The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-12


ship; but this ie SO great as almost 10 raise the
doubt whether the elaborate articles, 53 In num-
Der, which the AdoOcdte prints are not spurious.
IL seems almost incredible that 40 regular priests
could have ventured TO sign such revolution
ary document, which would consign them to
Immediate accommodation, especially when
an attack on Bishop McQuaid, signed onony-
mously MANY Priests" was Immediately de-
nounsed by every priest an tne oloSese. s,Cs Dee
we are assured by the gentlemen In this cityto
whom inquiries are referred that 1t is genuine,
and emanates from priests OF the South.
CATHOLIC.
While the Italian Kingdom, with popula-
tlon of "a, ,000, ,000 is represented in the Gcume-
nical Council by 1888 members, al ana o the fapal pa
States with q population OF 700 GOO, by l43,
France is represented by only "a members,
Austria by a. the Germanic Confederation by
10, Great Britain by So, and the United states
by 49, The Italian members OF the councli, III
fact, form considerably more than third of
THE Romanist influence in Missouri few
days ago pushed O bill through the lower house
of the Legislature, giving parochial schools SiO
5O% 6o tas RSSs tSe bill wss lost ~
The Pope unable TO find an American saint
TO casonize. has Just beatifed Giovanni Ancina,
who was once a priest connected with the
church which is now occupied as the American
College at Rome.
MoRAvIAN.
The Morayians of the United States are di-
yided into two provinces, one In the Northern
and the other In the Southern States. The
statistics of the Northern Province have just been
published, from which we learn that it contains 1
but SO churches, having 5970 communicates Gan
increase of 290), S92 non-sommunicants, 3ol0
children, and 5494 Sabbath School scholars.
The largest church, that at Bethlehem,
Pa, has 1ol2 communicates and at
Hope Ind, Nazareth, Pa, and Philadelphia
there are churches with between $50
and 800 members each. Their ministers number
49, The Southern Province Is much smaller,
having 1869 communicates and 6S5 children and
ether members. The British Province contained
in 1868 $3.50 communicates and total of
544S souls. The German Province, In the same
year. 1895 communicates and q total OF 7270
souls. 1t will then be seen that the North Pro-
vince of the United States is the largest in the
Moravian community, and that their total num-
Der of communicates, exclusive of those in their
missions, which far outnumber those at home,
is but 1904 which is less than the number of
Congregationaists in New Hampshire or Illinois.
BAPTIST.
The Baptists have church extension COM
mittees in some of our large cities. Within
little more than four years the st. Louis COM
mittee has received nearly $64 600, and the
membership of the churches has been increased
from 900 to nearly 1900.
Mr. Hiram Woods, of Baltimore, has re-
Gently given SIG 600 to the building of the new
Baptist church in that city. He was also donor
of the lot, worth $50, 900.
The Baptists of Sulphur Springs, Missouri
have been enabled to purchase the Presbyterian
house of worship, by loan from the Church
Edfce Fund, New York.
The Chancellor of New Jersey, in the case
of Baptist church, has decided that the trus-
tees of a society have no right to close the
church against the minister and congregation
when they wish to use it for purposes of wor-
ship.
The Baptist statistics of Michigan, just
issued, show 271 churehes-a gain of %. There
are 18, 312 members-a gain of 1850. There are
24S minister's and but 26 of the pastors have
been settled over three years, while AZ have
begun their third year. The practice, if not the
theory of itinerancy prevails. The endow-
ment of Kalamazoo College has been increased
about $50, 600 during the year.
LUTHERAN.
of Lutheran periodicals in this country
there are nine printed in the English, fifteen in
German two in Norwegian, and two In the
Swedish language. tf
According to the Lutheran Almanac for
1870, there are in this country, of Evangelical
Lutherans, 81 synods, 1888 ministers, S4l7
Rev. G. F. G. Yaeger, of the Synod of Penn
sylvania, states in the Zeitsctrif that he has
recently celebrated his jubilee in Friedenskirche,
which he has served fifty years and seven
months (1S19-69) He is still able to preach to
six churches. He tells us that In these fifty
years he has baptized 6252, confirmed 3583,
buried 2451, married 1905.
CONGREGATIONAL.
The two hundredth anniversary of the Or
ganization of the South Congregational Church,
In Hartford, Conn, was celebrated on Tuesday,
February 90.
Rev. DIR. Wallace, of the Third Church,
Manchester, N. H., recently preached o sermon
reviewing his thirty years pastorate, and among
other changes of time noticed the fact that not
one pastor that oficiated at his installation is
now in charge of church. He is the third
pastor in age in the State, Rev DR.. Tobey, of
Durham, being the oldest, and Rev. E. Buxton,
of Webster, the second.
The First Church, Newton, Mass, Rev. d.
L. Furber, pastor, having remodelled and greatly
enlarged their house of worship, dedicatory
services were held January 18. This Church
was organized July 20, 1854, and the present is
the fifth house of worship. They have had
eight pastors, of whom four served, respectively,
installed over the church 90 years ago.