The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-02-04

terry, to become their pastor. Mr.. Mack has
signiied his acceptance of the call, and en-
tered upon his lsbors in this important field
on the 1st inst
The Rev. William Wisner, d. D., for
merly of Ithaca, New York, an eminent and
successful divine, died at West Point, New
York, January 9Th, at the advanced age of
eighty-nine years.
Rev. Byron Sunderland, ID. D., for six
teen years successful pastor in Washington,
ID. c., has accepted q call from the Forty
second Street Presbyterian Church, New
York.
LUTHERAN.
Bishop Sundberg has been appointed the
new Archbishop of Upsala. The appointment
is an excellent one. The death of Archbishop
Reuterdahl, and this election to fill the va
cancy, have created some interest among the
public as to this office. The first Swedish
Lutheran Archbishop was Laurentius Petri,
born 1893, studied at Wittenburg under
Luther and Melancthon, was Professor of
Theology at Upsala, and in 1881 was made
Archbishop at the age of thirty-two. He was
the youngest man who had ever occupied
that position. He died at the advanced age
of seventy-four. He has had twenty-nine
successors, SO that the present incumbent is
the thirtieth Swedish Lutheran Archbishop.
The Bishop of Cape Town, in South
hlIlCd, HAS ebSdyeu duObuSI bOOp III bhO AOdu
of an intercommunion between the Anglican
and the scandinavian Lutheran Churches, by
proposing to the Finnish Missionary Society
to Join the province of the Anglican Church
in South Africa.
BAPTIST
The Freewill Baptist Church, in Tusca-
rora, Bradford county, Pa, was recognized as
a regular Baptist on January IL, after a salts
factory examination Of their doctrines and
standing by council.
EASTERN CHURCH.
The latest reports from Turkey state that
there is great excitement in Bulgaria on ac-
count of the Convocation of an Gcumenical
Council of the Greek Church. The Bulga-
rians fear that the Patriarch of Constantine
pie, in union with the Government of Russia,
will use the Council to repeal the concessions
granted to the Bulgarian Church by the Turk
| ish Government.
ROMAN CATHOLIC.
According to the statistics of the Roman
Catholic communion in Great Britain, there
are IS Roman Catholic bishops in England
and Wales and 4 in Scotland. The priests
serving missions and acting as chaplains to
religious communities are 1861 in England
! and POI in Scotland
! The number of Catholic members of the
House Of Commons is 81, only one of whom,
Lord Robert Montagu, who last year joined
| the Church Of Rome, sits for an English con-
stituency
| The Devotion of the Forty Hours in honor
of the blessed sacrament commences to-mor-
row morning in st. Johns Catholic Church,
Thirteenth street, above Chestnut, the ceremo-
MES of which will be unusually impressive.
At 10a o'clock the Grand Mass of Haydn ia G
will be sung with both organ and orchestral
accompaniment, under the direction of Mr..
Harkins, the organ being presided at by
| w. A. Newland. At the conclusion of the
mass the Grand Coronation March of Meyer
beer will be performed.
| MINISTERIAL RECORD.
The Rev. Carson w. Adams, of Mahopac
Falls, has received unanimous call from the
Presbyterian Church at Waterville. N. Y.
The REV. William Cunningham, of
Princeville, Illinois, has accepted unani-
nous call from the churches of Fairfield and
Union, in the Presbytery of Blairsville
The Rev. r. f. Sample, of Minneapolis,
Minnesota, has received unanimous call to
the Central Church, Allegheny, Pa, of which
the Rev. G. P. Hays was formerly pastor.
The Rev. A. A. Graley has received and
accepted call from the church at Knowles
vile, New York
The Presbyterian Church at Connersville,
Indiana, has given call to the Rev. G. o.
Little.
The Rev. A. T. Rankin, of the Presbyte-
rian Church at Kingston, Ind, has rendered
his resignation.
The Presbytery of Brooklyn has granted
the request of the Rev. DIR. Spear to be
relieved from the pastorate of the South Pres
byterian Church, N. Y.
The Rev. ]. Gibson Lowrie, of Fort
Wayne, Ind, has taken charge of the church
at Golden City, Colorado.