The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-17

difference, however, which should be handled
with great wisdom as we'll as with great faith
fulness We unhesitatingly express our con-
viction that, giving all due weight to these
differences, there is no sufficient reason for
continued alienation; and that, when we all
come TO understand the true basis of Chris
tian fellowship, these differences will not
prove insurmountable."
An Educational Convention for the
Southern States has been called by the Ame-
rican Baptist Educational Commission, to
meet at Richmond Va, beginning July 4.
METHODIST.
The Rev. DIR. Kidder, of Garrett Bib
lcal Institute, at Evanston, Illinois, has been
elected Professor of Pastoral Theology in the
Drew Theological Seminary at Madison, New
Jersey, in place of the lamented DR.. John
McClintock, who died some time since.
The Rev. DIR. E. G.. Andrews, of the New
York East Conference, pastor of the Seventh
Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Brook
lyn, has been elected President of the Wis
consin State University, located at Madison.
The Rev w. j. Gladwin, Presiding Elder
of the Southwest Arkansas district, st. Louis
Conference, and the Rev. j. Fl. Gill, of the
Garrett Biblical Institute, are under appoint
ment as reinforcements for the Methodist
Episcopal mission work in India.
Dickinson College last week conferred the
honorary degree of LII. d. upon Postmaster
General j. A. j. Creswell, and the Rev. E. r.
Ames, D. D., bishop of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church. 1t also conferred the degree of
D. d. upon the Revs. b. f. Brooke and E. A.
johnson.
The Methodists are about to erect, right
under the nose of Brigham Young, in Salt
Lake City, Gentle Methodist church build
ing, to cost some 100000.
REFORMED.
"A year since the Rev. J. H. Wagner, of
Lancaster, Pa, a minister of the Reformed
Church, went over to the Roman Catholic
Church. Recently, Professor @. H. Budd, of
Franklin and Marshall College, and also the
wife of the Rev. j. II. Wagner, have followed
him into the Romish communion. Professor
Budd was not q member of the German Re-
formed Church.
The Rev. DIR. E. E. Higbee has officially
informed the Board of Visitors of the Mer-
cersburg Theological Seminary of his pur-
pose to resign his professorship in the semi
nary. The term of service in the theological
tutorship for which the Rev. ]. B. Kershner
was appointed has expired. The board also
learned from him that he had no desire to be
continued in this relation to the seminary.
FRIENDS.
The National Yearly Meeting of Orthodox
Friends was held in New York last week. One
of the sessions was devoted to the interests
of First-day schools, the importan ce of which
was first recognized by this society only
about two years ago. In answer to q commu-
nication from the quarterly meeting at Farm
ington, commit ee was appointed to devise
plan for holding public meetings as one means
of regaining the zeal of the forefathers of two
hundred years ago. A proposition for holding
general conference, to which the ten Yearly
Meetings in America and the two in Europe
should send delegates, was referred to COM
mittee of thirty-nine. 1t is not proposed that
this conference have power over the Yearly
Meeting, but that it be simply an advisory
body. In October, 1870, the society had
twenty-four freedmen's schools in operation
in this country. At no time during the year
have they had less than twenty-one schools in
operation. About forty members of the
society are in contact with the Indians of the
Central Superintendency.
CONGREGATIONAL.
AS the fruits of the late revival at Suf-
field, Conn, the Congregational church re-
ceived ffty-fve new members lately-ffteen
by letter and forty by profession. Nineteen
were baptized, and others are to be received
at the communion early in July.
The Andover Conference allows each
church a representation of six delegates
besides its pastor, which delegates may be
either male or females and at its annual
meeting just held in Lowell, Mass, out OF
sixty nine delegates present twenty-five were
females, from ten different churches.
"A new building, to cost between fifty and
sixty thousand dollars, is to be erected fol
the theological seminary connected with
Oberlin College.
The Board of Delegates of American
Israelites recently held its annual meeting il
the Nineteenth Street Synagogue, New York
Thirty congregations were represented, eacl
by two delegates. The Malmonides College
in Philadelphia, was reported to be in Ian
gushing condition, having only three pupils
A Hebrew Publication Society was organized
which is to print during the first year Gratz'
''History of the Jews, portion of the Bible
in English, and a translation of Girgirl
'Gabirol"
The Jewish Rabbinical Conference me
in Cincinnati, June 6, with DIR. Hubsh, o
New York, as President, and DIR. Lilienthal
of Cincinnati as Vice-President. Twenty
three congregations were represented Th'
report of the Committee on the Establishment
of Rabbinical Seminary in favor of that mea
sure was adopted, and the committee wer,
instructed to report more detailed course
of study. A measure was adopted for the es
tablishment of union between the Israelitt
congregations in America. 1t provides tina
when twenty reform congregations, with 200
members, shall have joined the union, tn
first synod shall be called. A modernize
Prayer-Book is to be prepared, with allusion
to the return of the Jews to Palestine, and t
the ideas of sacrifices and personal Messia
omitted. A more complete Sabbath-schoo
organization is to be effected.
ROMAN CATHOLIC.
DIR. Dollinger has made up his mind t
submit to the sentence of excommunicatio