The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-30

nearly one-tnlrd OF the roll OF mlnleters. 4
The Rev. @. Fl. Thompson, pastor Of
colored Presbyterian Church in Newark h.ss
been made a Doctor Of Divinity b. varv
College, of Pittsburg, Pa. The P., sSvhs,ian
says;-'Dr. Thompson is one OF tese most finely
c%lergymen connected ~iih the Prasby,
terrain denomination In New J,ersev ~
AT a late meeting OF t.ae synod of the Re-
formed Presbyterian church In New York. a
from the Theological Seminary at
Allegheny tnat Turretin's Latin Treatise on
book was ',oted down. The theological course
Is 10 De seven months instead of five, during
four gears.
Some months ago the First Presbyterian
with cordial unanimity, to the Rev: Richard
McIlwaine, of Farmville. This invitation to
become their pastor Mr.. McIlwaine did not see
the way open to accept, and it was not prose-
cuted further. Within a few weeks past 1t has
been renewed, and under circumstance which
have constrained both himself and his congre-
cation at Farmville TO consent to his removal.
The Presbyterian seminary at Chicago re-
ports property In buildings, lands, notes, cash,
ETC., of $4S4, 600, bringing an income of $i3, 900.
At least $50, 600 income Is needed, and, besides
this, buildings should be put up to accommodate
100 students. The Presbytery of Chicago has
seminary in Its jubilee offering by the amount
of Sl00, 600, to be made up later to $500, 600.
They also ask $150,000 for Lake Forest Univer-
sity, to be increased to $250,000
-1D6 DOuIHSTb If6SOptSTtuH auuOuuC6b the
death of the venerable missionary, DIR. Kings
bury, on the 9th of June. The departure of
one whose age was beyond eighty years cannot
surprise the Christian public, but the close of
such q life cannot fall to awaken solemn refieo-
ton in the minds of many. DIR. Kingsbury
W ent down as q missionary to the indians about
1916. For more than fifty years he faithfully,
quietly, and meekly served his Master In making
known to those committed to his care the un-
searchable riches of Christ.
U CONGREGATIONS
John Bertram, Esq, of Salem, Mass, has
presented it to the South Congregational Church
for q parsonage.
Harvard University has conferred the homo
rary degree of Ii. ID. on the Rev. DR.. Leonard
Bacon, and Knox College the degree of ID. d. on
Professor j. NJ. Hoppin, of Yale College.
One of the singular turn-abouts of time is
the occupation of the estate of the Congrega-
tionalist divine, DIR. Nathaniel Emmons, at
Franklin, by Dean Academy, the new Universal
list school, and one of the wealthiest and best
appointed schools in the State.
1t is estimated that 81, 600, 600 will be
necessary to put the various Congregational
their proper Foundations. They are at Andover,
Yale, Bangor, Hartford, Oberlin, and one In
California-the Pacific Seminary. Something is
proposed to be done for them this memorial
year.
In reply to the charge that Congregational
ism Is dying out in New England, the Coagre-
dtiOnalist shows that since 1881 that denomi-
nation has in Massachusetts, added to its force
213 new churches and over $4,000 members,
thus nearly doubling its ministry and more than
doubling its membership in the last 40 years.
This is somewhat better than the increase in th Q
population of the State. 2
METHODIST.
The Southern Methodist Church now admits
persons to membership without the six months
trial.
Bishop Brown reports that since the war
one hundred thousand souls have been brought
within the African Methodist Episcopal Church
in his Episcopal district alone.
Rev. X. V. Lawrence, pastor of the M. e.
Church, Trenton, N; j., bqePpth[zed two persons
tistery of the First Baptist Church.
- John T. Martyr, of Brooklyn, has given
800, 600 to the Methodist Mission Institute, at
Frankfort ON. the Maine, Germany, and $1,000 to
the endowment of a Biblical chair at German
Wallace College, Ohio.
OF Methodist ministers in Germany, DIR.
Vail is Consul in Rhenish Bavaria; the Rev. G..
F. Gettell was Consul at Carlsruhe, and is sue
ceeded by Professor W.. H. Young, of OhioWes-
leyan University; and the Rev. NJ. j. Cramer is
Consul at Leipsic.
The Rev. Otis Gibson, missionary of the
Methodist Episcopal Church to the Chinese in
California, has purchased q valuable lot in the
heart of the Chinese quarter In francisco, and
in O few months will have a house for the mis-
sionary and a school for the Cinnamon. p
The Northern Methodists, at their Chicago
Conference, recommended all the churches to
preach temperance on the fourth Sabbath of
June of each year; while the Southern Metho-
dist General Conference, which met at Memphis,
regarded the temperance question as an ''out-
side is ne" that did not concern them. g
Orange Judd, of New York, has inserted a
clause in his will bequesthing $50, 600 for q new
professorship at the Wesleyan University of
Middletown. He places the sum at interest, SO
that the chair may be Immediately filed. Added
to his GIFT for the Scientific Hall, this makes his
donation to the institution $l00,0 600 within q
year. Isaac Rich, of Boston, and Mr.. Daniel
Drew have increased the interest on their en-
dowments one per cent, increasing the college
Mr.. A. Minard, who recently completed a
fine asy YUM for orphans at Morristown, N. j.,
has now decided the building, fully furnished,
together with the extensive grounds adjoining,
to the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
Church of the United States, to be used by them
for an Orphans Home. By the deed of transfer,
Mr.. Minard requires that q preference shall be
given to the daughters of foreign missionaries
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, whose
health or education makes IL necessary for then
to visit this country; and should those be not
sufficient to I'LL the Home, orphan girls from any
part of the United States will be admitted.
REFORMED.
of the ministers of the German Reformed
Church in this country, $50 preach IN German
and 225 in English.
Two citizens of Fordham, Westchestel
county, New \ ork, are to build an $4,000 par
sonage for the Rev. Mr.. Brush of the Reformed
Church.
In addition 80 their former munifcent doua.
lions to the General Synod for the benefit of the
Theological Seminary at New Brunswick
Messrs. James Suydam and Gardner A. Sage
have subscribed, the former fifty thousand and
the latter twenty-five thousand dollars. Mr.
Eugene Van Renssel ler, of Albany, has followed
the noble example of his ancestors, whose
names the church will ever venerate, by giving