The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-11-17

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MIN ms usual vlgor and fefvor. Bishop Scott
9eu.cated chapel for the Fitzwater street church.
siberia report the Improvement in health Of Bishop
vs. anu tue safe arrival October ~ OF Rev. o.
ence. A revival in the mission station nf c,awnnnra
lndia. mas led 10 the organization OF cnurch aInonC
the Engiish residents and q preacher is now called
!Or, whom they arc pledged to support, Bishop
Payne, Methodist Episcopal Church south Il ex
pected in baltimore to-day. Rev. DR. Wadsworth
is leaving Trinity church. Baltimore, and going to
reside in Alabama. Rev. J. l.. Clark has revival i'm
progress In his church in Holland street baltimore
Rev. o. G. Mayhem has been appointed Sundl y School
Agent OF the Tennessee uonierence Cnnrch SomtS
The MethOdists OF New Providence, Tenn. are about
to build commodions church ut that place. Bishop
Wightman, ofthe Methodist Episcopal Church South
dedicated churches at BentOnville Oarksville and
Lewlsburg during his recent visit to Arkansas.
The White River conference, Methodist Episcopal
Church South, has 94l3 white and II colored mem
bers, and LOT local preachers, 90 churches and 2
pats0nages, together valued at S23675, and 100
sunday schools and 4625 scholars. suit insti-
tuted by the Methodist Episcopal Church South
against Rev. J. X. Hughes, OF the Northern wing to
recover the parsonage in which he lived, at Ruea-
town, Tenn, has been compromised by the latter
giving up the property and paying part OF the costs.
Rev. William Potter, Of Wilmington Conference,
mas been transferred TO Rush, Monroe county,
Western New York Conference. Rev. J. ROthwei-
Ter, OF the Central German Conference, is now in
Eranc'sco ~ hs "s1 me rev; s uiosoM o. SaH
Episcopal church. Brooklyn, Il. d., having renewed
It's NE ana appearance under the passionate OF the
Rev. George Hollis, and paid or an old debt, will
hold jubilee service to-day in honor OF the event.
Old pastors and members are to gather and con-
trast the old times and things with the new The
Beekman Hill church Metnodists, who have for
years worshipped IN chapel on the rear OF
their lots IN Fnteth' street. near second
avenue, are about to build handsome church
Tor themselves, and next Tuesday afternoon the
cornerstone will be laid by Bishop Haven. Rev. DIR.
was IN this city attending the missionary meetings
last week. new Methodist Episcopal church, on
Twentieth and Jefferson streets Phlladephia is to
be dedicated to-day by Bishops simpson and Bore
man. The new church at Port Deposit Nd,
which was recently dedicated, is the generous gift
Of Jacob Tones, Q resident OF that place. 1t cost
nearly 100000. Rev. \. T.. Martindaie is the pas
tor The City Missionary and Church Extension
Society has secured the Universaiist church in
Thirtyhth street, near Sixth avenue (tev. Mr.
Pulllnan), for the use of the cOl0red mission,
In charge OF Rev. W. +. Butler, on Broadway, near
Mr.. Butler has personally raised and paid down al
ready $1,000 ana his mission VIII take possession OF
coiored people of Mr. Buffers charge this evening
In their hall on Broadway.
BAPTIST.
Calls have been accepted by Rev. M. A. Dough
erty, OF Newton to Stoughton street church. Boston,
Mass. by Rev. George Wesselins, from Grand Haven
Fort Madison TO Burlington, Iowa; by Rev. j. G.
Armstrong Of Humboldt, Kan, to Washington
ton centre sae Ma mss Rev c B. aoodw
OF Ashland, Mass, to Suncook, N. H.; by Rev. A.
u. Rice, Of Paris, Me-, to Fayetteville, Ark; by
church, st. John, n b., to Newcastle church,
hIiramacni; by Rev. G. j. Thompson, of Medina to
rev py Of Is IN me-
Baptist churches in Memphis, Tenn. Rev. J. s.
