The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-15

over sixty thousand members and probationers,
and in the ratio of its increase has outrun the
advance of population.
PRESBYTERIAN.
of the 1860 congregations In the Southern
Presbyterian Church, only 400 have pastors and
about 600 have regular or partial supplies, and
about 430 are destitute of any stated ministry.
AT Wooster, Ohio, on the 7th ult, univer-
sity of the first class, under the control of the
Presbyterian Synod of Ohio, was opened. The
buildings though yet incomplete, have cost over
$3.50 900. The endowment fund already amounts
TO n half million of dollars.
The United Presbyterians have now in this
country synods So presbyteries, 553 ministers,
and 69,S sos Communicates. They show a hand
some advance during the past year. Their main
strength is in New York, Pennsylvania, aud
Ohio.
The Illinois United PRESBYTERIAN Synod has
voted to call men to the missionary work, and
throw the responsibility of refusal upon them
rather than to leave them to offer themselves
for the work.
The Rev. Thomas A. Hoyt, formerly pastor
of the First Church, Louisville, Ky, whose
name was dropped from the roll, under q misap-
prehension at the time of the division of the
Synod. was dismissed lately by the Presbytery
of Louisville to unite with the Presbytery of
Chesapeake. Mr.. Hoyt has been Vice-President
of the Gold Board In New York for number oil
years. ..
elder, was organized lately about six miles
north of Warsaw, Missouri. This church, COM
posed of members formerly in connection with
the New School Church, connects itself with
--On Monday, the 26th of September, the
Decherd Presbyterian Church, Tennessee, with
twenty-one members, was organized. Two
ruling elders were elected and installed having
previously been ordained to this office. One
deacon was elected, but his ordination was
postponed. This church will soon receive quite
an addition to its membership, and is the only
organized church in Decherd.
BAPTIST.
Besides supplying the destitute with Bibles,
tracts, papers, etc., gratuitously, the Baptist
Bible and Publication Society is organizing a
band of colporteurs who are establishing Sun
day-schools, and preaching the gospel publicly
and from house to house. One reports the es-
tablishment of ten schools another has had the
Joy of Witnessing the conversion of over fifty
souls in connection with his labors during the
past quarter.
The Rev. r. E. Pattison, DID,, of st. Louis,
Mo-, has been appointed President of the Chi
cago Baptist Theological Seminary, and the Rev.
Z. q. MITCHELL DID,, at present IN charge of the
theological department of Shurtleff College,
Alton, Illinois, has been appointed to the Pro-
fessorship of Hebrew and the Old Testament at
the same institution.
The recent census shows that in Richmond,
Va, the Baptists have fourteen church edifces,
sufficient to seat IL, 235 persons, and worth
$227, ,500 which places them in advance of every
other denomination. -t-s. u.
CONGREGATIONAL.
Rev. John Todd, d. D., resigned his pasto-
rate at Pittsfeld, Mass, September 25.
Rev. Henry Diener, from Switzerland, has
been ordained as an evangelist, to labor among
the Germans in Missouri.
-Fev. VIM. H. Ryder, ofiWaterton, Wis, has
accepted an appointment as Professor of Greek
| in Oberlin College. -t tr
Rev. DR.. Dagget's resignation of the pastorate
Of Yale College Chapel has been accepted by
| the society, with regret.
Mrs. II. F. Darant, of Boston, has given
$4,000 worth of books to Holyoke Seminary.
The new Junior Class at Andover Seminary
| numbers thirteen. One member has been added
to the Senior Glass, eight to the Middle Glass,
and four to the Glass in the Special Course.
Among the latter is japanese, who Ras pur-
The Divinity School at Yale College has now
more students than at any time for the past
| twenty-five years.
REFORMED (DUTcH)
The Trustees of Rutgers College have ap-
pointed Mr.. E. A. Bowser Adjunct Professor of
Mathematics and Francis Van Dyke Professor
of Analytical Chemistry. A new chapel and
geological hall are to be built at a cost of
$4,000 The Japanese students have had a
monument prepared to the memory OF Taro
Kusakabe, who died at the College last sum-
| mer. The monument, which is of marble,
bearing inscriptions in the English and Japa-
nese languages, will be placed in Willow Grove
| Cemetery.
The Bergen Reformed Church. New Jer-
sey have settled $500 year for life upon
their retiring pastor, the Rev. DIR. B. G.
| Taylor. He has had charge of the church
| forty-two years.
LUTHERAN.
The Kirchenfreund laments the deficiency
of German pastors to take charge of congrega-
| tions in the General Synod. The editor knows
| of eight congregations who need such pastors
and says he could find fields of labor for at least
| twenty-five more educated and pious German
| preachers within the next three months. The
same paper says it will take good many preli-
minary tearings-asunder and ten years, to get
| all Lutherans ready for union, and adds this
curious expression:-"We live in a period of
great fermentation, and it doth not yet appear
| what we shall be-"
The Second English Lutheran Church of
Harrisburg, Pa, has extended call to the Rev.
F. P. Thompkins, Methodist clergyman from
Massachusetts.
The Rev. Levi Sternberg,. ID. D., has de-
clined the call to the Professorship of Theology
and Principalship of the Hartwick Seminary,
| New York.
- .r1 UNITARIAN.
| Previous to his departure for India, Baboo
| Keshub Chunder Sen preached his last sermon
| at the Unitarian church in Islington. The dis
course was vindication of the Unitarian belief.
| The preacher said he considered that the Uni
| tarians were engaged in the most important re-
ligious movement of the present day, and that
upon its success depended that unity in religion
| which should be the most prominent character
istic of the Christian Church. In concluding,
he said he had felt call within him to come to
| England and make known the causes OF his con-
version, and he had done so in the hope and be-
lief that his stay here would be productive of
some spiritual good. That hope and that belief
would be a consolation and a strength to him
when far away from England, where he had eX-
perienced an amount of kindness vastly exceed
ing his expectations, and of which he should al
ways have lively recollection.
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