The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-01-14

trimmings (the hrHt instance OF lts use on dle
Pacific coast, and, with galleries, VIII have
seating capacity for 1000 persons.
The annual collection in Rev. DR.. Storrs
church, at Brooklyn, just taken for the Ame-
rican Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions, amounts to $4,000, against $4,000
last year. ~
Eighteen persons joined the Fourth
Church in Hartford, Conn, Sabbath week,
and twenty -one persons were admitted to
membership in the Windsor Avenue Church.
Prom the Congregationdliss we learn that
fifty-two ministers of that denomination have
died during the past year in the United
States, and that eighty-nine churches have
been formed.
The Congregational churches of Oregon
have 465 members and 779 Sundsy-school
scholars.
The Ladies' Social Circle connected with
the Congregational Church of East Wey-
mouth, Mass, publish newspaper called
TIE Parsonage Enterprise, to raise funds for
the building of parsonage.
The Westinghouse of the First Congre-
gational Church in Lynn, Mass, was de-
stroyed by fire on Sabbath afternoon, Decem-
ber %. Loss from $50, 600 to $40, OO0.
The Central Congregational Church in
Brooklyn date Mr. French's) has called Rev.
DR. Scudder of San Francisco, and offer him
salary of $4,000 and parsonage.
PRESBYTERIAN.
The Occident says:-''There are now six
self-supportipg Presbyterian churches in this
city, the whole combined possessing about
one-twentieth of the property of single first
class church in New York or Philadelphia.
There are also six missionary churches, with
four houses of worship, and all laboring with
unfinching heroism towards self-support.
San Francisco is at present the key of the
Occident. Influence, population, and wealth
IN 0,,ff foo ofarf
where else on this coast. If we can conquer
San Francisco, we shall control the Pacific
West"
Rev. Joseph Owen, D. D., of the Pres
byterian mission at Allahabad, Northern
India, died on the 4th of December last, at
Edinburgh, Scotland. DR.. Ovens mission
ary labors cover period of thirty years, he
having landed in India in 1910. The Presbg-
te7Sdn says:-"He was beyond all question
the most learned of our missionaries in India.
While yet in the Theological Seminary he en-
listed the special interest of Dr. Addison
Alexander by his uncommon pathological
attainments; and in the course of his labors
among people of various tongues, those at
tainments we're greatly increased. Latterly
he read seventeen or eighteen languages,
several of which he also spoke. His transla-
tion of the Old Testament into Hindi, and his
commentaries, for the native Christians in
Urdi, or Hindustani, are used for purposes of
instruction by other missionaries as well as
those of the Presbyterian Church"
The Rev. Il. s. Kendall, d. D., who pre-
sided as Moderator over the General Assembly
of, the United Presbyterian Church which
met in Pittsburg, Pa, last May, died at the
residence of his son-in-law, in Oregon, on
| the 9th inst.
"A new congregation was lately organized
in Allegheny City, Pa, with 10 members,
and is to be called the Central Church. The
! new congregation has given a unanimous call
to the Rev. j. w. SprouN to become their
pastor.
BAPTIST.
Among the recent additions to Pursley
Baptist church, Greene connty, Va, is the
Rev. j. l.. Turner, who for forty years had
been Congregational preacher.
The Enamtaer and Chronicle says-
Among the humors of the season we may
mention the advertisement of Christmas SER
vices in certain Protestant Episcopal
church, in which the names of the signers
were printed in full, and the assurance given
to the public that the music in the morning
would be strictly ecclesiastical, while that
in the evening would be of a lighter cha
racter."
The recent fair at Horticultural Hall, in
this city, for the benefit of the Baptist Home,
proved a success. Nearly $1,000 was realized
Tor the Baptist Home for the Aged and In
firm which went into operation this week.
LUTHERAN.
The Norwegian Lutherans in this coun-
try now number 250 congregations. During
1870 fourteen pastors were ordained and six
new churches erected.
Twenty young Swedes have been Sim
ported" by Professor Haeselquist, of the Lu-
theran Theological Seminary at Paxton,
Illinois.
Mr.. Edward H. Green and sisters, of
Easton, Pennsylvania, have presented the lot
on the northeast corner OF Fourth and Spring
Garden streets, Easton, to the Dutch Re-
formed Congregation, as a site for a new
church. The congregation have accepted it,
and committee has already been appointed
by the congregation to superintend the erec-
ton of the church.
From the Reformed Church Messenqe,
we learn that of the Reformed preachers in
this country ''there are over three hundred
who can preach in German. There are also
over four hundred who can preach in the
English language. large proportion of
these can oficiate in both German and Eng
lish, as occas on may require. The smaller
number can use only one languages; that is,
some can only use the German and some
can only use the English in their public minis
trations. There are probably very few de-
nominations whose ministry in general ave.
RACES a more thorough scholarship in theologi-
cal science than that of the Reformed Church
in the United States
ROMAN CATHOLIC.
The Gazette Of Augsburg reports that
the Prussian Minister of Public Worship de-
cidedly discourages the opposition of num-
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