The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-25


to mechanical purposes. This church, IL will be
remembered, has been consolidated with the
Fifth Avenue Church. The Rev. Frank Russell
is the pastor, and the cornerstone has been laid
for a new house of worship
The deaconeesese elected In Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn, N. Y, did so good service, that at
the last annual meeting three more were chosen.
They think one deaconess worth about two
deacons. The Rev. s. B. Halliday is now serv-
ing that great church in pastoral visitation
which Mr.. Beecher has been compelled so largely
to neglect
The whole attendance of students at Hart
ford Seminary during the year has been twenty
five, of whom five were regularly graduated at
the anniversary last week, some three or four
others of the class having left to enter with
one exception) on fields of ministerial labor.
The Congregational Conference of New
York and vicinity met in Orange Valley, last
Thursday, with the church of which Rev.
George B. Bacon is pastor Mr.. Beecher pre-
sided over more than 800 representatives of 33
churches. A new church was reported in Mont
clair, N. j., beginning with 81 members, half of
whom came from the Presbyterian Church. The
discussion of the Relation of the Church Edi-
fee to Church work gave Dr. r. s. Storrs good
opportunity to defend the very rich character of
the adornings of the enlarged building of the
Church of the Pilgrims The discussion in the
evening brought out the fact that the old Pres
byterian churches of New Jersey were nearly
all of them originally Congregational but about
the end of the last century joined Presbyterian
synods. The delegates from abroad were most
handsomely entertained.
.... PRESBYTERIAN.
The Seventh Church., Pittsburg, Pa, the
Rev. W. II. Andrew, pastor, was cheered with
the addition of twenty-five to its member
ship at the communion ,on Sabbath, the 22d of
May.
The Presbyterian Freedmans Committee had
during last year under its care 20 ministers aud
101 teachers 50 churches, which received 667
on profession 76 Sunday schools and n day
schools
The General Assembly of 1869 took action
looking to withdrawal of the mission to China.
The General Assembly of 1870 almost unani-
mously resolved to continue it, and support it
literally.
The Rev. H. P. McAdam, who has labored
for several years successfully in the pastorate
of the church in Troy, N. Y, has been appointed
by the General Assembly to the missionary
service, under the Board of Home Missions in
Topeka, Kansas.
"A number of new versions of the Psalms
were adopted by previous assemblies, and were
printed for use, and have been used. The Gene
raj Assembly of 1870 struck out number of
these approved versions, thus undoing the de-
liberate work of presbyteries and former assem-
blies. and producing confusion in the churches.
The number of students in Union Theologi-
cal Seminary is now thirty-five, of whom eight
are in the Senior class. The library contains
about 5000 volumes, of which 158 have been
added during the year, including a fac Sina1le
copy of Tischendorfs "CodexsSinaiticus." The
Seminary will also receive under the will of
the Rev. Urias Powers, $4,000 per annum for
three years, to be expended in the purchase of
books. The finances of the Seminary are re-
ported to be in healthy condition, and it is
gratifying to learn that they are believed to be
fully adequate to the payment of salaries and
the support of the institution. The incomes
OF the scholarships have been promptly paid
and have been of great advantage to the Semi
nary.
At meeting of the Presbytery of Chester,
convened for the special purpose, on Thursday
1ocf fbnr poft tIaW shx,
terian Church was received, and commission
appointed to organize said Church. consisting
of Professor Westcott, Rev. Messrs. Aiken and
Hodgkin, and Elders Moore and Aiken. This
was done on Friday afternoon of this week, at
Wayne Hall, Radnor, Delaware county, and it
was arranged that the installation in this new
church enterprise of the Rev. Samuel Pollock
Linn should take place on Tuesday. July 5.
Howell Evans was elected and styled a ruling
elder. This church is the first admission under
the new reunion of the Presbyterian Church.
DR.. Dale will be the Moderator at the nstalla-
tion This is expected to be most interesting
event in the new progress OF affairs at Wayne,
Radnor.
\ The Presbyterans have thus mapped out an
elaborate History of the Reunion Rev. Sam
uel Miller, d. D., of Mount Holly, New Jersey,
is to furnish the first chapter, on "The Church
%: 81 since 1887 Rev. j. F. Stearns, D: D.,
of Newark, the second, on "The Church On. s.
since 1897" Rev. w. B. Sprague, d. D., of
Albany the third, Biographical Sketches 60.
phia, the fourth, Biographical Sketches On.
s u" Rev. William Adams, d. D., of New York,
the fifth, History of the Reunion Movement
and of the Committees and their Work." Rev.
Drs. Jacobus and Fowler the sixth, on
..The Assemblies of 1869, at New York and
Pittsburg, and the Reunion; Rev. G. Plum
ley, of Metuchin N: j., the seventh on "The
Reconstruction, and Rev. John Hall, ID. D., of
New York, the eighth on THE Future Church. "
The volume is to be fully illustrated, and the
profits will be devoted to the Thank Offering
Fund. f'~
Chick Sien Hong is the first Chinese
Methodist in San Francisco. He came from
Fuh Chau, with puzzling certificate in Chinese
characters.
to the Middletown College to $4,000, desiring,
it is said, to complete the building in a manner
unequalled by any college in the Eastern States.
The New England Methodist Conference
sent Gilbert Haven and two other delegates to
the late Conference of the African and the Zion
Methodist Local Conferences. The matter of con-
solidation with the Methodist Episcopal Church
was supported with no opposition and the Zion
Conference voted its approval.
The latest Methodist relic is the pulpit Bible
used by the father of John and semuel Wesley.
During Philip Phillips visit to England he pur-
chased it for $3.50. The present owner has been
offered 5000 for it by private gentleman; but
| il Is reserved for public institution. The pro-
| ceeds of the sale will be given to Mr.. Bodies
| water Street Mission" New York.
The Southern Methodist Collegein California,
| at Varnville, has suspended operations, on
account of hopeless Indebtedness. The Metho-
dist ''City Sunday-school and Missionary So
ciety" of New York was Incorporated in 1866.
1t now holds real estate consisting of chapels
and lots, valued at $l34, 200, aud maintains
eleven organized churches, twelve Sunday.
schools, and six missionaries. During the las
year it expended upwards of $4,000.