The Morning herald., 1876-06-05
PRESBYTERIAN.

lne cOrner-StOne OF tRe central PreSby-
terrain Church, in West Fifty-seventh
street, New York city, was laid, with ap-
propriate ceremonies, on Saturday last.
Brief addresses were made by Rev. Drs.
John Hall, William Adams, s. II. Tying.
Jr., Thomas Armitage, Thomas s. Hast
ings, James d. Wilson, the pastor, and
others. 1t will be remembered that the
stone and carpenter work of this church
were the municcnt gift of DR.. Halls con-
gregation from their old edlfice, corner of
Nineteenth street and Fifth avenue.
BY vote of 7S to 80. The Southern
Presbyterian Assembly at Savannah has
decided to be represented the Pan-Pres-
byterian gathering, to be held in Edinburgh
in 1877 A long and rather exciting discus
sion took place over the question, as the
minority made the point that by joining in
with all the other Presbyterian bodies, the
Church South would necessarily have to
meet the Church North, and thereby seem
to be on fraternal relations with it. 1t
would not be strange if the Pan gathering
brought about this desired result.
The Philadelphia Presbyterian churches
report during the year just closing, 3,A1
additions, against ,443 last year.
The election of the Rev. DR.. Henry j
Van Dyke, of Brooklyn, as Moderator,
over the other prominent candidate, the
Rev. DR.. T. Dewitt Talmage, is regarded as
a sign of conciliation on the part of the
Brooklyn Assembly towards the Southern
branch of the Presbyterian Church. Dr..
Van Dyke received 227 out of Ala votes.
The churches of the Chicago Presbyterh
| who a year ago contributed $3,2S7 for
foreign missions, gave this year $S,957, be
cause Of the hard lim.s.
DR.. s. G. Nichols, of St. Louis, said at
the recent meeting of the Presbyterian As
sembly for discussing Sunday schools, thar
during the last ten years the Increase of the
percentage of the property of the Protestant
Church has been about II per centum,
while the increase of the property of the
Roman Catholic Church has been ~ per
centum
The Southern Presbyterians contributed
the past year to Sustentation $22,G64, TO
the Evangelistc Fund 1852, and to the In
valid Fund 81 200. From the Sustentation
Fund payments were made to 1S5 ministers
and to 10 churches.
ROMAN CATHOLIC.
At the Academy of the Immaculate Heart,
West Chester, Sunday morning weeh, His
Grace Archbishop Wood administered the
Sacrament of Confirmation to number of
the pupils, and received the solemn profes-
sion Of several Dovices. In the afternoon
the Most Rev. Prelate confirmed large
number in st. Johns Church, Philadelphia.
AT st. Theresa's Church, Broad and Cath
arine streets, Philadelphia, on Sunday week,
the Very Rev. DIR. McCaflrey, of Emmets-
burg, Md, delivered an eloquent discourse,
in which he forcibly argued the necessity
and propriety of opening the Exposition on
Sundays.
st. Charles church, kellyville, Rev. John
McGovern, pastor, has been entirely reno
waited, and is now one of the most beautiful
churches in the archdiocese.
His Eminence Cardinal McClosky will re-
main at Seton Hall during the summer
months.
The cornerstone of the new Paulist church
New York, will be laid June IA: The Paul
ist Order has now fifteen priests and thir-
teen students in the NOvitiate.
His Holiness Plus TX cabled his cordia
congregations and benedction to Archbisll-
op Purcell, of Cincinnati, on the occasion
Of the celebration Of his Golden Jubilee in
The priesthood.
Not less than seventy negroes are training
in the College of the Propaganda, Rome,
for missionary work in Africa.
The ceremony of crowning the statue of
the Virgin at Lourdes is fixed for July 3,
and all the French prelates are to be invi-
ted. A Papal brief authorizes the act.
A Polytechnic school is to be established
in connection with the Catholic CONNER
cisl Academy, Montreal.
In one of the poorest parts of London,
spitallields. some twenty-five years ago
mission was begun by the Marist Fathers.
The extreme poverty in which it was com
mcnced may be judged from the fact that
the first mass was said on a couple OF egg
boxes. At times the missionaries had scarce
enough to eat. Now, after years of severe
struggle, the mission comprises magnlii-
cent Gothic church, a true medieval mon
astcro, a convent of Marist Sisters, a com
pany of Marist teaching Brothers, and four
large schools instructing twelve hundred
children.
A magnificent new church of St. Angus
tine at Washington for colored people will
be dedicated by Archbishop Bailey on Trim
ity Sunday, June IL.
MISSIONARY.
The Free church of Scotland supports an
important school in South Africa known as
the Lovedale Institution. It has Az schol-
ars under instruction, of whom IA are ma
tives. Two theological students have been
licensed to preach. Good reports have been
also received from the industrial school,
where wagon-making, blacksmithing, and
carpentering are carried on.
The Wesleyan Missionaries of South Afri-
ca recently held a conference at Durham,
Natal. This conference is held once in
three years. The proposal to form a regu-
sar annual conference was not adopted. En-
couraging reports were presented of the
state of the mission. At one Of the meet