The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-20

the expectation Of Rev. X w. Brady, s. j.. - tnat .
viii be completed during the summer The basement
eighty Tour WIDE, and win towers 160 icct high
and seating capacity for :, 400 persons.
In The Church oi our Lady OF Mercy, Brooklyn. tho
MISSION Tor the women Will be brought tosa close ola
Tuesday evening next. with Papai blessing The seH
mons Tor The men VIII commence on Thursday evening
There is perhaps state where the Church -
making more rapid progress Than IN California New
churches, schools, hospitals. &C., are sprnsins up
everywhere. \ magnificent BRICK church has lately
been built at Vallejo where Rev Father Daniel. y. H.,
anc Father hceovcrn are pastors. Not lar distant -
large convent, building also, which, With the
church aud pastoral residences, occupies whole
square. The situation Is ON NH overlooking the
town aud bay. The population IS about SIX thousand,
mostly irish Catholics.
The Bishops OF Holland Belgium have memo
rinzed Their respective sovereisns 10 intervene IN
conjunction with other Powers IN behalf OF the ropes
temporal power
Archbishop Perche OF New Orleans IA last
"Wednesday transiac cd The recs OF 81. Fortune at 81
sauvour's Church, LockpoF,, La
The FfeemoH's Journat says the Catholic papers Of
Spain comment upon the lamentaDe omission Of All
mention OF he Holy Father IN the recent speech OF
the crown, especially at time when The minds OF all
Catholics are sitatcd about the situation made Tor tho
Holy Father by tho laws OF tho Italian Parliament
The Rev John Freucrck Fa8gc. Vicar OF Aston
Cantlow near Henley -in-Arden, warwic kshirc Eng
land gven ~ his adhesion TO the Cahoiic Church
he irst Catholic chapel buiit al the Mission VI
Sierra Leone, West Coast Of Africa was erected ut Rio
Pongo IN July last
The Board OF MISSIONS Of Methodist Episcopal
Church held us usual monthly meeting last TUESDAY.
DR. Nelson, the treasurer, stated that the indcbted-
society April 30, 1876, was SlG6 0s2 ~.
wne April 90. 1877 II was SOS. 6l9 o. showing
reduction u The debt OF SAL AZ. 3D. Inis favorable
showing Is partly due 10 unusual exertions oil eminent
iaymen ana tho missionary secretaries among the
churches mis- spring Missionary conventions are Ia
10 held over the West aud Northwest during the next
six weeks. The Board made grants to relieve tho
Church.
isev. W. q. steele, lately transferred arom Fleet
street to south Third street Methodist Episcopal
church Brooklyn, Is having a successful opeuing,
nuinoer rose Tor prayers last Sabbath. The church
has iel deeply The removal before the expiration OF
his time Of Their late pastor. Rev simmons, ana mas
ny nra tlI VI,gG frss la 1leNn
steele cordially, they protest against being thus deals
with by the appointing powers.
A new Wesleyan church has been opened Ia Rome.
II ~ exactly opposite the palace OF she Cardinal Vicar
Mrs. Frances Crook, Of BALTIMORE, and Mrs. Rev. Dr.
Woman's Foreign Missionary SOCIETY Of Maryland in
the National Convention Of tnat organization.
DR. Abel Stevens, the historian Of Mclhodism, is To
become pastor Of the Union Church Of American
CHRISTMAS at Geneva Switzerland, which has been
Bacon.
Rev William Taylor, OF India, will be engaged three
or Tour mouths IN visiting the churches IN tue interior
The Rev william Ryan. Of Troy Conference, has
gone 10 st. GEORGE Bermuda, W. L., to reside on
count OF his wifes III hsaith.
BAPTIST.
The Rev. Dr. Burling ham has accepted the unani.
nous call Of tho FIRST baptist Church, Paterson, j.,
and enters al once upon his work IN that important
heid. No successor 10 the Rev. > }. Knapp mas yet
been chosen by tho Willis Street Church
me Rev John q. Dyer, having closed his abors
with tho church at Lyons Farms, ~ j.. VIII COM
ineDce his work IN response TO tho unanimous call Of
the Wanta1c Church. Nd. on June l. Brother Dyer
has served faithfully aud earnestly the church at
Lyons Farms Tor over two years.
The alliance says that ''iho Baptist translation Of
the Bblc into Japanese astcnished the Japs WITH In
those days John the Soakcr preaching the soak
| ing 0 repentance Repent and be soaked, every
! one OF you. y
Tho Baptists have organized IA church at Asbury
Park, n. j., and elected officers. II WAS formally
cogn'zcd 90 Thursday last, and to-day the Rev W A.
