The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-26
SUMMARY or CHURCH NEWS.
EPISCOPAL.

EPISCOPAL.
The Ladies Domestic Missionary Associa-
tion of the Protestant Episcopal Church held
its annual meeting in New York on last Sun
day evening. Bishop Potter presided, and Rev.
DIR. Dix preached. The receipts during the year
were $4S65. Thirty-one branches or auXiliaries
have sent 81 boxes to the domestic field, while
last year there were sent but 90.
The financial statement of the Domestic
Committee of the Board of Missions of the Pro-
testant Episcopal Church in the United States
shows the receipts to have been $134 9S5'1S.
The receipts during the year for general pur-
poses were $95, 9S7'30 the expenses $12I I85401,
leaving deficit of $31, S66.71. The whole
amount of deficiency, Oct. 1, 1870, was $685.
1867.
Judge William H. Campbell was ordained
Deacon by Bishop Davis at Andersonvile, on
Saturday, October Is. Mr.. Campbell has ac-
cepted the rectorship of St. Johns, Winsboro',
and expects to remove thither shortly.
METHODIST.
AT the Virginia Conference held in Norfolk
last week, the long pending negotiations for
union with the Methodist Episcopal Church in
Virginia was brought 10 a close. After q very
earnest and protracted discussion the question
was decided against an organic union, by a vote
of Ia to II. A number of those voting in the
minority withdrew, and have united with the
Virginia Conference now sitting at Lynchburg.
The statistical paper read by DR.. Trimbe
before the recent Ohio Methodist State Conven-
tion held at Delaware, gave the membership of
the Methodist Episcopal Church in Ohio at
142, S12. DIR. Holidays paper before the In
diana Convention last week gave the Methodists
in Indiana, as above stated, at 1l3, 800. These
two added together give the present membership
of the Methodist Church in the two States at
256, 612, which is almost one-fourth of the mem
bership of the Methodist Episcopal Church in
the United States.
From very full and interesting statistics in
the Methodist we extract the following figures,
in which are included the whole of the New
Jersey Conference and such parts of the New
ark, East German, and Delaware Conferences as
lie in the State. There are $50 travelling
preachers and 335 local preachers, making the
total numbers of ministers 665. These preach
In 433 churches and in 159 other places, making
the total number of preaching places 592.
There are 45 5S4 members and 1918 probation
ers. The value of the 433 churches is estimated
at $3 113745. There are 165 5parsonages, valued
at $6O4, $50. Besides these, there are the three
academies at Pennington, Vineland, and Hack
Theological Seminary at Madison, belonging to
the Church at large, valued, including its en-
dowment, at $500,0O0 The total value of
church property in the State, including
churches, parsonages, academies, and seminary
is 81, ,433, 695. There are 56S Sunday-schools,
having 1891 officers and teachers and 5603i
scholars.
Dreao Theological Semincry.-The Board of
Trustees met in Jersey City on the 10Th inst.
Since the last meeting the Hon. George p. Cobb
and the Rev. Archibald G. Foss have died, and
the faculty has lost the Rev. DR.. McClintock and
the Rev. DIR. Nadal The election to fill the va
cancies in the Board of Trustees resulted in the
choice of the Hon. George j. Ferry and the
Rev. s. d. Brown. The presidency of the semi
nary, made vacant by the death of the Rev. DIR.
John McClintock, was filed by the election of
the Rev. r. s. Foster, ID. ID. The Rev. John f.
Hurst, d: D., was elected to fill the Chair of
Church History made vacant by the death of
DIR. Nadal. The Rev. CD. Foss, d. D., was
There are SO Southern Methodist churches
in Maryland, nearly all of which have been
built or purchased within five years.
WnrlY m fha h11iI1 1ircr at
Hackettstown, N. j., says the Methodist, is pro-
crossing finely. The walls are up and roof on
and the building presents an imposing appear
ance.
The Rev. DR.. B. T. Lacy has resigned the
pastoral charge OF the Pine Street Presbyterian
Church, st. Louis, Missouri and accepted the
post of Superintendent of Missions in the Synod
AT the late meeting of the Presbytery of
Arkansas the Rev. j. s. Wilbanks reported the
organization of a church five miles from Dar-
danelle, with twenty;six members, called
Norristown, with eleven members, called
Mount Zion. The committee appointed for
that purpose reported the organization of a
church at Clarendon, with twelve members,
and another near Mariana, with ten members,
called Ebenezer. These churches were taken
under the care of the Presbytery, and their
names enrolled.
Fifty communicants have been added to a
Presbyterian church in Robertson county,
Texas, to whom the Rev. DR.. Byers has been
preaching one Sabbath each month since last
spring
An interesting revival has occurred in Jack
son, Texas, under the preaching of the Rev. DR..
NJ NJ. Marshall and e. McNair. Some fifteen
or twenty members were added to the church.
The aggregate debts of Presbyterian
churches in this country, according to the Ne =
York Evangelist, is $4,000 600. A considerable
percentage of the IS, ,000, 900 memorial fund will
probably be absorbed in their liquidation.
The Presbyterian Church of Ireland hai
10000 members, with an annual income fron
the British Government of e94, ,000 1t reports
1904 sabbath-schools, $3.50 teachers, and 1854
scholars.
The church at Loekport, New York, DIR
WisIer, pastor, presents the largest Increase o.