The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-02
Ministerial Movements and Changes.
LUTHERAN.


Ministerial Movements and Changes.
LUTHERAN.
In Philadelphia there are twenty-five Lutheran
churches. OF which eleven are German and fourteen
English. Nine Of these churches are missions not
yet fully established. The aggregate number OF
Is 5000. The Scandinavians are
building a church at Waco. Texas. Lutherans
fresh from fatherland retain the old German GUS
tom Of taking up collection at weddings and
baptisms Rev. Mr.. Wren has been serving the
Swedish congregation at New Sweden, Me-, at
salary Of only $3.50 year. He could do better
than that making hats or shoes or digging bitches
In the Maryland Synod there are sixty-fve minis
ters fortysx past0rates, and 49, 45S communicates.
Rev. B. F. Aleman late OF Topeka Kansas, has &C
copied call to Woodsboro, Md. Rev. A. Buhrman
has resigned the Milton charge and accepted call
to Lovettsville, Virginia. A German Lutheran
church has been organized in Yonkers, ON the Hud-
son, and is supplied by the Rev. William Koenig
From October, 1871, to October 1872, twenty-five
Lutheran ministers died in America, and of these
ten were between sixty and seventy years of age.
The average age Of all was hfty-two years and
twenty-One days.
PRESBYTERIAN.
The General Assembly Of the Presbyterian Church
OF Canada have issued memorials to the Dominion
Parliament and to the several railroad companies,
asking that stop be put to Sunday trafic and
Sabbath desecration on their roads, ami in these
memorials unite Revs. w. Morley Punshon, wes-
leyan; William Stewart, Secretary of the Baptist
Missionary Convention Of Canada; Bishop Richard
son, Of the Methodist Episcopal Church; W. F.
Clarke, Congregational, and others. The Anglican
Bishop OF Toronto, while unable to sign the memo
pressed his sympathy with the movement. Rev.
W. A. Kerr, pastor OF the First Presbyterian
church in Wiiamsport, Pa, has lust been tried on
band, preferred against him by his wife. The
charges were sustained by vote Of 81 to !, and
from the ministry and from the communion of the
Church. MI. Kerr has appealed to the Synod Of
churches have built new houses OF worship
ohio: They are both on Fourth street and
gate cost is about one hundred and fifteen thou
sand dollars. Rev. J. s. Hanna has recently been
sppfh q Rev My church Sas M
Waterloo and gone to Dubuque, Iowa. Rev. John
N. Bishop has accepted call to the Presbyterian
York at Its last meeting adopted resolutions re-
commencing the operations OF the Sustentation
dence and aid OF Presbyterian pastors and people.
One weeks revival meetings In Hiawatha, Mo-,
ending February l6 resulted In fifteen additions
verts were the father and sister OF the pastor, Rev.
s. T. Davis. The Presbyterian church In Hastings,
MIMI, has received an addition or nftynine to It's
membership. the result Of revival just closed.
The Presbyterian church at Farley has taken IN
the
The First Presbyterian church Of Brdgewater, Pa,
on February 10, received forty-fve, making fifty
since January l, and the work Is still in progress.
The Presbyterian church In Xenia, Ohio, at its last
communion took in thirty whine and the church at
Tppecanoe City received fifteen.
Rev. Henry Rate, pastor OF the Fourteen Holy
rope on thursday Febr"afy 20 He s WIZ remain
away for several months, and during his absence
the parish will be attended by the Redemptorist
daily meetings, is being held in St. Marys Catholic
church, Gloucester city, n j.. under the ministra
Rev. DR.. Leonard, lately consecrated Bishop Of
Cape Town, Africa, received an address and $500
in Ireland recently Father Fox an old resident
as pastor and visitor ' among On, the poor and
was his custom to visit from house to house. The
new Catholic church, the first brick building. OF
completion. Father Smith, Of E@mettsSurs. Iowa.
disappeared mysteriously during recent storm
and is thought to have perished. Very Rev.
OF Liverpool Father Sullivan, formerly OF Hudson,
n: Y, is now at Salem in the same State Father
week. Very Rev. Arnold Darrien s. j., has
Just concluded .'retreat" at Auburn, N. Y.
ESEs5S DGnsT e. irish PRIEST
in soliciting contributions ior the cree
tion Of new church. A handsome new church,
New Hampshire and will shortly be dedicated. To
Rev. Thomas Walsh Is due the credit of its erec-
era years past Connected with The college Of the
Redemptorist Fathers at Annapolis, and lately the
rector, has been transferred to Boston. Father
Hayden, assistant pastor Of st. Mary's, Syracuse,
New York, has just been appOinted pastor OF St.
Francis Xavier's Marcellus Onondaga county, and
said, Win visit America the coming Autumn, and
will take part in the meeting OF the evangelical
Alliance He win present his views Of reform in
'he hV~as S. .".r METHODIST. r'a'' M
The following are the statistics Of Louisiana
Conference for ls72:I , rs, 1909; mem
S2O4,o4s; parsonages. 9; value, $4,000; debts on
otncers and teachers, siO scholars, 4,sl4; volumes
in libraries 4,073; conversions, SIS. Total amount
& % M II he e. r the
it had 1000 members IN 1872 it was within i i2o
1878 1t will report an advance OF sixty per
cent OF i2,sos ~, They have purchased college
through the Church to secure money for the pay,
ment Oft. The new Trinity Methodist Episcopal
church at Lafayette, Ind erected At cost OF over
March 4: Bishop McTyeire, Of the Methodist Epis::
copal church, South, has been spending several
S ana family BISHOPS James and Foster made
him brief visit last week. The Fifth street Meth
odist Episcopal church at ST. Joseph Mo-, has
grown from sixty to about two hundred members
during the last three years. A mission sunday
school has been organized in the southern part OF
the city, and instead OF the one home-schoo, num-
nourishng schools with over i've hundred pupils,
The south Mission Methodist Episcopal church, Min
ncapelis, Mimi, organized year ago with thirty
eight members, and now numbers zoo. Bishop
Merrill spent two or three days in Cincinnati last
week, en- route TO preside at the session OF the
Kentucky Conference. He was formerly mem
Der of that conference. The new Methodist Epis
copai church at Live OAK, Fla, Is nearly COM
elegant edifce nearly finished. The Troy Con-
ference win meet April "a instead Of March 20.
bishop Wiley has selected location at Austin,
ofthe colored people. Atlanta Is to have South
ern Methodist Book Depository shortly. Ozark,
Ala, Is raising money to build Methodist church.
The revival influence seems to be spreading all
over the country. Our religious exchanges bring
us additional reports Of the progress Of the work
Peoria Iowa, about ifty-one have joined the Metho
dist Episcopal Church. At Tuly, N. Y. eighty