The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-26
members of any Presbyterian church in the
United States for the last year-227.

members of any Presbyterian church in the
United States for the last year--227
BAPTIST.
The Lee-aveuue (Brooklyn) Baptist Church,
Rev. j. Hyatt Smiths, has, with but four dis
senting voices rescinded its former form of in
vitation to the Lords Supper, making 1t pract-
cally open communion.
After a long delay the University Place
Church. of Chicago Illinois, have obtained
good title to lot on Douglas place. 1t is only
a few rods from the Theological Seminary AMI
University. Cost of the lot, which is 100 by
235 feet, $1,000. Ten years ago, or less, 1t could
have been had for $500. A chapel, to stand in
the rear of the main building, will be COM
menced at once.
The Rev. T. e. Skinner, D. D., recently of
Nashville, has accepted the call to the pastoral
care of the Baptist Church at Columbus, Ga.
AT the meeting of the General Association of
Illinois, it was resolved to take Almira College,
prosperous female institution, under the wings
of the Baptist denomination. 1t has property
valued at $102, 900, with an Indebtedness OF
about $4,000. A hundred young ladies are in
attendance.
"A very wise and fortunate consolidation has
recently taken place in the union of the Laight
street and what was known as the Blooming
dale church, New York city. The Laight street
had valuable property for business purposes
down town, but poor church location. The
Bloomingdale church had good location and
good house, but bad debt. Wisely they have
united
ON the Sabbath, October 23d, the Rev. F. E.
HARRISON Methodist minister, was baptized
into the fellowship of Mount Hope Baptist
church, Cook county, Texas.
CONGREGATIONAL.
Since the enlargement and remodelling of
the Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn N Y.
! (Rev. Dr. r. g. Storrs, Jr pastor), it is said to
be one of the most beautiful in the city. The
cost of repairs ETC., has been $135, ,000 and the
! $260,000. At the recent sale of pews the
! premiums for choice ranged at $45O to $lO
| and upwards ef $50, 600 was realized.
The Rev. Merrill Richardson, formerly of
| Worcester, Mass was last week installed as
pastor of the New England Congregational
! Church, corner of Madison avenue and Forth
| seventh street.
| The Rev. Mr.. Gully has declined the unaui-
nous call of the Fort Street Church, Honolulu,
Sandwich Islands, and intends to return to
Maine in the spring.
AT late meeting of the New York and
Brooklyn Association, held on the I'd inst, in
the church at Parkville, Long Island the Rev.
William Westerfeld, Jr., local peacher of the
Methodist Church, now acting pastor of the
First Congregational Church of Morrisania, was
licensed to preach
DIR. Clapp, of the Home Missionary Society,
stated at the last meeting of the Clerical Union,
| at the Biole House, that ffty-nine Congrega-
tional churches have been organized in Missouri
since the war
The Rev. c. NJ. Wines declines the call to
! New Britain, and is to become pastor of the
Fourth Church in Hartford, Conn, succeeding
| II.
Steps are being taken towards the formation
of a Congregational church in East New York
a suburb of New York city.
MoRAvIAN.
MoraUidn College and Semindry.-The total
! assets of this institution Qocated at Bethlehem
! Pa.) at the close of the financial year, May l,
1870, $43, 435, of which $42, S06 constituted
the endowment fund. The receipts of the cor
poration last year from its own resources were
| $5549.79 which was supplemented by q grant OF
synod. The college library contains 3671 vol
umes, and there are 26 students. The various
| reports showed an encouraging advance in the
various interests of the Institution.
swEDENBoRGIAN.
| Rev. Chauncy Giles of New York will
preach at the corner of Broad and Brandywine
| streets tomorrow morning on THE Ministry
! of Angels" and in the evening, at the same
place, will give lecture on ''The Death of the
Body as an Orderly Step in the Life of Man"
CATHOLIC.
Archbishop McCloskey confirmed 700 chill
dren at the Church of the TRANSPORTATION on the
10th.
The new Diocesan Theological Seminary, OF
| New Orleans projected by the late sanity and
beloved Archbishop Odin, will shortly be dedi-
Gated.
The Rt. Rev. Thaddeus Amat Bishop OF
Monterey California, ofliciated at st. Patrick's
Church, Washington, d. c., on the 18th. He
delivered brief but impressive discourse on
the prosecutions which the Church is undergo
ing in various parts of the world, but especially
in Europe, and on the efficacy and necessity of
prayer. Bishop Amat is native of Spain, but
has resided for many years in this country. He
was consecrated in 1854 to fill the vacancy
created by the translation of Bishop Allemany
to San Francisco as its first Archbishop.
-Catholicity has been spreading and perme-
ating this country so rapidly and effectually
that at last it has reached the fountain of Puri-
tanism, Plymouth, where the Pilgrim Fathers
effected landing the American shores.
There arranpamantS have been tad
for the erection of Catholic Church by Rev.
Father Peter Bertoldi, Jealous and faithful
priest, whose labors have resulted in the erec-
tion of two churches already, one in Wareham
and the other in Harwich, Mass. The new
church at Plymouth will be a wooden struc-
ture, and intended for the accommodation of
the Catholic population of that town, who have
been steadily on the increase of late.
GLOVES.