The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-26

"A new Reformed Presbyterian congregation
is about to be organized in the upper part of
the city of New York. to be called the Fourth
Reformed Church." Ii is an oftshoot of the
Third Church, in Twenty-third street, recently
under Rev. DIR. Sloane, and now has about one
hundred regular members, while the attend
ance at the services, especially on Sunday even
inge, has been quite large Rev. j. NJ. Johnson,
OF Washington, has been engaged to supply the
pulpit.
From the New York Evangelist we learn
that the average work of the New York Port
Society for each week is as follows:-Number of
meetings, 25; attendance of seamen alone 1000
visits to vessels and boarding houses 1885,
number of seamen signing the pledge 30; pages
of tracts distributed 40OO volumes of books
$50; Bibles and Testaments, 75; packages of
reading matter to crews, 80 Six missionaries
and three ordained ministers are in constant
service, and the Gospel is regularly preached at
their church, and two fourishing missions; and
these means have been SO blessed that dance
houses in the neighborhood have been closed.
some of the vilest localities made safe at night,
while scarcely week has passed without in
stances of conversions.
The Presbyterian Church of Ireland held its
General Assembly the last week in January.
The great work was the adapting of itself to the
new relations with the Government AS the
Regtunl Donuan is now withdrawn, each minis
ter 1t was decided by the Assembly, is to COM
mute with Government so as to form fund
called the Commutation Fund. To this will be
added the sustentaton fund, which is to be
raised by each church contributing at the rate
OF penny week for each of its members. The
two funds will secure each pastor a salary of
G100. Any church which wishes to add more
for its own minister can do so. The Noncon-
fOrmiSt calls the Irish Church the stingiest &C.
clesiastical body in Christendom, and evidently
thinks the present plan not the best to cultivate
liberality.
CONGREGATIONAL.
The Rev. Leonard w. Bacon has rendered
his resignation as pastor of the New England
Church in Williamsburg, and the resignation
has been accepted.
The Congregational Churches in Missouri
now number nearly sixty. About eight of them
are self-sustaining, while the others are still
fostered by the Home Missionary Society. Last
autumn special means were taken to strengthen
these churches, by the employment or encour-
agement of evangelists.
The Rev. Messrs. Smith and Hobart, respec-
lively the agents of the American Missionary
Association and of the Home Missionary Asso-
| cation were present, short time SINCE at
prayer meeting of the church in Washington, on
their return from the South. Both agreed that
the prospects of Southern Congregationalism
were far from flattering. The church at Mem
phis is almost ruined by intestine divisions that
of New Orleans is hardly self-supporting. No
church south of the Potomac is stronger than
the little church of Fairfax, Virginia, and that
has about thirty members, and pastor sup
ported by the Home Missionary Society. Most
of those who migrate southward do it for the
sake of making money; and to make money
there, it is generally necessary to dvest oneself
of every Northern element.
BAPTIST.
The Lee Avenue Baptist Church, Brooklyn,
New York, is to be deprived of the further pas
toral care of the Rev. j. Hyatt Smith, who in
tends to branch out on the "Open Communion"
basis, with a fair prospect of success.
The pastor of the Spruce Street Baptist
Church, DR.. Smith, has gone to Florida to
recruit his shattered health DR.. Weston, of
the Grocer Institute, supplies his pulpit
The Baptist churches in the consolidated
city of Philadelphia now number forty-two
About one-half of them have been refreshed,
more or less of late, with revival influences, and
report additions by baptisms.
Old 'landmarkism" among the Southern
Baptists is Baptist doctrine of the straitest Sort
In its interest South Carolina Baptist Union
has just voted that, in the discussion on the
subject between Elders Graves, of the Baptist,
and Jeter, of the Religious Herald, ''we agree
with the latter to repudiate all Campbellite and
Pedobaptst immersions as unscriptural and
invalid" and that this point ''is vital to the
Baptist denomination"