The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-22

Messrs. j. F. Holcomb and v. Newton, and their
wives; Rev. Messrs. Lucas Seller, and Seely;
Misses Hickey and Craig-all for India. And
Miss jackson, for Beirut. The party sailed In
the Colorado on the 18th inst
= Forty-three students are in attendance at
| Union Theological Seminary, Virginia, aud
more are expected by the LIST Of January. The
Rev. DR.. Smith has just returned from new
York, where he expended the greater portlon OF
the three thousand dollars OF the late Rev. U
Powers in valuable additions to the library OF
! the Seminary. portion of the funds was sent
| abroad for the came purpose. 49,
! Rev. A. A. Wilhts, ID. D., will commence q
series of sermons on interesting incidents In the
ministry of Christ, tomorrow evening, In the
West Arch Street Presbyterian Church. The
| first sermon of the course will be-"Jesus in
the Synagogue at Nazareth"
The ladies of the Oxford Presbyterian
Church of this city raised over $4,000 for the pur
poseEof furnishing the edifce, which was ded-
Gated last December. After the usual religious
services on Wednesday evening last, the pastor,
Rev. Frank L. Robbins by request of the Trus-
tees invited them to undertake the additional
work of raising $4,000 for the purpose of en-
closing the property with an iron railing and
laying down a stone tagging, and so completing
the work of this noble church enterprise. The
appeal was responded to with subscriptions
the spot to the amount of $25O0 and commit
tee of five was appointed to solicit the remain
ing amount, which will doubtless be secured in
few days. Such a spirit of liberality on the
| part of the ladies' deserves honorable mention.
EPISCOPAL.
Great anxiety exists among the members of
the dsestablished Anglican Church in Ireland
at the slowness of the growth of the Sustenta-
! tion Fund The yearly contributions promised
! only amount to ELS, 900, and the donations to
| e264, 600. These sums will not warrant commu-
tation, and the time is drawing nigh when the
matter must be determined. Several letters
have appeared in the Church journals advocat-
| ing an Immediate house-to-house collection.
The 'Mite-chests System, which has lately
been introduced by the Protestant Episcopal
| n a
method for collecting funds in aid of mission
work, is found to be a success. The Spirit Of
Missions says that 10000 of these chests have
! been sent out for re-delivery before the LIST
of January. Less than 5000 gave returns for
the first half year of $7777'73. The total reali-
cations, within one year from the day on which
the first one was sent into the field, are esti-
mated in advance at from $25, 600 to $50, 600.
| The Southern CYturcbndn, noticing the
baptism by the Rev. g. s. Barten d. D., rector
of Christ Church, Norfolk, of twelve persons
says:-"This is just as it should be. If persons
prefer to be baptized by immersion, it should
! always be DONE"
We learn from the New York Protestant
! Churchmdn that on the lot adjoining the
"Home," on Eighty-ninth street, ground is to
be broken for the erection of a new church, to
be named 'The Church of the Beloved Dis
ciple." The expense of the building is borne
entirely by Miss Talman, of that city, and 1t is
designed as memorial church. A rectory is
also to be built next to the church. The total
cost of both edifices will not be far from
$3.50, 000
The Lutheran Synod of North Carolina is
in favor of abandoning a separate Southern
organization and of reuniting with those
Northern Synods which now constitute the
General Council. The following resolutions
were passed by the recent meeting of the synod:
"Reselued, /. That in the Judgment of this synod
| the time has come when those sections OF our
y church, one in faith and practice, should be con-
|
"2 That our delegates to the next meeting of
our Southern General Synod be instructed to pre-
sent the above resolution for the action of that
body"
The Kirchenfreu1ed laments the deficiency of
German pastors to take charge of congregations
in the General Synod. The editor knows of
eight congregations who need such pastors, and
says he could find fields of labor for at least
| twenty-five more educated and pious German
preachers within the next three months. The
same paper says it will take a good many pre-
liminary tearings asunder, and ten years, to get
all Lutherans ready for union, and adds this
| curious representative live in a period of
! great fermentation, and it doth not yet appear
| what we shall be-"
Arrangements have been made to publish
the Ecangelicdl ReUie,o (Which was edited by
the late DIR. .Stoeyer) either as a new quarterly
or as continuation of the old review in new
series. Rev. DR.. j. A. Brown and Professor
| NJ. Valentine will be the editors, assisted by
DR.. Sprecher, Rev. C. A. Stork, Rev. J. H.
| Stuckenberg, and others.
was celebrated at Emmettsburg on the 4th in
slant. 1t was formed in 1920 by eleven minis
tiers, not one ohwhom is now alive.
Rev. j. Seneeker of the Holston Synod, Tenn,
has been suspended for preaching contrary to
the Confession, that ''sorrow for sin is no part
OF repentance" and refusing to recant.
CONGREGATIONAL.
In Northern and Central Illinois, within
the last eight years, the Congregationalists have
organized strty-tour churches, and have built
ia{nety-ttree houses of worship Sirty-four of
which were for missionary churches.
The church in Boston of which the Rev. DR..
Nehemiah Adams is pastor and has been for
over thirty years, has just chosen O colleague
in the person of the Rev. Henry NJ. Parsons of
Springfield, Mass. DR.. Adams is just now Jour-
neying around the world in a vessel commanded
! by his son.
METHODIST.
| The Western says that the membership of
the Methodist Episcopal Church in the States
formerly known as slave States is as follows-
Georgia, q, 900, $4,000 being whites; Alabama,
10000 one-half being whites; Tennessee, 10, 500,
1900 being whites; North Carolina, $500 whites;
| Virginia, 5000 whites: Kentucky, IL, 500 whites;
Missouri Conference, 1000 whites; st. Louis
Conference, $4,000 whites Mississippi, 1000
Carolina, 600 whites; Texas 500, not counting
1000 German Methodsts; Louisiana, 600 whites,
making total of white membership of between
10000 and 100000.
The missionary report of the New Connec-
tion Methodists of Canada gives the following
statistics:-Chapels, 235; parsonages 63; classes,
39l; congregations, 42S; circuit preachers, 81;
local preachers 1876; members, 6129; Sunday
schools, 1861 scolars, SS42; teachers, 1893; value
OF chapel and parsonage property, S234 120:
amount raised for Mission Fund $S2663S.
The Methodist Church South are doing all