The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1870-04-06
FROM THE NORTHERN STATES.


ucate young men to preach the gospel to the neg
ected in New York city. This is said to be the
largest collection ever taken up in an Episcopal
Church in this country.
Intelligence has been received at Boston of the
death of Mrs. Parmlee, wife of Rev. w. 7. Parm-
lee, missionary of the American Board at Err
room, Turkey.
Paper Revivsd.-The Christian Instructor, has
reappeared after being joined to the United Pres
byterian of Pittsburg for few months. The Rev.
DR.. Dale continues as the editor, and James w.
Ferguson & Co., l24 north Seventh street, Phia
delphia, are the publishers.
First Presbytery Meeting in Colorado.-This Pres
bytery includes the territories of Colorado, Wyo-
ming. Utah and Montana Its first meeting was
held at Denver, Feb. 18TH The PresLyt@ian's
correspondent says:
"There we're present FIVE ministers and three
ruling elders; brothers Day, Hamilton and Camp
bell being the pioneer Presbyterian ministers of
the territory. One member was thirty two days
in crossing the plains with his little family; an
other came driving a six mule team, determined
to find field of labor or, with the blessing Of
| God. make one, One had come nearly seven hun
| dred miles to attend Presbytery: they know what
it is to endure hardships, and to sympathize with
the Master, who, for the JOY that was set before
| Him, endured the cross.
Dinner Of the Princeton Alumni.-The annual
dinner of the Alumni Association of the College
| of New Jersey, at Demonicos, last week, on
Thursday, was attended by about one hundred and
fifty gentlemen, Hon. VIM. c. Alexander presid-
ing. Mr.. Roger A. Pryor addressed the Associa-
ton Chancellor Halsted, Rev. Drs. Hail. Alex
ander. Imbrie Deems and Kellogg, were among
the divines at the table.
The Controversy on the Liturgy.-A liturgical
| discussion has. for some time past. agtated the
German branch Of the Reformed Church The
| Inteliqencer says: 1.-THE question is not whether
liturgy should be allowed at all, because all are
agreed that the Church in its antecedents lit
urgcal, and had, in fact, never properly been any
thing else but the controversy turns on the doc
trinal character of the liturgy to be used in the
public worship of the Church." Three books of
liturgy have appeared in the last twenty years.
The first was work of excellence, but "provi.
sional'' only; the second or Order of Worship"
occasioned bitter controversy, and was especially
unpopular in the Western Synod, which has re.
cently issued third work for its own use. The
General Synod has not accepted either OF these
books. Ministers and people exercise their own
discretion as to which book they will use.
Rev D. D. Emerson, D. D., pastor of the East
burn Mariner church, Philadelphia, told of YES
sci which went to sea- about four months ago, with
only one Christian man on board. Before going,
this man begged the prayers OF those who attended
the prayer meeting of the Mariners church to be
offered Jointly with his own for the conversion OF
that vessels crew. Last week it returned to this
port and at the prayer meeting this week that
| crew were present, fifteen in number, every soul
| having, while at sea, experienced hopeful con-
version.
Reconstruction at the North.-The Committee of
arrangements at the meeting on the 18th of March,
adopted report recommending the formation Of
thirty-fve Synods, defining their boundaries sever
| ally Of these Synods six are in the State of New
York-one in New Jersey-fve in Pennsylvania
one in Maryland and District of Columbia-one in
the States of North and South Carolina, Georgia
and Florida, comprising large area of territory
to be called The Atlantc"-one in Kentucky
co-terminous with the State-two in Indiana
four in Ohio-three in Illinois-one on the Pacific
coast-one in Mssouri-one in China-one in In
dia-and one in Kansas. New Mexico Colorado,
and the Indian Territory.
spritualism.-We have often wondered what
makes the tables move. and things fly about gen.
orally as the Spiritualists say they do when they
lay their hands on them. But it's all cleared up
now. Mrs. King is queen among the table tip
pers, and she gives the philosophy of the whole
thing in this lucid manner:
"A circle of strong willed spirits draw upon the
lowest electric currents of the atmosphere, and
| from physical substance some of its cogent forces
The current thus produced is impelled by the COM
)ined wiI-power of the cooperating circles and the
| controller as moving power to physical objects.
atoms of this force impel atoms of like force
within physical objects and compose their vital
forces or currents, and thus whole body moved.
That's as clear as mud. Any fool can under,
stand it, and nobody but fool would pretend to
understand it. Mrs. King has explained the mys-
terry. It's the atoms impelling the atoms, and if
you have an atom of sense, you will not be i'm
PEELED to look any further for soution.-Neao
York Observer.
Rev. E. D. Morris of Lane Seminary, Cincin-
natl, writes that the reunited Presbyterian Church
is divided BY the Aleghanes into two nearly equal
parts the East having 2029 ministers and 1854
churches, with $50 600 members, and the West
2l49 ministers and 27l7 churches, with POS 900
members. In the East the ministers outnumber
the churches by 375. while in the West the church
es outnumber the ministry by SIS, while the West
requires at least fifty new churches yearly.
Statistics from the Colleges The Society of In
quiry OF the Western Theological Seminary report
as the aggregate of their statistics, forty three
thousand two hundred and forty students in
colleges and collegiate Institutes exclusive of acade
mics and Normal schools. Ofthese there are males.
$3.50; females, 4 1884; Protestant, SO 1874; Roman
Catholic, 4 $40; or more than one ninth of all are
Roman Catholics. If the number of students in
the Normal schools be added the whole aggregate
in the United States will be 502l3
Of the whole number of male students in colleges
and collegiate Institutes (3S,S59) there are theo-
logical students, $685. or one tenth of the whole
number of male students Of these candidates for
the ministry, ,22l, or one third are Catholic p
447, or two thirds, are Protestant; SOS. or one
fourth, are Calvnstic; 459, or one.eighth, are
Presbyterian.
Protest Against .Perverting School Funds-The
Executive Committee of the Evangelical Alliance
of the United States, held on Friday, March 18th,
and the following declaration of principles and
contemplated action was unanimously made:
l. The Executive Committee views with great
anxiety the encroachments of the Roman Catho-
lies, in this city and in the United States, upon
those principles of religious liberty, and of equal.
ty OF all denominations before the cival law which
have been the glory of our institutions in the past
and which have been illustrated in the complete
independence OF Church and State"
2. And the Executive Committee of the Alli-
ance, regarding the defence of the religious ber.
ties of the Christian people Of this country as one
OF the grand objects OF the existence of the Evan
gecal Alliance, does enter its emphatic protest.
in the name of the Christian people it represents
against the appropriation Of money, by City,
State or National authorities, for the support of
sectarian schools and institutions; and as Protest
ants, we ask nothing for ourselves which we do not
cheerfully accord to others.
3. The Executive Committee of the Alliance
therefore respectfully but earnestly asks the repeal
of Section 10, Chapter $40. of the Laws of 1869,
relating to the City of New York, which was
adopted by the Legislature of the State of New
York at its last session; viz:
Sec TO- Hereafter, an annual amount equal to