The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-06


Missionary Union, on q plan similar to that
Of the society which co-operates with the
American Board, and of ourW Foreign
Missionary Society. 1t is designed to make
the society general, and to organize branches
in all the Baptist churches.
The ''Baptist Handbook" of London,
reports for the United Kingdom total of
20O4 ministers, 256S churches, 3O93 chapels,
and 233, 675 members of the denomination.
A loss is shown in the aggregate membership
of $3.50, and decrease in the number of
ministers of 500. After Great Britain, Euro
pean Baptists are numerically strongest in
Germany, where they have ~ churches and
13, 500 members, and in Sweden, where there
are 2O7 churches and S120 members.
The Baptists have seven schools fer
freedmen in the South, as follows:-The
Wayland Seminary, at Washington; Colver
Institute, Richmond, Va; Shaw Collegiate
Institute, Raleigh, N. c.; Benedict Institute,
Columbia, S. c.; Augusta Institute, Augusta,
Ga; Leland University, New Orleans, La;
Nashville Institute, Nashville, Tenn. These
schools, says the american Baptist, "havs
grounds and buildings valued at over one
hundred thousand dollars, and are every cent
paid for With the exception of about ten
thousand dollars WORTH this property was all
secured and made sure to the Baptists during
the year 1870"
The old Broome Street Baptist Church,
New York, is erecting a church, to cost
800, 900, at Park avenue and Thirty-ninth
street. The spire will be one hundred and
ninety-five feet high, and will be surmounted
by cross six feet long.
The Rev. DIR. D. G. Eddy has resigned
the pastor ate of the Warren Avenue Church,
Boston, and accepts the call of the First
Church, Fall River, Mass.
CONGREGATIONAL.
of Rastop and vi;
cinity have raised $15O,OOO for the purchase
of an estate on Beacon street, to be converted
to the uses of that denomination, and called
the Congregational House-$50, 600 addi-
tional to be raised for building purposes.
The Bangor Wig says that President
Samuel Harris, of Bowdoin College, has ac-
cepted the Dwight Professorship of Didactic
Theology in the Yale Divinity School, and
that Ex-Governor Chamberlain has been ten
dered the Presidency of Bowdoin.
The Rev. Henry Martyr Scudder, DID,,
was formally installed as pastor of the Central
Congregational Church in Ormond Place,
Brooklyn, on Thursday evening, April 27.
| The charge to the pastor was delivered by the
Rev. H. NJ. Storrs, d. D., and the sermon was
preached by the Rev. Merrill Richardson.
The American Missionary for May re-
ports an addition in March of thirty members
to its mission church at Marion, Alabama-all
but one on profession of faith. This church
was formed with sixteen members, nearly all
colored, January I, 1870. The additions are
said to be of very promising class, most of
whom have been or are members of the mis-
sion school, and some of them young men
| who have the ministry in view.
The Rev. DR.. Clark, for four years pastor
of the Second Congregational Church at
Greenwich, Conn, has resigned on account of
| i'll health.
Rev. VIM. NJ. Taylor, of Liverpool, Eng
land, has been engaged to supply the pulpit
of Rev. DIR. r. S. Storrs, Jr., in the Church
of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Rev. Henry M. Scudder, D. D., formerly
of San Francisco, Cal, was installed as pastor
of the Central Congregational Church, in
Brooklyn, N. Y, on the 9th of April.
| Rev. Humphrey Moore, d. D., died in
Milford, N. H., April 8, at the age of ninety
two. He graduated at Harvard in 1897, and
was ordained in Milford in 1902.
PRESBYTERIAN.
The Cumberland Presbyterian, of Alton,
ILL.,, accounts from the records of its own
columns 207S additions to the Church by pro-
fession of faith during the first three months
of this year.
The New York ObSer0er says:-"One of
the enterprises proposed for the Memorial
year of the Presbyterian Church was the erec-
ton of Presbyterian house in this city for
Church located here, and designed to be a
centre of Presbyterian operations Arrange
ments are now nearly completed for the pur-
chase of the lots and buildings, situated on
the northeast corner of University Place and
Ninth street, which is regarded as very
desirable location"
On Sabbath, April 8, a Presbyterian
church was organized by the Rev. Joseph
Brown in the neighborhood of his residence
at Clear Water Harbor, Florida. 1t consists
of fifteen members
-Sixty-nine persons have been received
into the communion of the Presbyterian
church in Norfolk, Virginia-sixty on profess
sion of their faith in Christ, and nine on GER
tificate from other churches.
The Lord has greatly blessed the Third
Presbyterian Church, Memphis, Tenn, within
the last two years, its numbers having been
more than doubled within that time. At its
last communion service the names of nine
members, received into the church since the
last communion, were announced.
AT the late meeting of the Presbytery of
Chesapeake, Judge w. w. Legare was intro
duced by the Rev. j. j. Bullock, D. D., as a
candidate for the ministry, and, after exami-
nation as to his personal piety and motives
In seeking the ministry, was received under
the care of Presbytery.
The Treasurer of the Committee of
Foreign Missions of the Southern Church has
just closed his accounts for the year ending
April l, 1871, and finds that the contribu-
tions amount in the aggregate to few hun
dred dollars more than they did the previous
year.
REFORMED.
The Reformed Church Messenger Ger
mani reports many reVivals of great power in