The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-24

were elected ruling elders.
AT late meeting of the Presbytery of Gale
donia Mr.. Martin Grove appeared as commits
sioner from the congregation of Geneva, with
petition requesting leave to withdraw from the
care of this Presbytery, with a view to connect
himself with the Presbytery of Geneva. The
petition was received and laid upon the table
until the next meeting of Presbytery.
During the past year not minister of the
United Presbyterian Synod of New York has
died, and only one or two have been laid aside
from their work by i'll health.
DIR. Paxon's Presbyterian Church in New
York reported last year that it had raised
$141 729 for religious purposes: and this year its
columns foot up Sl60, 153, an average of 1854 for
each of its 800 members. Only S140l2 went
for congregational purposes there being $53, Clio
for home missions, 1888 50S for foreign missions,
and smaller sums for other objects DR.. Halls
Church raised last year $ll8 102, of which
$40, 928 were spent to support their own wor-
ship. These two wealthy churches raised last
year one-eighth of the entire benevolent collec-
tions of the Old School Presbyterian churches.
"A discussion is now going on in several of
the Presbyterian papers of the question whether
1t is wise to appoint in Chicago district secre-
tary of domestic missions, whose business shall be
to relieve presbyteries of their work in standing
between unemployed men and vacant churches
The Synod of Northern Illinois lately recon-
mended gentleman to that office; but it is now
said that many voted with the understanding
that he was to do missionary rather than Office
work.
The Presbyterian reunion makes a decrease
of from 259 to 166 presbyteries. The last Assem-
bly, had 623 members entitled to appear. Now
full assembly could not run over 425 members,
and probably would not count over 375 in at
tendance.
LUTHERAN.
The Illinois University has succumbed to
its pecHniary embarrassments. It's largest cre-
ditor, the Pennsylvania Synod, purchased the
building for the amount of its claim, little
more than $4,000, and the Lutheran announces
that collegiate institute has been opened under
q n a
AT the recent meeting of the Augustana
Synod, thirty-four congregations were added to
that body, and four young men were ordained
to the work of the holy ministry.
METHODIST.
Under the provisions made by the late Gene
raj Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, Bishop Wightman organized
South Carolina Colored Conference at Newberry
Court House on the Sd inst. The occasion is
described as being one of much interest.
The missionary company of six left the port
of San Francisco in the steamer China for Japan
and China on the 1st instant, having as fellow
voyagers ex-Secretary Seward and his son, who
goes out consul to one of the ports of China.
The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists in
England have an increase of 1000 for last year.
Three other bodies of Methodists record a de-
crease of sos during the year.
During the last 10 years the Methodist
membership in Canada has increased from
So, 634 to GA 6SS, and the membership in their
Indian Mission from 1890 to 2159 The minis
time from 421 to 5S8, although "a have removed
to the United States. There are 500 Sabbath
schools now where there were 620 then, and
the scholars have increased from 34,S74 to
$1,000.
"A correspondent of the Christian Advocate
says that at present It looks as if the next Me-
thodist General Conference would select one
bishop from an Eastern and two from Western
institutions of learning.
BAPTIST.
The General Association of Colored Baptists
for Kentucky, at its recent session in Paducah,
| decided to organize a theological school this
winter on its hill property at Frankfort (ffty
| acres, bought and paid for).
The twelfth session of the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary opened with thirty seven
| students, precisely the number present on the
The two hundredth anniversary of the con-
ference of the Six-Prineiple Baptist of Rhode
Island has been held at South Scituate, r. 1.
The meetings, which continued through three
| days. were largely attended and of great inte-
| rest The exercises closed with the delivery of
| a historical discourse by Rev. G. H. Malcom,
| who had been invited by the conference to
| preach the commemorative sermon upon that
| occasion.
a correspondent of the Examiner and
| Chronicle thus writes from Atlanta, Cal
| "Oglethorpe University under the patronage of
| the Presbyterians, is to be removed here. 1t is
been induced to locate here. 1t has settled upon
Macon which city is to give 1t $50, 600. There
| is to be female college of high grade esta-
blished. Howard University, established by the
Freedmen's Bureau for the education of coiored
young men, and the Storrs school for young
colored women as teachers, are in operation
CATHOLIC.
The Catholic Bishop of Mines, France has
| issued document so full of insinuations
against the Protestant population there of SYM
pathy with Prussia in the war, that for some
time the lives of the two Protestant pastors
were in the greatest peril. The telegraph re-
ports that, on the proclamation of the republic
in that department., some descendants OF the
Huguenots D. tried to hunt down and and
duced them, and that an American Catho-
lie family fed to the woods to escape. The
U4liUers has attacked the Protestants in Alsace,
telling of pastor who denounced the French
one Sabbath, and the next day left, carrying
lint and bandages, to put himself at the service
piled in L UniUers that the pastor referred to
was Bavaran, who had never had regular
charge in France, and since the war had re-
turned to his own country. The French Pro-
testants insist and prove by their forwardness
in all labor tor the care of the wounded In the
French army that their religion does not inter-
fere with their patriotism.
Bishop Verot, of the diocese of Savan-
nah, has been transferred to the new Roman
Catholic See of st. Augustine, Florida. 1t is
suggested that his vehement opposition in the
Council to infallibility has something to dc
with the transfer He is succeeded in Charles
ton by Ignatius Persico; who, says the Chris
tidn Union, has had a romantic history. He
was born in Italy, and was consecrated Bishop
of Agra, in India, about twenty-six years ago.
He remained in India sixteen years, built Q
cathedral and established religious houses, the
whole of which were destroyed during the
Sepov mutiny, and was driven from his diocese
He hroupht euit against the East India Com