The Morning herald., 1876-06-05
RELIGIOUS NEWS.
BAPTIST.

.nnninted consisting OF Rev. W. w. Everts
IT'D n D., of Chicago, Rev. j. F. Brown, d. D..
nf New Jersey, etc. They deprecated the
ohandonment of African missions and pro-
nosed correspondence with the Board of the
Southern Baptist Convention and with the
Colored Baptist Convention, to agree upon
in the United States may cooperate in this
work.
DR.. Nathan Brown, of the Baptist Mis-
sion in Japan, writes that Kawaska, a ma
tive preacher Of the Union Church in Yoko-
hama, has become Baptist. He takes
Aigh rank as a preacher.
The Baptists have an association among
the Creek Indians comprising thirty-two
churches, besides an association among the
Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Cherokees, and
also church organized among the Semi
nJles.
DR.. Nathan Bishop has consented to serve
another year as Secretary of the American
Baptist Home Mission Society, to the great
satisfaction of the denomination.
METHODIST.
By the action of the General Conference
the General Missionary and Church EXten-
sion Committees have been consolidated for
the next four years; that is, the same mem
berS constitute both committees, although
the business Of each committee is transac,
ted independently Of the other. The mem
hers Of the consolidated committee will hold
sessions in New York as the General Mis-
sionary Committee, and in Philadelphia as
the General Church Extension Committee
The General Missionary and Church Ex-
tension Committee consists of Joseph Cum
mings, ID, LII. D., fMiddIetown, Conn;
D. VI. Bates, Wilmington, Del; Elphalet
Remington, Iliou, N. Y; Rev George w.
Chesbro, Western Pennsylvania; Rev. D. Ii.
X. Dix, West Virginia; Rev. j. NJ. Trimble,
D. d. Ohio; Rev. j. j. Marker, Tennessee;
Rev. D. F. Barnes, Michigan; Rev. Bennett
Mitchell, Iowa; Rev. Bernard Kelly, Kan
sas; Rev. II. X. Hine, Washington Terrific
ry; and Rev. G. A. Loeber, Chicago.
There is a body Of colored Methodists in
Canada, known as the British Methodist
Episcopal Church. The General Confer,
encs Of this denomination met recently.
Bishop Disney presided.
The African Methodist Episcopal Church
has thirteen schools, eight of which are re-
ported to be not in active operation. The
most important of the active institutions is
Wil5crorce University, which has 10 pro-
tessors and 600 pupils.
The Court of Chancery at Coburg, Cana
da, has decided that the act authorizing the
recently-eifected union of two or three
Methodist bodies in Canada is constitution
al. The decision was given in suit brought
against non- uniOnists for the recovery of a
church.
The Southern Methodist Episcopal
Church has appropriated 100000 to for
elgn missions for the current year, and laid
aside : 800 for one of it's Bishops to visit
China and other Asiatic fields.
Rev. John Burns, President of the Meth
odlst Union Committee has issued a call to
The conferences of that church to elect del
cgales to convention to be held in 1877 to
conSummate a union between the Methodist
and Methodist Protestant bodies. They
were separated by the slavery question.
lhcy are non-episcopal bodies.
The camp meetings of the Methodist
Episcopal Church will be as numerous as
ever this Summer. In Massachusetts,, the
Yarmouth meeting will be held from the
10Th to the 22d of August. At Martha's
Nlneyard the camp meeting will begin on
the 2lst of August, In Maine, the East Po-
land meeting will begin on the 22d of Au
gust, and the Hedding meeting, at East
Epping, N. H., will begin on the 2Sth of
August and continue until the I'd of Sep
tember.
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL.
The beautiful stone church just erected
for st. Luke's parish in Germantown will
be consecrated on Thursday next, the Sth'
inst, by the bishop of the diocese, who will
preach on the OCCASION
On Monday, July 3, by resolution of the
Convention of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in the Diocese of Pennsylvania,
special religious services appropriate to the
Centennial will be held at Christ Church,
and the discourse will be delivered by Bishop
Stevens.
At St. Marks Church, Philadelphia, on
last Sunday evening, the last Of the Sunday
evening services for this season was held.
These free services will be resumed in
October. =
The 10th anniversary Of Gloria Del (Old
SwedesD church, Swanson street, below
Christian, Philadelphia, Rev. s. B. Shines,
rector, will be celebrated on the third Sun
day in June. There will be appropriate ser
vices in the morning, and in the afternoon
Bishop Stevens will deliver an address.
The representatives of Sweden now in the
city will be invited. The venerable editlce
in which this congregation worships was
erected in 100.
There are two societies Of lay workers in
the parish of Holy Trinity, New York,
which are worthy of imitation. The Andrew
and Philip Society of Young Men meet
every Sunday evening for consultation and
Instruction in missionary work, the name Of
the society having been adopted from the
two disciples who were instrumental in
bringing others to Christ. The Martha and
Mary Society of Young Women meet every
Tuesday evening for social Intercourse and