The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-01-17

lege. newark. has been appointed superior OF St
Malachy's Monastery or the Benedlctine Order.
Iowa. The reverend gentleman Is succeeded As the
college by the Rev. X. NJ Goodman.
BAPTIST.
states has gained In the year 1874 81 associations
900 churches, 1855 Ordained ministers and IN, 031
Misunderstanding the present grand totals 94S
associations, 2l,510 churches with STRINGS for
100000 persOns). 1884 ordained ministers ana
l.76llIl church members, OF whom lo2. 90 were
received by baptism the past year.
In $40, little more than generation ago. Bap-
list church members were as one 10 every thirty
than as one to every twenty three OF the popula-
tion Little less than Nth Of the whole people
sympathy. identified with the Baptists
Rev. l.. G. Brown. VINO has labored among tho
weak churches Of che Black River Baptist Assoca
alton, Northern New York, has removed to tho st.
Lawrence Association, and taken charge OF the
churches at Hermon and Russell.
The Baptist churches at Carthage and Pntladei-
phia, Jefferson county both good fields and ablo
to sustain pastors. are vacant. and looking for
undersnepherds. The feeble churches at Creae
Bend, Evans Mills, Harrisburg and Copenhagen.
The Baptist church at Camden. N. J.. Rev. C. H.
Johnson pastor, Is enjoying a work OF grace. NIno
have recently been baptized ana others are await
ing the ordinance. The meetings and interest coa-
tlnue.
At Claremont. N. H., writes the Rev. G. A. Pid-
dock, the Church has been remarkably blessed.
Forty-hve have been aadci the work is deepening
and converts are coming in every month.
The rededicatlon services OF the First Baptist
church OF Andover. n T., VIII take place On
The new Baptist church OF sennett, N Y, was
dedicated on Thursday, January Ia.
Rev. Dr. ID. Ii. Miller, OF this city, has accepted
the call from the Greenpoint Baptist church. He
closed his ministry with Plymouth Charge lass
The Rev W. C. Van Meter writes from Rome to
the Baptist Weekly that the Vatican chapter OF
81. Peters have opened an opposition school 70
his Bible and day schools, anu distributed circu-
lars among the people calling upon them to send
their children to the new school, instead or to MIS-
But on the day after this school was opened no
had three new scholars, and tue number has since
increased instead OF having diminished. His mis-
SION Is R meeting MIN Rnregnam success r
Second Baptist church. ST. Louis, Is lying in very
critical condition from an attack OF typhoid lever.
The Rev. q. U. Biting, d. d., pastor OF the Sec
ond Baptist church. OF Richmond, Va, baptized
two persons in the river Jordan during the month
OF November He Is now on the ocean, on his re-
Rev. A. M. Simonton has accepted q call TO the
pastOrate or the Manchester and Pleasant Plain
(Ohlo) free Baptist churches and has entered
on hi, lab0rs.
The OLD seventeenth street church, Rev. Robert
Cameron, pastor, have purchased church prop
erty on Twenty-ninth street, near Ninth avenue.
BY this purchase they get comfortable church,
better than the one they sold, IN better location.
and have $4,000 lett.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The controversy on the CongregaJionalist- uni.
tartan question continues. All parties want to
have their say on 1t, and the more they say the
more they appear to leave unsaid. Some Of the
Congregationalists frankly admit that they have
modified their views TO some extent on sucn aues-
tions as the inspiration OF the Scriptures, endless
punishment and the conditions OF salvation, and
Justify the change.
The LucknO,o Witness reports revival among
the Monammedans OF LUCKNOW. Deserted mosques
have been repaired, some attempts at stress
preaching have been made, and schools in which
their religion is taught have been opened. The
same paper states that the worship OF the Hind00
goddess Darga has been introduced into the city.
4rhe Rev. Joel Schwartz, d. D., has received ana
accented call to become the pastor OF the Meg
sian Lughern church Of the city OF Philadelphia.
AS the 1rst fruits Of the late revival in Nashua,
1897 members were received into the different
churches last Sunday.
The Christian Woman's State Temperance
League will hold It's second Convention In Brook
lyn, February and 4. Headquarters at the rooms
Of tue Young Mems CAristtan Association.
Rev. j. G. Duncan, OF the st. Louis Conference,
Methodist Episcopal Church., South, has joined the
Congregational Church.