The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-19
SUMMARY OF CHURCH NE WIS.
EPISCOPAL,


1.-THE Epscopalians have, says the Ia1depend-
ent sin the portion of New York city between
Fourteenth street and the Bowery more churches,
probably, than any other denomination. Yet
7S, 712, in which they do not have q single
church, and six more in which they have but
one each. Eight parishes have moved up from
below Fourteenth street, six of them from below
Canal street, and have made their property by
the sale of their land; but in no case have they
left yestge of church work behind them"
The Santee mission IN Dakotah, according
to the Churchmd,, has done much to civilize
the neighborihg Indians. Paint, dances, and
feasts are abandoned. The women wear dresses,
and the men have given up the costume of bar
barism.
has sold out to St. Bartholomew's Church for
$500, 900. The rector of the bankrupt church is
Rev. DR.. Ever, who rendered himself so con-
spicuOus some time ago by preaching series of
sermons on professionalism a failure" Protes-
tantism is still solvent.
The cornerstone of the Talman Memorial
Church of the Beloved Disciple and Home for
Indigent Females was laid in New York, re-
Gently, at the corner of Madison avenue and
Eighty ninth street.
From the fourteenth annual report of the
Society for the Increase of the Ministry, we
learn that the number of students aided last
year is 149 from so States and Territories, and
SO dioceses. During the year 80 candidates
were ordained. Since the organization of the
society, 5l8 students have received aid, and 204
have been ordained.
The Rev. Philander X. Cady D. D.. has
been elected Professor of Systematic Divinity
in the General Episcopal Seminary in New York
city, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
DIR. Mahan, Of Baltimore.
METHODIST.
Two of the most prominent New England
ministers are going West-Rev. NJ. M. Park
hurst and Rev. Dr. Coggeshall. The latter is
stationed at Sheboygan, Wisconsin, flourish
ing city on Lake Michigan, about two hundred
miias north Ghipapn ie IN tO
Grace Church, Chicago, the new and elegant
church on the North Side.
Bishop Ames says that no mission OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church, in the first five
months of its history, had more tokens of the
Divine.blessing than has the Utah mission.
"A layman in New York offers to maintain
for year Methodist missionary at Havana,
Cuba, to preach in English and study the lam
guage of the people.
-Rey. DR.. Leroy NJ Lee has retired from
the associate editorship of the Richmond (Va.)
Adoocale,
Central College, Southern Methodist, at
Fayetts, Mo-, has completed an endowment Of
The Boston Wesleyan Association building
erected at q cost of 900, 000 was recently dedi-
Gated. daily religious paper is said to be in
contemplation by the association.
The Free Methodists at their late conference
in New York adopted resolutions against Chris
tiau women adorning themselves with 'uselsss
Jripperies and odntties such as trimmings,
laces, braids, embroideries, strips Of velvet and
other nonsensical gewgaws."
The appropriations for mission work at
home and abroad have been completed by the
missionary committee, and the apportionment
for missions during the year 1871 is on a bas IL
of s700, 600, inclusive of $4,000 required to
meet drafts not yet fully due.
PRESBYTERIAN.
The Domestic Missionary Committee of the
Presbytery of New Orleans reported The en-
ployment of the Rev. James Mcconnell az q
salary of one thousand dollars, as its eyange.
list in the region west of the river known az
the "Teche Country, and his entrance upon his
labors.
The Central Presbyterian says the Rev
Thomas Smythe, ID. D., of Charleston, s. o..
passed through Richmond, Va, lately, on hi-
return home from summer sojourn in th,
mountains. He has been spending some
months at the Rockbridge Baths, with very
great benefit to his health. Long and severe
Visitatiens have repeatedly prostrated most o
his physical powersi to which have been added
dispensatons of Providence bringinglheaVy Gala
mites in regard to things temporal. 1t is graft
Tying and surprising to see how, amid all these