The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-08
SUMMARY OF CHURCH NEWS.
EPISCOPAL.


The Episcopal church in Omaha has been
DESTROYED by fire. 1t was a beautiful structure.
The Church Of the Advent, in Boston, in
accepting the resignation of their rector, Rev..
DIR. Bolles, voted him gift of $4,000
The Rev. DR.. Mahan has declined the Profes-
sorship in the General Theological Seminary,
New York, to which he was recently elected.
The Protestant OhurcSmdn says:-"Every
organized town in the Diocese of Dakotah is
now occupied by the Episcopal Church, the sta
tlons numbering sixteen"
The Episcopal diocese of Albany reports for
the last year contributions to the amount of
$191, ,404, being $74, 900 more than the previous
year; also, 772 combinations and 1916 men,
bers, an increase oil 14l2.
-Rev. George B. Whipple an Episcopal
clergyman, who followed Bishop Staley to the
Sandwich Islands, has had enough of 1t, and re-
turned home. He is now pastor OF the church
at Faribaut, Minnesota.
1t is stated, upon what is believed to be
good authority that the Rev. Dr. Samuel Os-
good has adopted the Episcopal faith and that
his retirement from the Church of the Messiah,
New York (Unitarlan), previous to his depar-
ture for Europe, was made with this change in
view.
The journal of the Episcopal Convention
shows seyenty-nine churches and chapels in
New York city and Harlem. The largest contri-
buttons reported are from Trinity Church, with
its three chapels, $54, ,254; Grace Church, with
chapel, SAC, ,115; st. George and two chapels,
$35,575; incarnation S29, ,45l; Calvary, s2S, s69;
Trinity, with its chapels has 2l40 communi-
cants; st. George, 1900; Grace, s02. There are
in the whole diocese 1876 churches and chapels,
29O clergymen, and 20 1867 Sunday scholars.
The Trinity Church at Woodbridge, N. j.,
has just celebrated its one hundredth anniyer
sary. Rev. DR.. Ogleby, of New York, preached
the anniversary sermon, in which he referred to
the first services at Woodbridge, under the Rev.
DR.. Bond, Of Elizabethtown, in I'LL the organi-
Zation of the parish by the Rev. DR.. Chandler,
of the same place. under whose charge 1t re-
ceived its charter from King George LII, 1863,
and after the old church had been destroyed by
fire. its restoration by the Rev. Dr. Hoffman, of
Elizabeth, in 1860
METHODIST.
The profits on the business OF the Southern
Methodist Publishing House amount TO over
$4,000 for the past year.
"A writer in the Methodist estimates that
seventy-nine per cent. of the entire vote of the
Methodist Church will be in favor OF lay dele
cation.
Three years ago the Southern Methodists
had but church in Baltimore. Now they
have nine. We see reports of their progress
even further North-as in Iowa, Illinois, and
Indiana.
AT the regular monthly meeting of the
Board of Managers of the Church Extension
Society for December, applications for dona-
tions and loans, from various parts of the coun-
try, TO the aggregate amount of SOS, 200, were
declined for want OF means.
The Pittsburg Christian AdUoedte SAYS
s'Thc wife of Rev. w. T. Alderman, pastor o
our church at bingham, Massachusetts,, recently
occupied her husbands pulpit with great accept
ance during the Illness OF her husband. She has
Frequently heretofore read the hymns and Offered
PRAYER when he was present.
The Rev. Mr.. Mills, pastor of tho Methods
Episcopal church at York, in this State,s dice
suddenly on Sunday week, shortly after ad
ninistering the sacrament 10 member OF hi
church. who, TO use his own words, was inca
to the door of heaven" He was taken III on hi
way home.
THE Methodist states that while Methodisn
has advanced in the towns and country places q
England, il is feebly represented in London. i
oil tho city there are only o5 Wesleyan minis
ters For registration purposes, London