The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-12

tuti0nal law. They determined That repreeen-
tatlon should be from synods, and not IRON n
presbyteries, and that the arrangements and
boundaries Of the presbyteries shall be made oy
the synod within their respective limits. Nhe
committee adjourned to the 10Th OF March
next at which meeting the matte. now az,
ranged win be revised and finally determined
Meanwhile Drs. Beatty and Flsner were aP-
pointed a sub committee 10 investigate the suo-
ject still further, and prepare business Iof ene
next meeting OF the committee mn.Sec.s @ , lroun tl
abroad may make suggestions 70 uAe suo-Voin-
mittee II they deem II fitting. .,... n.
The Presbyterian Joint Commlttee on ne
construction has published preliminary report,
They would remove the un ueneIsu Hsoonoy .So,'asoy
somewhat further from the people oy transfer
ring the election Of commissioners from the
presbyteries to the synods, each SYNOD 10 send
one minister and one elder Tor eacn oO minister's
Appeals cannot be carried % 70 n5 ,5e
law The eynods should be large: giving New
York, 4; Pennsylvania and Ohio, each y In
diana. Illinois, and Iowa, each =; and all the
Others comprise q Stateor State with adjacent
territories. The few churches In Connecticut
are attached to the Synod of New York, and
those north and east In New England to the
SYNOD of Albany Two foreign synods were
constituted-One of Northern India, and the
other of China. The Assembly win consist of
about $50 members. Each synod will rearrange
its own presbyteries
BAPTIST.
Emigration so weakens the churches In
Maine that the Baptists have been compelled to
drop churches, and but half of their 263
churches have pastors or stated supplies The
churches average 20 members each.
The General Baptfsts are q free communion
BODY disconnected from the Free-will Baptists,
bat almost identical ia their faith and prae-
tices. Their churches are found in scattered
portions of the Middle States. We hear of the
United Association in Indiana, which reported
at its late meeting 81 churches an increase of 5.
We are glad to notice the efforts which are
hat, do hxyo oil thn harm obi OhQo
to educate the colored population. Three Bap-
tist ministers at the South = Drs. Brantly,
Landrum, and Mell-offer to educate and sup
port fifty colored Baptist ministers for three
believe the most effectual way of reaching the
blacks is through an educated ministry of their
own race.
The late Hon. Amos Kendall besides his
munificent gift OF about S15ooOO towards the
erection and subsequent rebuilding of the Cal
vary Baptist Church, in Washington, and OF
some $24 600 for mission Sunday School pur-
poses gave also $4,000 to found six scholarships
in Columbian College. Mr.. Kendall graduated
at Dartmouth. He was seventy.six years old
when he was baptized, at which time he became
a teacher in the Sunday School.
The minutes of the Seventh Day Baptists
show eeyenty-six churches of which the strong
est are in Hopkinton, Mass. Westerly and Paw
catuck, r. l.. Alfred and Brookfeld, N. Y; and
Albion and Milton. Wisconsin. The imperfect
character of the statistics renders it impossible
to give the number of members. The report OF
their Tract Society evinces a determination to
enlighten the Ignorance of the rest of the world
on the matter of the true Sabbath.
The Trustees of Union University, MUIR
freesboro', Tennessee, at their recent meeting,
rendered to the Baptist Theological Seminary
at Greenyille g. c., the funds belonging to the
Theological Department of Union University,
and an additional amount sufficient to create q
fund equal to fifty thousand dollars; also such
privileges of building on the campus as may be
Alx1s
the condition that the Trustees of the Seminary
remove their institution to Murfreesboro' Ten
nessee.
METHoDIsT.
The valuable library of the late DIR. Charles
Elliott has been received by the Ohio Wesleyan
University, Delaware, Ohio. DR.. Elliott was
one of the original corporators of the Uni
versity.
The next session of the General Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is
appointed to begin in Memphis Tennessee, on
Sunday, May /. Its powers are similar to the
Church.
The South Carolina Conference of the Me-
thodist Episcopal Church met in Jacksonville,
Florida, January 90 and closed its session on
the 25th. The vote on lay delegation was unani-
nous. The whole number of church members
and probationers reported was 24,067, gain of
1898 over last year, number of church buildings
in theIconference, 10S-a gain of 22 over last
year.
REFORMED.
The Reformed Church Board of Domestic
Missions appeals to the people for help, as its
trea sury is in debt above five thousand dollars,
and some of the missionaries have not been paid
their scanty allowance for year.
The effort to endow Franklin and Marshall
College, by the dollar subscription plan,
is meeting with some success. One church has
raised 1858; another in the German section of
the State, $12S4; Others $500, $424, ETC.
Rev. James Hardenbergh, d. D.. died in
York city on the 22d ult.; in the SEVENTEEN year
First Reformed Dutch Church in Philadelphia
OF late years his health had been much impaired.
He was most recently engaged in mission work
| in New York.
The First Synod of the CGerman) Reformed
Church of North America met In this city
| 123 years ago, composed of 81 ministers and
| elders, representing few thousand souls. Now
| the Synod has 200 delegates, representing $50
ministers, ZOO congregations, and 250, 600 bap-
| tized members.
! "A subcommittee of the Trustees of New
Brunswick Theological Seminary was appointed
recently to secure the means and purchase a
prOfe%or-house (the fourth now securely for
| the Suydam Professor. The committee was com
| posed of Messrs. James Suydam, Gardner A.
Sage and the Rev. DR.. Cornell. This COMMITTEES.
! without going beyond its own number raised
| the sum of eighteen thousand dollars, purchased
beautiful property, and now present it to the
| General Synod.
CATHOLIC.
| The London Catholic Mirror gives some in.
| cidents of an audience which the Pope gave to
the American bishops. The writer thus men,
tons the Pope's reference TO religious liberty
He then referred TO the subject of liberty OF
religious worship, which, ne said, in view of the
establishment of His Church by our Lord as the
ark OF safety and salvation. with his positive
revelation of the truth, could not be recognized