The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-29

ceeds there it will undoubtedly be copied into the
larger republic of France But Americans need not
be very sanguine of its speedy accomplishment III
France.
MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.
PRESBYTERIAN.
The Rev. q. s. plumley, late pastor of the North
Dutch Church. in Fulton street. has been appointed
the charge of Calvary Chapel, Worth street, of
the City Mission stations.
Rev. William II. Lord has accepted q call to the
passionate OF the church at Riyerdale the Hudson
Rev. j. W. Marcussohn has retired from the pastor
ate of the church at Lyndonve, n. Y, and Rev. Mr..
Daniels has taken his place.
The Rev. d. d. McColl was recently installed pas
tor Of the Presbyterian Church Bergen. n. Y. Rev.
D. M. Rankin, late of nlion, has taken charge at
Charlotte. N. Y.
Rev. s. H. McKain. Of Wilmington, DEL, has
cepted call to the Presbyterian Church at Mount
Holly, n J. Rev. +. A. Buckley, late of Western New
York has been installed pastor Of the church Ruth
erford Park. NJ
The Rev. J. c. Thompson, of Hagerstown. Md, has
been called to the pastorate Of the German Street
Presbyt erian Church, in Philadelphia: and the Rev.
John Mcmillan, or Mount Pleasant, Pa. has been
called to the Fifteenth Presbyterian Church, Phila
delphia.
The Rev. George Swan will be installed pastor Of
the Presbyterian Church at Batavia N. " January .
The Rev. Thomas Atken. pastor Of the First and
Second Presbyterian churches in Sparta n. ", though
in his cighteth year. is still preaching every
Sabbath. OF late years he has been subject turns
| Of fanting. Recently he was taken with i'll the
| pulpit OF unusual severity. He was carried out Of
It and ministered to- For time it was thought
that his labors ended. but after q while he re-
| vived and said II must go on with what was say
ing" which he did, conducting the service to its
close. His people have proposed to release him from
the afternoon service at the Second Church during
the winter but he is reluctant to accept their kind
1t is nearly forty since he began to serve
them and his heart is deeply in his work that he
| is 10th to discontinue it.
EpIscoPALIAN.
The Rev. w. 0. Jarvis is doing chaplain's duty at
| the Church Charity Foundation, Brooklyn n. Y.
The Rev. f. b. Tuttle. chaplain United States Army.
has returned from England and taken up his resi-
The Rev. Charles Pellereau has assumed the rector
ship Of the Church of the Holy Communion. Patcr-
The Rev. George ". Douglas has been elected a
junior assistant NJ rrn ake New york The
parishes at Fairfield, Norway and Vaudeville. Herki-
mer county, n. y.
day, December TO- to be absent q few months. The
Rev. Arthur H. harrington has become assistant to
the Rev w. 7. Fitch. at Fall River, Mass and Is in
charge Of the two missions OF tho parish located
there.
ship Of Grace Church Madison, n u, which he has
held during i've years During this period the parish
contributed $4,000 for NIL purposes. Dr. Weston
leaves his parish with the intention of travelling for
The Rev IT, NJ. COLLISION. Of Washington. d. c..
has become pastor OF st. Pauls Reformed Episcopal
The Rev. DR.. Edward Sullivan. rector Of Trinity
Episcopal Church, Chicago is called to st. Georges
Church, Montreal and IL reported about to accept,
though at u reduced salary. He has for some years
been the first man of his denomination in Chicago.
Rev. J. b. North. pastor Of St. Johns Church, is
now working in five parishes of the Reformed Eps-
copal Church in Sussex, n b.
The Rev. George &. Hail. late of the Reformed Dutch
Church at Danve. Pa. has become Episcopal min
lister: Professor Wells. formerly of the Congrega-
tonal College, Chestnut; Rev. Thomas q. Wilson.
another dissenting minister, and Rev. W. lnpey. for
forty years a missionary in South Africa-all these
have recently taken orders in the Church of England
rNIvERsALisT.
One hundred ministers recently applied for hear
ing in pulpit and the press of the denomina
ton il buzzed with correspondence favorable and un
favorable to such candidacy for pastoral support. A.
Nj. Dean insists that the American boy who courts
girl is more dsgraccd by that fact than the
savage is whose mother does the counting. And, of
course he cannot see Why minister who courts
pulpit should be any more disgraced by that fact
than who gets committee or an agent to do the
counting
ccpted call to the parish in Clinton. N. T. The
clinton Church has been without pastor for some
time and has most wisely concluded that 1t will not
do to remain pastorless much longer.
After January 1, 1872 the Christian Leoter will make
meal OF the IHrrsufist and not leave feather
OF the sticking ont of the title II will be pub
lishcd simultaneously at New York and Boston. both
places being represented in the new editorial man
agemcnt. The paper will be enlarged and its form
changed The Leader referring to the 'Womens
Church" proposed TO be opened here next month in
the Lyceum Theatre, says ''All that will now be
necessary to prove that there fools in the
start religious organization exclusively for mon.
The Leddy of would not be guilty of charging
the women with folly. Hence 1t wants the church
for men,
DR.. Forres.ers church in Jersey City has sold the
lots which IL bought for building site some years
ago They have been an increasing and Improbable
burden.
DR. chaplin has diverted his Friday evening lee
lures in the Church OF the Divine Paternity from
binary topics to an exposition OF the sunday school
lesson for the sabbath following the Doctor holding
himself ready to answer questions that may DO
asked
been called to the pasoratc OF the Church OF the Res
toration, Philadelphia. He will commence his
vice on January /. Mr. Bicknell has been for
than years pastor OF the India Street Univcr
salist Church. Portland.
METHODIST.
Dr. w. Il. Harrison, Of North Georgia Conference,
now chaplain il Congress and filling the pulpit OF
ington d. c.. has been transferred to the Baltimore
Conference in whose bounds the church ~ located.
Rev. J.. