The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-16

fessor in the Congregational College of British
North America.
The Rev George Mooar, D. D., has resigned
! the pastoral charge of the First Congregational
Church OF Oakland. This step was taken with
view to an acceptance of the professorship OF
! the Pacific Theological Seminary, to which DIR.
! Mooar was recently elected.
The peNs of the new First Church in Chi
cago have been rented for the year for over
| $4,000, and no competition was allowed for
those on the lower floor renting for fifty dollars
or less and those in the gallery for thirty dollars
| or less. According to the AdCdnCe, the congre-
! cation has trebled since removing to the new
! house, which cost S1S0000.
AT Braintree, Mass, on the Sd inst, the
venerable DR. Storrs preached upon the occasion
| of the ffty-ninth anniversary of his settlement
| from Prov. iv 10: Hear, O my son, and receive
my savings; and the years of thy life shall be
many" After a characteristic aud touching
sermon, he referred TO the fact that not one
low survives of those who took part in his
dination service, and but few who took boyish
interest therein He closed by reading, with
much feeling few words addressed to the
young of the society. by Mrs. Storrs, as TO the
importance of sustaining religious ordinances
urging each one to do all in his power to that
end
METHODIST.
The General Conference of the Methodist
Church South, which met recently in Mem
phis Tennessee passed resolution recommend
ing an amendment to the Book of Discipline,
prohibiting ministers from performing the
marriage ceremony for any divorced party
whose husband or wife is living.
The Central Christian Advocate in an art
Gle on "Church Extension" thinks st. Louis
has done more for the past ten years than any
other city of the same Methodist strength, for
this cause Union Church gave the largest
collection the continent for the treasury
! Two new churches are in process of building,
expendiDg already $27,000 requiring $25, 900
more to complete them
The Chicago Advocate says:-Stephen Grif-
! fifth, of Danville, H., an old-time Methodist,
| now aged eighty-four is giving away all his
property, and giving his closing business days
to so adjusting his temporal concerns that they
chancery. Among his gifts is a donation of
$1,000 to the Methodist Episcopal Church Ex-
tension Society.
In Cincinnati, during the last thirty years,
the population has increased nearly four times
as rapidly the English-speaking Methodist
! Episcopal Church membership. In 1910 the
Methodists bad one in 1887 of the English
speaking population. In 1869 they had one in
4S 15 correspondent of the Cincinnati Ad-
Uocdte who has been figuring the matter up,
says-'When it is considered that in the last
twenty years the population of this city has
more than doubled, while we report an Increase
of but II 80 per cent and that in the last eleven
| years we have scarcel y increased at all, it is
very plain that it is high time we were all
! awake
CATHOLIC.
The Austrian Government has promoted
Bishop Strossmayer 10 be Archbishop OF Agram
The Papal Nuncio at Vienna has given notice
that the Vatican will not accept the appoint
ment, and Won Beust has replied that it will
make no difference.
Bishop Borawski, of Poland who quite
recently addressed the Pope on the subject of
the condition of the Church in Poland, is de-
tained by abe Russian Government as a pri-
/ soner in his own house. no one being allowed
by the soldiers, who patrol around it, to go in
| or out.
The Hungarian Government is credited
with having advertised the Pope that it will
In nSin of thn ythn xynfn
. against infalhbility, while those who vote for it
are threatened with the loss of their temporali-
ties if they attempt to promulgate in their sees
a dogma which intereres with the supremacy of
| the local government
| The Paris correspondent of the London
Guardian says that at the meeting between DIR.
Dollinger and Pere Hyacntke, who spent three
weeks visiting at the formers house, there was
much discussion of the position to be taken if
the Council should decree infallibifity: and that
the decision was not voluntarily to quit the
Church but to make no secret of their repuda-
ton of some of its doctrines, and await the issue
of tolerance or communication.
An extraordinary sale has just taken place
at saragossa, in Spain. The Roman Catholic
Archbishop OF that city having been anxious to
restore the celebrated Cathedral of "Our Lady
of the Pillar" and being short OF funds for that
purpose, hit upon the eXpedient of selling by
auction portion of the yotiye offerings of the
pilgrims TO the Cathedral during the past cen
tury. Among the lots offered beautiful
pendant by Cellini, which, after severe competi-
lion between an English and q French gentle
man, was knocked down TO a native for sum
of about $4,000. An enamelled watch presented
by Philippe ", diamond pins by Marie Chris
tine de Bourbon, and some splendid specimens
of cinq1e centO work, secured high prices. IL
was the first public sale ever held in the south
of Span.
LUTHERAN.
"A great Lutheran assembly met in LeipsiC
the fret part OF June. 1t pronounced strongly
in favor OF unity Of doctrine and insisted on the
right of the disciplining those who entered
upon marriage without a religious ceremony
AT the same time, they allowed the real force OF
civil marriages.
The Augustana Swedish Lutheran Synod
has met IN Andoyer, Ill. The Audover Church
is the Oldest in the country, having been orga
nized in 1850, through the munitcent aid o.
Jenny Lind. 1t then had 10 COMMITMENTS in
cluding the pastors family and now has 999
There are now not far from 80 Swedish Lutheran
pastors in the country, and 33 new churches ap
piled for recognition to the synod. The single
Swedish Episcopal church in Chicago is ever
older than the Lutheran one in AndoVer; and
like that, owes its existence to the liberalty o
Jenny Lind. 1t remains but one, and has beer
able TO continue Ill existence only by adopting
, the Lutheran Prayer Book. AT this meeting Lht
, NorwegiaDs separated from the Swedes, as ha(
been arTal ged TWO Years ago. forming the Nor
wegian Augustana Synod. The final separation
, was an affecting one.
: BAPTIST.
The first Baptist church in the country, tha
of Providence, Rhode Island, was founded TIVE
hundred and thirty zone years ago.
The Rev. II. b. Hackett ID. D., has accepted
: the Professorship of New Testament Literatur
and Interpretation in Rochester Theological
Seminary
The Rev. c. Fl. Malcom, of Rhode Island
has sent out a circular inviting Baptsts to sigI