The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-29

-lnere arc 43,5lo colored Baptists in Vir-
ginia, not including those in white churches and
associations. OF these, the African Valley Asso-
citation has 1892; the Union Norfolk, IL, 767; the
Colored Shiloh, 20, 150. The largest member
ship in any church is 1886, In the First Colored
Church, Richmond.
"A Freewill Baptist minister writes that the
developments of their theology are "more after
the manner of the Congregatonalists than after
the theory of the Methodists" But this means
little more than that their moderate Calvinism
Is of that type to which both Methodists and
Congregatonalists have for a hundred years been
approxmaHng.
AT the installation of r. j. Adams over
baptist church in Holyoke, Mass, quite dis-
cussion took place in the council on the ques-
tion of restricted communion. DIR. Ide placed
this practice simply on the basis of expediency;
and for some time 1t was q question whether the
person examined was the pastor elect, or DR..
Ide, or Mr.. Trask, the Congregational pastor,
who happened to be present.
In this city there are 40 Baptist churches with
about ID, 600 members; while in the State, with
its population of 3,750000, there are 4S0 Baptist
churches, with $4,000 members. Hence it ap-
pers that the Baptist proportion Is only one In
seventy-fve-a proportion that is certainly la
mentally small. There are sixty-fvs counties
in the State, and in nine of these there is not a
single Baptist church, while In nine others there
is only one in EACH
CONGREGATIONAL.
Rev. Brown Emerson, ID. D., senior pastor
of the South Church, Salem, Mass, was % on
Three New England ministers have followed
Pres. Fairfeld's example in leaving the Freewill
Baptists for the Congregationallsts.
The First Congregational Church in Chicago
has received 120 additions during the year. and
in this number is included one-tenth of the
| membership of the Sabbath School.
The three largest churches in the State of
New York are II. w. Beecher's, Plymouth,
| 1858 members; Church of the Pilgrims, Brook
| iyn, Rev. r. s. Storrs, GAL; Tabernacle, New
York, DIR. Thompsons, 5A.
President Butterfed of Washburn College,
Kansas, has just returned from collecting tour
| in the Eastern States, the net results being
S40, 600 in cash, $50, 500 in Wills and $4,000 in
good promises
The City Missionary Society is the medium
| through which the Congregatonalists OF Boston
! labor for the unevangelized of that city. Last
year 81, ,779 were expended, and eighteen mis-
| sionaries employed-thirteen of them women.
Upon the 9th inst. the Rev. e. G. Chaddock,
pastor of the Freewll Baptist church in Law
sion, announcing that after two years of investi-
| cation he had decided to leave his denomination
and become a Congregationalist.
| The British Congregational Year Book re-
ports rs associations in Great Britain and the
colonies, 3455 churches, of which 205O are in
! England, 846 in Wales, 102 in Scotland, 81 in
Ireland, 1875 in British America, LAG in Australia
| and New Zealand, 10 in South Africa, and 1873 in
| connection with foreign missions There are
1882 ministers, of whom 160 are ordained d
| missionaries and "a native pastors of mission
| churches.
| The First Congregational Church at New
| ton, Mass, rededicated its enlarged house of
worship on the 18th inst. Among the exercises
| was an original hymn by DR.. s. +. Smith, for
merly pastor of the Baptist church. The Con-
gregational church is 2O6 years old, and has had
eight pastors and two co-pastors in that long
period. Nine of these were ordained there, and
five died while at Newton
Rev. Amos Blanchard, d. D., of the Kirk
Street Church, Lowell, Mass, died suddenly or
e IS . IA,
ease, aged 63 years He was graduate of Yale
| College and Andover Theological Seminary, an(
was ordained in 1920. He first became pastor o
the First Church in Lowell, and afterwards, il
| 1S45, of the Kirk Street Church, so that thu
entire forty years of his ministerial life wer,
spent in the same city, where he was eminently
| loved and respected
celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth ami
| versary of Congregatio.alism in this country
| The idea seems to take, and the same journa
suggests the observance of four days of historica
| importance:-First Sunday, the first of May
which will be, as nearly as can be determined
the two hundred and first anniversary of tn
beginning of the residence of John Robinson an
his church in Leyden, Holland. Second Thurs
day, July 81, the two hundred and fftieth ami
yersary Of the day on which the Pilgrims lei
Leyden, when q General Convention of Congre
gationalists from the whole land be invited t
) assemble at Chicago. Third, Sunday, Septem
ber 18, nearest to the 10th, when the Mayhowe
left old Plymouth. Fourth, Wednesday, slst
| December (Forefathers' day. a service of thanks
giving be held on Plymouth Rock, to be followe
on the evening of the day by suitable discourse
{ by some man of this nation wOrthiest to spea
on such theme fifty years after Daniel Wei
| ster
, LUTHERAN.
During 1869 the Swedes erected seve
church edifces in different part of the country
: There are four German Lutheran churcht
vacant in Northampton county, in this State.
The endowment of Luther College, Decora
Iowa, is $73, 124. 1t is being gradually increased
a The Norwegian Wisconsin Synod embrac
s 46 ministers, 21S congregations, and $500 COZ
q municants.
n Sunday Schools, comparatively new thir
among the Lutherans in Germany, are said
be growing in favor.
Rev. ID. NJ. Henkel, of Stroudsburg, Pa
= has been appointed an agent for the endowme
fund of Muhlenberg College.
y The Lutheran pastors of Allentown
= aprOpos of the school question, have dete
I" mined to establish parish schools.
~ The editorial connection of Rev. Il. Weis
! and Rev. G. Leply with the american LItthert
- has terminated, and Rev. U. Graves has ASSUME
!. the Office of editor.
- Carthage, Hancock county. H., has be-
10 selected by the synods of Illinois and Iowa
, the seat of the college designed to supply Il
I, wants of the Far West.
- The Rev. S. p. Sprechcr, of Albany (son
, | DIR. Sprecher), makes the suggestion that q
- General Synod shall drop the name Luthera
and call itself the I" Church of The Reformation
u He says, General Synod men generally disclai
y the sectarian pecuiarities of the Augsburg Co
t. fession. They retain only the great distincti
~ doctrines of the Reformation. l contend that
4 is unfair to call this Lutheranism. No
since we have rejected all but the common dc
= !, trine of Professionalism, the proper name for t
# General Synod Is the Church Of the Reform
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