Deand and his congregation at st. Clair, Mich, are
building new church edice. The baptist weekly
editor pats the HERALD for its good iudg-
ment in ''making up its Sunday summary of Baptist
news almost exclusively from the Veekivu we
can only add that we must have exhausted the
WeehiDS enterprise In our last Sunday issue, since
It's , own summary Tor the past week is made up
'almost exclusively from three or four sunday
issues of the HERALD The First Baptist Church. OF
Newark, N. J last week, by vote OF III to s. after
amner, Tor the moral offences committed In con-
nect1On with the Illegal acts Tor which he was re-
moved from his official position. If thlsactlon was
taken by other churches against members bribery
would not be as common among protesting Chris
tlans as 1t Is. The professors In all the Baptist
colleges IN England are open communion, and
most Of the ministers whom they train follow their
lead. This has led Baptists in that country
who believe in restricted communion to found
college in Manchester, where 0the way of the Lord
may be taught more PERFECTLY The Baptist church
at Hawly, Pa, is without pastor and seeking one.
Rev. j. V. StrattOn has resigned his past0rate at
Bryan, Ohio There are iortyeight Baptist churches
IN Philadelphia, with an aggregate membership of
ID, 1888. Six OF the churches are without pastors.
There are besides seven mission chapels. The pro-
portion OF membership to population is as one to
lortyseven. In 1860 It was one to ytwo, and in
1850 II was one to fifty-seven The number OF ac-
cessions to the churches, CLEANED from last weeks
exchanges, in seven States of the Union is 1913.
Professor w. S. Hutchings, formerly Barnums
"lightning calculator is to preach in the New
Bowery Theatre this evening Rev. Ananias Brown
Rev. c. $. Perkins has been installed over the Free
Baptist church in Greenville, r. l., and Rev. T. b.
Moulton over the Free Baptist church at Burnett
Junction, Wis. Rev. X. Clark has exchanged his pas
torate III Fond du Lac for one in Winneconne, Wis.
PRESBYTERIAN.
Rev. DR.. Cunningham, of the Central Presbyterian
church In san francisco, Is about to start FOR the
East to solicit aid for the new theological seminary
established in that city. The Woman's Foreign
Philadelphia, proposes to raise for It's work the
coming year the sum Of $4,000. or 4,6l6 Presby-
terrain churches In the United States $50 were va
cant last year, and only l,7os had pastors. There
were at the same time 100 ministers without
charges The Presbyterlans OF st. John, N. b.. will
celebrate the three hundredth anniversary OF the
death OF John Knox, the reformer, by religious SER
vices in the churches, on Sunday. the oath inst,
We suppose the event will be In some manner OBJ
served by Prcsbyterlans all over the country.
OF the Breckenridge street Presbyterian church,
BufiaO, n. T., on account OF protracted Ill health,
and is seeking place In more southerly climate.
For similar reasons Rev. Josiah Milligan, of Prince
ton, ILL.,, has left the church there, and Is going to
Texas as q missionary OF the Presbyterian Home
Mission Board. The Presbyterians OF South Caro-
lima are appealed to by their Official paper found
an orPhanage In that State to be named after Dr.
Thornwell. Rev. +: II. Reinhardt, has been twenty
five years pastor of the Marshall street Presbyterian
church in Elizabeth, n J. Rev. Josephns Johnson,
under appointment for the China Mission, is visit
ing the churches in the Synod OF Arkansas to inter-
est them in the missionary cause Rev. Henry
Quigg has Just closed protracted meeting in the
%n to the Ca w aye
organized Presbyterian church in Jackson
Ala, and q non-member has donated building
site for church. At the late meeting OF the Pres
bytery OF Macon, Ca, the reports rom the Evangel
lists showed that foothold had been obtained in
several new localities the most important OF which
are Dawson and Fort Valley, and the erection OF
houses for worship in these places will be pushed
forward. Calls have been accepted by Rev. George
$. Bishop to Orange, N. j.; by Rev. J. X. Wilson, ID.
D., from Augusta, Ca to Charleston $. G. Rev. J.
T. McBryde, Evangelist, has left the Presbytery OF
Charleston, S. c., and joined that OF Southern Ala
baIna.
EPISCOPALIAN.
The Rev. Alvah Gui0n OF the Guion Protestant
Episcopal church in Brooklyn, died in that city,
November g. aged seventy seven years. The Rev.
George II. Atkinson, d. d.. has been appointed by
the Episcopal Church Missionary Society mission
airy at large for Oregon and adjacent Territories.
The Rev. William A. Holbrook has accepted the
temporary charge Of Zion church, New York city,
officiating each Sunday morning. At Crawford and
Linden N. j., neat chapels respectively Trinity
and st. Marks) are being erected under the care
and charge OF the Rev. J. Alexander Denniston.
The Rev. w, X. Babcock, now In Europe, has