The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-01

Vernon, of the Sc. Louis Conference, missionary
to Italy. He is to leave, we understand, early
this spring for the new field. It is probable
that the Rev. f. A. Spencer, of the Ohio Con-
ference. formerly of India, will also be ap-
pointed to the same mission.
Nineteen new churches have been built the
past year In the Central Pennsylvania Confer
ence, at q cost of $1S7, 900.
The total cost of the Chinese Methodist
Episcopal Mission property on Washington
street, San Francisco, including furniture, is
10000. Rents from stores below and rooms
above now amount to $140 per month.
In Sierra Leone, the Wesleyan Mission has
refused State aid
The Newark Methodist Conference reports
that 500, 900 have been subscribed towards the
Centenary Collegiate Institute at Hackettstown,
New Jersey.
CONGREGATIONAL.
The Congregational church in Hannibal,
Mo-, received fifty-three new members at the
last communion, all but nine on profession,
Many of these were men of prominent influence
in the city.
The Mount Vernon Church, Boston, has
called the Rev. s. E. Herrick, of Chelsea, and it
is generally expected that he will accept.
The Park Street Church, New York,
at their recent annual meeting voted to
make the salary of the pastor, the Rev. Mr. Muir
ray, $1,000 the coming year. They also passed
q vote requesting the choir to commence the
service on Sunday five minutes after the ap-
pointed hour-that is, at twenty-five minutes of
eleven and at five minutes past three; and they
requested the ushers to show strangers to any
seats not then taken.
The Clinton Avenue Church, Brooklyn Or.
Rudingtons), commemorate this jubilee year by
the payment of their church debt, $4,000, on a
late Sabbath.
REFORMED
The Rev. DR.. Z E. Hughes, Professor in the
Theological Seminary at Mercersburg, Pa, has
notified the President of the Board of Visitors
of his purpose to resign his professorship in the
Institution.
The German Reformed Messenger says:-
THE Presbyterian of last week, in It's column
of Church News announces that the Rev.
Jacob Totka of the Church Reformed Church.
has been received, in Minnesota, as a candidate
for orders in the Episcopal Church. There must
be some mistake in the announcement as such
a name has never been found on the roll of the
ministry of the Reformed Church in the United
States"
The Rev. f. P. Ihgersoll, pastor fthe Mid
die Reformed Church at Harrison aud Court
Streets Brooklyn, received into the communion
last Sabbath 1l3 persons-9S on profession of
faith.
BAPTIST.
Fifteen Baptist clergymen Of Brooklyn have
given their names to the folio wing resolution In
reference to the acceptance of the Baptist
Home gift':-
'ReS0lUed, That we, the undersigned Baptist
pastors of Brooklyn, panied and mortified by
this act of degeneracy, which is unscriptural,
and is in direct opposition to our antecedents
ana 10 our aVOWeQ principles,
hereby enter our fixed and solemn protest
against it,"
The National Baptist thinks that the Baptists
of all places should let their voices be dis
tinctly heard in this case, and should put their
judgment plainly on record"
The Trustees of the Arkansas Baptist Co.
lony have obtained about 1000 acres of land
on the Little Red river, and some sixty colonists
have already settled there. Professor Fory, of
Chicago, writes that the ''great objects contem-
plated at the outset-the founding of a denomi7
national University and Female College of
high order-are ever kept steadily in view, and
all our plans are formed in constant and direct
reference to these great ends; and we are happy
to say that never before in olr colonial history
have we had such encouraging prospects of
success both fer our educational and colonial
work."
ROMAN CATHOLIC.
The London Church ReUie,U is informed
that there is a great probability that the sus-
pended sittings of the Vatican Council may be
resumed at Antwerp in the course of the ensuing
summer.
Three candidates for the priesthood were or
dained in the Church of the Paulist Fathers, at
Ninth avenue and Fifty-ninth street, New York,
on Saturday morning, March 25-B. ID. Hill, an
EDglishman, formerly Protestant; G. NJ. Searle,
a graduate of Harvard, and subsequently a
Naval Academy professor; and w. j. Dwyer,
lately a candidate for orders in the Protestant
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