The New York herald., 1872-12-22

to some man who hos reputation that win
give them prestige ana draw big con- co, |.
SAID said : few weeks ago "1 OF one vbs
incidentally filled one Of these pulpts for a Sab
closed the morning service. 'If that man was from
Brooklyn he would have call before Monday
night" Calls have been accepted also by Rev. L.
by Rev. J. w. Daniels, OF Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 70
Omaha; BY Rev. J. II. Castle, ID. d., OF the FRAT
Baptist church. West Philadelphia TO ToroMtss
Canada DR.. Castle has been fourteen years IvsstoY
In Philadelphia. and his brethren last week paaseS
rcsoiutlons OF regret AZ his departure. Rev D.
aat Baptist church, New York. and Is going 20.
Corsica Y, IN February. During his three
years pastorate there he has received fty persona
into Church fellOwship-forty -one by baptism
Rev. ID. W. Hunter has removed from Mcwth !.
Brother Norman Thomas. pastor at Cambridge
boro', Pa, for seven years. takes his Old
Rev. Ross Ward has closed his labors with George
town church, Sheakleyvile, Mercer county, where
nc has been pastor for six years. In connectiss
WITH WITH the Fairview church, ana entered his new
neld, the Rockdaie church. at Cambridgeboro'.
Crawford county, Pa Rev. Joel u. Bradley,
pastor OF the Moorestown baptist church. hal
notified the church that he will close his pastoraa
laDors with them ON the 1st OF next April. ThS
have recently called 30 the pastorate Rev. George
a. Cressey. late graduate Of Chicago University
and theological @ semnary Brother cressey has
Baptist church IN Carondect. NO., South
S L0us nSe ev. ~ mns huasSn y" stor nsv:
Hervce will be beld in 1T to-day. Two new hOmses
fully completed and nearly paid for. will be dcdi.
viic In the northern part OF the State, the other
at Tipt0n abJut l75 nliles west from Chicago, sn
Reider s. pastor and has done noble work. Re
church. Long island CITY. Rev, ": =; Benedict.
fDe% eV g. Gurey sss pasio % AZ DAWSON station. Fay
no Baptist mecIng house. Methodist meeting
house Is opened ior preachers OF other DE-
@ a. css4y Bsts cree ass css
mango county, N. y, the resignation taking
effect the first Sabbath in March next Rev. James
Heath goes from Preston, N. T.. to Pennington,
Me-; Rev. A. b. McGowan, from Manuel to MOa-
tana church, Oxford. N. r.; Rev Samuel Smith.
shallyille, Mich the Rev. M. II. Dewitt. late o.
Howard, stelben county, Is supplying the cAuroh
In Ltchfeld, Mich:
The Friends have commenced y missionary S00
day school and tract work at Matanioros Mexicos
The school has grown very rapidly. During this
Christmas week o General Missionary Conference
will be held in the Jumna mission Of tho
American Presbyterian church in Alahabad.
India. The Conference will comprise mission
aries of all denominations in India, native
and foreign, including also ladies, who win
and prospects of Christians in their respective fields.
Gor More than hty Papers are to be read before sns
in the proceedings Of this the rst Christian gather
ing OF its kind in heathendom. The bohemian Re.
formed Church, which, at the beginning OF the la0e
century, had scarcely foothod In that country,
has now sixty-iour parishes and more than Ona
MOravians, though only numbering 5000 in thif
country and l5 900 in Europe, have sixteen mission
tons. The Rev. Joseph baker, the veteran Ens!!sl
evangelist, has arrived In America. Ths
Rev. Dr. Budaington, pastor Of the GliDto.
lvn, has lately preached . sermon II
favor Of responsive worshp-that is, the alternate
reading OF the Psalms by the minister and people,
This ls one Of the questions which the Saviour has
lett each assembly to decide for itself: There h.
part and lot in the matter Of worship At present
they are mute spectators. The Welsh and Welsh.
american began about three
with .i'ss the General congresationai associate.
very valuable class OF citizens and Chris
tians. Their association consists OF twenty
about twenty ministers and fifteen hundred mem.
bers. The congregations are fed BY emigrationa
from Wales, but constant depletion Is also o0
Welsh language, and the young people growing w
amid Engllsh-speaking associations seek Othel
churches As some families become wealthy and
Amercanized they also leave. 1t Is estimated that
One-tnrd OF the strength OF the two prominent
Presbyterian churches In Utica Is composed o
those who are Welsh or OF Welsh extraction.
similar state Of things exists IN Scranton, Pa,
materiais frnm,botn nations for an Eprlisn. .snest
ing congregational church, but none exists. 4
proposition Is. therefore, made to establish t suca
can go. The Jews OF Wilmington, N. G., have pur.
chased lot for q synagogue, and have electeA
officers of their first synagogue. A fair for the
benefit OF the Home for Aged and Infrm Israelitea
was opened last week In the vestry rooms OF the
Thirty fourth street synagogue and was quite sue
cessfu. 1t closed last night. Rev. o. II. Newton,
chaplain OF the Ohio Penitentiary, reports that
about nine hundred and sixty or the cOnvlctS have.
proessed religion since the formation OF the prison
church, q year and half ago. or these about 9,
hundred have been discharged and have Joined
churches outside and living consistent Chris
| tian lives Nearly five hundred Of the In.
mates attend the prayer meetings and abOus,
| four hundred the Sabbath school In the prison.
Christian Observer, died at Louisville, KY, on
| Sunday last, aged II. He was q native OF New.
England. After the war he removed to Louisville
and there continued the publication OF his paper.
denly lew days since. He was sixty years OF age, o.
| good preacher, an accomplished teacher and q
| laberious evangelist. In 1880 he was Professor
OF Mathematics in Jefferson College, Pa. DIR. Bonn
bidden TO touch theology by one OF the subordinate
| Synods Of the German Reformed Church, and
| who appealed to the General Synod, the Supreme
Court OF the Church, has triumphed over his adver-
saries. HIS appeal to the Synod against the decf-
sion at Martinsburg was sustained by vote OF lOQ
to Is. This Is clear victory Tor the Evangelical On
"Low Church" party in the Reformed Church.
The Rev. Theodore J. Holmes, formerly OF Hartford,
| Conn.,, was installed on Thursday night pastor Q,
the Lee avenue congregational church, Brooklyn:
tract societies OF the United states diseurse an-
nually $lOO00,O 600. The Rev. l. NJ. Atwood, OF Chel-
sea, Mass, will resign his pastorate TO assume the
duties OF managing editor OF the ChrtStfdn LeadeTs
| editor The REV. Mr.. Veneer, a Swiss missionary
IN India, has translated the Bible into Sanscrtf-
The first Reformed church on the Pacific c0aSo
was dedicated last Sunday In San Francisco