The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-01-28

the plan Of having four ohoirs which conduct
the singing alternately, and occupy pewa in
the middle Of the house.
baptist.
In 1880 there were So Baptist churches
in New Jersey, the membership at that time
being 1867. The average of ministerial sala-
ries was $212. Value of church property
about $3.50, 900. At present the denomina-
ton owns two and a half millions of church
property, pays an average of $102S in sala-
ries, has 126 additional churches, and six
times the membership of 1880.
Mr. A. w. Dimock, Wall street broker,
has lately built and presented to the Baptists
of Elizabeth, N. j., large and handsome
church edifice. Mr. Dimock is the son of
Bsptist clergyman of Nova Scotia.
The Rev. W. II. Eaton, d. D., who for
year past has been trying to raise $200,000
endowment for Newton Theological Semi
nary, says that the total amount raised and
pledged up to January l had reached
$4,000. We learn that the remaining
$50, 600 has since been secured.
AT Harpers Ferry the Free Baptist
Church lately held funeral service for the
twenty-one members of its congregation who
were drowned in the great flood on September
30. Only two bodies of the twenty-one were
recovered.
"A Baptist lady at the North gives $13, 800
for the establishment of school for colored
preachers and teachers at Columbia, South
Carolina.
The Rev. E. G. Taylor, DID,, pastor of
the Coliseum Baptist Church, New Orleans,
reports favorable prospects. He is the only
Baptist pastor in that city except those who
have charge of colored churches.
METHODIST.
Some of the fruits of the Methodist work
in the Conference of South Carolina are 50
preachers and a membership of 20, 600, and
an educational institution of much value, and
church property worth 100000, since the
war.
The splendid, substantial, and beautiful
st. Paul's Methodist Church, Cincinnati,
Ohio, stands alone among the costly houses
built for Christ there. Its cost is somewhere
near $780, GOO. Two churches have been alb
sorbed to form this one, and one poor little
mission church on Plum street has recontly
been disbanded; so there are two less charges
than there were year ago. They are moving
to organize other interests.
The usual estimate of non-communcant
adherents in the Methodist Church in this
country children and other members of
Methodist families, etc. to each communi-
cant is three-so that the Methodist popula-
tion (such as the Roman Catholic Church in
cludes in its statistics) should be 5,468, 536.
This is at least third more than the best
authenticated estimates of the Romish popu-
lation of the country, as given by their own
statisticians.
The Methodist Church Extension Society
was organized in 1864. In 1869 it raised by
collection about $50, 600, and for the Loan
Fund about $114, 900 on subscri otion; aided
79 churches in about 26 States and Terrific
ries; and in 1870 over 800, 600, aiding 40
churches in 36 different States and Terrific
ries, extending from Maine to California
from the lakes to the gulf.
The Michigan Methodists are moving to
endow Albion College in that State, and for
broader foundations. David Preston, of De-
troit, offered to collect $50, 900 if $50, 900
could be raised otherwise. Edgar Conkling
offered $40, 900, and also offered %, 900 acres
of land, located at Mackinaw, ''for national
university" That place he reckons ''the true
Northwest"
David Snow, a leading Methodist, of
Boston, Mass, has offered fifty dollars for
the best essay on Free Seats and Congrega-
tional Singing.
The Methodist Mission to the Chinese
in San Fran ncisco has erected mission build
ing. The Chinese themselves have contri-
buted $40 towards it-one man, DR.. Lii Po
Tui, subscribing $50, and the scholars of the
school $112'50 in small sums.
DIR. Il. p. Abell, for many years known
extensively as Universalst minister, was re-
ceived into the Methodist Church in Salem,
Mass, on Sunday, January l.
The Bishops of the Methodist Church
have chosen the Rev. II. H. Farrall, Of De-
corah, Iowa, to establish mission at Rome,
Italy.
Rev. E. Davies writes to ZiOnS Herald
the following reasons why he hopes to see
the rule abolished which requires ''six months
of -,
Church-'I would have the rule abolished,
l. Because it is unscriptural. Just think for
moment of the Apostles putting three thou
sand souls on six months probation for
church membership. 2. 1t is often injurious
to the candidates. Instead of being led
right forward in the ordinances of
the Church, they are left to delay
from month to month till multitudes of them
lose their first love and go back into sin, that
they might have been saved from if the prac-
tice of the Apostles had been followed out
3. Because it seems to imply that Methodist
converts are not 30 good as those of other
churches; hence they must be kept on trial
1872 days. 4. Because, while we are waiting
six months to try our probationers, other
churches step right up and take them into
their church, even, sometimes, after they
have been baptized among us.
EPISCOPAL.
The noted choir of Trinity Church, New
York, has been strengthened by an orchestra
of thirty brass, wind, and stringed instru-
ments.
Rev. w. j. Ellis, rector of Christ Church.
Memphis, Tennessee, has felt compelled to
resign the charge of the church on account of
q difference between himself and the vestry
on the subject of free pews, MIR. Ellis be-
lieving that the system of renting pews tends
to exclude many who would otherwise attend