The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-22

the business of the bindory, there being no
system of checks by which 1t could be told
whether bills presented actually represented
goods received and since December 1st,
1867, there were &20 G09 worth of skins not
accounted for. The paper manufacturers
say they would have provided paper for from
one to three cents pound cheaper than
it was purchased through Mr.. Porter, the
favored agent
PRESBYTERIAN.
The lack of ordained men has led the
! Presby yterians of South Alabama, in accord
ance with permission given by the last South
ern General Assembly, to appoint fifteen lay
evangelists. Five accepted the duties.
The new Presbyterian paper of Chicago
| is expected to appear the first of February as
nearly $50 COO have been secured as finan-
cial basis. Rev. Arthur Swazey has resigned
his pastorate in Chicago to become its editor
Nine churches of this denomination were
organized last year, viz.:-At Brookheld
Conn; at Guttenburg, N. j.; at West End
N. j.. at Clymer, N. Y; at Danforth, ILL.,;
and three in Virginia.
"A generous benefactor, whose name is
not published, has recently given the sum of
| $25, 600 to the fund for disabled ministers
and their families of the Presbyterian Church.
| The fund now amounts to $35, 600.
The Presbyterians of Kansas propose as
! a memorial of reunion to take up Highland
| University, which ranks as a good academy,
and to make a respectable college of it, They
propose to endow it Immediately with
| 100000
A first-class educational institution,
under Presbyterian control, is about to be
established at or near Pittsburg, to be called
! the {" Pennsylvania Female College," A
charter has been obtained, a Board of Trus-
tees organized, and subscription of 100000
| secured.
| 1t is reported that Rev. r. De Witt Tai
mage received into the Central Presbyterian
| Church of Brooklyn, on the 9th inst, forty
three new members, making in all, one hun
dred and thirty-seven additions during the
few months of his passionate many of them
remarkable cases of conversion
| The Old School Presbyterian boards are
| appealing Justify for contributions, complain
| ing that the zeal of reunion has not helped
| them. During the first ten months of the
| fiscal year the Board of Domestic Missions
| has received 1928, 435 less than during the
same month last year, though the appropria-
tions for the year are 1923, ,0S4 more than then.
The board has felt obliged to decline to make
any further appointments.
| BAPTIST.
The Rev. E. J. Stevens, former Metho-
dist minister of Belchertown, Massachusetts,
is about to join the Baptist denomination.
| Mrs. j. Lawrence Smith, daughter of the
| late Hon. James Guthrie, as soon as the
| charter of the Baptist Orphans Home, Louis
vile, Ky, is obtained, will convey to the
managers a lot in that city worth $15, 900 and
| $4,000 toward the necessary building.
During the past year the Falls of Schuyl-
kill Church have raised about $4,000,
half of which was expended in improving
their Westinghouse. This is nearly three
times as much as the church ever raised be-
fore in one year
The Centro5 Baptist of st. Louis, Mo-,
protests against the organization of more
Baptist churches in Missouri. There are in
that State 500 churches, with GO, 600 members
| an average, if all were dscoverable, of 70
| each. Half of them have less than forty.
Not one church in twenty is supporting
pastor, and many are doing absolutely nothing
outside of themselves. That paper says that
'if the co. 600 Baptists aforesaid were con-
solidated into 200 churches of 300 members
each, it would be easyt raise $50,000 annually
for State evangelization.
A writer in the EG0mjRer neatly parties
the charge of narrowness made against those
Baptists who dreaded that a proposition
would be made for union sacramental season
at the meeting of the Evangelical Alliance in
New York, by confessing his willingness to
have the matter proposed, if there shall also
be broad minded interchange of pulpits.
He says Il am passionately fond of Christian
union and brotherly love, and l do 80 much
long to hear Spurgeon in Trinity, Pushon at
st. Adams, and the Archbishop of Canterbury
in DR.. Hendricks meeting house.
CONGREGATIONAL.
Sixty years ago there was but one Con-
gregationNl church in Missouri. There are
now fifty-six.
Fourteen Congregational churches have
been organized among the colored people in
and about New Orleans during the last year.
On the 29th ultimo Rev. David Brigham
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his in
stallation over the church at Randolph, Mass
The suggestion of the COngregdtiOnaIist
that next year, the 250th of Congregational
ism be celebrated as a jubilee year, meets a
warm response from all quarters.
"A Southern association of the Congre9a-
tional churches of California was reorganiZed
at San Buenaventura on December 7. 1t en-
braces four churches and six ministers.
The Rev. Mr.. Merriman, pastor of the
Broadway Congregational Church in Norwich,
Conn, has decided to decline the call to the
chair of Church History in the Chicago Theo-
logical Seminary.
Sixteen Congregational clergymen have
been ordained and installed in New Hamp-
shire during the past year. Three have been
dismissed, and four died. There are one
hundred and ninety-one churches of the de-
nomination in the State, and about nineteen
thousand members.
Bangor Theological Seminary is soon to
meet with another loss Last year DIR. Shep-
herd was carried to his upper home, " and
now DIR. Pond so feels the weight of years
that he has explicitly informed the trustees
That he will cease his labors as Professor at