The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-25
SUMMARY OF ORUR OH NE WS.
EPISCOPAL.

EPISCOPAL.
The Rev. Charles E. Cheney gave notice
to his congregation on late Sunday that
members would be received into the church as
usual, but Sthat the rite of confirmation
would not be administered at present.
The Rev. b. Eaton, for the last thirty
years rector of Trinity Church in Galveston,
Texas, was taken suddenly ill OH Sunday, the
10th inst, while delivering his sermon, and
died at o'clock in the afternoon.
REFORMED (GERMAN).
The annual catalogue of the Theological
Seminar at Mercersburg, Pa, for 1901
has lust been issued. The number of stu
dents connected with the institution during
the year is twenty six, divided amongst the
three classes as follows;-Senior class, 3; mid
die class, 8, and junior class, 8.
-"Presbyter" writes in .ne .ne Protestant
O1euTcl'n9"" '"".ng the assertion of law
yer our ..g the trial of Rev. Mr.. Cheney, at
Chicago, that ''not five clergymen" ever omit
the word degenerate" in the thanksgiving
after baptism, that he personally knows thirty
two presbyters who are in the habit of making
that omission. They are distributed through
seven dioceses, and some of them are Doctors
of Divinity. In several instances the bishops
know of the fact, and the pastors have openly
told their people that they omit the obnoxious
word.
The American Episcopal congregation in
Rome is under the charge of Rev. r. j.
Nevin, a man of ability, but of High Church
inclinations.
METHODIST.
The income of the Methodist Church Ex-
tension Fund has increased the last two and
q half years from $40, 900 to 1920, 600, and
is steadily going up to half million a year,
when they will be ableto build church every
day in the year.
The Methodists of Baltimore, Maryland,
have purchased tract Of 125 acres of land
near Rsiivertown, intending to use twenty-five
acres of woodland for a camp-meeting ground,
and dispose of the remainder in building lots
for Methodist village.
The total cost of the Chinese Methodist
Episcopal Mission property on Washington
street, San Francisco, including furniture, is
$4,000. Rents from stores below and
rooms above now amount to $40 per month.
Ten years ago the Methodist Episcopal
Church had less than three thousand dollars
worth of property in st. Louis; now its pro-
perty is worth at least $1,000
AT the late meeting of the Wilmington
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, Leonidas Dobson was reported as
having entered the ministry of the Presbyte-
rian Church, and was returned as withdrawn
from the Methodist Episcopal Church.
William j. Lyons, of New York city, re-
Gently deceased, devised his estate, valued at
from SAC, 900 to 800, 900, to the Missionary
Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The income is to go to his widow until her
death, when the whole will go to the Mission
airy Society.
John Clark, who died several years since
at Bellows Falls, Vermont, left by will near
$50, ,Oe0 to the Vermont Methodist Confer
snce. The will was contested by some of his
at.s 1afk o<1fl
cation it has just been decided in favor of
the conference. A portion Of the bequest
will go to the Seminary at Montpelier
-The different branches Of the Methodist
Church in Canada have appointed committees
for negotiating a union. Five of these
branches were represented at a gathering at
Toronto recently, and the prospects of union
are hopeful.
"A Maine correspondent of Zions Herald
states that many Free Baptist ministers in
that State practise sprinkling of candidates
who are sick, and others allow the candidate
to choose the mode for himself. The editor
thinks these facts show ''how near of kin" the
Ereewill Baptists and Methodists are, and
that they ought ''to melt into one"
The Methodist church in Haverhill, Mass,
has an organ the bellows of which is worked
by water-power.
The Baltimore Methodists have purchased
the "Worthington estate" containing one
hundred and twenty-five acres, at S175 an
acre, for camp-meeting purposes. Twenty
i've acres of woodland will be reserved for
camp pmeetings, and the remainder sold for
family residences. A church is also to be
built on the ground.
CONGREGATIONAL.
"A second Congregational Church is 70
be started in Washington, d. @. The Rev.
Mr.. Smell, late of Hartford, Conn, and grand
son Of the venerable DR.. Smell, of Brookheld
is laboring In part OF the city where build
ings are about going up very fast, and where
lhe only accessible church is Roman Catholic
1t is expected that a chapel will be erected
during the coming summer.
The Rev. Samuel e. Evans has been dis
missed from his pastorate in the Oonereoa
tona church at East Providence, r. /. Fl,
has joined the Methodists.
The Rev. Joseph Ward, with one helper
is planting Congregationalism over the grea