The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-01-21
SUMMARY OF CHURCH NE W,S.
EPISCOPAL,

The ritualists of England, says the Non
cOntO1mGSt, have organized new Liberation
Society, which is, if possible, more outspoken
than the old one. 1t then quotes the follow
ing words of the Rev. Orby Shipler, who may
be considered in the light of President:
free Church is the only antetype to free
State. "Our present position (that of sub
lection to the State), 1 do not hesi-
tate to stigmatize as utterly anomalous, scan
dalously unjust, and undeniably goddess"
''It is violation of all consistency, that an
emancipated nation should either hold in sub
lection, or be held in bjectIon to, Church
still politically enslaved."
According to the Churchman's s Year Book,
ene-third of the Episcopal clergy have
changed their places in the past year, The
ChuTcltmGR thinks this is an instructive fact
and construes it as evidence that at least one
third of the clergy are not receiving an ade-
quate supporter, to put it another way a
fair day s wages for fair days work.
The Church of the Ascension CDR. j. c.
Smith's) in New York has just successfully
completed its effort to raise $32, 900 for the
building of church for the institutions at
Gambler, Ohio.
Rev. Il. S. G. NJ. Potter, of Massachu-
setts, late a Unitarian minister, is about to
join the Episcopal Church.
Rev. G. e. Cheney, of Chicago, is again
threatened with church discipline for having
preached in a Presbyterian pulpit in Cali
fornia.
The Church Weekly (organ of the ad-
vanced ritualists) hints at the introduction of
monkery into the Episcopal Church in these
words:-"R Recognizing, more or less dis
tinctly the good in monasticism of the past,
what is to be said of the re-establishment of
the system in our own day, and in our own
Reformed Communion? Is the character of
our time so different from that of former
years that religious orders are an anachron-
ism?"
Rev Dr. Bledsoe, for many years the
editor of the Southern Quarterly Re0ieaO, has
left the Protestant Episcopal Church, and
joined the Methodist Episcopal.
PRESBYTERIAN.
The Presbyterian Church, which, after
the reunion of the Old School Presbyterians.
has membership of $50, ,OO0, with 1888 minis
ters, displays q remarkable energy The
Committee on the So, 600, 600 Memorial Fund,
after mature consideration, adopted the fol
lowing plan:-To make it easy for every
member to pay his or her proportion, the
$4,000, 900 were divided into 81 900, 900 free
will offerings of ten cents each, weekly, for
the fifty current weeks elapsing between June
$3.50, and May ii, 1871, inclusive. Each Offer
ing, when complete, would thus amount to
So, and the whole to 5000, 600. Any per-
son is, of course, at liberty to subscribe one
or more shares of this fund, and some have
given nobly-at least one individual having
subscribed $4,000 to the fund. Up to the
present date, about 3,OOO 600 have been
subscribed, but though the time is short ia
which to raise the remaining s., 600, 900, there
are sanguine hopes that it will be realized
within the time specified. One million dol,
lars of this sum have been devoted to deuo.
minational institutions of learning through
out the land, and $4,000, 600 have gone to-
ward strengthening weak churches and pro
Viding parsonages.
There is, also, in addition to this, grand
project on foot among the churches of NeS
York to raise fund of 81 200, 900 to estab
lish a mission-building there, similar to tn
Methodist Book Concern on Broadway, onl
that it would not be publishing house, tina
department of the Presbyterian Church en-
terprises being carried on quite extensivel
in Philadelphia. A portion of this fund is +
go also toward the erection and endowmen