The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-29


looking toward organic connection with any |
General Assembly, or any ecclesiastical body
whatever.
tuckv has been formally received into organic
union with the Synod of Kentucky, on the basis
adopted by this body year ago.
The receipts of the Board of Foreign Mis-
sions of the Southern Church during the last
nine menths were $4,000 less than they we're
during the corresponding months of last year
They are in urgent need OF several thousand
dollars to meet the claims OF the missions.
The Rev. DIR. David Wills has entered upon
his duties as President of Oglethorpe College
at Atlanta, Georgia.
The Rev. DIR. j. A. Lyon has removed from
Columbus to Oxford, Mississippi to take charge
of his Professors chair in the University of Mis-
sissippi.
q new and larger church. Lately a prOtracted
meeting has been held, and twenty-three were
added to the church on profession of faith.
AT a recent stated meeting of the Presby-
terry of Philadelphia, North the Rev. O.. Col
Inns Jr., presented his credentials of dismisston
from the Reformed Dutch Church, and was cor
daily received as a member of the Presbytery,
ard his name ordered to be enrolled. Mr.. O. is
well kncwn among the Presbyterian body; of
late years laborlng in the vicinity of Norris
town, Pa.
The Synod of New York met at Newburg
on the 18th inst. 1t embraces five Presbyteries,
with 10 churches and over 800 clergymen.
The New Jersey Synod met at Morristown
806 minister's and as many elders.
DR. Howard Crosby has been chosen as
Chancellor of the University of the City of New
York, and has accepted the honor. He sue
ceeds Rev. DR.. Ferris
The Rev. James H. Cooper aud his charge
at Morning Sun, Iowa, have withdrawn to the
fellowship of the United Presbyterian Church,
leaving the Reformed Presbytery of Ohio.
The Allegheny Seminary opens encour-
agingly, considering the circumstances. The
roll has already forty names, with prospect of
additions.
sion of the pastoral charge of the United Pres
byterian Church of Jersey City, N. j.
-Agreeably to the action of the Synod of Illi-
nois, in the reception of of the Western Presby-
terry of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, the
Bratton, and j. X. Martin, and also the names
of the congregations under their care, were
added to the roll of the Presbytery of st. Louis.
CONGREGATIONAL.
The Second Congregational Church in Jer-
sey City was recognized by Council on Thurs
day, the 18th instant; Moderator of the Council,
Rev. DR.. j. 2. Thompson. 1t has tasteful
chapel dedicated some months since), and
with an energetic young minister is gaining
rapidly in the good will of the neghborhood.
The Rev. Horace James, of Lowell, Mass,
has been selected to fill the office of Associate
Secretary for the State of New York. of the
American and Foreign Christian Union.
In the two hundred and ninety Congrega-
tional churches of Connecticut are one hundred
and ffty-three pastors and seventy-seven stated
preachers The average salary of the former is
1851; the average salary of the latter is $975
The Rev. Levi l.. Paine, of Farmiugton, has
been elected Professor of Ecclesiastical History
in Bangor Theological Seminary.
The Fort Street Congregational Church at
Honolulu has extended a call to the Rev. Walter
Frear, of the Congregational church at Santa
Cruz, Cal. He has accepted the call.
The Committee of the Maine General Con-
ference have decided upon Auburn as the place
for their classical school. The trustees Of
Edward Little Institute, in that place have
given their buildings and grounds, valued at
$35, ,000 Liberal inducements were also eX
tended by Yarmouth, Gorham, aud Hallowell.
The Congregational Church at Washington
have inaugurated an effort for relieving their
society of debt by giving personal notes pay
able in ten years. In a week $4,000 were
raised entirely among their own members.
METHODIST.
The Rev. DIR. G. U. Keener, late President
of the "Metqodist (ProtestanD Church" in Mis-
souri,, was received into the St. Louis Con-
ference of the Southern Methodist Church at
the late session in Bonneville, and was stationed
by Bishop McTyeire in Southwestern Missouri.
John Glass, Esq, New York Methodist,
has contributed $4,000 towards building tine
chapel for the Wesleyans of Bainbridge, Ire
land. This chapel, we understand, is to be
built wholly with money provided by friends in
this country.
AT the Methodist Conference in Illinois Dr.
Peter Cartwright attended, but left before the
close, the first time in sixty years that he has
failed to sit it through.
The Tennessee Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church has seventy-ive members,
nearly half of them colored. Eight deacons
and five elders were ordained during conference,
colored and white together.
LUTHERAN.
Mr. Louis Thiel, of Pittsburg the founder of
Thiel College, has bequeathed S22, 600 to the in
stituuon. Its present unpretending property,
valued at $500, was also his gift.
The Lutherans will lay the cornerstone OF
a memo rial church in Washington, ID. c.,
October 81, the anniversary of the Reformation.
1t is reported that, while in New York,
Mad'lle Nilsson, the famous Swedish singer,
attended the Swedish Lutheran Church of
GustaYus Adophus, and sang in the choir. At
the conclusion of the service she took the pas
tor cordially by the hand and promised large
sum toward paying off the heavy debt on this
| church, against which the pastor and his poor
! congregation have struggled since the purchase
of their house of worship two years ago.
ROMAN CATHOLIC.
! The Pope has formally suspended the session
! of the Qcumenical Council on the ground that
there has been a sacrilegious invasion of the ter
ritory of the Church, which might prevent the
| freedom of action of the Pope aud the Fathers.
| The Jubilee in honor of the Council, however,
| is not suspended.
| DR. James Kent Stone, formerly President OF
| Kenyon College, and recently convert TO the
Church of Rome, and author of the "Invitation
Needed" has attached himself to the Commu-
nifty of the Paulst Fathers, III New York.
Mother Xavier, of the Sisters of Mercy, Man
chester, n. H, has undertaken the education ol
his three little daughters.
REFORMED.
The Reformed Church of Fishkill-on the
Hudson have given unanimous call to the
Rev Charles W. Fritts, of Blawensburg, near
Princeton, New jersey,