The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-26
SUMMARY OF CHURCH NEWS.
EPISCOPAL,

speaking of the conservation of Bishop
Pierce, the Standard of the Cross says:-'It
was singing service from beginning to end,
all under the direction of the Bishop of Florida
as chief chorister, and seems to have given as
much delight to the musical tastes of the good
people of Mobile q first-class opera
The conse Grafton in Mobile of Dr. Pierce as
Bishop of Arkansas seems to have been the
most advanced performance of the sort yet
attempted. 1t was singing service from be-
ginning to end. Greed and prayers were all
sung or intoned, and the red and pink doctors
hoods were worn as we'll as the more ecclesas-
tical millinery.
AT the convocation of Bishops, held by
order of the Archbishop of Canterbury Feb
ruary ii, 1t was unanimously resolved to appoint
committee of eminent and erudite scholars
and divines, whose duty it shall be to report at
a future meeting as to the advisability of a re-
vision of both the Old and New Testament
Scriptures. Several of the Bishops present cited
portions of the present versions which were
pronounced either incorrect renderings of the
original texts, or OF doubtful authority and
origin. Archdeacon Freeman informed the con-
vention that Dr. Temple had authorized him to
announce that his essays will not hereafter ap-
pear in the future editions of the Essays and
Reviews" Subsequently, at the suggestion of
his friends DR.. Temple said his essays would be
published in the future editions of essays and
Reviews" but as ''matters written by Frederick
Temple, and not as written by the Bishop of
Exeter
METHODIST.
The vote of the laitv German district not
Sncluded) of the Texas Conference, for lay dele
CATION, is 1893 against 1.
The Methodist church membership in this
State numbers one hundred and twenty-eight
thousand with ministry of seven hundred and
thirty!
Several independent Methodist churches in
Baltimore and vicinity have formed Fraternal
Congregational Association. 1t is thought that
DR.. Deems Church of the Strangers, New York,
/ will join them.
British Methodism has contributed $685.
OO0,0 900 for foreign evangelization; and the
Wesleyan Society has more communicates in its
mission churches than all other British mis-
sionary societies combined.
The new Methodist church in jackson,
Mich, was dedicated on Sabbath, February 6.
4 Bishop Simpson preached an excellent Sermon
after which collection, to cancel the church
Indebtedness, was taken up, and 10000 were
raised The debt was about $28 900.
The Rev. j. A. Williams, of the Bethany
Independent Methodist Episcopal Church, has
lately preached q sermon on "Our Church
Growth and Prospects" In an appendix thereto
we read that the two Independent churches in
Baltimore, with the one in Cumberland, will
form a Fraternal Congregational Association.
Public opinion is evidently with the mino-
rity report In the matter of the alleged frauds
in the Methodist Book Concern. This is partly
because that report was the only one to men,
tion the facts on which 1t was based and partly
!. because the majority report, which exculpated
everybody from blame, was ssuch contradiction
of their former report. The first report was
unanimous and asserted ''great misman-
agement and serious losses" The pre-
fraudulent or corrupt" and says that
the testimony 'failed to establish the allega-
tion of LOSSES" The Methodist says that il
was only by sharp practice that the minority
were enabled to publish their report at all, as
the attempt was made to suppress 1t. But DR.
Slicer took it from the table and refused to give
1t up. An attempt was made to remove DR.
Lanahan, but was unsuccessful. The Methodts
saws that the reason why its editor refused To
appear before the committee was because theil
object WAS TO find out whether DR.. Lanahan ha6
given him the information on which he based
y his editorial attacks on the management of the
Book Concern.
PRESBYTERIAN.
The Board of Missions, at q recent meet
sng. appointed the Rev. f. P. Livingston, o
Bushnell, Illinois, Superintendent of Western
since the 10Th of December. 1865 eighty
two persons have been received into the Firs
Presbyterian Church, Galveston, Texas, fifty OF
examination, and thirty,two oy certificate;
Presbyterian Church, Allegheny, Pa, Rev. j.
Clark. ID. D., pastor ON the second Sabbath o
FEBRUARY. Thirty members were added TO thu
roll. fourteen of whom were from classes In TIT
Sabbath-school. ,r uu H. -
NashviIIe Tenn, bequeaths $50, 900 of his larg'
estate 10 the First Presbyterian Church OF Mash
VILE IL is intended to be perpetual endow
ment fund. The interest on SlO,OOO Is 10 g
towards educating ministers Oh that congrega @
fion, and on the other $lO,OOO towards tne sup
mort of the poor of the church.
On n late Sabbath forty-seven new member
.vare added to the Fourth United Presbyterian
Church CRev. w. c. Jackson, pastor
Lombard street, above Nineteenth. IN
conoreoation have just commenced the erectlo
~ new church ed6ce at Nineteenth and FIT
49, ~ strcets. IL will have front OF sixty fee