The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-01
SUMMARY. OF CHURCH NE WS.
EPISCOPAL.

1t is stated that Bishop Doane of Albany,
to be used in his diocese. He has added the
celebrated "Scotch Office" of the Holy Commu-
nion, in which the objective and real presence
of Christ in the sacrament is taught.
Professor William Woodruff Niles, of
Trinity College, Connecticut, was consecrated
Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hamp-
shire, on the 2lst of September, at Concord,
New Hampshire.
The dispute between the adherents of Co.
lenso and the orthodox Bishop Macrorie still
continues in the diocese of Natal in South Af-
rica. 1t has lately taken the form of contesting
one anothers right to olliciate at funerals in the
cemeteries. Mrs. Colenso has held a bazaar to
raise funds to repair the damage done to the
cathedral in one of the late disturbances, and
has obtained, with the help of friends in Eng
land, $500 for the purpose. Bishop Colenso de-
livered long address at the fifth session of the
Church Council of his diocese on May 3lst. 1t
consisted for the most part of comment on the
new "Church of the province of South Africa
an organization severed, as the speaker said,
from the mother Church of England, and gov
erned by rules which are in some respects
directly at variance with the laws of that Church
For instance, the clergy of "the Church of South
Africa" are forbidden to celebrate marriage
between persons the divorced husband or wife
of either of whom is still alive. The new church,
he maintained, was by this rule 'only treading
in the steps of the Church of Rome" For a
breach of this injunction, formal admonition or
suspension for term not exceeding six months
the clergy of the church Of the province
of South Africa which would be no crime
at ,u,a all in pdso.g clergyman OF 1,,, Church OF
England Referring to the Bible revision
absolutely required for the needs of the present
age. But that any number of bishops should
undertake to say that when the labors of such
committee have been completed every line and
letter of what Notwithstanding some pas
sages, no doubt, upon which the opinion of the
committee will have been very much divided
is to be received henceforth as the infallible,
eternal word of God, would be somewhat ridicu-
lous, If 1t were not profane." Addresses to the
Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and va
rious resolutions couched in the spirit of the
Bishops address, were adopted unanimously.
The English Association for Promoting the
Union OF Christendom" have arranged to hold a
series of services in and around London of the
most advanced ritualistic character, and are
still earnestly striving to bring about the union
of the English Church with the Roman Catholic
and Greek Churches, Notwithstanding the pro-
mitigation of the doctrine of infallibility.
The Diocese of Nebraska has unanimously
chosen Bishop Clarkson as its diocesan.
PRESBYTERIAN.
AT late meeting of the LAFAYETTE Missouri
Presbytery Declaration and Testimony, seve-
raj new church organizations were reported. The
Salem Church was reported as having come over
unanimously, and was by unanimous vote re-
ceived from the New School. The Central
Prairie Church, nine miles north of Pleasant
Hill, was reported and received. The Nevada
Church. at Nevada City, county seat of YER
non county, and Virgil Church, at Virgil City,
were reported and received.
Union Theological Seminary Virginia
opened on the 18th of September, with forty
one students on the ground, and enough ex-
pected in a short time to increase the number to
fifty.
The Presbyterian Church of Fredericks-
burg, Va, has been handsomely repainted In
1862 the bell of this church, like many Others
in the State, was given to the Confederate
authorities, to be cast into cannon. new one
weighing 1884 pounds has been procured in its
place.
The First Presbyterian Church, Memphis,
Tenn, of which Rev. +. H. Bowman is pastor,
have just completed roomy and complete
manse on a lot adjoining the church. This
church is in fourishing condition, numbering
now 2lO members, a large increase in two years.
The Rev. d. M. b. Mclean, of Cleveland,
Ohio, has received a unanimous call to the
Seventh Avenue Church, New York.
METHODIST.
Miss Mary Clarke of Bellows Falls, VT, has
willed $4,000 to the Missionary Society OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church. and the Preachers
Aid Society of the Vermont Conference Her
brother Jonn gave TO the church, for various
benevolent objects, $25 600.
The whole property of Wesleyan University
now amounts to $675, lO3, and the total income
duIius Tie past ye@l Ma 81, Iol, SL.s- 49,. ~
increased $4lOO by recent donations.