The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-01-14
SUMMARY OF CHURCH NEWS.
EPISCOPAL,

The st. John Protestant Episcopal
Church, Camden, N. j., was totally destroyed
by fire on Sunday, December 25. Loss,
$4,000.
Mr. Benjamin Judkins, Jr., late a Con-
gregational minister, was admitted to the
Episcopal Diaconate in Jordan, Central New
York, December Z.
people proposes to expend $50, 600 in giving
the Gospel to this part of our population
during the coming year.
The Rev. w. j. Ellis, rector of Christ
Church, Nashville, Tennessee, has rendered
his resignation, which has been accepted,
because the vestry of his church refused to
adopt the free-pew system.
METHODIST.
Bishop Marvin found two members of
the Northwestern Texas Conference who had
attended the circus. They were called to
account before the conference.
There are in the Methodist Episcopal
Church 101 institutions of learning. There
are engaged in these 719 professors and
teachers. There are 27 universities and col
leges and theological seminaries, one of
which is in Germany. The amount invested
in buildings for the above institutions is
$2,985, 1877. Their endowment available and
unavailable, is $2, 1888, 123. The income for
salaries, repairs, apparatus, ETC., is set down
at $243, ,834. There are in these schools 246
instructors. Were the whole amount of this
income averaged among the instructors, the
salary of each would be only $991'1S.
The first Methodist State Convention in
Michigan assembled at Albion, Dec. ~.
During the session of the Convention,
committee was appointed to devise plan for
raising 300, 900 for Albion College, and Mr.
E. Conkling, of Mackinaw, offered 25.OOO
acres of land towards Methodist University
in Northern Michigan.
The Methodist churches of Lynn, Mass,
five in number, held an interesting union
service in COMMUNICATION of the 8Oth an
niversary of the settlement of Rev. Jesse
Lee in that city, the pioneer Methodist
preacher of New England.
The Methodist Book Concern has a capi-
tai of 81, ,45S, 757. 1t was founded in 1889, on
a capital of 5000, loaned by Methodist
preacher.
The Methodists of Cincinnati have, by a
union of efforts of all the congregations, pur-
chased the Jewish Tabernacle, aud made it a
present to the colored congregation of Allen
Chapel.
letter to our missionary secretaries from Rev.
DIR. Maclay, Superintendent of the Methodist
Episcopal Mission at Foochow, China, an
neunces the departure of Rev. Hu Sing Mi,
one of the native Chinese preachers, for San
Frsncisco. He speaks English moderately
well, qualification of considerable import
ance to pastor among the Chinese in this
country. His wife, also devoted Christian
worker, is a native of Canton, and familiar
with the Cantonese dialect, which is largely
spoken in California. Twenty-four years age
American Methodism had not one representa-
tive to China. New Chinese Methodism
sends the first native missionary to America.
CONGREGATIONAL.
The Congregationalist denomination has
hitherto been without any decided footing in
the South But the Rev. Mr.. Feemster, who
has recently established the Christian Re
pubic at Columbus, Miss, in the interest OF
this eminent branch of Christs Church,
claims that a change has lately taken place,
At present, he says, there are four Congrega
tional churches in. Tennessee, four in
Georgia, one in Alabama, three in Mississippi
and 'host" in Louisiana Schools have also
been established and associations formed
This increase dates with the close of the war
and 1t is believed that, especially among the
freedmen, great progress will be made
hereafter.
The new meeting house now building
for the First Church, San Francisco (Dr
Stone's), viii be Of brick, with artificial stone