The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-06

to rebuild it.
At the meeting of the Kansas Episcopal
Convention last month, two ladies and six gem
tlemen were placed on the Board of Examiners
of the Diocesan Seminary, being the first in
stance in the country in which women have
been elected to a diocesan office.
The late Chester Adams, of Hartford, in his
will, which has been admitted to probate, be-
queathed over 300, 600 to various charitable
and religious societies.
-NGREeATIoNAL
The Rev. Joseph Haven, ID. D., has written
from Dresden, Germany, resigning bis Profess
sorship in the Chicago Theological Seminary.
He states that his health requires q lighter oe-
c%upation, and that he takes this step after hay
ing medical advice at home and abroad.
The Rev. G. 9. Morse, q Congregational
clergyman of Topeka, Kansas, went down into
his well, a few days ago, and finding it full of
foul gas, asked to be pulled up. He was pulled
about twenty feet from the bottom, when he
fell back, struck his head on a sharp stone, and
was instantly killed.
In reply to the charge that Congregational
ism is dying out in New England, the COngrCJd-
tiOndliSt shows that since 1881 that denomination
has, in Massachusetts,, added to its force two
hundred and thirteen new churches and over
forty-two thousand members, thus nearly doub-
ling its ministry and more than doubling its
membership in the last forty years.
During the past year the Congregationalists
have employed IS missionaries in Northern and
z in Southern Illinois, serving 80 churches and
10 out. stations. During the year II churches
have been organized, IL have become self-sup-
porting, and z have dedicated houses of worship.
OF the 235 churches, 103 are self-supperting, 90
have missionary aid, and AZ unite with other
churches in the support of a minister or are
unsupplied. The average missionary salary in
Illinois this year has been 1854; in Vermont,
S5S9'50; Michigan, $661 10; Iowa, $63S; Massa-
chusetts, $3.50; New Hampshire, $3.50; Maine,
$600-making che average missionary salary in
these seven States 1868.
The descendants of Jonathan Edwards are
to hold a reunion at Stockbridge, Mass, Sep
TENDER 6 and z. Among those not of the family
who are to be present and participate, are DR..
McCosh, DR.. j. n. Tarbox, President Hopkins,
and Professor Park. President Woolsey is to
deliver the discourse.
The First Church, New London, Conn.,, will
celebrate its 2OOth anniversary, October D.
During these two centuries, it has only had eight
pastors. The present pastor. is Rev. DIR. 7. p.
Field.
METHODIST.
The finest parsonage of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church in the United States is said to
be the one in Newark, n. j. 1t cost $25, 900,
and is elegantly furnished throughout. Its
present occupant is the Rev. o. IL. Tiffany,
d. D.
The Rev. Rufus Wendell, a New Highlander,
who left the Methodist Episcopal Church to
join the Second Adventists, years ago, has re-
turned to it, convinced that he has been advo-
eating a lie"
The Methodists of Saratoga are about to
erect a new edidce, to cost $50, 600, of which
$50, 600 have been subscribed.
The Methodist says:-''The union of the
Bible Christians and New Connection Methodists
of England, which has been agitated for some
time, has not yet been consummated. Last year
it was determined by the Methodist New Con-
nection Conference to submit a scheme of union
to the circuits. 1t was found, at the recent
session of the conference at Sheffield, that many
of the circuits were opposed to the plan, and the
conference therefore passed resolutions referring
the matter again to the annual Committee,
until there is "a substantial agreement among
A,rgnlunc n = alG a tpun fha fuun nnnnn m Inn tan
that are to be united.
The Irish Wesleyan Conference has dis
cussed Lay Representation on the occasion of Pc
titions in its favor from two circuits and one dis
trict meeting. The conclusion was that it was
not advisable to make further changes mmedi-
ately, in view of the plan just adopted for re-
constructing the various mixed committees, on a
new and enlarged basis.
BAPTIST.
The Spare Hour, published in California,
states that there are ninety Baptist ministers
in the United States bearing the name of Jones.
Two Baptist churches in Chicago have over
a thousand members each, The First
Church Grew. DR.. Evarts, pastor), 1912; and the
Second Church Grew. DR.. Goodspeed's), 1865.
Altogether there are in the city nineteen Bap-
tist churches, with a total membership of 1867.
Since the 9Th of November last, forty-seven
members have been added to the First Baptist
Church, Wilmington, n. c.; au increase OF
twenty-five per cent. within eight months.
The Rev. William Ashmead Schaeffer, of
Germantown, Pa, has accepted a call from
Christ Church, Easton, Pa, and expects to enter
upon the charge in September.
If the Lutherans of this country be all
counted as one body, they would make one of
the largest denominations we have. But they
seem hopelessly divided. The portion of them
which approach more nearly to our American
evangelical churches, and which believe in con-
version and accept r~eyivals, are connected with
the General Synod. A somewhat larger number,
including more of the German-speaking
habits of worship of the Fatherland,
and are very strenuous for the old church SYM
bols and creeds. They are attached to the
General Council. A smaller number, forming
originally the Missouri Synod, protest against
the ecclesiasticism of the council, even as
being too loose, and insist that Lutherans must
not exchange pulpits with members of other
denominations. Wisconsin and Iowa have
practically gone over to the Missourians,
and the latter are gaining strength by the
natural tendency to take one or the other oil
two logical extremes. Not SO much on the
surface, but yet as a practical dividing force,
is the question what position Christians must
take on the questions of the Sabbath and Of
temperance, and whether those who are hard
drinkers and patronize or keep. open their
saloons on the Sabbath thereby forfeit the right:
of membership. The Lutheran institutions IL
WATERFOWL, Wisconsin, are now in a very pre-
carious condition, threatening to suspend un
} less the churches give immediate aid. But the
more moderate Lutherans say the reason of the
GOODNESS of the churches towards its wants il
because missouri" has got control, and thi:
> does not secure the sympathy OF the best por
lion of Wisconsin Lutherans.
WATCHES. JEWELRY. ETO.
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