Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-08-04
THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
A church of ten members was organized July
18th, at Otley, Iowa. Rev. VIM. s. Bray, of
Newtown, preached on the occasion, and Or
dained Rev. Charles G. Harrah, of the last class
of the Chicago Theological School, as it's pastor.
-Four persons united with DR.. Thompson's
church, New York city, on July 3rd, by profession
of faith. The invitation to commune was
couched in the language used by Dickens in his
will.
Rev. Henry Ward Beechers vacation begins
with August and lasts six weeks. DIR. Storrs has
a vacation until September. DIR. McCosh, of
Princeton, has suggested that the American
clergy are, as a class greatly overworked, per-
hsps voluntarily so, and thinks there ought to
be some way of compelling every pastor to take
from six to eight weeks of vacation. The ma
jority of American pastors have no cessation
from active duty in their churches.
The new North Church, Lynn, Rev. J. M.
Wilton pastor, have purchased a site and intend
to erect q house Of worship, with every modern
improvement, including chapel at the rear end.
Mr. o. p. Champln Of the last class Of Chica-
go Seminary, was ordained by council at Fair
mount, Minnesota, July 10th. 1t was the first
ecclesiastical council and the first ordination SER
vice ever held in that place.
Rev. Leonard W. Bacon has accepted a call to
the pastorate of the First Church Baltimore his
labors to commence the second Sunday in Sep
tember.
organized in 1895, and during the 175years since,
it has had but seven pastors only two during
the first 81 years. These pastors were Revs.
Samuel Woodbridge, Eiphalet Williams, d. D.,
Andrew Yates. Joy H. Fairchild, Asa Mead, Sam
uel Spring, d. D., and the present pastor Rev
I. J. Holmes. The church has had but three
houses of worship. The first stood 40 years.
the second 95 and the present substantial house,
was dedicated in january, $780, The present
membership is 1888 and that of the Sabbath
School 397. This school contributed over 5000
last year for missions.
The Rev. Aldin Grout, for thirty-fve years
missionary among the Zulus has returned to
| this country with his family, and will make his
home at Springfield, Mass.
PRESBYTERIAN.
We learn from the Interior that over one-half
of the Presbyterian churches of this country are
| found in four States Said number is 2,671, of
which New York has 730, Pennsylvania 712, Ohio
$780, Illinois 446. The total in the United States
| Is A, 100.
Mr. John L. Lands, licentiate of the Presby-
| terry of Harrisburg has been aboring with great
acceptance for eight months past at Coudersport,
Pa. On the 14th inst, he was received by the
Presbytery of Wellsboro; a call from the
church at Condersport was placed in his hand
i HHQ Whb Dy nllil hcctpttu, anu III oNcH-
| ing of that day he was ordained to the work
of the gospel ministry, and installed pastor of
| the congregation of Coudersport.
! The Chinese mission church, under Mr.
Loomis at San Francisco recently received to
i its membership young man of promise, who
| is anxious to prepare for mission work in his
native district in China
Rev. Geo. S. Wolf, young minister of Sussex
county, Delaware, is now settled at Madison G..
| H., Va, in portion Of the held made vacant
I 1,,rt tl,., of Raw
| At a late meeting of the Presbytery of Chicago
| a report from the committee ON the Memorial
Fnnd, the Rev. A. Mitchell, chairman was read,
recommending the raising among the churches
| of the Northwest, the sum of $150,000, for the
Northwestern Theological Seminary, and s2OO,00O
for Lake Forest University.
Rev. Sylvester +. Scovel, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church, Pittsburg, Pa, declines to
receive the honorary title of D. d. conferred on
/ him by Hanover College, Indiana at it's recent
commencement. An exchange says there are
287 incorporated colleges in the United States.
that annually turn out an aggregate OF about 400
| D. DIS. Many ministers think with Mr.. Scovel,
chat the degree confers cheap and doubtful
honor.
EPISCOPAL
Rev. Mr.. Downe has resigned the pastorate OF
the Church of the Saviour, West Philadelphia.
