The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-12
SUMMARY OF CHURCH NEWS.
EPISCOPAL.


Rev. Henry Niles Pierce was consecrated
Episcopal Bishop of Arkansas at Mobile, Ala,
January 8. He was formerly pastor of st.
Johns Church, in that city.
The Rev. Henry Niles Pierce was conse-
Grated Episcopal Bishop of Arkansas, at Mobile,
Ala, January 5. He was formerly pastor of st.
Johns Church, in this city.
st. AIMS Church, Brooklyn, has a choir of
one hundred members, whose performances are
heralded beforehand in the dailies, and pro-
grammes distributed in the church.
Eight clergymen are candidates for the
vacant professorship of Hebrew and Greek lam
guages in the General Episcopal Seminary in
New York, and twenty-one for the professor
ship of Systematic Divinity.
The Rev. Emerson Judd, of the Episcopal
Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa, recently supplied
the pulpit of the Congregational church in that
city, without surplice or grown, and employing
the ordinary service of that church. The Epis-
copal rector in Dubuque will not prosecute him.
st. Johns Chapel, in New York city, main
tains one colored Sunday School, one colored
industrial school, one German Sunday School,
and o general industrial school. No distinction
of creed is made. The attendance is increasing
from week to week. All the families, especially
the poor, are visited in turn.
The Rev. Samuel Clements, of Ohio has
accepted the position of Principal of the Pro-
testant Episcopal Mission House in this city.
In this house young men are prepared for the
work OF foreign missions. Among its inmates
are two Cinnamon, two North American In
dams, some colored men from the West Indies,
and number of others, of various nation
alities.
"A new Bethel, called the ''Church of our
Saviour for Seamen," was opened in New York
on Sunday, january 8, with appropriate SER
vices 1t is floating church, constructed on
the margin of the East River, at the foot of Pike
street. Rev. Robert W. Lewis is in charge. The
building is thirty-five feet high 1t is built on
scow 40 by so feet, and about six feet deep,
The total cost is about $4,000
"A committee of trustees have reported, re-
commencing the removal of the General Theo-
logical Seminary from New York to some por-
lion of Westchester county, within short dis
tance from that city. The present property is
worth $40O, 600; and, as no income comes from
it, and the assessments by the city authorities
are $20 500 this year. 1t is retained for its present
purpose at a loss. Among the plans suggested
is that the Seminary, Columbia College, and
Trinity School should unite in securing ample
grounds and combine to form a grand Uni
versity.
PRESBYTERIAN.
The First Presbyterian Church at Lexing-
ton, Kentucky, has given call to the Rev. Will
liam Dinwiddie, of Greenwood, Albemarle
county, Virginia
An interesting part of the services in the
South Street Presbyterian Church. above Ele-
Venth, on Sabbath mornings, is the singing of
the Sunday School children, led by the choir.
which Ia rendered in quite creditable manner.
The $4,000 required to start a Presbyterian
paper in Chicago has been subscribed. 1t will
probably be called The Inferior. Rev. Arthur
Swa1ey is the principal editor; and Rev. w. f.
McLaren, of Detroit and Rev. j. q. Matthews,
of Chicago, are elected as his associates.
Rev. George Gilfllan, of Dundee, has lately
been stirring mp the United Presbyterians OF
Scotland by denying his BELIEF of all the Cate
.chism He Is threatened with an ecclesiastical
trial. But he says there are points of the Cate
Hhism which nobody believes. We see an opinion
frequently expressed by British, though seldom
by American Presbyterians, that their standards
are "cumbrous" aud need cutting down.
The Evansville, Ind, Presbyterian Church
Rev. j. p Il. Kumler pastor, has system ol
church work which puts each of its members on
one OF its committees of labor. There are com
mittees on canvass for congregation and Sab
bath school, prayer-meetings. neigheorhood
meetings, Sabbath schooly socials, ehnneh pa
pers and literature, the sick and poor. tempe
rance ana finance. The resQlt of the plan for q
year showed an increase of benevolent contri-
bntions from 1895 TO S1015, and of subscriptions
fOr congregational expenses and for wiping cut
debt from $S267 to $13, 749 At the beeinniBg
OF last year system of regular giving was
adopted, and change made from the rented To
the free-pew system, with the most happy
results. More additions to the church have been
received than for several years before.
The Committee on Reconstruction of the
Synods and Presbytenes of the Church in tbe
United States OF America have had a meeting
and determined, among other things, upon a
division of the Church into twenty-nine synods
They also recommend the limitation of appeals
references, and complaints to the synods, except