The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-04
SUMMARY OF CHURCH NEWS,
EPISCOPAL.

"A ritualistic church has been opened at
Louisville, Ky. Bishop Cummins declined
to countenance by his presence the proposed
innovations and symbolizing practices of the
rector. Bishop Smith, who feels himself set
for the conservation of the peace and har-
mony of the Church, came to the city on
Tuesday, expecting to be present, if the SER
vices should be in accordance with the en-
eral usage of the Church. But finding the
rector was bent on innovations he could not
approve of, he returned home the next day.
The Protestant Episcopal Sunday schools
of the United States, according to the Church
Journal, contain q membership of POP, 729
children.
Property to the value of $4,000 has
been purchased at Plymouth, N. H., by the
Episcopal Bishop of Quebec for the purpose
of establishing an Episcopal seminary for
young ladies.
The Southern Oaurcltman mentions the
fact that during the last five years the average
given by that large and wealthy denomina-
tion for the cause of foreign missions has
been only $4,000 year, and that the
treasury is now overdrawn to the amount of
$2S, 900.
BY almost unanimous vote the congre-
cation of st. Pauls, Cleveland, Ohio, have
expressed their desire to dispense with the
Board of Trustees, which has since 1852 ex-
listed in addition to the vestry, and which has
vestry, contrary to the canon law and usage
of the Episcopal Church. This was, of
CO urse, simply a vote against the Office, not
against the persons who now hold the office,
who are among the most honored members of
the parish.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has ad-
dressed long letter to the Bishop of London
on the subject of church legislation. The
Archbishop states that previous attempts at
ecclesiastical reform in the Church of Eng
land have been thwarted in their passage
through the legislature, principally, as he be-
ieves, from sufficient publicity not having
been given to them; and to prevent repeti-
tion OF this in the coming session, he urges
that the two Convocations of Canterbury aud
York should appoint joint committees to dis
cuss and communicate with the Government,
and that both clergy and laity may lose as lit
tie time as possible in making their opinions
known on q variety of needed reforms which
he specifies, one of which is giving to the
communicant laity in each parish certain
influence in regulating the mode of Church
services.
An Anglican Church paper gives the
following description of the Broad Church
party in the Established Church of England:
-"Deans Stanley and Afford, Professors
Maurice, Kingsley, and Plumptre, Bishop
Temple, and, perhaps, if we must not class
him with the ultras, Professor Jowett, are the
leading persons of this party. Their pro-
gramme leads to the same point as that of the
more advanced school, but their professed
platform is that of treating the Bible like any
other book, accepting the latest results of
German criticism (sure to be superseded by
something fresh every year., and laughing to
scorn, with much impartiality, the fervid
piety of the Evangelicals, the vagaries of the
Ritnaists, and the sober Churchmanship of
the vast mass of the Anglican party. This
last is generally designated by them as the
religion of the country parsons, though, as a
matter of fact, these country parsons are, to
a very large extent the most highly educated
persons in the country-retired university
tutors, masters of schools, and men of
family"
BAPTIST.
Several Baptist young men of Chicago,
Illinois, belonging to a new interest, gave
one-fourth of their incomes towards repairing
the church edifce. Those who had salaries
OF thousand dollars contributed two hun
dred and afty; others on five thousand dol
lars salary pave twelve hundred and fifty.
Aaron Wilson was ordained to the work
OF the Gospel ministry on the 14th of Feb
Iuary by council called by the Sandusky
Street Baptist Chuleh, Allegheny City, Pa.
Mr.. Wilson graduated fiom the Western Theo-
logical Seminary (Presbyterian) Allegheny,
Pa, about a year ago, since which time he
has been pastor of the United Brethren
Church at Mount Pleasant whore he was or.
dained soon after his graduation. Alta re-
cent meeting of the conference of which he
was a member, he obtained letters of dis
Jnissal end united With the sandrsky Street
Church.