The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-19
SUMMARY OF CHURCH. NEWS.
EPISCOPAL.


EPISCOPAL.
MIR. j. o. Drumma and Mr.. II. N. Wright,
ently Methodist ministers, have been ad
tied to the Diaconate, in the Diocese of
rmont. Old ....H ..... .....
AChrist Church, Germantown, is still without
hector, the Rev Mr.. Langtord having again
eelined the call renewed to him by the vestry
ad people. l' u. .i
1.-The Rev. Roland Brent deacon of the Dio-
&ase of Kentucky, is published in the papers as
&lying, at last, found rest in the bosom of the
Hburch of Rome.
j With the cordial consent of Bishop Cum-
fins, the vestry of an Episcopal church in |
|lizabethtown, Kentucky, have allowed the
resbyterians the use of their church. .r
-"Nashotah Mission, the theological school
Wisconsin, has no endowment, but forty
me students and four professors depending
r their daily bread upon the daily mail"
"A committee of the Diocesan Council in
lrginia have purchased house and lot in the
ty of Richmond, at a cost of SS000 to be used
an Episcopal residence by Bishop Whittle.
AT late meeting of English clergymen,
pean Goulburn read an elaborate paper urging
hat a reform should be instituted whereby the
lectien by the dean and chapter of the caudi-
ate nominated by the Grown to fill vacant
|ishOpric should not be mere farce. ..
THE Bishop of London has rebuked an
Evangelical rector of London for preaching in
Presbyterian pupits when" In Scotland. An
Episcopal congregation in Dundee has unanl-
bously voted to sever its connection with the
bishop who refused to allow them an Evangell-
l and thoroughly Protestant rector.
The Episcopalians now have associations
ganized to represent every shade OF opinion.
he Latimer Association represents the Revi-
onists, the Church Union the Ritualists, the
vaHgelical Catholic Union the Moderate Low
hurch party, and the Conservative Church
MON the Moderate High Churchmen.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is better,
ut his disease, epilepsy and paralysis, is not
.I..Nn Tnnn N
egin to speculate whether the Queens par
ality to Bishop Wilberforce, the eminent High
Church Bishop of Winchester, and lately OF
oxford, will not secure him the succession.
The Mobile Register gives full account
|he proceedings at the conservation of Bishop
Pierce "All the reverend and right reverend
Aersonages were in the full canonicals of their
respective orders, several of them being distin-
rushed by their hoods" The Bishops of Mis-
Doctors S,tnl Of Divinity, With scarlet hoods lined
with black; Bishop Quintard was Doctor OF
avs of the University of Cambridge, with a
scarlet and pink hood, while two Masters OF
Art of Oxford and Cambridge wore the palmer
black and white. The chaplain of Bishop
Nhitehouse, "Canon" Knowles, supported the
yonsecrator while the chaplain of the Bishop
f Ten nessee bore before him the pastoral staff
an elegant piece of workmanship, of black
walnut, handsomely mounted with silver" r
METHODIST. 1trl g W
ference in the United States indicate member
ship of q, 6l2. .,A. -.
The ladies' movement to pay the ,00C
debt of the Metropolitan Methodist Church IL
Washington has resulted already in the recelp
of $4,000.
Recent advices from DR.. Maclay, the super
'intendent of the China Missions, represent tina
more than two hundred souls have been con
Yerted during the year.
The vote on lay delegation, as reported il
ehe last number of the Methodist, is now 2409 70
and 608 against-whch furnishes the require'
three-fourths and 1874 to spare.
Before the war the Methodist Book Concer1
endorsed the drafts of the southerh Methods
Missionary Society to the amount of $50 0OU
u All this, with interest, they now have to pay.
The Supreme Court of Missouri has take
st. Charles College out OF the hands OF III
Northern Methodsts, and restored IL TO th
Southern Methodists, who lost 1t during Tn
war.
-Zion's Herald calls attention to the fact cha
of the six hundred and ffty-ive minist rs tha
entered the ministry of the Methodist Churc
last year, not one of them went to the heather
world.
AT ST. Paul's Church, New York, Januar
80 was observed as missionary day. The contr
buttons showed an advance of 80 per cent, sun
ming up, for morning. afternoon, and nigh
II $4,000
men In Alabama have joined the Methodi
Episcopal Church South. Now that the latt
a. allows law representation, both bodies occuI
practically the same ground.
= Rev. Mr. Hague, pastor OF the M. L. ChurC
at Duncan's Falls. was drowned on Tuesdi
afternoon January IS, while attempting to Gro
Salt creek He was returning from reviY
meeting, and was within sight OF his home.
wien the Metropolitan Church at Washin
ton city, D. c., was organized, old Wesl
chapel was depleted by about one hundred me
hars leaving O membership of two hundred a
seventy-fye. Recently the chapel has start
anew. and now has membership of three hr
There are in Ireland 10000 Primitive \
.hodists' who have no ecclesiastical connect
las,S sbe Primitive Methodists of England. !
observation-disclosures of the Irish Church distu
Shs;r relation to its clergy; and there Is quit
discussion whether they shall connect the
selves with the Episcopalians or the Wesleya
The Ebenezer Church. ManayuhA'