The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-29

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prosperously. The total receipts are little
over $2O2, 500, and the expenditures are just
$4S6'94 in excess of the receipts.
Rev. r. M. Luther, formerly mission
airy in Burmah, will preach at the Tabernacle
Baptist Church, in this city, tomorrow.
PRESBYTERIAN.
The United Presbyterians have thirteen
organized congregations in New York aud
Brooklyn and the neighboring cities in New
Jersey.
"A ''railway chapel" was dedicated at Dem
nison, Ohio, on April 6, for the use of the
officers and hands of the Panhandle" Rail
road which has its workshops at that place.
This chapel is said to be the second building
of the kind in the country.
There are forty-one Presbyterian churches
on the line of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne,
and Chicago Railroad. Of all the ministers
who were supplying these churches two years
ago, only ten now remain.
AT the regular semi-annual meeting of
the Reformed Presbytery of Pittsburg the
congregation of Ebenezer, Mercer county,
Pa, were dismissed, on their own petition,
to connect themselves with the United Pres
byteran Presbytery of Butler. At the same
meeting the congregation of Hermon, at their
own request were dismissed to connect them
selves with the United Presbyterian Presby-
terry of Mercer.
The church of Sandusky, Crawford coun-
ty, having unanimously requested it, was
placed upon the roll of the churches of the
Presbytery of Central Ohio.
The Rev. Il. p w. Magruder, a former
member of the late Schuyler Presbytery, and
a signer of the Declaration and Testimony,
who renounced the jurisdiction of that Pres
| bytery because of the action of the Assembly
of 1867, that met in Cincinnati, has been re-
ceived as a member of the Presbytery of Cen
trail Ohio. He is now preaching for the church
at Bladensburg, Ohio.
During the session of the General AS
sembly of the Presbyterian Church in the
United States of America, to be held in
Chicago in May next, daily p aper will be
issued, called the Daily General assembly
journal, containing full report of the pro-
ceediBgs of the Assembly.
The Chinese Mission Church of San
Francisco, Cal, under the care of Rev. A.
W. Loomis, numbering fifteen members, has
contributed $75 to the Memorial Fund, fifty
of which is to be appropriated to the erection
of q training school for Cinnamon in San
Francisco, and the remaining twenty-five to
| the education of native medical and theo-
logical student in Canton.
METHODIST.
The Rev. T. B. Taylor, Methodist, has
been excluded by the Kansas Conference for
entertaining Swedenborgian and spiritual
| istic doctrines. The examination was pro-
tracted, and the final vote largely against
him.
In the Circuit Court of Norfolk county,
Va, recently, the church property of the
Methodist Protestant church at Good Hope
was transferred to the Methodist Episcopal
| Church South.
"A convention of ministers and laymen
from all the annual conferences in the South
ern States is to be held in Athens, Ga, on
June Is and the two following days, for the
discussion of educational and other practical
questions relating to the progress Of Christian
work in the South.
The Methodist says the three years rule
for ministers works we'll in New England.
Twenty-Five ministers who had served in their
respective charges two years were returned to
the same churches for the third year, aud
thirteen closed their third years pastorate.
Most of them testify that the third year was
the most successful of the three.
On his own responsibility, DIR. Carlton
has appointed three experts to examine the
accounts of the Book Concern during his con
nection With it.
"A cottage is being built at Long Branch
as gift to Bishop Simpson. President Grant
made the first subscription of 800.
During the past year the Methodist
Church Extension Society raised $3.50, 900
and erected 210 church edifces.
The Presbyterians of Philadelphia viii
hold joint meeting at clock P. NJ. to
morrow, in the Seventh Presbyterian Ohurcl
(Rev. Mr.. Oook's), Broad street aud Penn
Square. Interesting addresses are expected
from Rev. DIR. Ellinwood, Hon. William e
Dodge, and W. S. Gilman, Esq, of NeV
York, relative to the present condition ant
successful completion of the $4,000, 90
memorial fund Rev. Drs. Willis and Hum
phrey of this city will also make addresses
The object is not to collect funds, but to in
terest every Presbyterian in the completion
of this good work before the meeting of th
General Assembly in May
CONGREGATIONAL.
The Northwestern Association of low
, has withdrawn its fellowship from the Res
f. c. Miles, Of Springvale, because of hi
denial of the inspiration of the Bible aud tn
= divinity of Christ
Rev II. G.. Mench, for twenty years
. | M..fhodist minister has ioined the COngregl