The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-22
SUMMARY OF CHURCH NEWS.
BAPTIST.

The Rhode Island and Massachusetts, Gene
raj Six-Principle Baptist Association held its
two hundredth anniversary in the First Baptist
Church in Richmond, October 7th to 9th. Rev.
. Gilbert Tillinghast was Moderator The pro-
ceedings are spoken of as interesting, and the
few churches which still adhere TO this associa-
tion reported gains for the year. After the ad-
journment the communion service was admin
listed to about two hundred brethren and sisters.
Hon. Green Clay Smith, formerly mem
Der of Congress from Kentucky, aud Major
General in the Federal army but more recently
Governor OF Montana, has retired from secular
life, and become a preacher of the Gospel. He
is Baptist minister, and it is said is eloquent
and earnest preacher.
The total of Baptists for the Pacific coast is
116 churches, 5117 members lis ministers, and
10 home missionaries Less than one-haf the
ministers are pastors, and not QUE sixth are
wholly sustained by their churches. Nevada,
with population of 200, is without Bap-
tist church; and so far as is known, has not a
single Baptist minister devoted to his calling.
In Washington Territory there are three
churches. seventy MEMBERS two ministers, and
The Rev. Arnold r. Medbury has accepted
call to the pastorate of the First Baptist
Church, San Francisco. Seven years ago this
month he became o member of this church
where he has retained his membership till now
and was welcomed TO the family of DR.. Cheney,
his pastor, with whom he commenced course
of study.
PRESBYTERIAN.
been under the care of missionaries belonging
to the New School Presbyterian General Assem-.
bly,, are now transferred from the American
Board to the Presbyterian Board. The latter
has already received under its care from the
American Board the Gaboon and Syrian mis-
sions; also the Indian missions among the
Ojibbewas and Senecas. One of the missionaries
who has lately gone TO China has also been
transferred from the American Board. The ex-
pense of these missions and missionaries has to
be met by the Presbyterian Board from Sep
tember /.
of the 1869 congregations in the Southern
Presbyterian Church, only 400 have pastors, and
about 600 have regular or partial supplies, and
about 43O are destitute of any stated ministry
The existence of the Kentucky Presbytery
OF the Associate Synod of the South has been
threatened by the union efforts in that quarter,
which have resulted in the withdrawal of four
of her ministers, with part of the people, to
join the General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church South.
"A memorial was presented to the United
Presbyterian Presbytery of Chilcothe, at its late
session at Unity, Ohio, whether intercommunion
is in accordance with the rules of the United
Presbyterian Church, and whether 1t may be eX-
tended TO the members of the Methodist Church.
The matter was referred to committee, who re-
ported at length, with the following resolution
appended:-."Resolged That to the question of
the memorialists, whether the rules of the United
Presbyterian Church authorize intercommunion
with the members of other Churches, we answer
No."
-Dnulecp Slngn mas, Win MS usual noble
generosity, signalized the anniversary of his
marriage with a donation again to the United
Presbyterian mission in Egypt of $1,000.
MIR. Talmage's Tabernacle, Brooklyn, is sus-
tained on a new plan. Each family Worship ping
there regularly is called on to subscribe what
they choose to the support of the Gospel, aud
then they are allowed to select pew, which
becomes theirs, nor do we learn that they would
be deprived of it should they fail to make any
contribution towards the church expenses The
annual current expenses, it is thought, will be
about $4,000.
The congregation of Augusta Church, Va,
are about to repair their church edifce, a sub
stantial structure of stone, built in 1747, seven
years before Braddock's defeat. Their ancestors
hauled the stone on sleds, and brought the glass
and nails from Williamsburg, on the backs OF
horses.
AN interesting farewell meeting was held in
New York ON Sunday evening, October g. in
view of the departure of the following mlsslona-