The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-02

tional minister, was immersed by the Rev. DR..
Fish, of the Academy Street Baptist Church,
Newark, New Jersey, lately.
The Louisiana Baptist tells of an incendiary
who lately set on fire q Baptist church in that
State, but who first piously removes the Bible
and hymn book putting them on log out OF
reach of the fire.
Dayton, Ohio, has been visited by gracious
outpouring of the Holy Spirit The pastor of
the Wayne Street Church has baptized eighty
eight converts since the meetings began, and at
the First Church ffty-eight have been baptized.
The work is still in progress.
The Baptist Church in Paris would not be
allowed to immerse their converts in the Seine,
or in public anywhere. AS their place OF wor-
ship will not admit baptstery, they are OBJ
liged, in baptlzing convert, to bring in large
box for the purpose.
The Baptist papers show different degrees
of opposition to open communion. The Spare
Hour, of San Francisco, is little semi-monthly
Sheet edited by DR.. Sawtelle, and earnestly in
favor of the measure. The WdtcIlmdn and Re
fector, of Boston, the ablest paper in the de-
nomination, and the Journal and Messenger, OF
Cincinnati, are both temperately opposed to the
measure; but do not hesitate to acknowledge
those who favor it as sonnd Baptists, and some
times insert their communications on the sub
iect. The Examiner and Chronicle, of New
York is bitterly opposed to it, and never gives
the other side q hearing. The less able papers
of Chicago and Philadelphia are satisfied with
giving denominational news without attempting
to mould UNCONVENTIONAL sentiment. Then we
have such Western and Southern papers as the
Baptist, of Memphis, which would not even
allow an exchange with or any recognition of
unimmersed ministers.-Independent
PRESBYTERIAN.
Rev. Willis Lord, d. D.. of the Northwestern
Seminary, has been elected President of Wooster
University, Ohio.
The Presbyterian Board of Education has
received 3006 candidates for the ministry since
its organization. '.
-Rev. W. NJ. Cunningham, D. D.. recently
elected President of the Oglethorpe College,
Georgia. died at Lagrange, on the 10Th ultimo,
of pneumonia.
The number of students now in Union Theo-
logical Seminary is thirty y-fve-equal to that
of its palmiest days. The present year is spoken
of as highly prosperous one in all respects.
The Rev. Hugh McKelvey, of Centraia, ILL.,.
has withdrawn from the Western Presbytery of
the Reformed Presbyterian General Synod and
joined the Presbytery of Alton.
The Cumberland Presbyterian Church has
membership of 100000 and now enters on the
sixtieth year of its history 1t is considered
more settled In its operations and fixed in cha
racter than at any previous time.
The New York Observer says that on
recent Sunday Rev. DR.. Hall administered the
comm union to eleven or twelve hundred COM
municants in his church-both pews and aisles
being crowded
The Rev Nr, Kingsbury, after being pastor
Of the IresNy -ran church, Putnam, Ohio for
thirty years, has rendered his resignation, in
consequence of his advanced age and increasing
infirmities His resignation was declined, as the
congregation desire his pastoral relation to con-
tinue for life, and propose employing an
assistant.
"A very interesting question to those who
support our benevolent societies is that opened
by correspondent of the Evangelist, who be-
leves that not only should the several boards of
the two Presbyterian bodies be consolidated, as
has been contemplated, but that this ought to
be carried much further to merge the
half-doZen boards into two or three. He says
that the mission work of the Church properly
divides itself into domestic and foreign, and
that two societies enough to take it all
He sees no reason why there should be a
separate church-erection department, when
this can as well as not be attended
to by the secretaries of the Board of Domestic
Missions, who are in intimate correspondence
with the churches that need such aid. At most,
it should be bureau in that office. So there Is
no reason why the freedmen should be set up
into a separate department, or why the Domes-
tic Board, with proper supply of clerks, could
not also attend to the education department, or
to the colportage branch of the Board of Publ
cation, which is, in fact, the only function OF
that board which it is proper for an ecclesiastl-
cal body to attempt. The only really strong
argument for the multiplication of societies is
that thus it is supposed more money will be
| contributed.
Besides the large Presbyterian bodies in this
| country-in which we include the reunited
Presbyterian Church. the Cumberland Presoyte-
rians the Southern Presbyterians, and the
! United Presbyterians-there are numerous
smaller bodies, mainly of Scotch origin, which
refused to join in the combination which formed
the United Presbyterian body. There are the
! Old Side Reformed or Covenanter Church,
with so ministers and Sc churches; the
New Side Reformed or Covenanter, which
had q little while ago 55 ministers
and 60 churches, but which has been split
into two by the expulsion of Mr.. George ii.
Stuart; the Associate Reformed Synod of the
South with 6S minister's the Associate Synod
of North America, with 13 minister's; and the
Associate Reformed Synod of New York, with
| II ministers. This makes Scotch Presby-
| terian bodies. Besides these are the Declaration
and Testimony Presbyterians of Missouri, and a
small body of Old School Presbyterians in the
same region that refuse to go into the Union.
To these should be added another faction, lately
organized in Charleston, s. c., whose name we
do not know. This gives us total, 50 far as
known, of 13 Presbyterian Churches.
LUTHERAN.
The Lutheran Visitor says, speaking of de-
nominational interests in the South;-''Tht
Southern Church is not now a missionary
church. 1t has not q single missionary. The
Southern Church must ere long be withou
pastors: 1t has not single theological student
The ScdndindUen has a weekly circulation
of about 5000 copies. Ihe Lutheran OOseroe'
says:-"As there are sixteen Scandinavian jour
nails in America, this will give some idea of thC
Scandinayans as reading people"
REFORMED CHURCH.
Rev. j. H. Wagner late pastor of thu
German Reformed Church in Pittsburg, ha
seeded to the Roman Catholics. On the 81
inst. he was baptized" and confirmed by
Romish priest in Lancaster, Pa.
st. Johns German Reformed Church, Yves
Philadelphia, recently voted to transfer thei
congregation and property to the Presbyterians
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