for the aid of students preparing
for the ministry. Quite number of young men
among the recent converts are looking forward
to the ministry.
Boston University (Methodst) has applied
for IA charter. Its friends are exceedingly hope
full One gentleman, previously unknown to the
officers, has announced to them that he has put
down the Boston Theological Seminary in his
will for $4,000.
1t is estimated that the rental of the
Methodist Church Block, Chicago, the property
of the Clark Street Methodist Episcopal Society,
will amount the ensuing year to $50, 600. This
income, after defraying expenses, is used for
church extension purposes within the city.
Mrs. Mary Crowther, who died March Is, in
Manchester, England, in her ninety-sixth year,
was the oldest Wesleyan Methodist having
joined the Methodist society in Bristol. and re-
ceived her ticket of membership from Wesley
himself in 1880. She was an exemplary and
successful class-leader till she past ninety.
Our readers will remember that Methodist
church in San Jose, California, was lately burned
down, because the Chinese were instructed in
its Sunday School. Since then the supernten-
dent has been obliged to keep a watch against
| incendiares over his house and barn. A recent
| attempt to set it on fire was thus foiled The
| bitterness against the Chinese is still great
| The Rev. Charles Palmer, pastor of the
! Stone River charge, New York Conference, in a
note in connection with a revival notice, writes
thus:-''Mrs. Maggie Van Cottis "A local preacher
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She was
| recommended by class of over two hundred
members, and the Quarterly Conference voted
her license unanimously. The Rev. a. H. Fer
| guson, our presiding elder, gave her preachers
license. She commands universal respect"
| AS nearly all the notifications of American
| Methodism, such foreign missions, church
papers, and college education, have originated in
| Massachusetts, are interested to see the pro-
gressiye action of the late New England Confe-
renee. 1t advised the formation of young peo-
pies societies in the churches, looking towards Il
union of such societies all over the land; it APP
| proved the new Boston University movement,
and the raising of $4,000 for the Boston Theo-
logical Seminary, and plenged itself to aid
| Clatin University, to be founded in Camden
| S. G.. But perhaps the most significant move.
| ment was that to reserve portion of the mis-
| sionary contributions for the home work. II
| would doubtless have carried, but Bishop Thomp
| son stOutly refused to put the vote, and insisted
| on the regular methods. 1t was evident thai
| the needs of church extension in the conference
an independent local society will be formed
even though it seem a rebellion against the
thorough discipline which prevails in tha
Church.-Independent
EPISCOPAL.
Trinity Church. New York city, has an in
come of SS00,000 per annum. 1t proposes t
spend 100000 on the enlargement of Trinity
Church, at the head of Wall street.
Hobart College has the names OF siXtv-fy,
students on its catalogue. OF these. thirty
five are communicates. and seventeen are
looking forward to entering the Episcopa
ministry.
st. Clements Church. of this city, has called
a rich rector at nominal salary of $1,000, ant
will devote all the rest of its resources to do tn
Devils work of ritualsm in his most artistic ant
novel style.-Indepe7Ident
"A convention of such of the laity and clerg,
OF the Protestant Episcopal Church as do no
subscribe to the rtuaistc tendencies of the
Bishop of the Chicago Diocese and his co
workers, has been fixed for the 18th of June, il
Chicago.
The EpiScopalidn has learned that ther
exists in Nassau street, New York, "a regularl,
organized literary bureau, which processes L
provide clergymel with sermons, from an
texts themselves may designate, ON very mode
rate terms"
The new diocese of Albany, New York. en-
braces the nineteen counties lying north c
Columbia, Greene, and Delaware, and west c
| Otsego Herkimer and st. Lawrence, and ha
one hundred and seven parishes. The numbe
of clergy is seventy-eight.
The Eyangelicals (England), and others nc
so pronounced, are said to have lay readers
new order of evangelists. Thus the Bishop G
FIv recently had special service on the occa
sion of three readers being thus authorized to g
forth. To each he gave Bible, and authorize
} him to read the appointed lessons in the paris
church, and such portions of the morning an
, end m explain some portion of Holy Scripture
or to read such godly homily or discourse as tn
incumbent may approve. ,c,, ~
The afternoon service at Christ Church, Me-
York. was. on Sunday last, the scene OF move
feature. The organ suddenly stopped III u