The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-11


In the foreign field, the Canada Baptists
work in connection with the Missionary
Union. They have two missionaries
Tonipsny and Mrs. McClsusin--in Teloogoo.
Last year the Canada Baptists contributed
1885, '6S to the American Baptist Missionary
Union.
The Brooklyn Baptist Social Union have
purchased, at an expense of $4,000, the
house of worship and land belonging to the
Pierrepont Church in that city for the purpose
of founding Strangers Sabbath Home, like
fremont Temple in Boston.
EPISCOPAL.
The Rev. A. r. Morris, of the Diocese of
New Jersey, has received appointment by the
Foreign Committee as a missionary to Japan,
and embarked, en- route for that country, via
England, on the Sth of February.
The next General Convention of the
Episcopal Church will be memorialized con-
cerning the repeal of the Church canons for
bidding the officiating of ministers of other
denominations in Episcopal pulpits, and re-
quiring the use of the Book OF Common
Prayer before all sermons and lectures. The
''Muhlenburg Memorial" will also be pre-
sented, praying for liberty on the part of
ministers to omit ''sucb words, expressions,
or passages" in the service, as may in his
Judgment con tradict his ordination vow ''to
teach nothing as necessary to salvation but
and proved by Scripture.
Valuable property has been secured in
the town of Plymouth, N. H., by the Bishop
of Quebec, for the purpose of establishing
young ladies' Episcopal seminary of high
order.
PRESBYTERIAN.
The prospects of Stewart College, Clarks-
ville Tenn essee, are represented as very en-
couraging. The present number of students
is eighty-fve.
The Rev. j. M. Clymer, of Woodstock,
Virginia, has received and accepted call to
the church at New Creek, West Virginia, the
former charge of the Rev. Edward Martin.
AT Milersburg, Kentucky, fine church
has been erected by the united effort of
Northern, Southern, and Associate Reformed
Presbyterians. 1t cost about $17, The
Northern men lay no claim to the house.
They paid their money The Southern and
Associate Reformed Presbyterians who went
! into the union occupy the house, and agree to
| sing psalms and hymns, each half the time
thus yielding the principle for which the
Associate Reformed Presbyterians have con-
tended so long, and making it the more diff
cult to unite on a larger scale.
The Rev. H. M. Scudder has declined
the calls to Millersburg and to Winchester,
Kentucky. He has accepted the invitation to
preach at Carlisle one Sabbath in each month.
The Rev. James Lewis, formerly one of
the Free Church of Scotland's ministers, at
Leith, has been for some time officiating at
Rome. A new church has been opened for
him, capable of accommodating about three
hundred persons. Its cost will amount to
about G300O, the most of which has been
already subscribed. The opening services
took place on January 8, ''and this may be
said" says a correspondent of one of our
Presbyterian journals, ''to be the first Pro-
tsstant church that has been erected in
Rome"
MIR. Lewis has received the degree of
D. D. from Princeton College.
According to the report of the trustees of
the Princeton Theological Seminary to the
Legislature of New Jersey, the Seminary has
fourteen acres of land, on which are the build
ings, the whole valued at $l1S, 40. The total
value of the personal estate is 1887, ,815, The
funds are invested principally in bond and
mortgage on real estate, and securities of the
United States. The amount of income from
these sources has been $152, 1893, and of the
expenses $40, ,693. There are now in the
library 21, ,681 volumes.
The Dublin Presbytery of Ireland have
adopted resolution of protest against the
assumption of the Disestablished Anglican
Church to be styled the Church of Ireland.
The final clause of the resolution is as fol-
lows:-"The Presbytery, in adopting this
resolution, deeply regrets the necessity thus
forced upon it of resisting the unwarrantable
claim, more especially as 1t had cherished the
desire and hope that the Protestant churches
in Ireland would henceforth seek earnestly to
cooperate for the defense and diffusion of
the Gospel of Christ, and for the spiritual
good of our common country.
METHODIST.
Drew Seminary, Madison, N. j., has re-
ceived bequst of $780, from the late
Abel Minard, of Morristown, to be used as a
permanent fund for the aid of INDECENT young
women in obtaining ministerial education.
The Board of Managers of the Methodist
Missionary Society have arranged to raise
800, 900 to make up the deficit in the trea-
sury, and get its receipts abreast of its de-
mands. The collections are to be taken
7 within two months after the session of each
, conference.
) Rev. Dr. Merrick, President of the Ohio
: Wesleyan University, is so completely broken
, down in health as to require him to relinquish
, temporarily the Presidency of the institution.
Dr. McCabe will act during his retirement.
: LUTHERAN.
J AT the recent dedication of four English
Lutheran churches, $25, 900 were contributed
by their members; at Sunbury, Pa, $54OO, at
Springfield, Ohio, $4,000; at Albany, N Y,
) $4,000; and by Messiah, Philadelphia, $1,000.
On the second Sabbath of this year. n
!. members were received into the Lutheran
: church of South Bethlehem.