The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-12-17

--Zion's Herald gives the following analysis |
of Methodism In Massachusetts at the close OF |
the decade:-'There are 2S7 pastoral charges,
3S, Sol members Gan increase OF SOSS in ten
years, or 26 per cent, while population has In
creased 1S per cent?; and 43, ,3l3 scholars In
Sunday schools, an increase of 43 per cent.
There are 253 church edidces, valued at S3 00O,-
OOO and 253 parsonages, valued at $344, 600, with
seminaries and other church property, making
a total of 81, 1917, 600. In 1850 there was one
Methodist to 43 inhabitants; in 1860, one to
401S; and in 1870, one to 49,"
BAPTIST.
Within less than four months over 800 900
have been raised In cash and bonds towards the
new endowment OF S200, 600 for Furman Uni
vereity, South Carolina.
The Rev. DIR. Simmons, of the Home Mis-
sion Rooms, gives the following: LESS than
one year ago we Baptists had but ten thousand
dollars worth of freedmen school property In
the South. Now we have full one hundred
thousand dollars worth We have seven vouug
colleges, in seven different States, and each
with grounds paid for"
LUTHERAN.
Mr.. Keeper, who recently died in Erie, Pa,
bequeathed TO the English Lutheran Church in
that city, the Rev: J. L. Smith, pastor, property
amounting to $4,000.
The new Lutheran Church at Springfield
Ohio it is expected, will be ready for dedlca-
tion on one of the first Sabbaths of tle new
year. The portico of the college building, so
long waited for, is also in process of erection
and approaches completion
The editors of tthe new Quarterly Review
of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, announce
that they design to make it a common medium
through which the different members of the same
Lutheran household can speak. "The invita-
tion to all is candid, frank, and cordial, and
given. without distinction as to synodical or
theological pecularities."
Rev. William Meendson, of Cherryville,
Pa, is 80 years old, and is preaching. He was
ordained in 1910.
There are 14O0 students in attendance at
Upsala University, Sweden.
CONGREGATIONAL.
The new Divinity Hall at Yale College cost
about $150, 900, and the studies were furnished
by contributions from about fifty churches in
the States. There are sixty rooms in the build
Ing, and the students number fifty-five. Mr.
Trowbridge has recently given $4,000 worth of
books and furniture for the library.
Mr.. John s. Fogg, of South Weymouth,
Mass, has given $40, 600 and lot of land for a
new Congregational church in that town. Mr..
Josiah Reed, neighbor of Mr.. Fogg's, gave
MReu Henry Ward Beecher's Church. h.-The
annual report of 1. A. Fowle, Clerk of Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn, shows the following condi-
tion of the society,"
Membership-Reported last year, 1884: admis-
sions, 1i3 removals, rs; net increase, SO; pre-
sent number of men, 722; present number of
women, 1910. Total membership, 1882.
Baptsts1Children baptized, 2s adults sprin-
kled, 81 adults immersed, 9. Total, a.
Deaths-There have been IL deaths during
the year, including one deacon, Benjamin p.
Jones.
schools-Plymouth, enrolled membership,
1l07; average attendance, 7l2; Bethel, enrolled
membership, $50; average attendance, 726.
CollectOns-General collections of church,
$9846'46; collection for poor, $1480; Plymouth
School collections, $3.50; Bethel School collec-
tons, $761 SO; pew rents, s56 600; collection for
Mr.. Everest's church, $4,000; collections for Mr.
Russells church, 1880. Many minor collections
and pledges are not here named. The Board of
Deacons report that $500 will be wanted for
the poor during another year. The report of
of collections to be S11 ,O99'13; whole amount
paid out, $SS44'99. Balance in the treasury,
$2214'15. .r
The expenses of the Music Committee for the
year ending May l, 1870, are as follow ws:-Mr.
Camp, Musical Director, $4,000; Mr.. lockwood
tenor, $1,000; Miss Thursby, Soprano 5000; Miss
Morgan, alto, 5000; Mr.. Zundel, organist $500.
Total, 10000.