The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-10

ceived by the Rev. j. p. Thompson, d. D., to
the Broadway Tabernacle, New York, were
two persons who desired baptism by INNER
sion, yet did not believe in close communion.
On application to one of the Baptist pastors
of the city, he willingly accedsd to their re-
quest for baptism, and performed the rite.
--At a recent ministers meeting in Boston,
Professor Porter, of New Haven, advocated
admitting catecbumens TO the Lords Supper.
but not to participation in church govern
meDt. B'l .eH
One of the chapels of the American
Board at Tein-tsin, China, DESTROYED by the
mob last June, has been rebuilt by the man.
darins
The AdCGnce says:-'In the Judgment of
an increasing number, the Congregational
and Presbyterian Churches need short, per-
msnent service, which shall introduce the
people into the exercises, by part in the
reading, in the prayers, and in the recita-
ton of the Apostles Creed, and shall make
the united worship of the congregation as
prominent as the preaching of the minister"
PRESBYTERIAN.
The scheme for raising $10,0 for
Hampden Sidney College, TO be paid in five
years, is a success. The whole amount has
been raised without expense to the Col
lege through the persistent efforts of its
friends.
Rev. Joseph Patterson, d. D., recently
died at Montrose, Scotland, at the advanced
age OF nlnety-three years, and the sixtieth of
his ministry in the second charge of the
parish of Montrose. In his younger days he
was for some time tutor to Lord Byron.
During the latter part of his life his energy
was remarkable, often preaching to audiences
OF over two thousand people, and his voice
was as clear and his words as distinct as when
he was In the prime of life.
The General Assembly of the Presbyte-
rlan Church South met at Huntsville, Ala,
on the 18th of May. DR.. Plumer, of South
Carolina, was elected Moderator.
Rev. Adrianus Van Vliet, Pastor of the
German Presbyterian church in Dubuque,
Iowa, and Professor of Theology in the Ger
man Theological Seminary at that place, died
on the 9th ult., in the sixty-second year of his
age. He was native of Holland, and settled
in Dubuque in 1862.
Judge W. w. Legare, of Alexandria, Va,
is studying theology, preparatory to becoming
minister of the Gospel.
BAPTIST.
In this country the Baptists now number
II, 445 churches, while their church members
average one to every twenty-seven of the
people of the land
The New York correspondent of the
EptSc0pdI Register intimates that at the Rev.
DR.. Armitage's (Baptist) church. in that city,
various Episcopal innovations have disclosed
themselves in the choice of music, the choir
singing the Deus, and SIN Benediction"
after the sermon.
The Rev. S. Fl. Ford, LID, of Mem
phis, Tenn, proposes to remove to st. Louis,
and to resume the publication of the Baptist
depository. He has resigned the Central
Church, Memphis.
The churches of the Baptist denomina-
tion in Boston and vicinity have formed q
''Boston Baptist Missionary Union" for the
establishment of mission Sunday schools and
churches, the employment of missionaries,
and general revival of missionary effort at
their own doors.
FRIENDS.
Rev. Elkanah Beard, the missionary of
the Society of Friends to the Hindoos, has
changed his resideL ce from Benares to Jub-
balpore. He intends to give considerable at
tention to the education of the women, and,
instead of going into the bazaars to preach,
he invites the Moonshees and Babus to his
home, conve1ses with them, and gives them
Scripture selections and tracts. His wife has
a school for native girls numbering twenty
pupils, and was soon to open one for Eurasian
children.
REFORMED CHURCH.
"A year since, Rev. j. II. Wagner, of
Lancaster, Pa, minister of the Reformed
Church, went over to the Catholic Church.
heceutiy, IIOloSSor ". u. Duuu, VI Il Erdnklln
and Marshall College, and also the wife of
Rev. j. Fl. Wagner, have followed him into
the Romish communion. These defections
are attributed by the Reformed Church news
papers to the influence OF the Mercersburg
theology, as inculcatedsby DR.. Nevin in the
Mercers6urg Quarterly.
CATHOLIC.
I'm the Diocese of Mobile, on Sunday, the
7th of May, the Rt. Rev. Bishop Quinlan
administered confirmation at st. Peters
Church, Montgomery, to thirty-six persons,
and on the following day to one. OF the
confirmed, thirteen were adults, of whom
eight were converts. On the Sunday follow
ing the same prelate confirmed nine persons
in Selma, of whom two were converts
The Most Rev. Archbishop Perche re-
turned to New Orleans, from Rome, after an
absence of nearly seven months. During his
stay in Rome the pallium was placed upon his
shoulders by the Pope, and he returns to his
labors fully invested with all the symbols and
decorations of his exalted Office. The socie-
ties turned out and the reception was grand
one.
cese of Pittsburg, Pa, and lately in New
York, having made his preparatory studies at
the American College in Rome, was Or
dsined there on March % (Feast of the An
nunciahon), by Mgr. Apgelini. The reverend
gentleman has distinguished himself by his
studies. Freen0n'S Journal
Confirmation was administered by
the Most Rev. Archbishop of New
York, on Tuesday, May %, in
ST. Mary's Church, Grand street. to 80 per-
sons. On Wednesday, May "a, in st. Ga
bIie's Church, to 43O persons. On Thurs
dsy morning, May 20, in the Chapel of the