The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-02-11
SUMMARY OF CHURCH NEWS.
BAPTIST.

The First African Baptist Church in
Richmond, Virginia, is supposed to have a
larger membership than any other on the
continent, if not in Christendom. 1t has
thirty deacons and numbers on its records
more than 1000, with over 5000 resident
members.
in the new Michigan Avenue Baptist
Oh urcb, Chicago, the price of the pews is put
at the uniform rate of 81 % per month for
each sitting throughout the house, the first
choice of pews being given to the person
Offering to pay the rent of the greatest num-
Der of seats Out of the surplus arising from
such extra rentals provision will be made for
the assistance of those who are not able to pay
a full rental.
In most of the Baptist churches in Boston
blessed work is in progress The Union
Temple, Harvard street, Clarendon street,
Charles street, Bowdoin Square, and Ruggles
Street churches are all sharers in the good
work. Broadway Church, in Cambridgeport,
is enjoying a season of refreshing A goodly
number of the members of the Sabbath-school
give evidence of change of heart
In Bellerica, Mass, Mr.. Talbot, Uni
tartan, gives the church, and part of the fur
nisbing of the same, amounting to $11, 500;
also the lot on which the church stands,
worth, as is estimated, $500; in all, $12, 900.
We learn, on good authority, that Mr.. Tai
bott, who has already contributed toward the
support of Baptist preaching $500 annually,
has made permanent provision by which the
income of $4,000 goes, every year, toward he
same end-making the aggregate of his do
nations to this society and church really
$4,000.
PRESBYTERIAN.
"A very interesting work of grace is re-
ported in the Presbyterian Church, Shelby
vile, Tenn, under the pastoral care of the
Rev. j. II. Bryson. 1t is stated that some
sixty persons have been hopefully converted,
and about fifty have united with the Presby-
terian Church.
The Christian Observer says; -''During
the past week tidings have been received of
the death of two highly esteemed and useful
ministers of the Synod of Kentucky-the
Rev. w. d. Symington and the Rev. John
G. Simrall."
The Rev. r. II. Kinnaird, of Raymond,
Mississippi, has accepted call to the church
at Midway, Kentucky.
The Presbyterian church at Little Rock,
Ark. (Rev. L. r. Welch's), is now entirely
out of debt. This house cost about $40, 600;
and on the first Sabbath in this year the last
instalment of the indebtedness upen il
($4OOO) was very cheerfully paid by the CON
gregation. On the same day fifteen persons
were added to the church-eight by examina-
tion and seven by certificate.
The Rev. j. w. Sproull, a son of the
Rev. DIR. Sproull, of the Theological Semi
nary of the Reformed Presbyterian Church
(Old Light, in Allegheny, Pa, has been una
nimously called to become the pastor of a new
congregation of that church, which has lately
been organized in that city, under the name
of the Central Church. 1t commences viii
one hundred and ten members.
EPISCOPAL.
Bishop Coke, of Western New York, ha
enjoined upon the clergy of his diocese Tia,
use of the gown instead of the surplice whe |
preaching.
st. James Church, Chicago, has erected
memorial monument to the soldiers of it
congregation who died in the late war. 1
stands in the church vestibule, and cos
$4,000.
The Rev. Orby Shipley, who may be re
garded as the President of the new Libera
ton Society recently organized by the Ritual
lists in England, says:-"A free Church is tn
only antitype to free State. our presen
position (that Of subjection tD the S.A,s) !
Othesitate to stigmatizs as utterly anomalous