The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-05

/ byteries were represented, though, according to
| the Associate Reformed Presbyterian the at
tendance was small The report of the Commit
! tee on Psalmody was adopted. IL is confined
| to the revision of Rouse and that to very
| limited extent.
The pastors and delegates of the Eastern
| German Conference held their Twentieth Annual
! Conference with the church in Anthony town
ship, Lycoming county, "a, in IN the first aud
! composed of thirty churches, which reported
| an increase of two hundred and seventy by
baptism during the year. Au interesting report
! of the mission work of the conference was read
| by Mr.. Schultz, General Missionary of the Home
Missionary Society, whose duty it is to travel as
a missionary among the churches who are with
out pastors, to open new territory, aud to repre-
sent to American churches, wherever he
may have opportunity, the need of Ger
man home missions. The conference is
missionary society, auxiliary to the American
! Baptist Home Mission Society the funds raised
for mission purposes go into the treasury of
! said society, and the German missionaries are
| appointed by the same on the recommendation
of the conference or its missionary committee
! Resolutions were passed in regard TO the Ger
man department of the Rochester Theological
! Seminary, recommending the seventeen German
| students who are at present engaged in studies
! preparatory to the ministry to the liberality of
| the churches, and earnestly requesting the
! Board of the New York Ministerial Union to
appoint, as soon as possible, an assistant teacher
| to instruct the students in the secular branches
| of learning. A committee was appointed to lay
| this request before the board. The German de-
partment at Rochester has, indeed, become
| great blessing to the mission work among the
| Germans. More than two-thirds of the pastors
of the conference are graduates of it.
-EX-Mayor Thomas B. Peddle, of Newark,
| New Jersey a member of the First Baptist
Church in that city, has donated the handsome
! sum of twenty-five thousand dollars to the New
Jersey Classical and Scientific Institute at
Hightstown, on condition that its liabilities are
all provided for. This places the financial affairs
of that thriving young institution upon firm
The Baptists of Newark, NJ j., have Just
held great meeting in the First Church, With
over two thousand persons present, and resolved,
among other things, to break ground for two
new cbapels, and purchase lots for third; and
most of the $12, 900 Immediately needed for that
| purpose has been secured. This will give to the
denomination in that city twelve preaching
| places.
The Trinity Baptist Church. New York (Rev.
]. Stamford Holme d. D., pastor), have lately
bought o lot of ground for new church edifce.
The lot is 20 by 125 feet and is located on the
corner of SiXty-third street and Lexington
avenue, and is one of the best locations in the
city for church.
LUTHERAN.
There are twenty Lutheran churces in the
| city of New York. the ministers of which belong
| to six different synods. The Ministerium has
churches; the Synod of New York, 3; the Mis-
souri, Synod 8; Steimles Synod, 3; the Norwegian
Synod, l; Pennsylvania Synod Il and two are
| independent. Two OF JneSe cnurcneS are Eng
lisb, one Swedish, one Norwegian, one German
and English, and fifteen are German. Four of
these churches were established the last year.
The Wartburg Orphan Farm School, under
the care of the Lutheran churches in New York
city, has just occupied new and commodious
building near Mount Vernon, N. Y. The funds
for the school were furnished by Mr.. Peter
Moller and his brother, as gift to the memory
of their mother.
The Synod of Northern Indiana, at its late
meeting in N Manchester, deposed 9. G. Sink
from the ministry, for immoral conduct; and
constituted King William, of Prussia, a life.
director of its Missionary Society, for reasons
not stated.
METHODIST.
One of the best endowed seminaries under
the patronage of the Methodist denomination is
Chamberlain Institute, Randolph, Cattaraugus
county, New York. In 1866 Judge Chamber
lain whose name it bears, erected on the ample
grounds on which the old academy stood an
additional beautiful building at an expense of
$50, ,0O0, and presented it to the denomination.
At his death, two years later, he bequeathed the
Institution full endowment, $50 600 of which
has already become available, leaving much
larger amount to come at the settlement of the
estate.
CoNGREGATIoNAL.
The Rev. K. G. Beckwith, who has been
compelled to close his labors with the Second
Church in San Francisco that he may secure
q years vacation and rest, has arrived in Boston.
The pew-holders in the Old South Church
in Boston recently voted to construct new
chapel On q lot of land owned by the society at
the corner of Boylston and Dartmouth streets,
at a cost not exceeding $4,000
ROMAN CATHOLIC.
The Gazette Of Cologne of October 10, pub
fishes third list of Roman Catholics who pro-
test against Papal Infallbiity. The list com
prises about one hundred and fifty names from
nineteen places. The Central Committee foI
the Movement Against Papal Infallibility," al
Cologne, urges its friends to hasten the collec.
tion of signatures in all parts of Germany. The
Bishops of the Opposition continue to be silent,
or submit.
The Roman Catholics in France are alarmed
by the progress of Professionalism in that coun.
try, and society sprang up in Paris shortly
before the war, aiming to publish Roman Catho
lie books and journals at exceptionally low
prices, employing girls to do the work, and
promising them, at twenty zone, a small dowry
and, if they like, small shop in some country
town for the sale OF these books and journals.
YOUNG MEMS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
The Third Annual Convention of the Young
Mems Christian Associations of the State oi
Pennsylvania will convene at Scranton, Lu-
zerne county, on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 1870, closing
its session on Thursday evening. Delegates are
expected from all the Associations in the State,
among whom will be many of our most promi
nent ministers and earnest Christian workers
most cordial invitation is extended 10 minis
ters and Christian laymen, in town and country
districts where there are no associations to come
, to the convention. A most hearty Christian
I welcome is assured to all who come, and ar
rangements will be made for their entertain
ment as we'll as for reduced fare on railroads
! | All who design attending are requested to ad
+ dress Thomas X. Cree, Chairman State Execu
tive Committee Pittsburg, that they may avail
themselves of these privileges.
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