The New York herald., 1873-12-28

PRESBYTERIAN.
The PRESBYTERIAN church AT South Charleston
pays Its minister his salary every week; good
example. There are in the Church OF scotland 924
parishes the ministers OF which are supported in
whole or IN part from the Endowment funds. NO
living is less than $3.50 year, and the average
salary OF THESE ministers, including parsonage, &c.,
is 81, 800 There are also AZ parishes whose minis
ters paid $500 each from the Consolidated und.
and ISL parishes where ministers provided for by
voluntary contributions The aggregate amount re-
ceved ana expended on minister's. chapels, preach
Ing stations, education, missions, &c., Dy this
Church is S3,3 00O The memorial stone of the new
church built Tor Mr. Knight, the ''Eeretc" OF Dun
dee, was recently laid by the Provost OF that city.
Mr. Knight said on this occasion that II was his wish
to live and work with every section OF the Chris
tan church. Principal Card, oil Glasgow, Is 10
open the new churcn on the first sunday OF 1874.
Rev. Mr.. Burkhead, OF Cherokee Presbytery.
Georgia. recently visited Cedartown and found III
a section l5 by 20 miles square Just eight Presby-
terans, no Sunday school. no preaching. lie re-
mained nve days. preached IL sermons, organized
\ church with 10 members ana u sunday school
With over GO scholars. And now-two months
snce-they have cnurch building which cost
their minister. Rev. W. +. Arms has accepted
call TO the Second Presbyterian church. Vantage,
N ]. Rev. Newman Hall has raised about $4,000
towards building the Lincoln Tower'' OF his new
church IN London during his late visit TO America.
DR.. A. A. Wood has been Installed pastor
y. \. The new Presbyterian church at
syracuse ONO, was dedicated Two weeks ago.
The PreSby yteranS OF Westfed, N y, are building
$4,000 church, which they expect TO occupy next
summer.
METHODIST.
Bishop Simpson Is to SAIL from New Orleans
January for Mexico, 10 visit the newly established
Methodist missions in that country. Two lady mis-
slonaries will accompany him. Bishop Peck left
Syracuse last Friday to return to California Rev.
DR.. Cobleigh. OF Atlanta, who came North to attend
the annual meeting OF the Board or Education, re-
turned home again last week. Rev. Henry Bleby,
superintendent Of Wesleyan missions III the Bahia
mas, who has been on a brief visit TO this city,
sailed for his MISSION home on Wednesday last
Rev. Professor John J. Brown, A. NJ. Professor IN
Syracuse University, has received the appointment
out by the government OF the United States to
take observations on the transit OF Venus. lie Is
to be gone 10 months from next May. lie will first
proceed TO China. Rev. Francis Howarth OF the
North Mississippi Conference Methodist Episcopal
Church, South has been transferred to California
and stationed ut Gllroy. At Manticoke, N. u, over
30 persons have been converted. AT Stoddards-
vile, \. Y, 90 persons have united on probation
At cnheid springs new new chnroa % VIII be dedicasea
Lake, N. u, dedicated on Tuesday last.
The :, remodelled church at North Ridge,
The Church Extension Society has received and
disbursed from its beginning to November l. 1878,
count OF the loan fund. More than $4,000 OF this
latter sum has been returned and reoaned; 1,l27
churches have been aided by the society. Metho.
dist Church property increases at the rate Of
$5,000,000 year. The pastoral Of the Methodist
Bishops recommends the membership OF the
Church to be plain in their dress and unoStenta-
tious in the Lords house. 1t recommends resp0n-
sive services and congregational singing and earn
est, spiritual scriptual preaching. The first Meth
Kelly, appointed seven years ago ana from a small
and comparatively recent beginning the work in
TINS direction has grown to one VI great results.
The .sBoston Sunday School and Missionary So
clety OF the Methodist Episcopal church, was
chartered in 1869. The nrst year 1t raised $4,000
and employed missionary, and the next year
four 1ourlshing schools were reported. three Of
them in new chapels. Early IN the present year
the scope OF the society was enlarged.
