, 1875-08-01


inGs 1t Campbell's Park Mission 1he peop!e
are much Interested, and there ia nne prospect
for houriEhlng church.
RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. ~-
THE CHURCH N GENERAL
Tho First Baptist Church has sold its Wabash
avenue lot-the sle Of the house OF Notshp
DESTROYED By fire last year-for $4,000. After
paving OF the mortgage there will remain about
$4,000 to be applied to the construction Of tue
new edi6ce 1t Thrty-frss street.
The Reformed Episcopal Church continues TO
grow rapidly. New churches have been recently
organized at Washington, Va, and NeWeureh'
N. T. The congregation at Baltimore. ha., IN
der Bishop Cumrplns have contf1pu1eo enpuku
money to build commod1ous stone puA1tihs
which is to be dedicated free from oeot. 1ne
Rey, P. F. Stevens, formerly prominent ooutn
Carolina Presbyter. le the Latest access'on Aton4
the old church 70 the new.
In Msas sachueetts the Baptists are pow raising
$3.50, 900 for educational objects-Sl00,oo0 OF
this eum to be appropriated to the Ne~ton 1beo-
logical institution, $50. 900 to Worcester Acade-
nv. $50, 900 to Brown University, $50. 600 to Col
By University, $50. o00 to the missionary onioh'
to be used for purposes Of Christian education,
and $40. 600 to the Baptist Home Missionary So
ciety. These figures are very remarkable, when
it il remembered that in 1762 there wera but
fifty eix Baptist churches in America
To-day the cornerstone OF St. Anne's new
church, corner OF Wentworth avenue and Fifty
fifth street, will be laid by Bishop Foley, At
o'clock p. m The Rev. Father Leydon, pastor
Of the church, has engaged twenty coaches Of
the Rock Island Company for the accommoda-
ton Of societies and all who wish to be present
at the ceremony, Tho cars will 1eaye the Chi
cago Rock Island T. Pacific Rai1road. Van Buren,
street depot, 1t 2 o'clock p. m.. stopping at
III irt~& TraY ~ 11N FfE
first. and Forty third streets fo- passengers.
people and the pastors is becoming 30 general
that serious discussion has grown up a. to the
ethics OF vacations, alike in their influence upon
the city churches, which are deserted ana the
country churches, which receive new nelghoors
aud ought to receive new helpers. The complalnt
is that many peraons desert their city pews and
are slack in their contributions, without doing
much if ANYTHING. for religion in their rural ro-
treats. 1t is SAID that in the summer months
the free churches Of this city fall far behind the
needed amount of contributions. and IN Some
cases their continuance is in danger. Probably
the statement OF the evil viii do much to correct
it.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey start for home
Aug. l. Before leaving they will take brief
rest in tho South OF England. At meeting OF
the Superintendenls and visitors engaged in
house to house visitation Of the metropolis, be-
tween S.Uut 6ul 4uVu p6InuH6 a]tEAu6u. 4tA1s
Reginald Radcliffe, the Chief Superintendent,
reported that visitation WAS going on in 4c0 dis
sricts leaving si1ty-sx districts to be filled up.
The Earl Of Cavan, who is = Superintendent, OK
pressed The opinion that the upper classes in the
West End OF London we're as much in need of
Cole, Of Chicago, who is cooperating with Mr.
Moody, holds very successful ch1ld1en's meet
ings.
Some Of the colored congregations OF The
Protestant Episcopal Churca in South Carollua
appear to have been agitated bv the reform
movement, and the late Rector OF Grace Church.
Andersen, knd st. Luke's, Newbury. the Rev.
Mr. Stevens, has left the ministry to which he
was ordained and gone over to the reformed or
ganizatien Of Bishop Cummins. He 1B expected
to 60 at once to his new work OF organizing the
colored congregations in St. Stephens and
Upper st. Johns parishes. Bishop Howe heard
of his secession first from the secular papers. and
the Ao,slaly Record deplores the fact and A.
crbes the secession to the neglect Of the Board OF
Missions last year to accept the proposition OF
Bishop Howe. and to provide missionary
Bishop for the colored people OF the Sonth-an
omission which Bishop Cummins ls ready to
make up for by consecrating such Bishop. Six
or eigh. congregations ara expected to secede ut
once.
The new building Of the Philadelphia Y. n. c.
L. will be "a feet on Chestnut and SAMSON
streets, and $50 feet on Fifteenth street. to be
built OF pressed brick, With Ohio sandstone
dressings. It will be four stories high, with
French roof and basement. The main entrance
will be on Fifteenth street, through an arched
doorway Is fest vide, over which will rise tow
ar On Chestnut street there will be three stores
100 feet deep each, aud On the southern end OF
the lot on Fifteenth street there will be four
stores 60 feet deep; on the second floor viii be
sA have ~ p.rque: ts'' md ''op parquet circle
80 to speak, and two galleries. The
platform will be in the southern end, 40 feet
and choir gallery. There will be on this floor,
a1so reception and reading rooms and a library,
sll very commodious. There is also lecture
hall with 200 seats. The upper floors will be let
as Offices aud used also for baths. gymnasium,
and other purposes. The building will be heated
with steam. The cost OF the ground was $780,
0O0, and the building when completed will stand
the Association about 600. 1t is expected
that rentals will bring in an annual income Of
S25, 600.
a nsw variety OF the Mennonite. or oonti-
nental Quaker sect, is now gaining ground in
Hungary to an extent that threatens embarrass-
ment to the Administration. The so-called
Nazarenes not only disown all clerical organize
ton, and refuse to take any oath, or enter any
military service. but dispute the lawfulness of
all taxes that support State, Church. or army.
All assessments made on them are levied under
protest. 1U8y are balQ 10 06 H OuHaOOE OIL
Ualyinism, bit have of late been largely re-
cruited from the working Catholic population,
GO that their numbers, estimated .
few years since at G.000 only are now
officially stated 1t 10000. and said to be
really much larger. They decline to register
themselves as of any Chnrch at all. thus lying
directly in the face of the Hungarian system.
which recognizes each known body Of Christians
as separate State Church, and even processes
to make State provision for it to some extent.
But the real tombstone Of Nazarene Resistance
is OF course the new military law, under which
every able-bodied youth not drawn for the army
is liable to militia service in Honved regiment.
Hitherto the authorities have avoided the diff
cslltY; but the increasing numbers Of these Sec
tarians have made the subject Of their e1emp-
tion so public that one Of the duties of the new
Ministry is to resolve how to deal with it.
BISHOP En1TT1EoHAN.
Baltimore Sun, July 2e.
Tbs Board OF Inquiry summoned by the IT.
Rev. B. B, Smith, Presiding Bishop OF the Prot
eatant Episcopal Church in the United States,
will meet tomorrow at Grace Church, corner Of
Park and Monument streets to investigate
charges sgainst the Rt- lev. Bishop Whiting
ham, Presiding Bishop Of the Diocese Of Mary
land, contained in presentation made by two
clergymen aud five laymen of the Diocese for al