, 1877-04-08
THE CHURCH IN GENERAL.

4 swedenborgian Convention will be held /,
Cincinnati on the 1st OF June.
The salaries Of Methodist ministers in Califor
Mis- range FROM SEQ to $1,000 year
| Providence, R. l., has the honor Of entertain
| ing the Baptist anniversary assemblaces thi:
ycar. -
memorial tablet for Bishop cummins ha.
formed Episcopal Church Il; ii New YorE city.
The Rev. Edward Wilson, pastor Of St. James
Methodist Episcopal Church, New Brunswick,
| has Withdrawn from the church. and joined the
| Reformed Episcopal denomination.
Mr.. Lyman Bennett, of Troy, N. r. has given
! s10,0 to the Frcedmcn's Aid Society OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church for the erection OF
a college building at Greensboro, n. c.
The Church Times {Ritua1istic) understands
that tho Priyy Council will decide the R1dsdale
case against the defendant. and sustain the
Purchase judgment and the Public Worship
week. - 49,
The pastor Of Baptist Church at Cedar Falls,
Il. has been tried and found guilty BY council
for "attempting to gain reputation asa minis
ter BY means unworthy of a Christian" The
sin OF this unfortunate pastor consisted In writ
mg his own religious puffs for the religious
press aud signing them with assumed initials.
Sixteen conferences OF the Methodist Protest.
ant Church hive responded ailirmatively, and
four conferences negatively, to the cali OF the
Maryland Conference Tor convention OF the
Church, to be held in Baltimore next May. The
adverse conferences have chosen delegations to
! against it. = WIZ
The Northern and Southern Presbyterian As
semolles meet OIL the eane day this wear. viz.
May 1.-THE Northern at Chicago, the Southern
A. pIoo, Sew orleans: S; pr. HenrvJ. Van Dyke, Of
and Ut. 3. N. Smith, Of Richmond, will ncrform
| the same service for the Southern Assembly at
! New Orleans. ~
OF tuenty-cight Baptist preachers In this citv
the Baptist Ifseklv says that fifteen came from
other denominations five Presbyterian, four
Que Lutheran, one Quaker, one Reformed, and
one was seli-made Baptist. So the Rev. MIR.
Haynes accession from Methodism is NOT
strange.-atw York Ese'ang Post
Prot. John secley Hart, who died at Philadel-
phta last week. was born at Stqckbridge, Mass,
&c was licensed TO praach, but gave up his
license to give his lifs To educational pursuits,
lie waB Eell-knows' aB prominent Sunday
school worker. He met with a severe accident
in January, fn3m which he never recovered.
!: The Epscopalians Of Brooklyn are about to
have now bill before the Legislature to Incof-
por4te The Cathedral of the 1ncaruation:s,
The Bishops md Drs. JOHNSON, SchcnrE. Hail. 1
and snivcly, and the Rev. ]. c. Middleton, OF |
ea Glen coxe, together with Judge Gilbert, and
Messrs~ j. 4. King, Prince, Hustled, Orr, aud W. !
9, Low, Of Brooklyn. are the trustees named in !
Mr. Gladstone, having been asked, whether,
in his opinion, the Roman Catholic Church |
would be likely TO gain BY the dlsestablishmeut |
OF the Church OF England replies ns follows:
q hare seen no reason to believe the Church OF
n,kf,1a Mi fn
,his country, and do not believe that the con-
yregations Of the Church OF England, either as
State Church or otherwise, are disposed to join
l., ~ reference to the Irish Church act, you |
u W! sec tile legal conditions undcr which TINT
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me Church OF the Disciples Of Christ, at Al
lahce, w. has taken rev departure; OF, at
"a sas5 me majority OF it has. Three years ago
ne rev. T. G: Flower vas settled over the CON
majority Of his hsarers to agree with him IN
eaouucing the dottrines Of resi1rrcctIon Of thr
'o4F, literal hell and personal :deyii Final
aIss &c asserted taat denomination had no right
ndividual. The minority could not ACCENT this
Doctrine, - peace2ble separation has been ef
eeted, ahe majority Withdrawing from the
hurch and ~oEshlping in hall.
The number confirmed in the Fpfscona1
'harches in Chicago and vicinity durinT tl.c
ent visitation, with some OF tic uarishes stiii
oe visited, Is 400, nearly twice as large as the
apers lately gaFc. Since Jan. l, 1915, BISHOP 7
cLaren has confirmed l,482, and since the lsst :
invention 556 Working by method aud rule. I
the Eplseopal Church does, is not without :
suits. The following is correct, list Of the +
in the leading city parishes: St
mes, 63; Cathedral, So; Trinity, 81; Grace, :, g
:; st: STEPHENS, Fl; St. Ansgarius, 81; Eoiph- -
=, lg7' Ct. Marks, II; Our Savior, 12; Asceu- n
N, y; Calvary, Ii; All Saints, 10; Holy Com G
- Il
The Bishop ef Lincoln has written 10 str An =,
no Brady, objeetIne to the use or bags for the q
es.orY as at raTiaucc 2} with lie spirit and =,