The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-02


citation condemns the action OF Oivet College in
asking Presbyterian aid and offering Presbyte-
rians a share in its government
The Chapel Street Church of New Haven
has voted TO commence Immediately the erec-
tion Of q new. church on the corner of Wall and
Grange streets. The building is to cost about
S1000C0
MIR Philo Parsons, of Detroit, has offered
TO give 5000 to the Chicago Congregational
Seminary. and $4,000 to Olivet College, provided
his Church will also contribute $4,000 to the
same objects
In the Congregational Ministers Meeting
in Boston, Mass, lately, appeared brother from
the West, who has lately left the Baptist fold.
He was introduced by another as one who had
lately come 10 the surface, and whom all would
gladly help to find dry land.
The Rev. Mr.. Dale, of Birmingham, said, at
the meeting of the Scottish Congregational
Union. hat unless a change took place in the
habits of the English Congregational ministry,
they would have TO give up public meetings for
the want of men capable of platform speaking
- 1t is proposed to raise the sum of ten thou
sand dollars, to be given to the Corporation of
Yale College, TO be expended in obtaining a
suitable statue in bronze of President Dwight
and placing the same in the vacant niche pro-
yided for such an ornament. upon the beautiful
edihce just erected for the Theological Depart
ment
The Pacific Congregational Theological
Seminary has ended its first year of existence.
At the anniversary the four students gave adj
dresses and recited passages of Scripture in
creek, HeOreW, LaJD ana Nels1. lDe In
stitution has two Professors and $4,000 of pro-
perty, of which DR.. Stone collected S25, 900 in
Boston.
Rev. DR.. Sanford, pastor at Midway village,
on the I'd ult. invited the aged members of his
parish to meet Rev. Jacob Ide, d. D., and wife,
of West Midway, from whose hive the Village
Church swaTmed thirty-two years ago. There
were present in the company almost q dozen
persons between the ages of eighty and ninety,
and still larger number between seventy and
eighty. Many of them were present at Dr. lde's
ordination fifty-six years ago.
LUTHERAN.
AT the last meeting of the Lutheran Board
of Publication, the Rev. Dr. Stork, of this
city, was unanimously elected Literary Editor
of the Board.
Twenty thousand dollars were raised during
the past year by the Pennsylvania Synod for
benevolent purposes, besides what was appro-
priated by the churches themselves. The Synod
proposes to raise S25, 600 by the next meeting.
Nineteen new members were received by the
Ministerium of Pennsylvania at its recent
session-seven by ordination. five from the
General Synod, two ordained by the Church of
England, one from the German Reformed
Church, and the rest from other bodies.
BAPTIST.
An open communion church. which takes
the name of the Calvary Baptist Church, has
been formed at Westerly, K. l. 1t starts with a
membership of seventy, secession from the
original Baptist church there.
The New York Baptist Pastors Conference
has unanimously resolved no longer to aid the
New York City Mission, since it has adopted
the policy of establishing mission churches on
| the union basis. The reason given is that
there is radical difference of opinion between
the Baptists and other Christians connected with
this society as to the administration of Chris
tan ordinances.
Rev. c. H. Malcolm of Rhode Island, has
sent out a circular inviting Baptists to sign its
declaration of faith in the general Baptist doc
| trines, but allowing 'entire freedom to each
| church to fix its own terms of communion" He
says that some thirty ministers, nearly all Bap-
lists, including one or two college presidents
and four doctors OF divinity, have signed this
paper.
There are signs of relaxation of the feud
between the regular Baptsts and the Disciples.
At their State convention in Ohio the disciples
of Christ appointed committee to bear
friendly greetings to the Baptist convention.
The Journal and Messenger welcomes the COM
mittee, while intimatiDg that the points of diff
| ference, which relate especially to the regene-
rating power of baptism, are of no small inn
| portance.
CATHOLIC.
John BoH says there is every probability
that the Marquis of Butte will soon return to the
| Disraei's LOthdtr, denies the report, and re-
! plies that he never an Anglican, but a
| Presbyterian. John Bull processes to make the
announcement on the same authority on which
! it announced his expected conversion to Rome
| six months before it took place.
The Cross Gazette learns from Rome that
the Oriental Catholic Church of the Armenians
has entirely separated itself from the Papal
! Chair. This news has caused much il-feeling
in the Vatican, where the blame is attributed to
| France. The United Chadeans are now said to
intend to break off all connection with Rome,
| and the Copts are about to do the same The
Eastern bishops approve of the course adopted
| by their sees, and Monsignor Pluym announced
| in his last despatch from Constantinople the
! approaching withdrawal of the Maronites,
Syrians, and Greek Melchites from communion
| with Rome. In this case, however, the Pope
win have entirely lost all his power in the East
AT a special meeting OF the friends of infalli-
bility in the Vatican Council, it was voted to
make no change in view of the opposition mani
tested. It's surmised that 400 bishops will vote
approval, $50 modified approval and 80 against
| it. 1t is said that reform in ecclesiastical dis
cipline will be pressed Immediately after the re-
assembling of the Council in October, looking
especially to the laXity in Germany. Archbishop
Cullen of Dublin, lately declared in the Council
that six months ago several English Protestant:
accepted Romanism, but Immediately returned
to the Church of England on reading Archbishop
Manning's pastoral on infallibility
,,-Victoria University, at Coburg, Canada, is
Methodist institution. They have connected
with Roman Catholic colleges of law and medi-
cine. These, when organized, applied for re-
cOgnition as departments OF the Catholic Lava
University, but were refused. At the late com
mencement on the same stage, Roman Catho
lie professors announced the names OF the me
dical and law students while college graduate
gave an eloquent eulogy of Luther in response
TO which the Catholic professors gave enthusi
astic applause; and the Methodist President
distributed their diplomas to Catholics anC
Protestants These Catholics represent the
extreme Liberal wing of their body, and are
bitterly opposed to Ultramontanism.
CLOTHS, CASSiMERES. ETO.