The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-19


every week, In various parts of the field"
-Mr. Joshua Douglass, of Meadville Pa, has
given Allegheny College property in that city
valued at 900.
Anna Dcknson's brother is supplying the
Methodist church at Guilford, Conn, and is a
very popular preacher.
The Annual Conference of the State of New
YORK Will assemble In New York city on the 9th
OF April. Bishop James will preside over the
sessions.
The Supreme Court of Missouri has taken
~. Charles College out of the hands of the
Northern Methodists, and restored 1t to the
war.
The Methodists have in the State of New
York IL seminares, with 115 instructors, and
20S0 male and 1542 female students. The value
otproperty is SAL 800, and the literary appro-
priatlons, $4779'20.
The publishers of Zion's Herald have been
engaged for some time in erecting building in
Bromiield street, Boston. for Methodist head
quarters, at an expense of $500, 600. Its income,
as soon as the debt is paid, will be paid to the
support of feeble churches
The funeral of the late Rev. DIR. McClintock
took place on the morning of the Sth inst, from
81. tauls Methodist Episcopal Church in New
YORK. A large number of leading clergymen
and laymen were present. The students of the
Drew theological Seminary attended in q body.
The Baltimore Methodist Conference at its
fraternally the Southern Methodist Conference,
then in session. The latter body refused to re-
ceive them as official representatives of O body
which, they asserted had done them great
wrong In robbing them of church property
through the South, and had never expressed re-
pentance They were willing to receive the
delegation as individuals; but, while the vote
was being taken, the Northern Methodsts with
drew.
From paper presented at the late conven-
ton of the State of New York we derive the
following igures:-The ministerial force of the
state consists of one resident bishop, 1457 tra-
yelling preachers, and S17 local preachers total,
2275. The lay membership is 1872 43S of whom
1868 are in full connection, and &c, 631 are on
probation. The total membership, lay and min
isterial, is 1S3, 955. The average lay membership
to each charge is 167. The number of church
edifces is 1892, and of parsonages, S33. OF
Sunday-schools there are 1865, officers and
teachers, 27,363; scholars, 1877, 066; total ex-
penses for 1868, SIS, ,059'35 There is an average
of "a pupils to each school, and of one teacher
to every eight scholars officers excluded, there
are &c, ,651 teachers. Ministerial upport-Amount
of salaries paid to pastors for effective pastoral
work, 1865 42S; an average of about $500 to each
charge. Estimated payments in donations about
100000
PRESBYTERIAN.
"A German Theological School has been
started in Newark n. j., by the Presbyterians,
and at present is supported by the Presbytery of
that city.
The Rev. j. ]. Bullock, D. D.. now pastor
of Franklin Street Presbyterian Church, Balti-
more, Nd has received and accepted a call to
the Presbyterian church in Alexandria, Va.
The New Providence church in Rockbridge
county, Va, has had but three pastors in one
hundred years. 1t was served for seventy-fve
years by the Rev. Samuel Brown and his son-in-
law, the Rev. James Morrison.
-Rev. j. Frederick Dripps late of Brooklyn,
was installed as pastor OF the First Presbyterian
Church OF Germantown on the evening of
March z. The sermon was preached by Rev.
DR.. John Hall, of New York.
Those who have in hand the matter of
church erection in the Presbyterian Church are
urging that, as the money is given for the
Jubilee Memorial of five millions, one million
be given to build houses of worship for feeble
churches.
The Cumberland Presbyterian criticizes
the manner in which colored preachers are
licensed by Presbyteries in the South. They
are simply authorized Ito preach among people
of their OWE color" The Herald and Presby-
ter says "Never, since we have been engaged
in the work of publishing religious intelligence,
have we been permitted to record a season of
so thorough"
struction of the Presbyterian Church at Sugar
Creek, near Charlotte, N. c., by an incendiary
| on the night of February 10:-"lt was organized
| In 1765, under Rev. Alexander Craighead, a
| celebrated minister in his day. He Is the true
father of the Mecklenberg Declaration of indie
| pendence, May 20, IT'S, more than year before
| the National Declaration. The convention that
| met in Charlotte, on that bright May day, was
largely lTOm sugar STe6h, anu lbs IT0SluGut,
Abraham Alexander, was an elder in the church.
The congregation was as true as steel In the dark
days of 76. 1t is sad to think that church with
such history has perished in such a base and
cowardly way"
-Revivals are now quite numerous through
out the country, though less 30 in New England
| than elsewhere. We notice that Mr.. Durant has
been preaching with much success in Ports
| mouth, N. H., and elsewhere and that Mr..
| Dunn's Presbyterian church. in Boston, received
| 81 on profession at the last communion. The
| Plymouth Brethren have been preaching, and
excited considerable opposition in Kingston,
Canada. The Bishop of Ontario has preached
against them. The Methodists have received 16l
accessions in Pemberton, N. j |; 400 in Rondout,
N. Y; 165 in Patchogue, L. l.; 1870 in Phillips
Trinity Church, Newburg. The Presbyte-
rians report 1877 additions in Jamesburg, N. j..
&c at Dutch Neck, N. j.; 125 at Alliance, o.
and 100 in Evansville, Ind. In Dayton, o., q
Presbyterian church has received 1l6 on pro-
fession, a Lutheran church 160 and Reformed
church 103. At Kossuth Iowa, 6S have Joined
a Presbyterian church, and the interest in Peoria
exceeds anything before known. At Greer
Earth, Ind, 60 have Joined the Presbyterani
and 100 the Methodists. The Savannah Mo.
Presbyterian church has received GO additions
and Glenwood, Mo-, is enjoying an extensive
revival. We hear of interest in several of ou
colleges as at Wheaton, ILL.,, and Ripon, Wis
The Telescope reports within two weeks 1851
conversions in the churches of the United
Brethren.
The Baptists have lately organized thel
sixteenth church in Chicago. 1t has eight,
members.
The Baptists of Pennsylvania boast an in
crease during eleven years from 7,527 to 81, 13
members.
Mr.. Hiram Woods, of Baltimore, has re
Gently given $16 900 to the building of the ney
| fist N