The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-02-18

FIVE or six Of these brass lecterns in the whole
country.
The Lord Chancellor is said to be pre-
pairing q new scheme for the formation of the
Judicial Committee Of Privy Council which
for years has given so much trouble to the
High Church party. It was never intended
by its author, Lord Brougham, to become
the final court Of appeal in cases of heresy
or breach of ecclesiastical discipline; but
having tumbled, by q series of accidents, into
that position, the inevitable English difficulty,
that of reforming or removing what is once
established, is sorely felt.
METHODIST.
Five years ago the Methodist Church had
no church congregation or membership in
Sweden. Now there are twenty-one mission
ary workers, with q lay membership OF over
two thousand, and rapidly increasing. The
progress of the work there is of the most
gratifying character, and the future is full of
romise.
BY recent decision of the New York
Court of Appeals, Allegheny College, Pa.
(Methodist), is to receive from $15O,OO0 to
100000 from the estate of the late Judge
Chamberlain.
The New York Eastern Conference are
intending to locate a seminary for both sexes
at Stamford, Ot The brothers Hoyt have
given $50, 900. Other parties have made it up
to $4,000 Sixteen acres of land are given.
1t is intended to begin as soon as 5000, 900
are raised.
The financial exhibit of the Book Con-
cern, New York, as shown by the books at
the close of the fiscal year 1870, and pre-
sented by the agents at the late meeting of
the Book Committee, states that the total
assets, East and West, are estimated at
$2,701, ,525r56; that the net capital, over all
liabilities, is 81, 400, ,324'56; that the net
earnings for 1870 were $50, ,287'72; and that,
after paying the Bishops salaries and other
expenses ordered by the General Confer
ence, amounting to, $3.50, 741 '56, there is left
the sum of $35, 845 Sc to be added to the
increase of capital.
On the 9TH inst, the Rev. Charles Ray
mond, a graduate of Queens College, Lon
don, was baptized by the Rev. A. j, Hay, at
York, Pa. Mr.. Raymond was formerly
Presbyterian.
In Brooklyn, L. l., during the last FIVE
years, Baptists have advanced from the
fourth to the second rank among its evan
gelical churches.
In 1924 there were In the State of Massa-
chusetts 139 Baptist churches, with q men,
bershIp of 12 743; there are now 266 churches,
or about twice as many as at the former date,
four times as many. At the first date the
average membership was about 81 it is now
about 152.
According to the English Baptist Hand
Book for 1871, there are at present 256S Bap-
tist churches in Great Britain and Ireland,
with 233, 675 members, showing decrease of
membership of more than 1910. England
has 1910 churches; Wales, 511; Scotland, no;
Ireland, 81. In all there are 1890 Baptist
minister's and of these not less than 436 are
with a charge. There are 3O93 chapels and
307, 159 Sunday-school scholars. Germany
has ~ churches and 13, 500 members; Sweden,
POI churches and S12O members; Australasia,
1873 churches and 1921 members; Canada,
322 churches and 1902 members; the
United States, 1901 churches and l, ,121 1888
members. The total number of Baptist
churches throughout the world is Is, $40, and
of members 1890
The Wdtcltnldn and Reflector has the
following interesting remarks on the Baptist
denomination in Rhode Island:-"Two aud
a third centuries have elapsed since the foun-
dation of the first churches in the State.
The present number of regular or associate
Baptist churches is sixty, embracing nearly
three were constituted in the seventeenth
century, ten in the eighteenth, and forty
seven in the seventy years of the nineteenth
century which have already passed. Pro-
badly there are half as many of the smaller
bodies of Baptists taken together, namely,
Sabbatarians, Free-Will, and Six-Principle
Baptists, making an aggregate of between
ninety and one hundred churches and 15, 900
communicates. Allowing the proportion of
adherents to communicates as four to one,
we have total of $4,000 attendants at Bap-
tist places of worship, or more than one
fourth of the whole population of the State.
MoRAvIAN.
For several years the Moravians have
sustained a mission in Bohemia and Moravia,
the ancient seat of the Brethren. AS result
of these missionary labors, in October last, at
Pottenstein, in the eastern section of Bo-
hemia, in the very midst of that classic ground
where the Unit0S FTdtTum was founded, four
hundred and fourteen years ago, twenty-one
persons were received as members of the
Moravian Church. The congregation will as
soon as possible receive a Moravian pastor
who will be supported in part by contribu-
tions from the provinces of the Church in
Germany, Great Britain, and America.
A writer in the M0raDidn says:-'When
the time arrives when the laity of our Church
awake and take part in some of our public
exercises, we may consider it as the dawn of
brighter day, that lions favored time has
| come"
ROMAN CATHOLIC.
Contrary to reports previously received,
| the Prussian Government has declared that
Roman Catholic bishops have no right to re-
move and deprive of their salaries those
Roman Catholic professors of theology who
/ repudiate the doctrine of infallibility, The
bishops will, however, carry their poiut of
suppressing the lectures of these Q professors,
because no student who expects to be or
| dained will dare tn hear Iaoturaa in violation