The New York herald., 1877-01-14
CHURCHLY CHANGES.

long US the religious interest will warrant
CHURCHLY CHANGES.
The Presbyterian, Congregational and Reformed
Episcopal ministers OF Chicago have decided to
on the revival work begun in Chicago by Mcssrs Moody
and Sankey. The week preceding Christmas de-
voted by Mr. Moody to the instruction OF
ana gathering up the fruits OF his labor. Mr. Moody
spent tho week after New Years Day with the people
OF Chicago, the Boston folk not being ready for him
until to-day. II Is regretted that tho Methodist
and Baptist ministers OF Chicago in their selfish dc.
sire to garner the sheaves into their barns
10 cooperate with their brethren when Mr.. Moody
leaves There is good degree Of religious interest III
all the churches Of Chicago; and in the Skin Presby
terian church OF that city last Sabbath week Gy per-
asked the prayers of the church for their conver
sion he Christian women Of Chicago have beon
great help to Mr. Moody IN bis evanses,ic iabors.
EARLY IN his work there they 0r2anixed u woman's
prayer meeting, and by committees they have can
vassed the entire city, visiting every house and nvii-
churches their vicinity Undetcrrcd by tho rgor OF
the winter weather. unuaunted by tho squalor, tho
misery aud vice they have had TO encounter, they have
taken one street alter another and entered drinking
Saloons wretched bowels and glded haunts OF vice. us
well as tho abodcs of wealth and culture 20 tell the
wondrous story that Jesus OF Nazareth passeth by.
Cottage prayer meetings have been hold in locaitics
where tho voice vi prayer has been hiherto unknown
aid many hopeful verslons have been traced 10
their immediate influence. In many outcast
women have been rescued from life OF
shame, and when no other refuge has been
ut hand the nobie women, whose LOVING
appeals have reused feelings long buried, have
taken them 70 their own homes until permanent
places could 10 obtained Tor them. Besides, u large
number OF those VINO have been converted at the
Tabernacle have been taken there by women. Al tho
woman's meeting prayers have been asked Tor
many persons taken the tabernacle the
night before by an earnest worker. Young ladies
also have used thor influence to induce their gentle
men trends to attend the meetings.
Six contiguous churches above Girnru Phil
adelphia, VIZ, The Luthern Evangelical, Methodist
Reformed Episcopal, Reformed Heidciberg Plymouth
and Presbyterian have ior some weeks
past held concert OF prayer; Two meetings each
week, passing from church to church. In The ono
precious nane Jesus, all their differing are lost
and the united prayer Tor the revving of religion has
been blessed experience to this family churches
During the year just closed tho Methodisls OF the
United States (North) raised for missions church ex
tension. educaton, freedmen, Sunday schools tracts
aud conference 1 claimants an aggregate Of $s5. s5l
for those interests Tho value OF the churches and
parsonages belonging 10 tho Methodist Episcopal Church
Is $78, ,637 0l5-u dccrease OF $2,447, SAT In Values
during the year. The Sunday schools Of this Church
number 1855, the officers ard teachers thereof
1856 O5y and the scholars s27 475 there has been
and teachers aud OF 79,G93 scholars The moneys
raised by the schools amounted TO $l62, ,2l5 and 6y
tho church congregations 10 $343 SlS II during the
yenr The statistics OF the church show OF
o1 sos members Bedford street Methodist EpIscopal
ary collection which amounted 70 81, 900 Sing sing
FIRST church raised similar amount for this cause.
Revivas are reported as progressing with grand re-
suits In Eigath avenue church, Newark \. J In the
New Jersey Conference Seminary and church. at PEN
nngton, where tho church membership has been
sse seminary Tue and p pupils
joined the church there Is scarcely one
lady pupil left unsaved among them. Twenty OF the
male students are studying Tor the ministry. In
Charlottesville N Y, 80 have been converted in tho
revival IN progress there; Chestnut Avenue church
Altoona, Pa, u have been converted, and in Parish
street church, wkcsbarrc Pa lOO and in Ross street
church, In the same city, so have recently united with
the church OH probation. In the New Hampshire Con-
terence Seminary. Tll0n, and also Cambridge
VI, rcvivais are IN progress At South Hadcy aud
Luncnburg Mass, the same true. In the Methodist
Episcopal church NJ Honesdalc, Pa IN revival OF
arkabe power progressing 800 persons have been
converted 81 have been addeQ to Bethel and Line
churches, Wilmington Conference; 90 have made u
profession AT Duneen, n. j., and ~ at ST. Pauls
church, Georgetown, Pa The additions to the MetLo-
dist Episcopal churches in Washington, ID. e., since
the meeting Of the Baltimore Conference exceed 500
souls, and revivals going on in many OF them Ex-
ira meetings were commenced In Embury Methodist
Episcopal church, Brooklyn. last Sunday evening
week, when about 20 persons for prayers since
that time Is persons nave been converted and next
Sunday they, with others, Will be rccovcd on proba-
ton.