Case, OF Hamilton square, n j., Will preach aud adj
minister The ordinance oil baptism.
me Bapt's. Church =. Hamilton. Canada, have pnr-
chased tho building heretofore known AS ST. Panps
q
the most beautiful edifces OF the city.
The chiefs Of the CheroKces, Delawarcs and SEM
inoos are ali members OF Baptist churches. In two
cases tho chiefs arc pastors.
rsS new s n San =
signed for the OF tho Baptist Church. under tho
pastoral care OF Rev |. :. kaiioch. one member gave
900 toward its construction. IL VIII cost
500, 900
Tho Row. 5. hughes resigns at Cape May. and after
June he will become pastor at Rio Grande, n. j.
pREsByTERAN
Owing to protractcd ~ health the Rev. j. T. Ilegc
has tue passionate OIL the Greenpoint Pres.
terrain Church. Hc ~ 70 sail Tor England on the :.
inst, having accepted call TO church Mancheste..
The Rev. W !. Mckinley has resigned has pustorate
! OF Ross Street Presbyterian Church brooklyn owing
70 tho tnsnciai difficulties Of the society, He has
struggled hard Tor success but has failed He preachcd
his farewell there last sunday. rho par
OF The congregation were anxious that Mr. Mctsincy
| The Rev. J. Milton Greene of staten Island stated
clerk Of The Iresbytery Of Brooklyn, has been elected
signed A committee Of rrcsbytery ovcrnauIing
the accounts OF Mr. Lambert, who had been treasures
| Tor many
There Il a. least silent member OF the Freshly.
terry OF Brooklyn The Rev. SIR. davidson nus been
associated Win that body Tor sixteen years and
other day he declared that hc never any
sion occupied more hun ten uuutes But nc tho last
meeting Of the presbytery ne had 20 speak
wnen tortytwo out oil sixty members oil Grace Church,
oil winch he IS pastor, sent communication Informing
mo Presbytcry that things were going awry among
them and asking for tho appo ntment 81 Visiting
nntee The church Is under the cgis of the Cssson
Avenue Presbyterian CHURCH and there Is hitch be-
tween mother and daughter
The FIRST rrcsbytcrian Church OF Brooklyn in Henry
street. Is prospering under Its pastor the Rev. &.
| 4. Hail. Not wiling that any obstacle should lie in
the way, the congrcgat.on havo lust paid OF debt
which nad been carried hntii II icIt TO DC
! thing OF buruon This venerable society in
cciicnt working ORDER.
The Row. James La,imcr resigned his pastoral charge
Of tho First non Presbyterian Church. YorkvIle. AMI
Dr. ;. ID. Alexander has been appointed to act a. mod.
orator oil session.
Rev. Joseph |. Kerr will shortly resign his pastor.
alto OF the Fourth Presbyterian church ~ thus city and
return 10 Philadelphia, IN accordance with auDanl.
nous wish on the part OF number OF mis- oi congrc
gativn there IL Is also stated that new church viii
he erected Tor and that no WIZ re-cncr upon
ministerial iabors in tnat city un.er very favorable
auspices.
81 Johns Protestant Episcopal Church, Cohncs,
n. y, IN charge OF The Rev. Walter GwynDe, one
OF the largest ami most prosperous parishes IN tbs
diocese OF Albany. 1t Is composed almost wholly
OF working people. The churches Al Lanspebara ana
Waterford, near Troy, arc weak the former OWING
largely 10 The recent bank failure there and the latter
10 the general nnanc.a Depression
pal Rscoraer. has cit ministry OF the Protestant
Episcopal Church. and has been received into tho
ministry Of the Reformed Episcopal Church.
The Episcopala not successful IN their
African missions as the Me,hodIsts ana tho Lnurct
has OF late lost very much OF It's former interest
N that neid Forty years nave elapsed since tho mus
established, aud In the colony OF Tibc
there - not one sclisustantDg parish, and the
number OF COMMITMENTS among the natives Is scarcely
| larger than II was twenty yeats ago
Rev. Benjamin IL. Abbott rector OF Grace Church,
| Whtcsione, has rendered his resignation.
The growth Of the church IN baltimore has been
| marvellous There are now tbirty-slx churches ana
forty clergy IN the CITY, Thirty years back thero was
| not one-tenth the Dtesent number.
The Rev. T. ). hpkins, assistant minister Of Christ
Church, Baltimore cry, has been appointed to holy
InnoreDt's Church, IN the same city.
Rev A. jaeger the converted jew who was for some
time teacher 81 Hebrew the southern Baptist Theo
| orca! SEMINARY, has joined tue Episcopal'ans.