The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-06
SUMMARY OF RELIGIOUS NEWS.
METHODIST.

The Methodiss are having great revival in
Whitehall, New York-a village OF moderate
eXtent-report'ng three hundred conversions,
A Methodist pastor in Cincinnati has or
ganlzed forty Of the female members of the
church into visiting bands In aid Of the pastoral
work.
The Rev. E. Bowen, D. D., after over fifty
years spent in the ministry of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, has united with the Free
MethOdsts.
Two hundred and eighteen persons have
joined the Long Branch New Jersey Cente-
nary Methodist Episcopal Church, on probation,
tins winter.
The Rev. DR.. William Butler, of the New
England Conference, has accepted the otice
lately held by DR.. Mattison, as one of the Secre.
taIies of the American and Foreign Christian
Union.
"A Methodist sisterhood similar to that in
our city has been organized by the Rev. j. l..
X. McKown, in Union Chapel Cincinnati, OHIO.
Visiting bands, consisting of some forty women
OF that church, have been organized 10 call on
the sick and poor, TO relieve their wants, and
minister to their spiritual comfort.
1T is stated, in illustration of the working of
Methodist revival methods, that while 619l pro-
baiioners have been received by the Methodists
in Newark, New Jersey, in eleven years past,
IL g actual net increase of the church membe
ship has been only 1856. The United Brethren,
whose methods are similar, report $4,000 aC-
cessions in the past year, with net gain OF only
lo,139 member; At the same time, il must be
| admitted that the Methodist Church increases
faster than ally other, with all its waste.
| PRESBYTERIAN.
Seventy thousand dollars have been raised
| in New Orleans since the war, to build oue Pres
byteIian church and relieve the indebtedness
! OF two others.
General Grant is a constant attendant at
d.. Sunderland's (tirst Presbyterlan) Church,
Was shington City, and his children are regu-
laTlY in their places at Sabbath School
The Presbyteriaus of IrVington, New York,
are erecting opposite their present place of
worship beautiful church, into which they
soon expect to remove. 1t is OF marble and
blue stone, 10 be handsomely fitted up, and to
cost about $40 900,
-Tbe Rev. Dr. Palmer, of New Orleans, was
lately presented with a splendid riding horse,
saddle, and bride, by an anonymous stranger
Who had heard him PREACH and said in note
that the gift was made as a suitable acknoW-
ledgment of the good effect which the sermon
| produced on him.
eelist of the Prcsbytery OF Central Mississippi,
| have been greatly blessed. He has been per.
| mitted to receive into the church more than
| one hundred persons On the profession OF theil
| faith He has also been instrumental in erecting
| FIVE church buildings and organizing three
churches, besides reviVing Others which were
ready to perish. ,,,. ga.
"The Presbyterian church at Vallejo Is an
Illustration of what can be accomplished DI
steady, selfdenyiDg labor. The acting pastor
the Rev. N. b. Klihk, came to the place aoou
eight years ago. Many discouragements existed
nor house of worship The population wa
tiuctuatng, depending chiefly for support upol
labor In the Navy Yard. Few persons Wer'
interested In the enterprise, and they were abl
to contribute but little for the support of th
gospel. But, under all discouragements, tn