, 1874-09-20

churches, eleven OF which hare been organized
during tho ya.r. Tho total membership IL j, :!.39
Seven years ago thcro Wero but forty chnrcac:
and about q thousand members.
| REFORMED EPISCOPAL
Letters recently received give the most cheer
ing intelligence Of improvement III Bishop Cum
minis health. lie has rccently preached IN Otta'
WA. laid tho cornerstone of the new church,
held an ordination, and gooo through with muei
severe labor, and finds himself much better tta1
| . few weeks ago.
The Rev. James L. Latane who 30 long age
withdrew from the Protestant Episcopal Church.
hut deferred lis formal connection with the l'e-
formed Epiacopal Church. has now ~taaen this
latter step, and will probably tako charge Of the
new church in Louisville. kE.
A correspondent of the Ne1 York World,
writing from Denver, Col relates how it is thnt
the Llttleton Col, Church became the first
church organized under the auspices Of the 10
formed Episcopal Church. Tie correspondent
| sayB:
The circumstances which led to the Reformed Epts-
IN .! Yo1t and sre not little
rious Just bcforu the death OF Bishop fandal, tie
1tcr. J. ]. heFadden proteg:, and, *s y scena
was sent to Iiticon to tako elar5e OF the Mission
| Church which ha1 just been eroc;.d there OIL tho
@ asr s nho so ths town is Is rae IL had no:
very org been 14taed in this position when the Gum
J 1niua movement WAS inau2ur4ted In New iork; aud
missionary LOO miles away. McFadden hnd
built up quito g congregation for h's church.
E:,iscopalans at all, but di~scnters, drawn to
ge.ller by regard for this preacher .s joyia1
es:npanion rather than rseet to hs character a.
that he could carry hs congregation with linn over to
! Cum1n:ns; and, with that idea tho second Sunday IN
january hs conducted the SCI vices according to what
lie termed tho Reformed Ral, and preached Eer-
mon announcing The Platform 81 q tue NV ". 1sh IT, and
| and rF
| McFadlens dissenting discirlsa went on to
manage affairs with high hand; They
into church, a3d, wAcu Mr.. Little, in spirit Of
Christian charity b1de them God speed in their under
Si S. eFadrn VIZ, e eoois a Informed him tha he
was very well contcnte with the edire they then
| cupet1. Although tAis certainly strict follow
he did not meet with the SINE sue
cess. 1t 30 llappcucd tbct Mr. L!tto and his vile
church u lad no ves:ry aud, a. Dishop Randall had
refused to haye the decd Of tle land on which it was
uiit nade out III hia the title still remained in
the hands cf Mr.. Little. lie accordingly had tho whip
han Of the situation aud the MsFaddenise+ finally
seeded in body. aud, accepting Ar. litties offer Of
cree: sn slce II tier own. they went 10 work. and
with the aid Of contributions oltained by MtFaden
from the Cheney and Cunslins faction in the Elst
but the structure. It il brick building, - fest long
by s. in w,tth and il nuisEed i'll white stone The
bill gift of young stcILen Tsne, aud it's inscrip
sjor tha.iit calls worship tie congregation
Of the First Reformed Episcopal Church Of Anerita."
BAPTIST.
The Fourth Avenue BAPTIST Church st Pitts
burg, Pa, laid the co-1lcr-stoue Of q new house
of Worship Sept =.
eLort tirne ago gentleman Gaye llr Spur
geou, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, clech
lor $50. GOO. requesting that 1t be divided be-
tween the Olphauase and the Students College,
both Of which are appordaSes Of tho Taher-
uacie.
The Daptiss Convention Of the maritime prov
inces Of the Dominion OF Canada, which met at
Portland, New Brunswick, reported tie follow
ing rratintlcs: IN Nova Scotia, Ill churches,
19,325 members. aud 1882 bap:ls1ns dulinS tho
wear; III Ne1 Brunswick. l33 churches, 10,S2S
members, anu 485 baptisms; in Prince Edward
Island II churches. :,60 members, l5i baptirms;
making n total Of 329 churches 81, ,S53 members,
aud ,unl GaEtlsms.
MISCELLANEOUS.
/ email mission OF about dozen mombera
comprises tho church at Antioch, where the Dis
cirles were first called Christians.
Berlin has LOO, 900 inhabitants less than New
York, yet the American metropolis has ITO places
of worship, and the German only Gu.
Tho Norwegian Lutheran Church on West In-
diana street, the Eey. lGr. ForScrson rsstor.
contributed STAT to the CaicaSo Bible Society
last Sunday.
While all Christcndom paid. last year, for tte
support OF the war system S2eoo. 0o3,0o there
81, 600, 900. TITO time for the beating OF swords
into plonsharcs is stlll in the future.
An Eastern Journal remarks that wsslthy
church in Massachusetts has been without
pastor for two years, during which tln:c 1t has
heard eiShty-tiso different ministers, aud get it
is still looking lpr the ziSh: man.
Tho American Board Of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions holds ITS au1ual meeting III
Rutlaud, IT.. Oct. 6, the first meeting Of the
Board in that State. Tie debt Of the Board
which was on tue 1st of july :ss, 175, by tho
1st OF August reduced to 500, 7i5.
DR.. Lorimcr. of fremont Temple (Baptist) is
about to start newspaper devoted to tue inter-
e=ts Of lis church. 1t will be called the Lrrae
of the Temple. The Roy. Wnylsnd Iloyt, of
Sl,awnut Avenue Church, has paper named
tho Parish Messenger. and the Rev. Nr. pente- |
costs paper is called Sdluta!io'
At the late conference Of the New Jerusalem
(Swcdcnborg:an) Church i'll London, there were
present seventeen ministers aud ifty-thrce lay |
delcSatcs The place Of assembling was near |
the spot where Swcdenborg died, March q, |
1872. The Topics discussed we're the New Church |
dav-schools, the college missionary institutions,
etc Tho revised liturgy which has been in
hand for Eoycral years, was announced as COM |
plcted, and MAS adopted |
The New York ErcninJ Post sara plans for . |
new Greek chuIch-c1liee, 10 Do built in Nen |
Yurk, and to cost $50, 900. have been forwarded
to st. Petersburg for approval. About So, 900 |
havo been received already in aid Of the project,
Mr. NInans, OF Baltimore, having given SIC, 600.
x lot for tha building was purchased for the |
Russian Government soma time ago, Oil Lex
ington aveuue, between Fiftieth and Fifty-tirst
streets.
The San Francisco PAPERS nre mentioning tho |
organization OF new church in that city for tho I
liev. DR.. Carpenter, WHO rent there from, Brook
lyn few ycu,s ago. A part Of ths platform is
that "tho Society shall not be identified with
any other sect or denomination, nor be so repre-
soutcd CT regarded; and while each individual
shall tc at liberty to retain his own religious
opinious. the minister in charge will be left en-
tircly untram1ncled in his pulpit uttcranccs."
The English Universities Mission to Central
Af11ca appears to have proved failure. 1t was
presided over by Bishop Tozer, OF Zanzibar,
whose moro recent missionary zeal has been e1-
crted in Ncv York upon the Dean Of Canterbury
aud other misguided EpiFcopahans. It baptized
4 few infants in tho INTERIOR and then retired to
the I.,and OF Zanz,oar. where. as Livingstone
said, 1t degencrated into nero chaplaincy OF
the Consulate.
PERSONAL.
CHICAGO.