The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-17

foot to start services in Gettysburg, Adams
county, where, however there is no real call
for them In Franklin county we have mis-
sion at Chambersburg In Bedford also a
churchless mission is the extent of Episcopal
existence. In Huntingdon, a church almost
always vacant and very feeble, Is the sole re-
preventative of our denomination. Sullivan
and Wyoming counties have each only a
single mission, without a church building. The
counties of Blair, Cumberland, Clinton, Lebanon,
Mifflin, MoDtour, and York-some of them very
large in territory, many very wealthy and thickly
populated-present each siugle Episcopal
church which may be called self-supporting,
and yet some of them barely so, and none OF
them with anything to spare, if the rate of
salary paid be a test. Dauphin sets forth two
churches, both in Harrisburg-one vacant and
dependent"
LUTHERAN.
The citizen of Greenville, Mercer county,
Pa, are making efforts to secure the permanent
location of Thiel College.
Rev l.. p. Esbjorn, the first Swedish Luthe-
ran pastor, who came here during the late
second emigration, died at Ostra Vala, Sweden,
July2 He labored for several years at Ando-
yer, ILL.,, later at Princeton, and also filled the
Scandinavian professorship in Illinois State
University.
ran Synod of Wisconsin, quite lively debate
arose as to Masonry, and minister who was
Free Mason, and took occasion to defend it,
was excluded from the Synod
The Illinois University has succumbed to
its pecuniary embarrassments. Its largest
creditor, the Pennsylvania Synod, purchased
the building for the amount of its claim, little
more than $4,000, and the Lutheran announces
that collegiate institute has been opened under
the name of st. Paul's College.
Mr. Samuel p. Sadtler has been elected
Professor of Physical Science in Pennsylvania
College, Gettysburg, Pa. After graduating from
Harvard, Mr.. sadtler further prosecuted his
studies at the University of Gottingen, in Ger
many.
The projects of a new theological seminary
in Chicago, and one in the East, for Germans
are now being agitated.
"A portrait of Luther, painted by Lucas
Cranch, was discoyered not long ago in Silesia.
1t was hidden under successive layers of dust
and cobwebs, in passage leading from q church
in Reichenbach to q schoolroom The portrait
is considered one of the best in existence.
The Rev. Carl Weber, of Hammonton, Nj,
has received and accepted unanimous call from
ST. Peter s German Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Scranton, Pa.
The Rev. W. w. Hicks, D. D.. the CO.
pastor of the Lutheran Church. Charleston, SC.
has rendered his resignation, which has been ac-
cepted.
CONGREGATIONAL.
The First Congregational Church IN New
London, Ct, is to celebrate its two hundredth
anniversary October 5. 1t has had eight pastors
Rev. DIR. EcEwen, who was the pastor fifty
years, was classmate of John G. Calhoun, and
took the valedictory.
- The minutes of the seventy-fifth meeting of
the General Convention of Vermont show 100
churches, "A of which have pastors, and SO
acting pastors simply -Four are supplied with
licentiates, 3 by Methodists. and sc are vacant
There are 2l2 ministers in the State, of whom
55 are without charge. The total membership
of the churches is reported at 18 1885, the net in
crease the past year being 1863.
Rev j. Edward Bell, formerly Baptist and
lately an Episcopalian, has nov. become Con-
gregationalist and has accepted call from the
Old South Parish, Reading, Mass.
Rev. j. A. Rich has resigned the pastorate
of a Congregational Church in Westminster,
Mass, and accepted call to the Unitarian
Church in Brookield.
Three Cinnamon were lately received as
members OF the Congregational Church at Oak
land, Cal.
There are said TO be very encouraging pros
poets for the establishment of Congregational
Theological Seminary in Central New York.
The Rev. Henry G. Dickinson, of Appleton,
Wisconsin, has been appointed to the chair of
ment at Oberlin, Ohio. The prospects of the
department for the coming year are higher than
its most sanguine friends have anticipated. The
new Junior class will contain thirteen members,
with prospect of three or four more.
| "A lady connected with the Congregational
church at Portsmouth, N H., of which the Rev.
George NJ. Adams is pastor, recently gave the
church a lot of land for chapel worth $4,000.
The people at once raised $40, 600, and they are
now erecting a fine large chapel.
1t is said that the Rev. Dr. Todd, of Pitts
field, means to- retire from active duty as
minister in q few months, on the completion of
MS seventeen year.
METHODIST.
Rev DIR. Maclay of the Methodist Mission
in China, announces that an Alphabetical Die
tionary of the Chinese language in the Foochow
dialect on which he and the Rev. G. G. Baldwin
have been engaged for several years, will be
issued about the 1st of September.
The African Methodist Episcopal Church
reports $4,000 communicates, $4,000 proba-
TONERS, 1000 travelling, 5000 local preachers,
and bishops.
"A handsome new church is now going up at
the corner of One Hundred and Twenty-sixth
street and Madison avenue, New York, for the
use of the congregation at present attending
the Methodist Episcopal church in One Hun
dred and Twenty-ffth street 1t will cost nearly
500, GOO.
There are about one hundred members in
the Southern Methodist church in San Fran
cisco, California.
PRESBYTERIAN.
Rev DR.. Macduff, of Glasgow, Scotland
has resigned his pastoral office. In his letter to
the congregation, DIR. Macduff states that his
resignation has been the subject of long and
anxious consideration on his part, and has been
induced by the success of his writings, sug-
gestiDg another mode of service in the cause of
Christ.
AT its meeting in Louisville, KY, says the
| Presbyterian Banner, the General Assembly of
the Presbyterian Church, South, declared, by a
! large vote, that Unitarian, Popish, and Camp
bellite baptisms are not valid
| The Schermerhorn Street Tabernacle Brook
! lyn, N Y, will be ready for the Rev. T. Dewitt
-Talmage's congregation during the current
month. 1t is crcus-ike looking structure,
and will seat $500 persons. The old Boston
Coliseum organ has been reconstructed for this
tabernacle.
"A correspondent writing to the Christian
Observer says:-"On the Goth of August COM
mittee appointed by the South Alabama Presby-
terry organized a church at Monroeville, with
| thirty members; of these, three were installed