The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-24
SUMMARY OF CHURCH NEWS.
EPISCOPAL.

Mrs. Livermore Unitarian) oficiated in an
Episcopal church in Epping, N. H., several
weeks ago, reading the prayers and going
through the service as if an ordained "priest.n
She did not need to wear the robes, of course.
Some trouble occurred about it, and the vestry
have invited her to officiate there whole Sun
day this month.
The Episcopal Convention of the Diocese
of Illinois passed the new canon making it an
offence, punishable with immediate suspension
from the functions of the ministry, for O clergy
man to appeal to civil tribunal to prevent or
avoid any ecclesiastical proceeding.
The Rev. Samuel Ralph Asbury, a Congre-
gational minister without settlement, residing
in this city, was admitted to the Diaconate
in st. Stephens church, Boston, on the I'd in
slant. He is an Englishman, and, according to
the Churchndn, was at one time missionary
in India, and one of the translators (from the
Germany of Lange's Commentary.
Bishop Potter, of the Protestant Episcopal
Diocese of New York, announces in the Church
man that, "ior causes not affecting their moral
character, he has deposed from the ministry of
the Church the Rev. Rowland Ii. Bourne pres
byter, and the Rev. John Cromlish, .presbyter,
who have declared their renunciation of the
same, and their design not to otficiate in future
in any of the Offices thereof" Mr.. Cromlish
was admitted into the New York East Confe-
renee of the Methodist Episcopal Church last
April. and is officiating al Huntington, Long
Island.
The SotuItern Ohurchman noticing the
baptism by the Rev. G. s. Barten, d. D., rector
of Christ Church, Norfolk, of twelve persons
who preferred the primitive scriptural mode,
says-"This is just as 1t should be. If persons
prefer to be baptized by immersion, it should
always be DONE"
The new Episcopal Church at Plainfeld,
N. j., was erected at the expense of the Rev.
Mr.. Embury. 1t cost about $25, 900.
The Episcopal Board of Missions acknow-
ledge total receipts from mite Chests since
October l, 1869, of $114, $3.50. The sums col
lected and forwarded by each chest range from
few cents to twenty dollars, the average, per-
haps, being about three dollars.
Tho Episcopal Church in Missouri contri-
buted this year to objects other than salary one
hundred thousand dollars, nearly three times
the sum reported last year. The communicates
number 3100, being an addition of more than
twenty-five per cent.
The Episcopalians report 500 combinations
and 1924 COMMITMENTS in the Diocese of Long
Island, 7S2 confrmations and / 1872 communi-
cants in Massachusetts,, and 1865 combinations
and q, ,035 communicates in the diocese which
includes Philadelphia.
, Some English Churchmen are scandalizeC
because the rector of Whitechapel has allowed
Baptist minister to preach in his chapel. Il
is even said some Dissenting ministers are Il
receive the bishops license" to oficiate iI
Episcopal churches.
PRESBYTERIAN,
The Christian Observer says: "a letter from
the Rev. f. q. Strahan, dated Georgetown, KY.
September 9, 1870, advises us that three more
of our churches have been greatly revived ant
encouraged in the work of the Lord. Th
churches are the Providence Church, the Sta
ton Church, Bourbon county, and Boyer
Church"
Fifty or sixty members have been added Il
feeble and vacant churches within the bound
of the West Lexington Presbytery, as the re
suit of evangelical labors OF its ministers sine
last spring.. 1A
-Of the 1869 congregations in the Souther
Presbyterian Church, only 400 have pastors
about 900 have regular or partial supplies, an
about 430 are destitute of any stated ministry.
The Board of Trustees of Westminster Co
lege have elected the Rev. b. Y. George, {
Columbia Professor of the Latin Language an
Literature in place of the Rev. DR.. Fisher.
Lon Monday, August o. the Rev. j. b. Macl
a. evangelist Of Charleston Presbytery, orgaI