The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-02
SUMMARY OF CHURUH NEWS.
EPISCOPAL.

EPISCOPAL.
The Episcopalians are opening church read
ing-rooms in Boston. They hope to secure q
building at an expense of SAC, 1000.
Trinity Church, New York, gives an annual
donation to several thurches, enabling them to
remain where they are, and thus securing oppor-
tunities for worship to downtown residents.
The Rev. y. II. Tying, Jr.'s, church lately
took up contribution of about $4,000 in aid of
the House of the Evangelist, new theological
school to educate Young men to preach the
Gospel to the neglected in New York city. Ihls
is said to be the largest collection ever taken up
in an Episcopal church in this country.
"A correspondent of the Cturchnedn says
that at Asheville, N. c., efforts are being made
to estab ish Theological Training School
where there are now three students. The only
minister who has ever maintained permanent
location in the mountains OF Western North
Carolina is Rev. Jarvis Buxton, there being 70
other parish priest west of the Blue Ridge. He
has been there twenty years.
The Hartford ChUrcllmdn says: -"There is
an Episcopal mission in Salt Lake City composed
of Bishop Tuttle and TWO devoted clergymen
They have for three years occupied field aban-
doned by every other Christian minister who
has attempted missionary work there. Now
this mission Numbers nearly 100 communicates,
with Sabbath school of 135 pupils and has
contributed $4,000 to the work there in the three
years. Three young men, SONS of Mormons, are
under instruction for the ministry"
Rev. Colin G. Tate, rector of st. Paul's
Church, Columbus, Ohio, in a note dated Feb
ruary 2S, informed Bishop McIlvaine ''that the
surplced choir and professional singing in st.
Paul's Church were discontinued on Sunday.
January 2, 1870" This communication having
been laid before the standing committee, that
body adopted the following resolution, whereby
Mr. Tate's standing is restored:-
Resolued, That inasmuch as the Rev. G. G. Tate
has officially notified the bishop OF the diocese OF the
discontnuance Of the Objectionable practices In St.
Pauls Church, Columbus, and for which he, the
Rev. G. c. Tate, was presented for trial. the Stand
ing Committee withdraw the presentment
METHODIST.
On the Vineland IN. J) Seminary, $50, 600
have been expended, and $22, 900 more will be
required to complete 1t.
celebrated Miss Anna Dickinson is at present
supplying the pulpitof the church in Guilford,
Conn: He is very popular preacher.
The Christian Advocate reports the vote
among the clergy on the lay-delegation ques-
ton. Forty-one conferences cast 1857 votes, of
which 271S are for and $50 against lay delegates
more than four to one.
A Methodist Episcopal church has been
erected in Fultohoa, in Bulgaria, bordering or
the Black Sea. 1t numbers twenty-one mem
bers, and is the first Methodist church ever bull
in Russia.
The Baltimore Methodist Conference ap
pointed delegation to visit the conference o
Southern Methodists, in session at the same
time and place; but the latter declining to re
ceve the delegates In their official capacity, they
withdrew.
The largest contribution ever made in ont
year in money to any religious or benevolen
society was made last year QS69) to the Mis-
sionary Society of the Methodist Episcopa
Church, namely, S6lS, ,2266 6l. This is an ad
vance of $50 064'92 over the preceding yea
OS6S).
During the recent session of the Kentucky
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
two members of the conference were invited t
preach in the Methodist Episcopal Churcl
South, which they did, and several of the
ministers of that Church we're introduced to thu
conference.
The largest salary paid last year in th
Lexington (Ky.) Colored Conference was $500
the smallest $S:75. The Methodist for Marcl
% reports the vote on Lay Delegation thus ia
as 1890 for and S45 against. Total, 4l65. Thi
includes the vote of ifty-one conferences, ant
gives the required three-fourths vote and 1876 +
spare.
The Advocate sums up 3194 clerical vote
thus far in favor and SlS against lay delegation
1t reSkons that the remaining votes will make
total Of 4446 for and 1902 against 1t, whic
would mike 80 negative votes in excess OF tn
one-quarteI necessary to defeat the measure
We notice tlet the New England Conferenc
stronger than th@ guessed" by the Aduocatc
II is certain that IlHre is great doubt whethe
the measure will b, adopted ITS stronge'
that are yet to vote.
The Methodist papers sse still engaged di
cussing the reports of the Bo>k Committee an
the official papers are earnetlv ahnsing NJ
Baltimore Conference for sustaining 9SuIia nr aHoba
and DIR. Slicer, aud voting wantSSf confident
in the Sunday School Society, updel the ana
cial managemenfpf Mr. Goodenough, me of ii
parties implicafa& by the minority of tl~ Boo
Committed A1f D. H. Vincent, of the S,nd,
SchLol Society, has come out in a card stro,C
defending his eoheague. ZiOn's Herald stronl
advocates the position of most of the outside
that the matter be reinvestigated before a co
mittee of Practical business men.
BAPTIST.
in the New York Independent the Rev,
Hyatt Smith denies the report that he had
signed the pastorate of Lee Avenue Bapi
Church in Brooklyn, N Y, aud come out
open communion.
The Rev. DR.. Jeffery has just completed
first year of his pastorate over the Ninth Str