The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-23


Church win celebrate its one hundredth ami
versary on the 4th of May.
The publication of the Observer, the organ
of the Cumberland Presbyterians on the Pacific
coast, has been suspended.
BAPTIST.
AT the Third Germantown Church, on
Sunday, Sd inst, the hand of fellowship was
extended to thirty new members by the pastor,
Rev. A. II. Lung. 1t was just one year since
this church surrounded the Lords table for the
fret time in their new chapel They organized
in public hall on the 25th of June, 1853 with
1876 members; now they number upwards of $50.
DIR. Jeter, very prominent Baptist minister
of Richmond, Va, resigns the pastoral work In
which he has been engaged there for thirty-two
years, to take charge OF the Religious Herald,
with which he has been partially connected for
years.
METHODIST.
Mr.. Lowe, Secretary of the Unitarian Asso-
citation, reports in the Christian Register the aid
given to the African Methodsts. He says that
all sectarian efforts are for the present held
subordinate, and the attempt is to supply the
pressing need for education and such whole
some guidance as will prevent their fall
ing prey to disorganlzing Influences. He
reports that the characters of the ministers
is as good as could be expected; although,
with the marvellous growth of the commu-
Mon, it has been necessary TO eXtemporize q
q vast number of leaders, of whom many are
not what would be desired. Thus Bishop Frown
has appointed 1856 preachers and 5000 eXhorters
in his diocese of South Carolina, Georgia, and
Florida. The money of the association is eX-
peded in educating the ministers. At Charles
ton teacher, Mr.. Golland, is maintained, in
whose school 80 are training to be ministers
and % to be teachers. He acts as helper and
adviser to Mr.. Brown, pastor of the large Afri-
can Methodist church, who has congrega-
tion of 5000. Aid is also given to Wilberforce
University.
OF Methodist ministers in Germany, Dr.
Vail is Consul in Rhenish Bavaria; Rev. G. +.
Kettell was Consul at Carlsruhe, and is sue
ceeded by Professor w. II. Young of the Ohio
Wesleyan University; and Rev: NJ. j. Cramer is
Consul at Leipsic. 1t is said that they all do
our country more credit than the average of our
consuls.
subscriptions have been opened for new
Methodist church in Montpelier, Vt, and $4,000
have already been subscribed, with prospect of
a speedy increase to nearly $4,000.
The Free Methodists dedicated q church
known as the Church of the Pilgrim, which
they have recently purchased in New York, last
Sunday. Two thousand ollars were raised.
"A meeting in Columbus, Ohio, for April 81,
was arranged to be held to take into considera-
ton the subject of holding Methodist State
Convention.
The Free Methodist Church, which was
organized in 1860, has now 100 preachers and
about 5000 members. 1t has four annual con-
ferences
The Pittsburg Advocate estimates that lay
delegation will be carried with a surplus of one
hundred and twenty votes.
The Rev. DIR. Jesse L. Peck, of Albany
has beep chosen President of the Syracuse
University.
Indiana is to hold Methodist Convention
in the city of Indianapolis on August 9, 10 and
II, 1870.
Bishop James has become possessor of the
watch whick was once worn by Bishop He'd
ding.
CONGREGATIONAL.
Rev. Theron Baldwin, D. D., died at Orange,
N j., on the 10th inst. The N. Y. Observer
says of him:-"He was and had for more than
twenty years been the efficient secretary of the
Society for Promoting Collegiate and Theologi-
cal Education in the West, and to this great
work had given such great executive ability,
with such indefatigable industry, as to make it
the instrument of incalculable good to the whole
country"
DR.. A, H, Quint gives in the CONGREGATIONAL
Quarterly the statistics of the Congregational
seminaries. We find that in institutions there
are 240 students, instructed by 80 professors or
tutors. Andover has 78 pupils, Chicago 45,
Bangor 90, Yale 33, Oberlin 25 Hartford 81, San
Francisco 5. There are "a seniors.
Rev Jacob Ide D. D., pastor of the Con-
gregational church in Midway village, is the
Oldest Congregational pastor in Massachusetts,,
having occupied his. pastorate ffty-six years.
Although eightyfve years of age, he is still able
to attend church, but he seldom now officiates in
the pulpit.
Rev. James Gibson johnson, formerly of the
u
has accepted the call of the Congregational
Church of Rutland, Vt. DIR. Seaver was called
from this church to the First Presbyterian
Church of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mr.. r. 8. Bussing has purchased, on behalf
of the Plymouth Church trustees, the church
edifice in Pearl street, Brooklyn New York, for
$75, 900. 1t will be altered and opened as a
Second Bethel Mission School, to be attached to
Plymouth Church.
The First Congregational Society of San
Francisco have purchased a lot at the corner of
Mason and Post streets, on which it is designed
to erect a new church edifice at an early day.
The price to be paid for the lot is $35, 000
Mr.. Isaac Pierson was ordained at the
ult. He expects to labor a missionary in
China under the American Board.
The students of the Chicago Theological
Seminary have petitioned the trustees for o
chair of elocution.
UNITARIAN.
Rev. G. H. Brigham, Unitarian minister in
Ann Arbor, Michigan, has had the past winter
a very large Bible class of the young men in the
Michigan University. He reports that he began
October 81 with IA students; and at the close,
March 81, the class numbered 2l1, of whom 100
were on the college catalogue, coming from 172
towns and 20 States, and Varying in age from
IL to 40. On Sunday mornings he read them
for half an hour series of essays on the claws
of Moses" Elements of Religious Culture,
followed by half an hours discussion. On
Saturday afternoons he has given series of
familiar lectures on the Holy Land. A large
part of his Sunday evening audience is composed
of students. He has distributed to all of them
copies of Martineau's ''Studies of Christianity;
and other works by Bellows, Metcalf and Eliot,
besides doctrinal tracts.
CATHOLIC.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Condor, Catholics,
were married in New Haven during Lent.
Father Hart publicly announced, the following
Sabbath, in st. Patrick's Church, that unless
they appeared and expressed their penitence
hefore the andianca he shnnld excnmmnnicata ta