The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-30
SUMMARY OF CHURCH NEws.
EPISCOPAL.

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"A lady has given ten thousand dollars for
the erection of a chapel for the Episcopal Sea-
bury Mission in Minnesota, of which Bishop
Whipple has charge. Z
The Episcopal Convocation of Newark, N.
j., contains more parishes and more clergymen
than there are in Kentucky or Indiana, Califor-
MIA or Georgia, Maine or New Hampshire-or,
indeed, in one-half of the States in the Union.
The Church of Santiago, in Thirty,fourth
street, New York, organized by twelve Cubans,
in 1856, has now an attendance of nearly 100
persons every Sunday. The services are con-
Quoted in Spanish.
scented 800, 600 to the theological seminary of
the Episcopal church at Alexandria, Va. Me-.
w. H.. Aspinwall, of New York, gave before the
war $50, 600 TO the same institution.
The late Chester Adams, of Hartford, in his
will, which has been admitted to probate, be-
queathed over $100, 600 to various charitable
and religious societies. Among the benedict
aries are the Society for the Increase of the
Ministry, the Widows Home. the Parish of
Christ's Church, the Hartford Hospital, Trinity
College, and the Domestic and Foreign Mission
Society of the Episcopal Church. The whole
estate was believed to be worth $3.50, 600.
to the Episcopalians of Washington his theologi-
cal library, consisting of nearly ten thousand
volumes, for the benefit of the church in perpe-
tuity, on the sole condition that they provide FIR
it q suitable fre-proot building sufficiently large
TO admit of reasonable increase. This library is
of rare value, consisting of several hundred folio
volumes, and of editions belonging, in numerous
instances, to the fifteenth and sixteenth centu-
ries. Its value is estimated at $50, 600.
-Keble College, the new member of the Ok
ford sisterhood of colleges, has Ia it's charter al
ingenious provision to prevent its getting out of
the control of the High Church party, Which
has founded 1t, and to which Keble belonged in
his latter days. Any of the twelve members eau
require" the visitor to remove the other three
from office. 1t is true that the visitor can refuse
the requests; but, as the Archbishop Of Canter-
bury holds that position e1 o6icio, it is not likely
that he will often interfere for the protection of
a dangerous" minority.
"A report has recently been circulated that
the Episcopal Diocesan Council for Wisconsin
adopted a canon accommodating commuui-
cants who marry outside their Church commu-
MON, or who are married by any other than a
clergyman of the Church. Upon this the Mil
YANKEE American Churchman's thus
THE above item has been going the rounds
OF the secular press for the space OF about a
week. 1t first occurred, we believe, in a Mil
waukee evening paper, whose report of the
council was even more ludlcrously absurd than
such reports usually are. OF course, no such
canon was adopted nor even seriously considered
by the conhcn, and no person with any kno W.
ledge of the Church or a belief In the sauity OF
the delegates to the council will believe thai
1t did"
P~REsBYTERIAN.
Rev. James X. Pierce. Professor of Hebrew
in the Auburn Theological Seminary, died, July
18th, of heart disease.
The church of Princeton, Indiana, of whict
the Rev. DIR. ID. Mchaster is pastor, has voted
after some discussion, 20 go into union with tn,
United Presbyterian Church. The vote stooG
100 to IA
The Rev. George L. Wolfe, a Young minis
ter from Sussex county, Delaware, is now set
tied at Madison Court House, Virginia, in
portion of the field made vacant by the 1emoya
of the Rev. DIR. Handy to Augusta county. Va.
The Education Committee of the Southern
Presbyterian Church congratulated the Assem-
bly, that, whereas at the close of the war there