The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-27
SUMMARY OF CHURCH NEWS.
PRESBYTERIAN.

PREsBYTERIAN.
The Rev. DIR. T. d. Witherspoon has been
obliged by i'll health to resign the pastoral care
OF the Second Presbyterian church in Memphis,
Tennessee. He took charge of it in 1865 since
which time its members have increased from
l80 to over 400 The edifce has been enlarged
and thoroughly repaired, and the affairs of the
congregation have been brough. into very
prosperous condition.
-The congregation OF Augusta Church, Vir-
ginia (Rev. Dr. Handy, pastor), is engaged in
raising means for the thorough repair of their
time -honored church ediice, a substantial struc-
ture of stone built in 1147-seven years before
BraddOck' 3 defeat. Their ancestors hauled the
stone on sleds and brought the glass and nails
from Williamsburg on back-horses.
The Presbyterian churches OF the city OF
New Orleans have undertaken, in connection
with a system of parochial schools, the Organi-
zation of a female seminary, intending that the
same shall furnish superior advantages for men
tai and moral culture.
Though quarter OF million Of strangers
came to Texas last year to find home, only
single Presbyterian minister came. 1t is said
10y reliable observers that there are fewer Pres
6yterlan clergymen in Texas in 1870 than there
we're in 1860.
Samuel Small. ESQ, OF York Pa, has sub
scribed $50 600 to the Memorial Fund.
Rev George 2. Hays has accepted the Presi-
dency OF Washington and Jefferson College,
Pa, to which he has just been elected.
The Amertcdh Presbyterian states that
in the Presbyterian and other Churches, hitherto
accustomed to pew-Tentiug, and adds--"These
movements in the direction of greater popu-
larity, and a bending from the old, stiff proprie-
ties of Presbyteranism, are full OF interest, and
bear directly upon the question OF bringing the
Gospel to the outside masses and neglecters."
The Congregational Church at Baroboo,
Wisconsin, has united with the Presbyterian,
forming one strong and self-sustainng body.
The Rev. j. F. Pressly, for the last forty
eight years pastor of the United Presbyterian
Church and Professor in the United Presbyte-
rian Theological Seminary, died on the 18th in
Pittsburg. He was in his six y-seventh year.
Rev. Z. E. Bayliss writes to the Presbyte-
ridn that, on the 14th of June last, with the
assistance of Rev. Sheldon jackson, he organ
! lied at Corinne the first Presbyterian Church in
organi d the first Presbyterian Sunday-school
in Mormondom.
The Rev. John A. McAfee has accepted the
Presidency of college at Highland, Kansas,
and will take charge the first of September
DIR. Roswell d. Hitchcock, of Union Theo-
logical Seminary, New York, has just returned
to this country, with improved health, after a
prolonged absence in Europe.
i'm st. Louis there have been decided to the
United Presbyterian Church four lots worth
at present about thirty dollars a foot front, on
the condition that it is occupied for church
purposes. If not thus occupied, it reverts TO
the heirs.
The Rev. Joseph McKelvey, returned from
China, is ministering usefully to the colored
congregation of Leavenworth, Kansas.
The Pittsburg Presbytery of the Reformed
Presbyterian Church has unanimously endorsed
the conduct of such of its delegates as in the
last synod voted for union with the United Pres
byterian Church. All the ministers of the West
ern Presbytery have united in call for a
meeting to take action on the subject; and some
of its congregations have voted almost unani
mously for union Irrespective of the action oi
the synod.
CONGREGATIONAL.
oh G,,ft hae tha o4
SOS, 600 TO Audover Seminary for Memorial
Hall, and John Dove and Peter Smith have
pledged 10000 mo e, on condition that $25 00l
be subscribed by others, the building and land
to cost not over $50 600, and $40, 900 to be in-
vested, the interest only 10 he spent for library
reading-room etc. This offer stands open foI
six months.
The Lords Supper, in the First Church.
Oakland, California, on late Sabbath was an
occasion of memorable interest. Nine persons
were united to the church, but OF these three
were Chinese.
The Rev. Merrill Richardson, of Worcester
Mass, has accepted the call from the New Eng
land Congregational Church of New York, and
will be installed in October.
The Rev. jeremiah Porter, the Congrega
gational veteran home missionary, is appointed
post chaplain at Brownsville, Texas.
The AdudRce says:-''One of the railroad
companies in Iowa has agreed to donate $50 O0(
in lands towards the proposed German Theo
logical Seminary. if ii shall be located at Storu
Lake, providing the churches will give S2O,0O(
towards erecting the necessary buildings"
The Shepherd church has erected at Cam
bridge Massachusetts,, granite monument il
memory of its nine deceased pastors sm al
number for two centuries and more since IL
organization.
There are 90 Congregational churches il
Kansas with an aggregate mem bersbip OF 201S
including 81 ministers. Twelve new meeting
houses were built last year. The total amOuh
raised by the churches was S55,3 ,343 A..
"A gentleman OF Stockbridge, Mass, Ia
presented to the church there $4,000 parsonage
and another gentleman has given the,I the per
petual use, free of rent, OF large hall for cou
ference meetings.
1T is reported that Rev.O. f. Daggett. ID D,
has resigned his professorship in Yale College
and his pastoral charge of the College church
and that he has been requested 10 reconsider hi
action.
The minutes of the General Conference O
Ohio report 40 ineTsase in Ehe s.ase oyer Las