The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-02-04
SUMMARY OF CHURCH NE WS.
EPISCOPAL.

all the bishops of the Protestant Episcopal
Church consecrated before himself, not one
is living; and of those consecrated with him,
thirty-nine years ago, only one survives.
The Rev. Theodore B. Lyman, d. D.,
has received an election to the rectorship of
Trinity church, San Francisco, California.
The Rev. r. H. Baynes, who accepted
the appointment of Bishop of Madagascar
from the Archbishop of Canterbury, has with
drawn from the appointment, in consequence
of letter he received from the Secretary of
the London Missionary Society. The letter
stated kindly but frankly, that the London
Society "cannot consent voluntarily to place
its missionaries under the new bishop, and
thus sanction a scheme which it regards as
Objectionable, and contrary to an implied
pledge"
Rev Elisha Whittlesey, Congregational
minister in Waterbury, Connecticut, is about
to take orders in the Episcopal Church.
Three Methodist ministers and two Pres
byterian laymen have recently taken orders
in the Episcopal Church in Nebraska.
Two students of Trinity College, Hart
ford Gpiscopal), have recently renounced
Professionalism, and embraced the Romish
faith.
The Methodist Church at Salt Lake City
has one hundred members, and six Methodist
ministers are already at work in that Ter
ritory.
Rev. DIR. Hurst, of the Martin Mission
Institute, Germany, has accepted the Profess
sorship of Historical Theology in the Drew
Theological Seminary, Madison, N. j.
The semi-centennial of Methodism in st.
Louis was recently celebrated in that city.
Four bishops were present. and 100000 were
raised for church extension.
"A portion of the Methodist Church at
Strange Chapel, Indianapolis being dissatis-
fed because the Conference did not send
them the minister they wished, have become
Congregational Methodists.
"A ministerial correspondent of Zi0n's
Herald is out in favor of abolishing the sys-
tenn of putting new members on a six months
probation. He claims that it is unscriptural,
Injurious to the candidates, and tends to
diminish the membership.
considerable religious interest is re-
ported among number of the churches in
New York. The conversions in seven or
eight of them are estimated at about 200.
The Endminer and Chronicle makes a
comparison of the number of bishops which
the Methodists, with lay membership of
1867, 1874, and the Episcopalians, with a lay
membership of 100000, respectively demand
The former denomination has eight, or one
to 10, 600 communicates; the latter ffty-two,
or one to 1000 communicates. "Why is this
thus?"
DIR. T. P. Abel, for many years known
extensively as a Universalist minister, was
received into the Methodist Church in Salem,
Massachusetts, on Sunday, January l.
The Methodist Book Concern has capt.
tai of 81, ,458, ,575.
In six years there has been an increase
in the number of infant baptisms from 80, 89l
to 50,453.
CoNGREGATIoNAL.
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statistics of the Congregational denomination
throughout the British Empire The total
number of churches is 3665, besides about
5000 stations for preaching and evangelic
labors The number of ministers is 2980, of
whom 2439 have pastoral charges. The num-
ber of vacant churches in England is only
l57, and 1OS in Wales, while in England
alone there are 424 ministers without pastoral
charge, The churches are distributed as fol
Iows:-England, 2O45; Wales, 978; Scotland
1O2; Ireland, 28; Islands of the British Seas
16; British North America, 10S; Australia ant
New Zealand, 176; South Africa and Deme
rara II; mission churches, about 300 There
are 76 county associations and missions.
The Rev. Washington GLADDEN., of Nortl
Adams, Mass, announced to his congrega
tion on recent Sunday that he should leav
them, having accepted the editorial charge o
the religious department of the New Yorl
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about the 1st of April. He has preached il
North Adams five years. Mr.. GLADDEN. is
practical printer and has had some experienc
in newspapers.
Rev. r. S. Storrs, D. D., of Brooklyn
N. Y, is compelled by i'll health to retir
from active labor, and seek restoration
foreign travel.
PREsBYTERIAN.
The Rev. j. B. Mack, of Charlesto
PIesbytery, has received unanimous ca
from Rocky River church, Concord Presb.