The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-14
SUMMARY OF CHURCH NEWS.
CONGREGATIONAL.

The Rev. E. P. Parker, of the South Con-
gregator al Church in Hartford, has declined
the call from the Mt. Vernon Congregational
Church of Boston, Mass.
The First Congregational church in Missis-
sippi has lately been organized in Tongaloo by
the American Missionary Association. 1t has
16 members, of whom 10 are colored.
The congregational churchesin Clarkson and
Pittsford New York, hitherto connected with
presbytery under the Plan of Union, have ''per-
fected their organization" by electing elders.
The Rev. LeoBard w. Bacon, formerly of
the New England Church, Brooklyn, E. d. has
received call to the Congregational Church at
Baltimore, formerly the Rev. Edwin Johnson's
The Congregational Church at Washington
city received sixteen at its communion on Sun
day, 1st inst, six by profession. a year ago it
lost one hundred and nine members with DIR.
Boynton but that number has been more than
replaced during the year.
The trustees of the Pacific Theological
Seminary, at meeting held in San Francisco
city, California, lately, elected the Rev. George
Nooar, ID. D., pastor of the First Congregational
Church, of Oakland, to the chair of theology
which has recently been endowed in that insti-
tuition.
Rev. A. j. Rich asked council to dismiss
him, May 5, from the Congregational church in
Westminster, Mass, on the ground that he had
adopted broader views of truth than are held by
orthodox churches. The council did SO, re-
commanding him as an able minister and cal
culated to do good if preaching "the truth ac-
cording to orthodox views"
PRESBYTERIAN
The Presbytery of Chesapeake has received
the Rev. w. W. Reese from the Methodist Pro-
testant Church.
The Rev. ]. B. Shearer of Virginia. has
accepted the Presidency of Stewart College at
Clarksvile, Tenn.
"A new Presbyterian college ia Kansas adver-
tises for president and teachers 1t is in the
Blue River Valley.
"A friend of Allegheny Seminary (Pres-
byterian) offers one-quarter of any sum up to
l.. Il f.so Il.
wiIl subscribe for its support. Twenty students
graduated this year.
"A writer to the Cumberland Presbyterian
argues at length that foreign mission work
ought to be undertaken Immediately by that
body of churches, and that it should be done in
connection with the American Board.
-Tadrus Yusuf and Ibrahim Yusuf, two stu
dents of the Theological School of the Mission
OF our American United Presbyterian Church in
Egypt were licensed by the Presbytery of
Egypt, at its meeting in Osiout, on the 5th of
March, to preach the everlasting gospel
An attempt is making to merge the Xenia
0O9 United Presbyterian Theological Seminary
in that at Monmouth, Ill. The former has IA
and the latter IL students. These two institu-
tions, with the Newburgh Seminary between
them, send out graduates this pring.
The Reformed Presbyterian Church of Mon
mouth, ILL.,, worshipping on a beautiful prairie
near that strongly Presbyterian town, has dis
banded its organization. The members have
sold their house OF worship, aud distributed the
proceeds IN seVeral dlrecIOns, and have mostly
Joined the United Presbyterian Church, which
is very strong in that vicinity.
LUTHERAN
Mr.; E. Y. Bright, who died recently at Sun
S0uIy, ra;, bequeathed $1,000 to the Lutheran
SSuhuay Shy eenool and to each of the other Sunday
Schools OF that place.
ChioaIe nere are now Norwegian churches il
Snr any IlaC call themselves Lutheran and ar,
Ior the most part in bitter strife among them
serves; so says Norwegian paper.
renndis,inn Lutheran Church at Madison Va, il
vanced backwards. A Lutheran Cbnrch with i'm
~ out infant membership is, to say the least