The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-08
ouR Rn11a1ous COLUMN.
SUMMARY OF sHURCH NEl
PRESBYTERIAN.


membership of this church
The Rev. John ID. Matthews ID. D., has re-
ceived a unanimous call to the Portland Avenue
Presbyterian Church, Louisville, KY, which has
been vacant since the removal of the Rev. z. IL.
Thompson. 1t is believed that he will accept
the call, and enter upon his pastoral duties at an
early day.
tons depot, Tennessee, called Stanton, with
twenty members, three ruling elders, and two
deacons.
"A church composed of colored people has
been organized at Portersville, Tenn, by the
Rev. A. NJ. Watson, consisting of twenty-sN
members, with two ruling elders, aud two dea-
cons, both IN the Presbytery of Memphis.
MIR. w. w. Evans has received a call from
the churches of Crittenden and Lebanon in Ken
lucky.
The Rev. E. w. BediDger, recently of Shep-
berdstowD, West Virginia, has accepted call
o become pastor OF the church at Florence
Kentucky.
"A letter from a member of the faculty of
Davidson College states that one hundred and
five students were in attendance at the opening
and that everything promised pleasant and
profitable session.
The Rev. w. E. Hill has resigned the charge
of the Third Presbyterian Church of Richmond,
Virginia, and the congregation have invited
the Rev. Z. T. Baird, ID. D., to supply them for
year.
Among the persons killed by the recent ex-
plosion on board steamer at Yeddp, Japan,
we're Rev. Edward Cornes and family of the
Presbyterian Board of Missions.
BAPTIST.
Dr. Backus, of the Baptist Home Mission
Society has gone to San Francisco to purchase
the First Baptist Church for the Chinese Mis-
sion.
The fall term of the University of Roches-
ter opens under unusually favorable circum-
stances. The Rev. A. j. Sage, recently OF
Brooklyn, assumes the vacant chair of Latin;
so that the ranks of the Faculty are now full.
About fifty students presented themselves for
admission. The Theological Seminary, too, is
prospering, DR.; Hackett is on the ground, and
taking vigorous hold of his work. About twenty
additions have been made to the students in the
regular department, while seven have been
added to the German department
The Baptist statistics for the State OF Geor-
gia are:-12lS churches, 760 ordained ministers
1874 licentiates, and 115 1913 members, of whom
39,010 are colOIed. The number of baptisms
during the year was 10,645. The net gain was
517S.
EPISCOPAL.
AT Concord. on the 2lst ult, Professor Will
liam Woodruff Niles, of Trinity College, Con-
necticut, was consecrated Bishop of the Epis
copal Diocese of New Hampshire, the first ever
consecrated in that State.
The Rev. w. H. Milburn, the famous blind
preacher, has been offered the pastorate OF an
Episcopal Church in San Francisco, Cal, at
salary in gold of $4,000.
The Episcopal Convention of Illinois have
adopted the following canon:-"No clergyman
shall resort to civil court or tribunal for the
purpose of arresting, impeding, or avoiding any
ecclesiastical proceedings against him, and the
penalty for any violation of this article shall
be suspension ipso tdcto from the fun 'tion of
The ministry"
ON the 4th of September Bishop Stevens
consecrated the new building erected by the
congregation of the Holy Trinity in Cen,relia
Columbia county, Pa, and preached the con-
secration sermon.
METHODIST.
The Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church,
on Eighth street, above Race, having been com
pletely and elegantly renovated, was reopened
for use on Sunday last. This church has had
among its pastors such eminent men as DR..
John P. purbin, DR.. Haganay DR.: Crooks, DR..
Moore, DR.. Nadal and others. The present
pastor is Rev. II. A. Cleveland
The Toronto papers announce the death OF
Mrs. Punshon, the wife of the distinguished
Wesleyan divine and public orator She was
the sister Of Mr. Punshon's first wife, and owing
TO an absurd law in force in England, her
marriage with Mr.. Punshon in that country could
not be legalized. They accordingly came to this
country, where they, whom God had already
joined together in affection, could be united ac
cordiDg to the forms of law Mr.. Punshon has
since then resided in Camden, and now the sad
81 news reaches US that she, for whose 3ake he left
his native land, has been taken from his side by
death.
The WESLEYAN Conference in England ap-
proved the proposal of DR.. Jobson aud Others
for the erection of monument in Westminster
Abbey to John and Charles Wesley; the
authorities of the abbey have given their con-
sent.
AT the late session of the VI. f. Conference,
held in Elmira, n. Y. the following resolution
was offered and had fifty-eight votes but was
not carried
'Resolced, That without Judging any man.
atiectonately advise the members of this
conference not to affiliate with Freema3onry."
METHODIST.
- The Illinois Wesleyan University reports
corps of six regular professors aad l63 students.
It's assets are reported at $1,000 including
real estate, endowments, libraries museums,
apparatus, etc. The trustees are prosecuting,
with much energy and success, the work OF
erecting new University building, 70 by l4O
feet, five stories in height, including the base
ment, which will cost, when completed and
furnished properly, not less than $40, 900.
The new Methodist Episcopal church in
Portland, Oregon, which cost $32, 600, was dedi-
Gated September 9th, by Bishop Ames. Enough
money was raised to cancel the debt
A new proposal for the location of the Syra-
cuse University CMethodlst) has been made by
John b. Burnet, who tenders the gift of fifty
acres of land, valued at $4,000, aud offers to
meet the expense of the grading of the grounds.
The land is situated on the Golden Hills, west
OF the city.
The Female College building at Farmville,
Virginia, has been bought by party OF gen
tlemen, who intend TO make of TIA Methodist
college.
CoNGREGATIoNAL.
Seven Congregational ministers and dele
gates from ten churches in Southern Nebraska
late ely met TO form association. They dis
cussed the question, How shall we provide pas
tors, in view of 100 600 people, with only twelve
churches and eight ministers, and rich country
rapidly filling with people!
The Chicago Seminary opens this fall with
about fifty students, very gratifying increase.
The Rev. G. C.. Carpenter, formerly pastor
of the Congregational church in Rrooklne,
Massachusetts, and more lately OF the church in
Birmingham, has lately Joined the Unitarian