The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-02-25
SUMMARY OF OHUROH NE WS.
EPISCOPAL,

The celebrated appeal case of Shepherd
vs.. Bennett, in which the 'legality of the
doctrine of the real presence" in the Church
OF England is involved, has been again post
poned till the next sitting of the Judicial
Committee. The deferring of it is ascribed
to the severe indisposition of one of the lead
ing counsel. The Rev. Mr. Bennett, when
preaching in one of the Lambeth ritualistic
churches last week, referred to the case. He
said he wonld adopt no course which would
compel q man to utter blasphemy in high
judicial position, thus making him run the
risk of losing his soul but, on the contrary,
. he would remain silent, and leave the rest to
God, praying for his prosecutors. What he
had received from God, he would never give
up for man. The Rev. j. M. Rodwell con-
tinues to make the doctrine of the ''real pre-
sence" the theme of his discourses in st.
Etbelberga Church.
The controversy still proceeds in Ire
land as to the title of the Disestablished
Church. The Representative Bodys legal
committee, in report which they have pre-
pared, contend that the proper designation is
Church of Ireland, and not protestant
Episcopal Church of Ireland"
An organ of the High Church party states
that in several London churches, should the
royal marriage take place in Lent, there will
be special penitential Office at the same
hOur. The subject is evidently occasoninp
little uneasiness in High Church circles.
Some of the English bishops threaten to
withdraw their patronage from the Church
Missionary Society. The organ of the Low
Church party says the course which that
society has pursued in relation to the NADIA
gascar Bishopric affair has been regarded as
deliberate reputation of the principle of
Episcopacy, and determination with the sects.
The Rev. Elisha Whittlesey, late pastor
OF the Second Congregational Church at
Waterbury, Conn.,, has become candidate for
priests order in the Episcopal Church.
The Rev. r.. A. Holland, late associate
editor OF the Baltimore Christidn Ado0c0te
(Methodist), has become a candidate for
orders IN the Protestant Episcopal Church.
st. Marys Church, Memphis, has been
placed in the hands of Bishop Quintard as his
cathedral 1t is being enlarged by the addi-
tion of two aisles, and will be ready for occu-
patton in four or five weeks.
Calvary, Memphis, has large conerega-
ton, and needs new church edifce.
The Pastoral Aid Society connected with
the Church of the Holy Trinity, N. Y, Rev.
.. ID. Iyng, Jr., Pastor, in its fifth annual
report, states that its receipts ior the wear
amounted to $13, 1922, of which $l3, 2s9. II
nave been expended in the various works of
the society. Those ''works" are three
churches, three chapels, and one mission
station, together with Dorcas Society,
Young Ladies Sewing Society, an Industrial
Sewing School, and various committees 70
aid the poor and the suffering, and to Give
them Christian instruction.
CoNGREGATIoNALIsT
The Rev. G. II. Coffey, formerly pastor
OF the First Church of jackson, Michigan. ia
practising law in New York city; while the
Rev. Z. W. Borden, formerly pastor of the
church at Clio, is now in business in that
town.
The Congregational Benevolent Societies
having offices in New York city are looking
Tor suitable building for their own work, so
as to be together under one roof.
The revival ut Bristol, New Ham Dshire
lie considered something marvellous. A cor.
respondent says it began on the first of Janu-
AIRY, when fourteen young ladies were re-
ceived into the Congregational church. First
Christians began to pray and labor; then the
young became interested, then older people
till all classes were reached. The pastor
writes;-"EVery merchant, every doctor. the
lawyer, the hotel-keeper, every rumseller.
every drunkard but two, every business man
in the place but two, are rejoicing in Christ.
Whole families again and again were seen