The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-27

members, and 1900 Sunday y-echool children.
The Oberlin alumni have undertaken the
endowment of two new chairs in that college,
They will be called the Finney and Morgan pro-
feesorships.
METHODIST.
The Methodists of Omaha Nebraska, have
arranged their church into a block of stores
that viii rent for $1,000 year. This income,
il is proposed, will &c to the cause of Church
Extension in the State of Nebraska for ever, aud
is likely to secure the building of several churches
in the rural districts every year.
DIR. z. Q. Haven, President of Northwestern
University, Evanston, near Chicago, has been
invited by the Regents of Wisconsin University
to the Presidency, in place of DIR Chadbo1rne,
resigned.
"A new proposal for the location OF the
Syracuse IN. " University (Methodis0, has
been made by John B. Burnet, who tenders the
gift of fifty acres of land, valued at $4,000, and
the expense of the grading of the grounds. The
land ie situated on the Geddes Hills, west of the
city.
"A Methodist missionary at Salt Lake City
writes that Gods blessing abides with the
mission" Three preaching stations and three
Sunday schools have been established, and con-
gregations are encouraging at every point; that
at Salt Lake City has grown from n y persons
to three hundred.
TO meet the cost of is new establishment
in New York, $3.50 600, the Book Concern Issued
coupon bonds redeemable in fifteen years or
sooner, and bearing interest semi-annually. The
breeze about irregularities" awakened distrust,
and the bonds were for q time 'flat" Lately,
however, confidence has recovered itself, and
the inquiry for these bonds has been resumed
and sales have already taken place to the
amount of $400, 600. This, it is stated, has been
effected without single paid-for adver isement,
or any pushing whatever.
In Ohio there are now four Methodist Epis-
copal Conferences, with four branches. The
membership is 141 $50, and is divided into 575
pastoral charges. The number of church ed-
fees is 1909, aud their value SIS, 1873, 222. The
number of parsonages is 3S3, and their value
$3.50 400. The average value of the church ed-
fees is $2S13, and of the parsonages $500. The
most costly church is st. Paul's, Cincinnati,
$160, 000 There are 965 Sunday schools, 80 529
officers and teachers, and 149, 755 scholars.
The Methodist Episcopal Church has just
lost two leading and liberal laymen, Mr.
suddenly at Plymouth, N. H., on the Sth
instant; and the Hon. George T. Cobb of Nor
ristown, N. j., who was killed on the Bati-
more and Ohio Railroad, near White Sulphur
Springs, on the 9th and had lately given 500 900
to the Methodist Church at Morristown.
Grace Methodist Episcopal Church. at
Piqua, Ohio, valued at $4,000, was destroyed
July 25 by tornado.
The Rev. w. g. Z. Cunningham, D. D., has
been elected President of the Centenary Col
lege, Louisiana.
The Wesleyan Methodists report member
ship of J. 14G, 08l, and u subscription of thank
offering during the centenary year of
So, 339, 662.
st. James Church. San Francisco, the
nucleus OF ritualism in California, has ceased to
exist
The Rev. George Morgan Hills, of Syracuse,
n. Y, has been unanimously called TO the
rectorship of St. Mary's Church, Burlington, N.
j., the parish Of which the late Bishop DOane
was rector for many years.
Bishop Kerfoot, of Pittsburg, Pa, strongly
urges the wisdom of the free-seat system. OF
the sixty regular Episcopal parishes in his
diocese but one-fourth rent their pews; In all
the rest the seats are free.
The journal of the Convention of the Dio-
cese of Ohio shows a list of Ill parishes, served
by two bishops and ninety-four clergymen; COM
municants reported $780, The total of contri-
buttons for all purposes, except salaries, in 81
parishes, $1S5, 5S440.
In the new st. Thomas Church, Fifth
avenue, New York, musical conductor has
been engaged, at salary OF $4,000 per annum.
The Register mentions, as noble example,
that the students of the Protestant Episcopal
Theological Seminary of Virginia" during the
session just closed, have contributed to the
Foreign Missions of the Church three hundred
and twenty-five dollars, evidently the work of
self-denial with many of them, if not with all.
The Society for the Increase of the Ministry
has aided l45 scholars during the past year.
Twenty-nine have recently been ordained. The
necessary expenses of the society are $4,000 a
month.
An Episcopal Church Guild" has been Or
ganized in Cincinnati, Ohio. 1t supports three
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start a library.
The increase of the colored Baptist churches
in Louisiana the past year has been 1000 mem
bers, and twenty churches formed.
| "A Baptist church in New Orleans refused
the benefit of horse-race to cancel its debt,
though assured that the gate fees would be
sufficient for the purpose"
In the cities of Pittsburg and Allegheny
and the adjoining boroughs there are ten Baptist
| churches, owning edifices valued at $3.50, 500,
and furnishing accommodations for 1850 per-
sons. In these limits there is a population Of
| about 200, 600.
The North Star Mission, Chicago became the
North Star Baptist Church, bypublic recognition
July 21st Large accessions have been made tC
months. The pastor the Rev. Mr.. Pierce for
merly of the United Brethren, is the minister.
There are four colored Baptist churches il
this CITY, and they are all prospering; Thei
due, Rev. T. d. Miller, and Rev. Mr. Pinn. The
Sunday-school of the Shiloh Church made al
excursion trip to Riverside, and cleared $52 fo
the benefit of the school. The Shiloh Churcl
has a branch i'll Camden, at Kaighnsyille.
Rev. r. NJ. Luther for six years a mission
ary in Burmah, among the Karens, is now sup
plying the pulpit on Sunday mornings, of tht
Independent Church Crew. DR.. Chambers), oI
| Broad street.
The American Baptist Historical Society, b,
the earnest efforts of the President, Rev, How
ard Malcom, ID. d., has secured very valuable
library. More space is greatly needed, and
tire-proof building is talked Of
LUTHERAN.
The Southern General Synod of the Lutheran
Church reports one hundred and sixteen mem
bers, one hundred and ninety-four cOngrega
tions, and seventeen thousand three hundret
COMMITMENTS distributed in North and Soutl
Carolina, Virginia, Georgia and Tennessee.