The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-16

elder received $50 year during 1861 aud 1862.
The conference reports no benevolent collec-
tions in the last minutes.
BAPTIST.
"A mission interest has recently been com
meDced in the southwestern section OF this city,
by m, mbers of the Tabernacle Baptist Church.
To aid in this enterprise lecture will be de-
liveied OF Tabernacle Captist Church. on Mon
day, the 25th inst, by Rev. II. M. Gallagher, of
Brooklyn. This gentlemans church is near that
of Fl. W. Beeeher, and the crowd attendant at
the church of Mr.. Gallagher is equal to that
found in the Plymouth Church. The lecture
will be a very interesting one. Tickets at No.
$50 Arch street
"A Baptist Educational Convention will as
semble in Brooklyn next Tuesday. The most
distinguished educators of the Baptist denomi-
natlon-Drs Anderson, Robinson, Hovcy, samp-
son, Loomis Weston. and others-are 10 present
papers on various topics relating to education.
The meeting will comprise delegates from the
theological seminaries, colleges, academies, and
educational societies
in the presence of a full congregation Rev.
j. II. Mac Elrey, Of st. Alban's, Roxborough,
baptized five persons last Sunday evening, 18th
inst. The pastor afterwards preached an i'm
pressive discourse upon the nature of baptism.
--Shurtleff College (Baptist), in Alton, ILL.,, is
suffering from the resignation of its President,
DR.. Read, and of DR.. Pattison, its Professor of
Theology, who takes charge of an institute in
Missouri for educating colored preachers.
Considerable opposition is made to the pro-
posed union of the Baptist Publication and Bible
Societies
PRESBYTERIAN.
Hanover College and Wabash College both
were started in Indiana in the height of the
controversy preceding the Presbyterian disrup-
ton. Hanover became Old School, andWabash
New School. The former, according to the
genius and habit of its body, came under direct
synodical control, and half of its trustees have
been elected by the two synods of Indiana.
Wabash had, according to the less centralizing
genius of New School Presbyterianism as then
rd nf oil
and who reported to no ecclesiastical body We
see that Hanover College finds the ecclesiastical
system unwieldy, and that at late meeting Of
the trustees it was proposed to ask the synods
to give up their right of nomination. Constant
discussion in synod of the affairs of the college
does more hurt than good.
Rev. Robert Acheson, Presbyterian minister
in Gait, Ontario, Canada, writes to the Christian
Instructor, rejecting on the nature of the revi-
val which year ago so powerfully affected that
vicinity. He thinks the most visible fruits of
the revival are division in the churches and a
split of lying and maliguity beyond descrip-
tion." Another Presbyterian pastor complains
of the prejudice ongendered against such doc
trines as election, limited atonement, and
special operations Of the Spirit" But it must be
remembered that there Is another class of Pres
byterian churches there that heartily entered
into the revival work and endorse its character.
The Plymouth Blethren were leaders in the
movement which reached class scarcely inilu-
enced before by the churches.
AS step towards harmony, Albert Barnes
has withdrawn his books from the New School
Publication Committee, and several controver-
sial works on the list of the Old School Board
of Publication have been suppressed, while
others, especially DR.. A. A. Hodges "The
Atonement" are being revised by the authors
so to eliminate any reference to the late sun
+ pleasantness" between the two wings of Pres
! byteriansm. The only point of difference yet
| developed is that of the rivalry between New
! York and Philadelphia for the bureaus of the
Benevolent Boards. The Old School Board of
Domestic Missions is in Philadelphia and the
, New School in New York, and neither wants to
move.
The Old School Presbyterian FOREIGN Mis-
sionary Society is receiving this year less money
than last, Notwithstanding the impulse that
ought to have been given to their liberality by
the union. The first eleven months of the fiscal
year give $203 952 receipts against $21O 593 last
! receipts of April, or there will be bad debt
Last year the debt was escaped only by the fact
that legacy of $6S, 200 Sweled the receipts of
April to $50, $50.
The United Presbyterians have 10000 COM
municants and five periodicals, or one to every
$4,000 members. They are, in the order of age,
the EUdnqeliCGL Repository, n monthly the
United Presbyterian, of Pittsburg, and the
Christian Instructor, of Philadelphia both
large quarto papers; the Pulpit, monthly
with sermons: and the Christian Worker. The
Presbyterans are said by the Christian IlStruc-
tor to have fifteen accredited periodicals, or one
3
In view of the projected union between the
| English and the United Presbyterian Churches
/ the ministers of these bodies in and near Man
chester exchanged pulpits on late Sabbath.
The Cumberland Presbyterian has reported
! over 2000 conversions and about 1900 accessions
to churches during the first three months of the
! year.
UNITARIAN.
A ma jority of the members of the Piscataqua
| On. H. Congregational Association have eX-
pressed themselves in favor of inviting Chris
tiaus rather than church members to the Lords
Supper.
AT the annual renting Of the pews in the
! Church of the Messiah (Mr. Golfers Unitarian),
! Chicago, it was voted TO abolish the system OF
selling pews by auction and to give the present
holders the right to keep their seats, if they
| wished. Three-fourths of the pews were thus
! held, and the rest sold at from $40 to 5000
premium. The entire rental was $4,000.
CONGREGATIONAL.
In Berkshire county, Mass, in 1929, there
were 26 26CoDgregational churches and % pastors
Now there are SO churches and II settled
pasters. Five churches have no regular service
and ten have less than fifty members each
These mountain towns are settled only by
farmers and, as Massachusetts cannot be 8
farming State, the population has drifted away
to the towns or 10 the West.
CATHOLIC.
The schsm in the Armenian Catholic
Church of Turkey needs explanation. Owins
to TIL partial protection afforded to the Greel
Christians by Russia and the Latin Maronite
by France, they have had an advantage ove
Armenian Christians, who had no powerful
friends to intercede between them and the Mo
hammedan Government. This led small body
of Armenians in Syria to attach themselves tt
Rome $50 years ago; and about 40 years ago, al
we learn from letter from DIR. Edwin f. Bliss
in the Christian Union nearly thirty Thousand