The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-10
SUMMARY OF CHURCH NE WIS.
EPISCOPAL.

III -Iuo Nov NltudIu D6u WQlU0 Howe, OF
charleston, South Carolina, has been elected
assistant Bishop of the Diocese of South
Carolina. Mr.. Howe was the youngest son of
Tue Rev. MIR. Howe, late rector of Claremont,
kew Hampshire, and has always suatained an
honorable position in his diocese. The vene-
Fable Bishop Davis, of South Carolina, will
aus be relieved of large portion of his
5hbors.
The Rev. Edward Anthon having been
4pmpelled, on account of his health, to resign
kohe rectorship of the Church of the Interces
Ion, New York, the Executive Committee at
|fbe last meeting elected him the Local Secre-
Dry of the American Church Missionary So
&ety.
The Episcopalians of Memphis, Tenn,
hve recently purchased an Episcopal resi-
3ence at a cost of about $16, 600. 1t was the
property of Bishop Otey, and is commo-
ous and suitable building. Bishop Quin-
rd has lately taken pastoral charge of st.
[ary's Church.
Rev. William B. W. Howe, rector of st.
hilips Church, Charleston, S. c., has been
ected assistant bishop of that diocese.
A hundred clergymen and number of
yznen have united In an address of sympa-
by to Rev. Mr.. Cheney, of Chicago.
The Episcopal Convention of the Diocese
"a Massachusetts recently held its session in
1pringfeld. The report shows one hundred
Qarishes. eight hundred and eighty confirma-
ions during the year, four churches conse-
fated, five deacons and two priests ordained,
md twelve candidates for orders.
III METHODIST.
! The Nom Episcopal Methodist Conference,
10 session at Pittsburg, Pa, refused, by de-
6ided vote, to authorize the ordination of
Women to the ministry.
The Syracuse University has begun busi-
ness. Five colleges are established-the Col
&ege of the University, of Law, of Medicine,
|bf Industry; of the Fine Arts. DIR. Daniel
Steele is elected Vice. President, and Pro-
fessor of Mental and Moral Science. Pro-
fessors French and Ooddington, of Genesee
college, and Brown, of Cornell, are elected.
Professor O. w. Bennett is also elected to the
chair of History. Genesee transfers all its
Students to Syracuse. A building is under
Contract, of stone, so by 168 feet, four stories
high. 1t was Mr.. Remington, of firearms
ycelebrity, who has given the st. Charles
Motel property to the Church, at cost of
Yes, 900, half of it to the university and half
|to the College of Missionaries, which should
Ibe called the College of Divinity. He had
previously given $50, 600 to the university.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
|of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the
iUpited States now consists of eight branches,
with headquarters at as many cities, from
toootOh w Ols AIOuib, HuiuDcEluR OUO duAlild-
ries, with 1900 members. Its fields of ope-
ration are India and China
\ Rev. DIR. ID. p. Kidder has been elected
Professor of Practical Theology in Drew
Seminary, N. j.
i The new Methodist University at Syra-
/ Fuse, N. Y, has secured about half a million
dollars. Its advantages are open to men and
women, white and black. Six of its trustees
and two of it's professors are to be nom
Methodistss
The Protestant Methodist Church at Nv
|ricksville, Mass, has come over to the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church.
The funds accrued for the Syracuse Uni
versity since the subscriptions we're opened,
February %, 1870, already exceed $50O,OOO.
The gross income of the Methodist
Missionary Society the past year was
5000, 727'21.
CONGREGATIONAL.
-Thirty-three students are commissioned
Nor missionary labor in Maine during the
Summer Ten are from Bangor Seminary,
1.-TWO from Andover, five from Hartford,
|six from Yale, two from Union, and seven
lfrom New Brunswick, N. j. One has not
Syet entered a theological seminary. Their
&ommissions range from nine to sixteen
weeks.
j The Rev. Rufus Ellis, pastor of the First
lUnitarian Church of Boston, Mass, is to
loccupy the chapel pulpit at Yale College on
Ythe second Sabbath in June, by invitation of
president Woolsey, who desires in this way
4 10 recognize Mr.. Ellis devotion, at critical
time. TO essential Christian truths.
"A poor colored woman of New Haven,
Conn. who has saved in many years from
$4,000 to $4,000 from her hard earnings, be-
loueaths this money for the support of any
moor colored student who may enter Yale
Divinity School to prepare for a preacher.
She directs that if at any time there should
be no colored student, the money shall go to
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