The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-12
NEW YORK HERALD SUNDAY AUGUST L. sQUADRUPLE SHEET
s.; Stephens Church. McK..spor Pa. and accepted

St. Stephens Church. McKessport. Pa. and accepted
call TO Cnrist Church, Fiichburg, hasG
The Rev. Thomae Boone has resigned the rcctorshp
OF Emanuel Church. Athens, Ca To accept tho r. ctor
srp OF Christ Church. Savannah. Ga, and expects to
enter upon his duties on The first sunday 10 October
In Colorado-Bshop Vail, Of Kansas; Bishop Perry,
ofIowa, aud Bishop Stevens. Of PennsylvaniA
The Society for the Increase OF the Ministry needs at
once 900 to its scholars Tor June and before the
meeting OF the General Convention IN October 81 800
The receipts oil the society fortune and July amounted
A handful of Episcopallans at Indian Rock. Va,
want 10 build church.. They have 5000 toward the
project and appeal 10 their friends North ior Few
hundreds more.
After spending eight months with the Protestant
Episcopal Church In savanna, Ill. the Rev. f. H. Potts
has resigned and gone TO Minnesota
agent oil the publishing house oil the MetnOdlbt
Episcopal Church. South has received. up To July %,
the sum OF $26 726 90 Tor The relief Of that institution,
which Is still heavily in debt
Dr. haclay superintendent OF Methodist Episcopal
missions IN Japan, writes that there i've Japanese
young men on their way to America TO OBTAIN an odu
cation rhey VIII go to the Indiana Asbury University.
Four Of them are converts.
The British Wesleyan Conference has elected as Us
president, by POS votes. the Rev. J. b. Pope, D. ID.
Dr. R'ag and Rev samuel CoIey, VINO ran against him,
received 1852 and 80 votes respectively. Dr. Williams
was elected secretary. Drs Pope aud Rlgg ira
terna delegates the General Conference OF the Meth
odist Episcopal Church OF America
Key U stratton, pastor OF the Methodist Epsco.
pal church al San Jose has accepted the presidency Of
tho University OF the Pacific.
There rs debt of SO, 600 on the Centenary Meth
payment OF which Rev. George r. Maddox has
raised 81 900 ST. Psus German Methodist Episcopal
Church. San Francisco. Ca has also raised 81 0OO Tor
The Rev. j. +. McCleand, of ST. johns Methodist
Episcopal Church this CITY, has, by advice OF his
physician. retired Tor the present rom all min stera
work. because OF severe hcmorrnage Of the throat and
lungs He is sojournlng IN poushkcepsie, ana is
slowly gaming strength, though yet very weak
Bishop Wiley presided over she Colorado Confer.
ence AT Denver last week, and this week he goes TO
Salt Lake CITY to meet the Rocky Mountain Confer
encc. Next week he Is TO preside over the Southern
California Conference ut Santa Barbara and Septem
Der be sails from San Francisco Tor a missionary
episcopal tour round the world. Bishop Andrews re-
turned from his missionary tour last week. He has
been absent about two years.
When Row. Hennng, Of Minnesota, was leaving
the Redwood Falls camp meeting recently no Was
thrown from MS buggy by The frightened horse and
his walking, and though the patient is improving he is
not ab 10 10 reach his home.
REFORMED (DuTCH).
The Reformed Church at Bergen Point, n. j., Is un-
dergoing repairs which Will cost $780, and which the
society has promptly subscribed.
The Reformed Dutchfpcn Of Canarsic. l.. are build
ing q church Tor tue Germans thorc. The society
organized year ago and now has twenty-nino ami-
lies and fityuve members connected with the enter
PRISE. The cdco Will 30 thirty live by sixty nye ee
and Will COST 50 700 toward which the congregation
has contributed $500, and the rest must come from
outsiders OF become lien on the properly.
In the exercise Of their ecclesiastical authority tho
last general synod OF tho Reformed Church which met
in this city abolished the theological dcpart of
Hope College, Holland, Mich. From every quarter
now comes protests and regrets 1t was an ladvIsed
crease them at New Brunswick, N. J. They should
restore II next year.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Baptist, Congregational, Presby tcran and Meth
odist ministers OF Chicago have decided invite Mr.
Moody TO hold series Of revival meetings that city
Tor two or iour weeks ia September. The Rev. Joseph
Cook, OF Boston, Will be asked 10 assist Mr.. Moody 1t
is also reported that Messrs. Moody and SanSey viii
begin meetings on September in the cty Of Baltt
more, to continue one month.
Most Of our city churches emitting some oil their
services In Brooklyn several arc having but
mon LORDS Day morning, ana instead of the nu.
nerous evening meetings only one is observed Tor
prayer and conference
Twenty-two churches in tho city of Now York are
without pastors.
On board the steamer Cashmere tof the British India
Steam Navigation Company's line which went ashore
near Cape Guardafui, recently, and became total
wreck, were Two families connected with London
Missionary Society. They Rev. G. 7. Beverage,
wife, son and daughter, and Mrs. Rogers, wife OF the
Rev. I. Rogers one Of their children a Mr..
Rogers, with two children, ono belonging TO each
family, escaped. They wore returning to England
Tho Commissioners OF Guilford county, N c.,
passed order at their July meeting that they would
not grant license TO retail liquor any part OF
county for the next twelve months, and now old Gull
ford has not retail barroom Commcndablo, indeed
So much for prohibition and temperance works