The New York herald., 1872-12-15
has accepted can to Lebanon, in the same state

UCCCpU~u w LODoi'o1, IN s'sS oesAsAS os<sS
The Rev. Charles Skcn, member Of the Wisconsin
ats teacher In the
OF the scandinavian church at Evanston, Ill., has
been appointed superintendent OF the Danish Mis-
sion, in the place OF q. Willerup. Rev. +. A.
Spencer left on the Idaho. December Ii, for Liver
pool, intending to go forward to Bologna, Italy
the field OF his appointment. Bulgaria Is to nave
reinforcement, and 80 carry on work begun nope
1uy and now promising to more abundanty re-
compense the Church Tor her faith and works.
Mission in Sweden. left this port December : ior
his headquarters In GOttenburg. The opening SET. YET
vices OF the new chapel and Sunday scnoo, o. 1t
Central church, Seventh avenue, near Fourleentn y.
street, Rev. f. Bottome pastor, will take place IO-
day. Bishop Foster Will preach ~ the morning. n
Dr. vincent IN the evening and % psseR asss the
vices. Rev. A. ID. Sargent Of tne new Engiahn .ha
Conference who has passed ms nitietn year ~ Tue
Massachusetts State Alliance. The General Mis-
slonary Society OF the Methodist Episcopal Church
held its anniversaries in Newark last Sunday ana
Monday. The bishops and the mission secre-
iiyered addresses in several OF me churches, M
Methodist Episcopal Church has aided 159
churches in thirty seven States and Territories by
donations and loans amounting TO 500 600: The
creasing and the work can be largely increased II
the receipts are advanced the % committee sns want
tendent OF Missions In Foo-Chow, stopped at Yo-
Kohama, Japan. recently on his way TO his own
mission, ana OOkeu over Jut STOuuu LlluL HIS pre-
decessor in China Is shortly to occupy. The Jersey
City District Conference OF the Newark Confer
ence will meet in Emory chapel, on the Heights, in
few days. The Madison street church, Philadel-
phia, under the earnest efforts Of Rev. J. b. Mad
dux, pastor, Is rapidly approaching completion.
in the city. The new Methodist Episcopal church
at Davenport Iowa, is rapidly approaching COM
pletiOn. 1t Is situated In the most attractive part
of the city, and when finished Will be beautIfnl,
cOmmOdiOus edifce. An attempt to destroy II Dy
fire was recently made by some malicious person,
ons damage was done. Rev. W. Williams, OF Nassau
Circuit, Florida Conference, writes that fity-hve
adults have been added to the Methodist Episcopal
churches (Sonth) uner his charge. revival OF
very remarkable power Is In progress In Staunton,
Va, about which DIR. Leo ROsser writes 10 the
Baltimore Methodist to say that on recent Thurs
and thirteen were converted The next night the
altar was again crowded and ten conversions re-
suited, and on the Sabbath following forty-fve
joined the church, and at night twelve were con-
verted; and so on, night after night, until, after
one week of the meetings, 13e souls had exper-
The Doctor very significantly adds that very few
souls are converted In splendid churches, and the
inevitable consequence Is, that II not strengthened
by conversions and accession from
abroad, in twenty years, the rich members dying
out, having expended their wealth and wisdom
to maintain a feeble existence, they will either
vanish away or continue mournful monu-
ments OF compromise. expediency and emulation:
SeM
chapel, Davies Circuit, Kentucky Conference, Rev.
w. j. Elliott, pastor, twenty-three accessions
ist Episcopal church, Mount washington, Plttsburg
Conference, fifty; in New Ashford, Troy Confer
ence, Rev. G. Hudson, pastor twenty; in Graham
seventy In Louisville Circuit, wilmington Con.
ference; in Jane street Methodist Episcopal
fve and meetings continue. Since last Conference
Rev. DIR. De Hass has received, by letter and on
probation, into Lexington avenue Methodist Epis-
day Samuel Halstead's ipraying band' is to help
on the good work. The Greene street Methodist
Q T. in
Eighteenth street Methodist Episcopal church,
a e esy
extension; Rev. DR.. Crawford, pastor. The
Methodist Episcopal Church in Knoxville, Tenn,
1t has membership OF 2l7 Sunday school OF
1856 and debt OF 81, 600. new Methodist Epis-
ceopal church has been completed at Emmetts-
burg, Pa; Rev. b. Webster, pastor. The Uni
versity avenue Methodist Episcopal church In
Syracuse was dedicated last Thursday by Bishops
TO remove to Boston until next Spring Rev. A.
Mooney, local preacher, Of Cambridge, Washington
county. N. Y, was here last week in behalf Of the
preachers, raising funds for the Embury
MonuIaen, fleeing West Virginia, ia; spent p nj
last sunday in ,n city, SGcsupyng the
pulpit Of the Central Me..~.. peoHe' We
Two hundred conversions are reported as tLo re.
suit OF revival which began six weeks ago at at
nsle Rev as IS pao
At Wesley chapel, Phillipsburg, N j., charge only
six months old, the PASTOR Rev. W. n. Searles, re-
sions and fifty persons received on probation. A
revival is also in progress IN the Methodist Episco-
pal church IN Keypqrt 81 Rev. :.. A. n SanIGrd Vrt
Conference, reports general prosperity In his dis
trict, and revivals on number OF charges. Rev. s.
l. Ferguson presiding elder Of the Rhinebeck dis
trict reViValS at Lee. Pine PlalnS,
q work Of marked interest at Jackson's
Corners and general prosperity IN the ,,s DIS,
and Asia are estimated at 100000 Rev.
J. W. Bennett OF Navasota, Texas, reports steady
S1 bays ~ to s the
The Day OF Prayer for Colleges is changed to the
last Thursday OF January by the Methodist author
Church South, reports prosperity in Tennessee in-
dicated by the large number OF thirty-six young
men admitted on trial for the ministry. This
RReGpses Red soon an ample supply '''0fe'S lot inc
The Rev. @. II. Spurgeon, OF London, is in Rome,
improving rapidly in health. Rev. Dr. kn0wlton,
missionary to Japan, has arrived safely, ana writes
from Kobi to the Baptist Weekly. He declares that
in the reports about Japanese progress and the
desires OF the people to learn the English language
and to adopt Western customs and habits, the half
has not been told. DR.. Knowlton says that a few
quested, through the United States Minister, per-
Bible TO the Emperor. permission was granteo,
the Bible was duly presented and the Doctor
soon after received through the Foreign ONCE
and the United States Minister the thanks or
the Emperor for the present. The tendency OF
the government Is toward liberal views and
liberation. For instance. some TWENTY-FIVE con-
verts have been baptized and formed into Church
in connection with the Presbyterian mission at
Yokohama. The government is acquainted with
the fact and knows the names OF the native Chris
tians, yet nothing has been said or done
respecting the matter. In the Sunday School
about twenty pupils from the girls school, and
some ten or twelve from DR.. Browns school
for young men, attend and appear to take an
interest in studying the Bible and the Peep Of
Day, and in singing Christian hymns. In Miss
Kidder's school, which is under the special charge
Of the Governor Of Yokohama, and In which his
wife is pupil, the pupils every morning read q
portion in Mark sing Christian hymns and repeat
the Lords Prayer. From Morant Bay, Jamaica,
where the English Baptists have recently estab-
lished successfully missionary station, Rev. W.
Teal reports great encouragement. He had
formed two new churches in the vicinity, and was
about to establish the third, with the expectation
that the churches OF Morant Bay with its success
full native pastor) and Monklands would become
this Fall Independent that he would be at liberty
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