, 1874-05-24

Bishop Bowman dedicated . neT Methodist
church in Burnside, ILL.,, May 8.
- Five persons we're admitted to membership in
the Ada Street II. Z. Church last Sunday
AT the Halsted Street 81. E. Church, last Sun
dny evening, 126 persons algned tho temperance
pledge.
oyer two Thousand conversions arc reported in
tho Methodist Churches OF Long Island during
the past year.
At Springfield, Wis, 125 pcrsoas havo been re-
ceived on probation, and by letter, as the result
OF q late revival.
The Bo.thern Gonera1 Conference OF tho III.
E. Church has voted not to increase tho present
number Of Binhops.
The church In Austin, MIMI, has been en-
larged and improved and will be reopened June
2, bishop Merrill officiating.
The Christian Advocate (hethodiat organ)
speaks slightingly Of the doctrine OF perfect ho-
iness Is taught and preferred BY the Hoy MIR.
Jusnp and his followers.
First Swedish II. E. Church. About loo converts
have united since the beginning of the year.
The Rev. E. 8hog1on is pastor.
The Rev. Jesse O, Peck, Pastor Of the Cen
tenary II. f. Church, lectures every Monday
orening, to large aasemb)ago. mostly young
converts. On Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress."
The annual meeting Of tho United Methodist
FREQ Churches Of England took place in Exeter
Hall April as, the Lord Mayor presiding. The
mission report showed that there were 43 rnis-
uionarics-an increase OF g.; 6,888 membcrs-nn
increase Of 395; 81 ehapels-an increase OF 81
4,G79 Sunday-schoolH- increase OF 1o0; $50
day -schools-au -:ncreaae OF 6. Ihe total re-
ceipts had becn oTer Ga, GUS.
The meeting Of the Executive Committee Of
the Wonans Foreign Mission Society Of the II.
E. Church Was bald in Philadelphia from May 6
to May IS. Miss Sigourney Traak, III. D., Miss
Annie E. Richie, Miss Lolita Mason. II, D.,
Miss Julia Spar, Miss J. E. Walton, II. D., Miss
N. q. Ogdon, and Miss Julia Lore, II. D.,
daughter Of the Rev. Dr.. Lore, editor Of the
Norlht7n Christian Adrocdte, were accepted for
missionary work. The apportionments for the
ousuing year wero us follows: New England
Branch, elo2t5; New York, ga, G,: 90; North
phi., e5, 5,26o Cincinnati, s10,672; Baltimore,
81, ll2L Total, so1,oA.
- CATHOLIC.
: st. Stephens Catholic Church, OF Chicago. is
to have bell, weighing two and half tons.
The corner stone Of the new Church OF St.
Benedict was laid tn Brooklyn. N. Y, last week.
Sunday, June 4, al the churches. oongro-
gntons, and religious institutions OF tue Catho-
lie Diocese OF Milwaukee will be consecrnted to
tha Sacred Hoart of Jesus. by Bishop Herni.
MAY Il. about q, 900 Catholics from Washing
tou and Baltimore visited shrine Of the Virgin
Mary ut Whitcrnarsh, about Is miles from Wash
inEton, in Prince Georges County. Md 1t is
the first pilgrimage to an American shrine:
Tbs 18th Of April was the anniversary Of the
return OF Pope pius from Gaeta, in 1850, and Of
his oscape from the Catastrophe OF st. Agneai
in 1855. May is tho anniversary OF his birth
day. aod Juno Of bis succession to tha Keys Of
St: Peter.
The colorcd Catholics OF ST.. Augustine's
Church, Louisville. KY, have signed an address
to the Pope, vhich they sond BY the hand OF their
pastor, Father do Mouldor, who goes out With
the pilgrimage. They clso send the Pogo
gold-headed cane.
An exchange says Several thousand young
Pa1islan GIRLS members Of the Society q Enlants
do Marie, vent on pilgrimage TO the Cathedral
Of Notro Dame recently. The line OF carriages
bringing thcro btretched ovar = mile Each pill
grim WIS robed III white, and held d torch In her
hand; every rank OF society ras 1epresented,
from tho grand damo to the poorest OF the poor
At Bordeaux similar denomination took place,
and 1909 women walked in the procession, and
at Orleans Mgr. Dupanloup presided over anosh-
e1 like ceremony.
The Episcopal diocese OF Toronto is to be d.
yidod.
The first etone of thc Episcopal Cathedral at
Edinburgh, Scotland, was laid May FL.
Tho pews in st. James' Church. Baton Rouge,
L., we're made FREQ by the vote OF tho Vestry
Easter-Monday.
Tho Rector Of St. Pau}'s, Fayetteville, Ark,
recently baptized number OF men and 1onen
by immersion.
Tive Dissenting qhspels at Greenwich, En-
gland, have passed ineo the hands Of the Church
within tho last eight years.
There are fourteen graduates OF Cambridge
and thirteen Of Oxford on tEe Episcopal Bench
or England. The oldest Bishop is DR.. Thrill
wall, OF St. Dayid's, born in 1857, and the senior
also by conservation Css0).
Notes and Queries shows that the omission Of
the word .sHoly" in the Nicone Creed before tho
wo1cs tCatholio Church" /" ia . printers fault.
It occurs in the Latin Prayer:Book Of Queen
Elizabeth, and also in that Of Parsel. It occurs
in tho French version, in the Greek, in the
the German modern Greek or Italian tranala-
tions.
The Bishop Of Massachusetts confirmed 400
In his diocese last year. In his address, he
uttered rcgretful Tortis for the detection Of
Bishop Cunm1ns, who had left the Church aud
become the author Of a schism. The Rev. Drs.
Yinton Huntington, Burgess, and Lambert, and
Bennett, rero elected Deputies to the Goner1l
Convention.
Tho General Synod OF tho Irish Church Is dis
cussng the Athauasisu Greed. One gentleman
has proposed to strike it out OF the Prayer
Booa; smother to omit tho damnatory clauhcs,
that it is to bo taken as warning, not con-
demnatory. Tho damnatory clauses are no part
OF tho creed, and the creed itsalf has no refer
cEce to anything but tho Divinity of Christ
Tho Rt. Rev. DR.. Kerfoot, tho Bishop Of Pitts
burgh. in late address, said: !" just Aye years
ago Bishop Cummna Htote For myself, love
the Protestant Episcopal Church moro feryently
as life advances. TO me she is the fair AMI pure
bride Of Christ, tho glory OF the Reformed
Churches, loyal to Christ and His trrth in her
articles, offices, and ho1nilies and probably. aa
free from innaHcctiong az church can be,
composed Of fnluple men, in whom the work Of
God'a grace Is always Incomplete
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Independent has removed its Office to more
commodions quarters, At 261 Broadway
Tho British Wesleyaus at Hankov. China, have
189 church members and lob probatonota- ---'-,
Tho First African Church Of Richmond, Va, at
a lato business meeting, excluded seventeen
members for dancing.
Seventeen missionaries belonging to fhe Pres
tcrian Women's Foreign Missionary Society are
laboring in foreign larda. ,..
Inle Theological Seminary graduated tWenty-
four ministers this year, and Union thirty