The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-24

health.
/, EPISCOPAL.
The Rev. DIR. Lathrop, in sermon on
Domestic Missions, part of which is published
in the ChurcbmdR, says:-"California has
received from the Domestic Missionary trea-
sury within the last twenty years, think,
somewhat more than 100000.
do not believe we have returned to the Do
mestic Committee $3000." The total amount
contributed last year was $290, of which San
Francisco gave but $S9'50.
There are in Detroit seven Episcopal
parishes, four of which have large, fine stone
edifces. The latest addition, Grace Church,
is built of Milwaukee brick, with cut-stone
facings, and its interior is commodiously ar
ranged, as we'll as ornate.
The Church Weekly gives prominence to
the following interesting paragraph, the pre-
else drift of which is not apparent to all men:
1--WE are enabled to state on good authority
that within the last week secret caucus was
held in the Church of the Incarnation, in
New York, whereat it was agreed to crush the
rector of Trinity Church in the coming dio-
cesar convention. Among the gentlemen
present were the Rev. Messrs. Rowland, Con-
rad, Montgomery, Potter, and Washburn."
(The Oharch Weekly is the organ of the ex-
treme Ritualists in New York.
MoRAv1AN.
of the Widows House, Bethlehem, the
M0rG0Sdn says:-"This building was founded
in the year 1863, and first occupied in Oc-
tober, 1870. From the laying of the corner
stone 1t was solemnly devoted to the purposes
of home for widowed sisters of the Mora
Wan Church, and more particularly for those
whose husbands had died in its service. A
friend, whose family has shared in the be-
nificent operations of this excellent institu-
ton, has given the sum of ten thousand dol
fhn Of,
it to its original uses"
METHODIST.
The Board of Education of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church held it's semi-annual
meeting June 8. The Treasurer reported the
total receipts $92, 700, of which 5000 had
been invested. The board ordered the in
vestment of the balance, amounting to $2700.
The women's missionary scheme is be-
coming effective in American Methodism; be-
sides the particular facts of 1923, 900 raised
the last year, of forty girls schools main
tanned by it in India, and also the Bareilly
orphanage, and many Bible-women, it is
developing a surprising amount of talent and
activity among the American Methodist
women themselves.
BAPTIST.
The Southern Foreign Mission Board re-
port that since 1860 there has been no period
when their prospects were more encouraging.
They have been considering the expediency
of giving up the African mission, but have
concluded that it would be unwise to do So
The receipts Of the last year were $27, ,254.51.
The Rev. N. B. Williams, of Alabama, has
been accepted by the board as missionary
to China. He is recent graduate of the
Greenville Theological Seminary.
The Rev. j. G. Phillips, formerly Me-
thodist minister, was ordained as pastor Of
the Baptist church in Petersburg, N. Y, on
May 4.
"A conference of the friends of Christian
missions was held lately in Boston. The OBJ
ject was the cause of the Baptist foreign mis-
sions, especially the missions in Europe aud
the new providential openings in France and
in Rome. Conclusions were reached, says
the Watchman, (which we are confident
must prove of lasting good"
LUTHERAN.
The General Synod of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church met at Dayton, Ohio, on
June s. 1t was feared that the hymn-book
question would excite discussion, and perhaps
division, but it was disposed of happily. The
publication of the old hymn-book in any of
its forms was prohibited. ''No attempt"
says the Lutheran Observer, "was made to
mntilate the Book of Worship, no substitute
offered for the Augsburg Confession, and no
change even suggested in the doctrinal basis.
| clude the abuses corrected from the Augs-
burg Confession was unanimously and indig-
nantly voted down, and the deliverance made
at York explanatory of the true meaning and
In defense of the Augsburg Confession was
reafirmed, and ordered to be inserted in the
next edition of the Book of Worship"
The Board of Home Missions reported
receipts and expenditures each more than
$23, ,000 80 missionaries employed; 13 new
missions undertaken; 81 church organiza-
tions effected; 1871 members added.
CATHOLIC.
The address of the Catholic ladies of
Cincinnati to the Holy Father was signed by
ten thousand three hundred ladies.
The festival of Corpus Christi was cele-
brated in Montreal with unusual magnifcence
1t is calculated that 5000 people were in the
procession.
Rev. Ludwig Fink, of St. Josephs
Church, Chicago, ILL.,, was consecrated Bishop
i,a pdrti6us and coadjutor to Bishop Miege
Vicar Apostolic of Kansas, on the 18th inst
There are now three Passionist priest:
stationed permanently at the Church of the
Immaculate, Cincinnati, named, respectively
Guido, William, and Sebastian. They speal
German, English, Italian, and French.