The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-09-04

Rev. George h. Adams, ID. d., late of Brunswick
Me-, where he has preached for more than forty
years, has entered upon his new field in Orange
IN. j.
The German Young Mems Christian Association
of New York city has organized a Christian com
mission for the relief of the wounded and tae
succor of the orphaned aud widowed by the
European war.
The people of Maine will welcome as God
send the arrival OF immigrants upon their shores.
religious colony of l25 Swedish Baptists
reported as having just arrived and seeking set
Element in Aroostook county.
Chunder Sans missionary movement in Eng
land has proceeded 30 far that steps have been
taken to form ''Theistic Society" Rev Mon
cure d. Conway, and two English Unitarian min
listers, with Miss DR.. Elizabeth Blackwell are
among the movers in the thing
The Unversalst churches are being canvassed
pretty thoroughly in the effort to raise the Muir
ray Fund" In Massachusetts $4,000 Yet remains
to be secured La one month the General Con
vention for the United States will assemble at
Gloucester, where great prepare tons are being
made for grand meeting Excursion tickets
will be provided from all parts Of the country
many parishes are making arrangements to camp
ont while in attendance, and an Immense tent
will be used for the sessions.
The report of the yearly meeting of the Society
of Friends shows 800 members in New England,
among whom there have been during the year
thirty-tour births, seyentyfive deaths aud thirty
five admissions.
The Hawaiian churches contributed last year
$t0l0 for foreign missions. Rev. s. p. Aheone.
a native Chinese, has embarked from the Islands
for China as Chinese missionary. Five of the
Chinese in the Hawaiian Islands were admitted to
the Hawaiian churches last year.
The London City Mission has in lis employ 375
missionaries, who made over 1000 900 visits last
year, reclaDIjng 905 drunkards restored 676 fallen
women TO their homes put them in asylums,
aud induced 1874 shopkeepers TO give up Sunday
trading.
Rev. N. B. Riddle D. D., was at Heidelberg on
the 5th Of August. He holds, IN his letter to the
Pttsburg Banner, that the man OF the age is not
Napoleon, nor the Pope, but Bismarck.
In the German Reformed Church in this country
$50 ministers preach in the German language and
22o preach IN English.
Rev. DR.. Maclay, Of the Methodist Mission in
China, announces that an Alphabetical Diction-
ary 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 is
sued about the LIST ofSeptember
I II is reported that by special request Dr. Nehe-
miab Adams, of Boston, recently preached at
Hong Kong, China, Tor Archdeacon Gray, Of the
Church Of England.
The Irish Presbyterian Church has 1875 900 mem
bers aud an annual income from the British gov
eminent of 994 900. II has GOA Sunday schools
with $3.50 teachers and ,305 scholars.
Hev. a. ~. OlueUe, ~. ~. tSapIist). late OF
Washington b. c., has accepted the call OF the
Gethsemane church, Brooklyn, and will begin his
labors In September
Rev. DR.. 7. y. Witherspoon, for some years
pastor OF the Second Presbyterian church, Mem
phis, Tenn, is compelled TO resign his charge on
account Of his health He has been regarded as
one OF the most successful ministers OF the Church
South.
Rev. Martin Luther Todd died at Wheeling
West Virginia August IA, in the thirty-irst year
of his age. For a time he did effective labor for
the American Sunday School Union. Afterwards
he served earnestly aud usefully as pastor in
West Virginia
Bishop Vail or Kansas, had narrow escape
from death recently by a runaway team, near
Lake Sibley. He was Knocked down and his body
run over by the wheels, but. providentialy, he
sustained no fatal injuries
Rev. William G. Anderson, ex-President of the
Miami University, and for many years pastor Of
the First Presbyterian church Of San Francisco,
died at Junction City, Kansas, last Monday.
A poor, wild Irish boy, taught in mission
school in Ireland, was asked what was meant by
saving faith. He replied "Grasping Christ with
the heart.o
Jay Cooke, the banker. conducts a Hourishing
Bible class III connection with 81. paui's Episcopal