Bishop Whittingham has offered to present to
the Episcopalians of Washington, his theological
library, consisting of nearly ten Thousand vol
umes, for the benefit of the church in perpetui-
ty on the sole condition that they provide for it.
suitable fire-proof building, sufficiently large
to admit of a reasonable increase. The library
is of rare value, consisting of several hundred
folio volumes and of additions belonging in n,l-
merous instances. to the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries, Its value is estimated at 100000.
Ten thousand dollars has been contributed to
Bishop whipple, by lady, for the erection of a
chapel, for the Episcopal seabury misslon' III
Minnesota.
The late Chester Adams, of Hartford, in his
will, bequeathed over 100000 to various chari
BILE and religious societies.
The Episcopal Convention OF Indiana, has vo
ted its dsapproval of the practice of raising
money for church purposes, by means Of fairs
lotteries, tableaux, and private theatricals.
Christ Church, in New York city, of which DIR
Ever, author of the sermons on " Failure o
Professionalism" finds its ritualism not pecunia
rly profitable The society is badly in debt, an
has been obliged to sell its rectory. 1t is doubt
full, whether DIR. Ever, on his return from Eu
rope, will resume his pastoratc.
The new St. George Protestant Episcopa
Church, OF Kensington, Philadelphia, was admit
ted into union with the church, at the last ser
, sion Of the Convention. This parish is locate
: on the Germantown rail road, at the corner {
Twentieth and Toga streets. new hall Ina
been secured and fitted up for religious servicei
Mr.. A. p. Dodge OF New York, has presente
. the Episcopal Theological Seminary, near Ale!
andria, Va, with 100000, to be appropriated
: the endowment of two existing prolfessorships
Il BAPTIST.
j. A new female seminary is to be established
|. Raleigh, N. c., by Rev. W. Royal, d. D., Primo
8 pal, and the house recently occupied by Ho
It Kenneth Raynor, has been purchased for $15, 90
o Rev. Chas. H. Malcolm, pastor of the Secor
n Baptist Church, in Newport, Il. l., has bet
a elected to the Professorship of History in Bat
n College, Lewiston, Maine.
, Grocer Theological Seminary near Chester, Il
7 now an endowment in money of over 1900, 0
and the land and buildings are worth at lea
d 100000 additional.
If Mr. Spurgeon is becoming one of the me
popular speakers in England, at other than Ba
,r tist meetings. Not long since he was promne
ID invited guest and speaker at Presbyter
< General Assembly Meeting, in Scotland, a
L. now we find him taking similar part at t
to Anniversary of the Congregational Theolog
as Seminary called Chestnut College. He made
20 special call for subscriptions to the College a
received four of $500 each. The Earl of Shaft
IL bury also made speech.
Ii is, at last, reported as conclusive that \
Id Sturgeon will not attend the Evangelical Altar
IN Meeting in September.
Professor Hackett, ofNewton, has accepted I
80 chair of New Testament Literature and Interp
er tation.. lin the. Rochester Theological Semina
II LUTHERAN.
aJ Professor Martin Luther StGver, l.. l.. D.,
% the College at Gettysburg, Pa, died in philad
ar phia on Friday last, of nervous prostration 0
Z congestion of the brain, brought on from exc
siye and long continued labor The DIR. was b.
ba at Germantown, Pa, Feb. 18th 1920. He gra,
ia ated from the Pennsylvania College at Gett
ad burg, in 1888, and since then has filled in Z
w. cesson nearly all the chairs in that College,
tai METHODIST EPISCOPAL
led DIR. and Mrs. Palmer, successful evange
ihe of this church have accepted an invitation fl
an the preachers meeting, of San Francisco, Q
I'VE to attend camp meeting to be held at Oakla
ing CAL, commencing August 11th.
II Bishop Ames preached in the NJ. +. Churcl
md Salt Lake on the morning of July 10th
IAN Chaplain McCabe in the evening.
but Mt A. Mainard. of the Nj. L. Church. who
In Gently completed fine asylum for orphans
!, Morristown, N. j., has now decided the build
the fully furnished, together with the extern
his grounds adjoining, to the Bishops of the Met
dist Episcopal Church, to be used by them
nd an orphans home. BY the deed of transfer,
), Mainard requires that preference shall be 81
the to the daughters of foreign missionaries of
!, M. e. Church, whose health or education ma
the it necessary for them to visit this country
live should those be not sufficient to fill the ho
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