The New York herald., 1873-11-30
ministerial Movement. &C.

unuer TAKEN 70 deliver two lectures on the ssela-
tion5 oI science and RegiOn.n
Ministerial Movements. &c.
EPIscoPALIAN
Rev. MIR. Mansfield. for the past nine years rec.
tor OF the Episcopal Church, Kent street Brook
lyn, has resigned. Services in German have been
begun In Trinity church, Portland, Oregon BY the
Rev. John Rosenberg. with view of reaching
quite an interesting and important class of the
community. Bishop Morris, Of Oregon, has pur.
chased land in Portland for the foundation and
erection OF an orphanage and hospital The
bishop elect OF Ely and Victoria tB rtisD viii be
consecrated during the ADV ent season. The new
st. Peters church, Germantown, Pa, is rapidly
approaching completion and will be ready for oc-
cupancy early in December. The Rev. Theodore
S. Rumney, DID, rector OF Christ church, German
town, Pa has accepted unanimous call to the
rectorshp OF the new parish. The Bishop OF Ches-
ter, IN published letter, comes out strongly
against the use OF the confessional In the Anglican
church. Rev. MIR. Berkley has been forced by bad
health to resign charge OF his churches the East
ern Shore. Bishop Beckwith, OF Georgia, is COM
PEELED to cease active labor His slight body has
broken beneath his episcopal burdens, and his elo-
quent tongue must be silent awhile. st. Johns
church, Louisville, KY, Is again without rector
as the late incumbent, Rev. w. C. Butler, has re-
signed, having accepted call at Middletown, Del.
Wednesday and Thursday next are to be observed
by Episcopalians in England and America as a day
OF prayer for missions. Rev. Mr.. Stander an Ital-
anconvert from the Roman Catholic Churcn and re-
Gently admitted INTO the diocese OF Ohio has begun
Protestant Episcopal mission among his country.
men in this city. His services for the present are
held in the Five Points House of Industry Out of
Is OF 20 prominent low churches in and around New
York, handful only remain. ST. Johns Holy
trinity and Christ church. Brooklyn, and Grace
80. Thomas Trinity, ST. Johns chapel, all low
churches at one time, are now nigh and are
moving on. And the strongest Evangelical
churches are passing into other hands. II the
Evangelicals save themselves, the Examiner.
thinks, IT will be by an exodus and the forming OF
sscp new o sect Rev DR. LYMAN Assistant Bsop
and afae of other sns clergy s!snsPs sPs
has Dc opened n 81
under the charge OF Rev. Reeve Ho6bie Bishop
Nottingham has forbidden Mr. Hobbies postures
ana nonsense for the present. very much to the
disgust OF the said Hobbie. The Rev. J. 5. b.
Hodges, D. D.. rector OF St. Paul's parish, has as
church, Baltimore. The Rev. Lewis Walker, OF
powhatan parish, Va, has resigned his charge
Rev. r. H. Jones has resigned the care OF the
churches near Batteboro, n. g., and accepted the
charge OF sapony aud Calvary churches, :Bath
parish Dinwddie county.
PRESBYTERIAN
A revival IN Fifth Greek church, N. c., has added
81 to the membership; another at Concord church.
n. c., gave 20, and at Reedy Creek church, N. c.,
20. kaymore station, IN Cass county Mo-, and
George Miller, and Presbyterian churchess people
there are doubled In membership. OUT OF the ia
counties IN Missouri g. 90 only are occupied by the
have no church buildings; in the 90 counties there
are 200 churches, with a membership OF s.o?l: A
crn Presby teran church, Philadelphia, with the
Third Reformed. the consolidated body taklpg the
's the central Presbytery. Dr. Charles $. Wads
worth, the pastor OF the late Third Reformed was
to continue pastor Of the >, united church,
as a member OF Presbytery. But now the Re-
formed Chassis has entered protest against the
and Its pastor, and also the right to the church
property. on the part Of the congregation there
tSs vos IanI
Rev. r. Kcssler has accepted 10 rnc rrcspy.
terian church at rontioc, Mich. Rev. A. F. Hast
Mich. Rev. $. Murdock has assumed the pastorate
Of the Presbyterian church at Tunkhannock, Pa.
the Presby teran church at Wiliamsport, Pa. Rev.
j. A. Ranney, OF Kalamazoo, mas begun his labors
teran church at tho corner OF Noble and Lorimer
streets, Greenpoint lBrooklyn, Z. D.. VIII be
Ser Dr. q f. L. viii e
Eey + 2 Hk sae q asdo has
entered upon his duties as pastor OF the Presby
terian church OF Columbia, s. c. The First Presby-
terrain church OF Babylon, L. l., has called Rev. J. Z.
Nightingale to It's pastorate. kev. Philip Pierson or
church, N. G. The Southern PresOvte,7fn saws:
"He was reading and commenting on the third
chapter of Malachi, when he oeckoned to some one
in the congregation to come to him, and died i'm
mediateiy. He was buried on Tuesday at the Mid
way church. OF which he had been stated supply
for 35 years" The Presbyterian church, OF Victor
n. Y, have called Rev. william B. Marsh, OF Huron.
removed to Medina. n. Y. Mr. Marsh Is to begin
his labors there to-day Rev, = sparhawk Jones.
OF Baltimore has accepted call 10 the Arch street
church, Philadelphia.
METHODIST
The Msnodsst quoting the =, statistics reported
states that three times IN the history Of the Metlo-
dist Episcopal Church here i has suffered loss in
was reported; again In 1s4s, loss OF 536,24s,
caused by the separation OF the Church South; and
has s s the si c ss s a s
than i,sso,ooo. 81: Faus Methodist Episcopal
gilt or valuable plot OF ground for a church site
from Mr.. John Anderson. Revivals are reported
three weeks; at Whatcoat church, 40; at Bethany
Methodist church, 81 in New York,
&c. at M az 5 az kdwaras e
Saratoga Springs s., at, at Gugeyville, 40; IN
Circuit, 30; at West End, Jersey City. so; on Con-
cord charge q in Lynchburg, Va, 10. 81 of whom
Bedford avenue. Brooklyn; 70 at Rockport, Me-.
over 200 converts, 134 OF whom have united with I
the Methodist Episcopal churcn at Westerly, R. l.;
250 during the year 1851, on November Q. Rev. Dr.
Iovick Pierce, venerable minister or the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church South, has come to the con-
cluson, alter much thinking and observation. that
L Is unwise to admit unconverted persons into the
to Making the way into the church much harder |
and closer than il has been usually pade, believing
that easy to get in and hard to get out will ruin
any church In four generations II allowed The
Episcopal church at New Burlington,
Cincinnati Conference, will be dedicated to-day.
new church is being built at Nort1 Adams, Mass.
TO cost $4,000; II. O. Farrar, pastor. The new
Methodist Episcopal church at Homecoming, West
Va (iiev. T.. Richardson, PASTOR, Will be dedicated
about the 1st Of December. At Hancock, Md,
and Point OF Rocks Md, improved
churches are being erected. The main auditorium
or Centre street Methodist Episcopal church at
Md. REV. $. Y. Leech, PASTOR, is
being prepared Tor dedication by spring. The
church will cost about S3S, COO. The Hanson place
sthodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, is approach
Ing completion. II is TO be opened OH January 4.
rnpre Ia TO he n union dedication at which all the