The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-25

lists and other Christians connected with this
society as to the administration of the Christian
ordinances"
The receipts for Baptist Home Missions last
year were &190, ,651'75 and the expenditures
S165, 49712, leaving balance of S24, 554 63.
+ There were 324 missionaries In the field, 3S40
were baptized, and 40 churches were organized.
In the department for freedmen's preachers and
teachers, nearly $SS,000 in cash had been re-
ceived, and pledges for 100000 additional. In
the church edifiee work. over fifty houses of wor-
ship had been secured during the year, and pro-
gress had been made in the collecting of tss
$500, 900 proposed so be raised as a permanent
fund. There are three corresponding secretaries,
viz:-Rev. jay s. Backus, of Northern and
Western Departments Rev. James B. Simmons,
of Education and Southern Department; Rev.
E. E. L. Taylor, of Church Ediace Department.
MoRAvIAN.
The American Moravians, at the decennial
Morayian meeting held last year in Germany,
pressed lthe immediate establishment of a Mo-
navian mission in their ancestral home of Mo-
ravia and Bohemia The German committee
has done nothing about it, although instructed
to do so; and now the American Province has
voted to stir them uD and really find If Austria
would allow religious liberation.
CATHOLIC.
-Rey. Edmund FoulKes the restive Roman
Catholic convert, whose pamphlet on "The
Church's Greed" dissatisfied his Catholic
friends, has been received back into the English
Church.
The following new Pdter Noster is being
handed about among the Americans in Rome:-
"Our Father who art In the Vatican: Infallible
be thy name: Thy Temporal Sovereignty come:
Thy will be done in Europe and America as in
Ireland. Give us this day our tithes and titles,
and forgive us our trespasses as we give plenary
indulgence to those who pay penitently unto us:
And lead us not into Gcumenical Councils, but
deliver from thinking: for thine Is the crozier,
the key, and the tiara, Rome without end.
Amen
TEE JEWS.
The Board of Delegates of American Israel
ties has made arrangements with the Jewish
Alliance at Paris to have the suffering Russian
Jews sent on here not more than one hundred at
a time. They will be sent West and South.
SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
The Pennsylvania State Sunday School
Convention, at its recent session held at Harris
burg on the 14th, 18th, and 10th inst, elected
the following officers for the ensuing year.
President-Rev. G. A. Peltz (Baptist).
Vice Presidents-Episcopal Rev. Richard
Newton, d. D.; Felix G. Brunot Methodist
Episcopal: Rev.. T. A. Fernley, Thomas Bake
well, Jr Methodist Protestant: Rev. Alexander
Clark, Rev. ]. r. Hemboldt Baptist: Rev. B.
Griffith, ID. D., Rev. Robert Lowry. Presbyte-
ran Rev. f. s. Scove, James W. Weir. United
Presbyterian: William Getty, Thomas 81. Raber.
Reformed Presbyterian Rev. Thomas johnson,
James H. Grant. Cumberland Presbyterian:
Rev. A. B. Miller, d. D., Rev. A. d. Hall.
United Brethren: Rev. s. L. Minnick, j. A..
Fink. Church of God: Rev. G. II. Forney, H.
G. Demming. German Reformed: Rev. j. II. A.
Bombelger, d. D., Rudolph F. Kelker. Dutch
Reformed Rev. Thomas X. Orr, Rev. j. L. Allie
man. Congregational E. Homer Hazleton,
Nelson +. Evans. Lutheran: Rev. j. A. Kunkel-
man, Rev. John E. Graeff. Friends: Samuel r.
Shipley, John s. Hilles. Evangelical Associa-
ton: Rev. j. c. Hornberger Rev. L. HI.
Gehman.
State Secretary-lewis D. Vail. '
Treasurer-Robert B Sterling.
Business Commttee-George III. Stuart, Jacob
A. Gardner, John Weist Rev. s. w. Thomas,
Nelson Kingsbury, Lewis d. Vail, William M.
Shoemaker, John M. Evans, DIR. e. r. Hutchins,
Rev. h. G. MCook, Lewis L. Houpt, Joseph H.
Thornley,, William c. Longstreth, Robert c.
CorRelius, R. H. Hinckley, Jr., David Robinson,
Rev. w. 7. Wylie, Rev. Robert M'Millan,
General j. A. Beaver. Rev. Thomas H. Robin
son, John r. Whitney, DIR. j. w. Kerr, A. NJ
Lloyd, Rev. Richard Walker, and G. G. Shirk.
The next annual meeting will be held at Allen
town on the second Tuesday of June, 1871.