The society had under consideration the
past year y church enterprises in various
new churches have been organized under
the direct influence OF the society during
the past year in the city and vicinity, and at the
last annual report five other mission schools were
mentlo ned, and since that time some seven or
eight other rAw fields of promise have been devel-
oped, and the preliminary work Is being done in
still other localities. The receipts OF the society
last year upwards OF 1900, and the mission
churches and Sunday schools themselves contrib
uted S3,175 sS Some wealthy Metnodists OF Boston
have purchased the use OF Music Hall ior sunday
religious services, and new enterprise is 70 be
started there. The whole number OF Methodist
churches in Boston last April was Is, and the men,
bership 1000, besides 100 probationers. The valua
tion OF the church property was SS0O,0OO. The Wes
leyan Building, owned Dy an association, IS valued
at $780, 900 more.
EPIsCOPALIAN.
The Bishop OF Manchester, England, preaching at
Anfeld, near Liverpool recently, denounced ritual
ism, ana said that those who practlsed it were
alike dls0ya to the Church and to their ordination
VOWS. The Chicago rltualists are not quite unani-
nous among themselves in regard 10 the secession
OF Bishop Cummins and the ordination OF Dr. Che
ney to the Bshopric OF the Reformed Episcopal
Church. Dr. Locke, OF Grace church, calls Bishop
Cummins a ''traitOr,' but declares also that It
mattered not how bad man Bishop Cnmmns
was or might become, 'yet II he had been ordained
priest by the regular Episcopal forms he stlll
had the power OF impartin9 the presence of Christ
in the bread and wine OF the Eucharist and OF re-
generating the soul by BAPTISM church and
state reports that It's editor has received during
the past week paper In which the alteration OF
the eucharistic elements Is recommended IN Prot
estant Episcopal churches The editor very une-
quivocally condemns such practice and declares
that it ought TO be suppressed, Tor there is most
Imminent perm to the peace and unity OF the
Church II II IS not. Christ church, Boston-tne
Oldest church building in that cty-will celebrate
the l50th anniversary OF Its founding to-day. The
Protestant Episcopal city Mission Society, OF this
city, employs six missionaries who have, during
the past month, held 96 public services, gathered
664 children into sunday schools 34s into industrial
schools ana 3i into day schools, besides caring Tor
a number OF orphans and homeless poor. This
work cost $3.50. 81. Mary's church. Manhattan.
vile, was 80 years old on Thursday 18th inst. 1t
duly commemorated the event. Ii is proposed TO
raise $4,000 from the Episcopal churches OF New
Jersey, in order TO increase The present Episcopal
is thought, viii be The least sum winch viii
warrant the division OF the present diocese into
two and to support two bishops. The division can.
not take place until alter the meeting OF the next
General Convention.
BAPTIST
series OF revival meetings in the Baptist church
at Greenwich, Conn, mas added l6 TO the member
snip; at Monongahea, Pa, ~ have proiessed iaith
in Christ; at Wllliamsport Pa, over 30 have risen
for prayers, many oi whom have been converted .
at lmlaystown n. j., nearly 100 have Deen forward
Tor prayers during the two weeks revival, a large
number Ol Wnoni nave yielded thelr hearts to the
divine influences. The work Is still spreading,
Roxborough Baptist church, Philadelphia, and
franklord church, in the same city, both ENJOY
ing revival blessings The Baptist church at
Bloomington, y. J which has been IN a sicky con-
dtion for some time, has at last Yielded up the
ghost and disbanded. Mr.. I. o'c. Ekine
was ordained on the 18th inst. and
installed pastor Of the Baptist church at
yncenttown, y. J. Rev. william Turner has
assumed the pastorate OF the Baptist church at
salem, y. {. The Baptist churches at Thomasville
! Jersey, Reeds Cross Roads and Pine Meeting
| House, n. c., are pastorlcss. The Baptists OF
Winton, y. g., have nearly completed church
edIhce aud secured g pastor. me FIRST Baptist
question The pastor rev. MIR. ReevesJ is "open,''
and 80 is q large minority OF his congregation. lie
resigned laley. and was about TO depart TO pas
lures new, when ms open communion friends
rallied, organized themselves and re-engaged his
services as pastor. Charles Ditiln, lccntiatc OF
the Rlchburg IN ~ church. accepts a call 10
Smthport. Pa. Rev. r. X. Sheldon, OF Evans
Mills goes 10 Smthville, y. y. Rev. Thomas
Crudginton, OF Stepney, Conn. has taken charge
oi the Sortn Kingstown church, X. l. Rev.