A convention of the Methodist and Methodist Protes-
tant churches Is to be held next May for tho purpose
completing the unon ~ auspic,oasly begun by tho
meeting for tho two bodies Is TO be held early
summer.
discussion. The lust General Conference ordered tho
necessary amount Tor episcopal support DO
each charge Ia Huc UfIn that zach
pay pro rata 10 the bishop he pays pro %
presiding elder Every charge has three pastors, sta
toned pastor, district pastor and general pastor Each
charge pays much or tlo on the voluntary principle
but whatever pays must be divided three parts
for the pastors The church may refuse to pay
at ALL but has right to resist the division Of what
ever it may choose to pay And the Mefhodst ndorscs
this division II costs three and hall cents per mc
Der TO MAINTAIN the bishops
completed beautiful church edldce OF stone ut u cost
OF $50, 0O0 The Presbyterian church ut Rye n Y,
has just paid oil debt OF s25 00O had rested
for the last years Tho Woodbridge Presbyterian
church o. San francisco (caled alter the pastorl
Gently dedicated handsome cdincc built u cost OF
SO 0OO and entirely tree vi debt O the thirty five
students graduated at the Theological Seminary New
York, last May, all arc engaged preaching most
OF them settled pastors Oi the thirty -onc last
graduates Of Princeton Seminary twenty two are now
settled over churches. Of the twcniy-one who left
Allegheny Seminary last spring all are settled but one.
The Prcsby tcrian Sy nod of New York embraces lvo
Prcsbyteries, with l6G Churches 3l9 minister's So
church members ana "a, 4,Sss sunday school scholars
Tho OF members Tor 1875 3,Oll which Is
oncourtecnth o the total gains OF the whole church.
The First Prcsbyte church OF Elizabeth, N j.. 10
which the Rev. Dr. Nicholas Murray minstered 80
long, has erected memorial tablet to 'Thc Old Sex.
ton" stephen Person. II Is placed just beneath the
Old bell rope, upon winch his wrInkIed hands
often placed As the results OF ten years. labor
among the freedmen by the Northern Presbytcrinis,
there 12S churches nearly 10, OUU COMMANDMENTS
aud T. 900 Sabbath and 4, ,O0O day school scholars A
new Pfcsbyteiy has been formed In Kansas to which
has been gwen tho namc of solomon Wisdom Is
needed IN these days ana let us hope that tho
said long ago that good wife from tho Lord and
having had considerable experience with wives no
ought 10 have known where they from. The
Manarajah Dhucep Singh, tho converted Indian
prince. residing In England, must have obtained
such wife from tho Pres byteriun MISSION Ia Egypt,
for he has just given $25. 900 the mission as his
wedding anniversary gift. And he hos done u similar
act every year sincc his marriage.
The Uni!arians have organized q State Con ference
Illinois. II embraces Twelve societies The Relig
Book s0cioty OF London has sold 600 00O pies
oil "Bunyans flgrim's Progress" within few years.
The missionary receipts OF the Reformed Dutch
Church for the month ot October have been less than
In any October since 1861 and the consequence that
IT called upon 10 pay Two mission drafts without
dollar ~ the treasury and these drafts, TOO, IRON
tho missions whose allowance has been cut down tho
lowest possible point Dr. Taylor OF the Christian ut
Work. has profound conviction, based on personal
experience, that minister Is always equal to
himself or to his theme, nnd therefore he docs
believe that all the sermons oil any preacher however
eminent arc worth publishing He proposes tscfc-
forc to give dscourscs from tho more prominent
preachers o these two Cities cvcry week. instead OF