The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-01

Fifty years ago there was but one Wesleyan
minister in Australia, and not one in the Islands
of the South; now there are in the former 179
ministers, and in the latter 62, besides 81 native
assistant missionaries. The membership has in
creased from 49, 900 to co. 600.
Before 1865 the Methodist Episcopal
Church had no edifice or society in Louisiana.
Now there are 81 churches in the State and last
year they had 80 preachers; S4S2 comnuni-
canis; adult and infant baptisms 1921. The
numbers now exceed those of the Southern Me-
thodists, and are probably second to no Protest
ant denomination in Louisiana.
Few think that Methodsm is so much
stronger than Romanism in this country and
vet facts show that one branch of Methodism is
one-third greater in population than the Catho-
lie Church, and that the combined Methodism
Of the nation is twice as large, numerically, as
Romanism.
The average salary paid by the Methodist
churches of Boston District, New England
Conferen ce, is $1430.
CONGREGATIONAL.
The new Union Church, on Columbus ave-
nue., Bostsn, will be ready for use in five or
six weeks. The church has extended a call to
the Rev. II. NJ. Parsons, of Springfield.
The Rev. G. G.. McCully, of Hallowell,
Maine, has received unanimous call from
Fort Street Church, Honolulu, Sandwich Islands,
where he has been preaching some weeks.
The Rev. Charles w. Dennlson, Of Wash
ington, d. O., has been admitted to the New
London Association by a unanimous vote.
The American Missionary Association has
organized quite number OF congregational
churches in the South.
"A church has recently been formed at Ellis
worth, Kansas, nearly one hundred miles west
of Junction City, which has hitherto been the
frontier post of Congregationalism.
AT the Ohio Congregational Conference lady
delegates were refused admission by vote of
SS to 65.
BAPTIST.
The Baptist churches in Virginia gained in
membership in ten years. from 1843 to 1853 AZ
per cent; in the fifteen years from 1858 to 1868,
only % per cent. The difference marks in part
the spiritual waste of the war. However, the
increase in membership from 1888 to 1865 was
over 6l 900, gain of nearly lib per cent.
In New York the Central Church (once the
Rev. Mr.. Lowry's, Bloomingdale) and the
Laight street body have just united. This event
brings together the strength of two that need
each other, while it clears from debt fine
church property as we'll.
The annual session of the venerable Phila-
delphia Baptist Association will be held with
the Tabernacle Baptist Church, in this city,
commencing on Tuesday afternoon next.
The Rev. J.W. Custis, of Bordentown Nd,
has received and accepted call to the Spruce
Street Baptist Church, Spruce street, above
Fourth He will enter upon his pastoral duties
tomorrow, Sunday, October 2. The church has
been thoroughly overhauled and renovated, and
all are cordially invited to come and hear this
young and eloquent divine. Seats given cheer
fully to strangers.
REFORMED.
The rooms in Hertzog Hail. New Bruns-
wick, New Jersey, have all been refurnished,
and the walls repaired and tinted. The library
has been greatly enlarged already, and is con-
stantly receiving valuable additions from this
country and from Europe. choice selection
of the leading American and foreign periodicals
will be furnished regularly for the reading-room.
The chapel has been tastefuly improved, and
is now one of the most inviting apartments of
the hall
The First Dutch Reformed Church of New
Brunswick, N. j., has laid the foundation for a
new Sunday-school and lecture room building.
ROMAN CATHOLIC.
AT the Conference of Nuremberg, ffteen
professors of Roman Catholic theology were
present, representing the universities of Munich,
Prague, Breslau, Bonn, and several other theo-
logical schools. DR.. Dollinger and others of
the most prominent scholars were among the
attendants. The Conference unanimously re-
pudiated the Council and the doctrine of Infal-
libility, and demanded the convocation of a new
council.
1T is now officially stated that the Bishop OF
Breslau, DR.. Forster has sent in his resignation,
because he refuses to promulgate the papal in
fallibility in his diocese.
LUTHERAN.
Father Weedsen, who, has been at it sixty
years, is the Oldest Lutheran preacher in the
United States.