, 1874-05-03

Fla, wero present :he Rector, formerly Cor
federato officer, and his Sunday school 8upoEir
tendent, formerly Federal Officer
Grace Church, Madison, Wis, has chino c
bells.
Tho average income Of the 1871 Rectors 0
the Church OF England is $500.
There are t1ro co1ored churches in Beltimori
supported by five Episcopal congregations.
The Rev Dr. 3IcMurdy has presented !5s per
sons for confirmation within twelve months.
st. Pauls, Marquette, Mich, gives eso, 600 t
the endowment Of & new diocese in Michigan.
The church OF Stephen Il. Tying, Jr., in Nes
York CITY, will seat 1,soo persons, and has cos
S150,U00.
The Bishop OF Manchester WAS the umpire be-
tween the operative house-painters aud the mas
| ters Of Manchester, in their late troubles.
The Society for the increase OF the Ministr
in the Protestant Episcopal Church grant aid t
1T scholars in the various schools in the Unitee
States.
| The Church Of Sweden has preserved an his
| torical Episcopate, although Lutheran in faith.
1t and the American Church a-e now acting in
| concert.
It is often said that the Church Of England
was created ny act Of Parliament Prot Brewer
| in the Guardian has shown the absurdity OF
this. from the language of Parliamentary stat
| utes.
Il leading member Of the 1ate Evangelical
Alliance, and prominent Low Church Episco-
| palian, says: "H Kltualists have no right, on
the ground Of their faith in our common Savior,
! to remain in the Protestant Episcopal Church,
! then 30 much the worse for the Church; it is
| hopelessly sect"
Probably DR.. s. H. Tyng, Jr., Rector Of Holy
Trinity Church, New York, has the greatest
| missionary church Of that denomination. He
has now fire mission parishes With chapels and
aettled pastors; SIX Sunday schools, with 1000
children; and the whole establishment is run ut
an annual cost Of 935,000.
Church and S2ate says: "No Clergyman should
be suffered to impose the confessional upon
persona desiring the sacrameuts, whether under
the Roman Catholic form, which explores the
prlvacies Of life; OF under the approved Protest.
ant form which intrudes upon the holiest secrets
OF the heart Il to prevent oppression be op-
p1essige. the Church must be an oppressor."
A writer who is troubled about the growing rit-
uallstio tendencies OF the Episcopal Church,
says: Last year the ministers Of twenty-five
Episcopal Churches in London wore Eucharistio
Last year only eight Episcopal Churches in Lon
don used incense. Now it is used in fourteen.
Altar-nghts are used In thirty-si1 churches"
Wilmington, Del, has q population Of IS, 900,
and five Episcopal churches. The oldest church
("Old Swedes y dates lack to 1923. The COM
UlunloU- U-EG1f1ce was InaQo IL 6Weden, IN 11l6.
Its original pulpit first used by tho Swedish
missionary Biork, Was sent ont by s'Charles XII,
Of glorious memory" on Trinity Sunday, 1899.
This parish church links together Swedish En-
gliRh, and American Episcopalans in one broth
erhood-
Wilinm and Mary College, Virginfa, is, next to
Harvard, the Oldest college in the United States.
4 has given to the country four slgnels Of the
Declaration OF Independence, two Presidents OF
the United States, one Y1ce-p President, oue act
ing President, Cabinet officers, Senators, Judges,
officers OF the army, including Gen. Scott and Of
tho nary. In it's national character and services
it has exceeded al literary Institutions.
Bishop Whittle, Of Virginin. in recent ad-
dress said: Giving is part of worship, and
when We meet to worship, we should give. It is
as much OF Christian duty to give as to pray.
When man can be Christian without praying, |
then, aud only then can he be Christian with !
ont giving. The poor are under as much obli- |
CATION to give as the rich Each man according |
to his ability. The little given by the poor is as
acceptable in the sight OF God as the much given
By the rich"
BAPTIST.
Tbs First Church IN Detroit has contracted
for the erection Of it's uain church building, At
cost Of sA0,750.
The Baptists on the Island Of Jamaica report
LOS churches, 1.277 baptlsms. and total mem
,ership Of 22,6G0.
Two were baptized in the Indiana Avenue
Baptist Church last Sundny evening, and one is
o be baptized Tonight
The now Baptist Church edfce At G1iggsyi1le
L., is to be dedicated May TO- with q sermon BY
he Rev. ". ~ Everts, y. D.
The revival in the First Baptist Church In Al
'auy, the Rev. D. II. Reeves, pastor, has re-
ulted in the conversion Of mora than 100 souls
Prot. Allen Curr, the distinguished Scottish
Iuthor, will deliver course Of slx lectures in
,hicago under the auspices Of the Baptist
1nion,
The Seyeuth-DaJ Baptsta in this country re-
ort 80 churches, ITO ministers, aud $500 COM
They are nearly all close cora-
1union.
The Baptists Of Hyde Park have Effected q
nurch organization, and have called the Rev. E.
. Baylss to be it's pastor at q salary OF f1,G00
er annum.
It is said that seven Baptist churches have
cen organized in Chicago and vicinity during
10 last year. and that an equal number viii
robaby be organized in tie next twelve
lonths. ]
The annual meeting OF tho Chicago Baptist
Fniou will be held tomorrow evening IN the t
irst Church, when the election OF officers aud I
le transaction Of other important business will
'ko place. !
Three hundred persons were baptized dur
g the past winter by tho Baptist pastors of
lttsburgh. Pa, and three now churches hare |
zen formed through their instramentality
thin the last twelve months, and $40 600 raised
II church building, notwithstanding the panic.
The Union Of the First and the Pienepont !
aptist Churches in Brooklyn has been per- !.
cted, with the Rev, Dr.. ]. B. Thomas, formerly
the Michigan Avenue Baptist Church. as pas
+. The United Church ia prosperous, and r
easurcs are. being taken for the erection OF = 4
9W house OF Torshp. {
Reyivals in tho Baptist churches continue to
noted. The Paducah, Ky, Church reports E
venty additions tho North Topeka, KAN, Il
1urca reports forty !; the Saline, Kan, Church, I
$; at Muscatine, Ia, forty have been added,
d a consiaerable church debt removed !; at =,
lgewood, Ia, twelve were baptized = fow 4
seks ago. and, at Alabama Town, ten. :,
Tho Standard learns that there is great
obabiity that four out Of the five ministerial g
1dents in the graduating class Of the University n
Chicago will be compelled to abandon their :.
1dies and not enter tho Theological Seminary u
E the want OF means, It calls upon tho churches
come to their aid, so that they may pursue G
Bir studies. T