The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-05


two hundred, while the number OF churches has |
been augmented to eighteen or nineteen.
The Baptist congregation whose new |
church is nearly COMPLETED at the corner ol |
Spruce and Broad streets do not
intend TO close or dispose of the old building Mt
Spruce and Fifth streets. 1t is believed that
the people will be better accommodated by dl-
viding the society and retaining the old church
as a distinct organization.
-Bi-monthly sermons TO the Sunday schools
have been inaugurated at the Tabernacle Baptist
Church, Eighteenth and Chestnut streets, by the
pastor, Rev. G, A. poltz, with much success.
They arc adapted in their simplicity TO the iuve-
nile capacity, and are so instructive rs to inte-
reet the adults. The first sermon was on the
word "Friend," and the second, preached last
Sunday morning, was on the word ENEMY"
The Baptists have two houses of worship,
located in excellent districts of the city Of New
Orleans. The Coliseum Place edi6ee is large
and imposing, and well planned, and stands in
q location absolutely unsurpassed. The First
Church is slowly, but yet steadily growing. 1t
has pastor, the Rev. MIR. Carpenter, who has
been labOTing here for several years with great
sell-sacrlfce. The Coliseum Place church has
been without n settled pastor for some time, but
has recently called the Rev. DR.. Dixon, of st.
Joseph, Mo.
METHODIST.
The revival at Rondout New York, con-
tinues with increasedpow Up to January 10
335 conversions had occurred and 215 had joined
the church on probation.
Rev. franklin Moore, y. D., of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, one of the most eloquent
men of that Church, died in California on Satur-
day night, January 22d
AT the opening services of the st. Pauls
Methodist Episcopal church in Cincinnati, Ohio,
the sum of $4,000 was subscribed for the com
pletion of this edilice which will cost $780, 900.
About $4,000 hal been subscribed heretofore.
OF $1l4,OC0, already secured, $4,000 has been
given by eight members of this church.
According to the New England correspon-
dent of the Methodist Home Journal, there is o
snDDlY
the New England Conferences. In the list of
appointments of the six New England Confer
ences, the total places marked ito be supplied
make one hundred and seventy-nine.
The project in Baltimore to erect Home for
the aged of the Methodist Church in that city is
destined TO be complete success About thirty
thousand dollars have been secured, and q suit
able site will soon be bought on which to erect q
Home. Meanwhile n large and commodious
building for temporary use has been secured,
and neatly fitted up for the accommodation of
those whom they have had in charge for several
months.
The Wesleyans report 3i5, $50 members,
20, ,596 probationers, and 1908 preachers in Great
Britain. In Ireland there are 1869 members
and ia preachers. In their foreign missions
are G5, S02 members, 1903 probationers, and 292
preachers. Including the British Empire and
missions, they number 551 095 members, 40, 619
probatiOners, and 1857 preachers, being about
quarter of the full number of adherents of
Methodism in the United States. MethOdism
claims in the world 3,43S,033 members, and
about IA, Goo, Geo adheTents.
There are in Ireland 10000 Primitive Me-
thodistS, who have no ecclesiastical connection
with the Primitive Mcthodists of England. Their
ministers observe the early rule of Wesley,
which prohibited them from assuming the privi-
legCs of the clergy in administering the sacra-
ments. But the disestablishmcnt of the Irish
Church disturbs their relation to its clergy; and
there is quite discussion whether they shall
connect themselves with the Episcopaliaus or
the Wesleynns.
CONGREGATIONAL.
The five Congregational churches Of San
Francisco have S01 members, the six Baptist
churches having S1S
Mr.. Samuel A. Hitchcock, of BrimGeld,
Mass, has just given $40 600 for the endowment
of the Hebrew Professorship in Andoyer Semi
nary
-Rev. Frederic A. Fiske, Congregationalist
minister in Massachusetts, has applied to be adj
N itted as a candidate for holy orders in the
Episcopal Church.
The union of the Third Congregational
Church in Portland, Me, with the Central, is
now perfected, under the name Of the ply
mouth Church of Portland"
Within the last four years, five pastors in
New England have left their hocls, and five
young men have left seminaries, to go abroad
as missionaries of the American Board.
Rev. A. l.. Stone, Of San Francisco, and the
Rev. w. b. Wright, of the Berkeley Street
Church, of Boston, will exchange pulpits in
February. Mr.. Stone will spend three months
in Boston.
The English Congregational churches are
discussing favorably the eXpediency of adopting
the system of ecclesiastical councils IN vogue
among their American brethren. Resolutions
in their favor have passed at the meetings of
the Lincolnshire and of the Nottinghamshre
Congregational Union.
Rev. O. |. st. John, of the Congregational
Church in Marshall, Michigan, defends himself
in the local paper for inviting Mrs. Stanton to
occupy his pulpit on recent Sunday evening.
Although he says Mrs. Stanton is member in
good standing of q Presbyterian Church, he
adds that he will welcome all philanthropists,
male and female baptized and unbaptized,
whose hearts beat in sympathy with the grand
| moral and religious movements of the age"
There are in the United States 1896 Congre-
| gational churches and 3l6S ministers, of whom
| 2l33 are in pastoral work There are 800 1862
| members, of whom one-third are males. There
nre reported 15167 additions by profession, and
| 5o22 infant baptsms-ahOye the average The
| Sabbath Schools have 36l 502 members. During
| the year ia new churches have been organized
Wisconsin, and in New York. OF the gains
ID are in Michigan, 10 each in Pennsylvania,
Wisconsin, and Iowa; II in Illinois, 10 in Mis-
souri, and each in Louisiana and Ohio. In
| 1850 there were churches in the slave States;
in 1862 churches; and now, 80, of which %
were organized last year.
REFORMED.
The Rev. DIR. James NJ. Matthews, OF the Re-
| formed Dutch Church. died in New York on the
2Sth of January aged eighty-four years.
The Northwest Reformed Church of New
York city, the Rev. ii. ID. Ganse, pastor, is
| about TO erect large and splendid building on
Madison avenue and Fifty-sevcnth street.
The National Reformed Churches in the
| South OF France lately held meeting at Nismes,
| when committee was appointed to consider
the best basis OF reorganization when disrup-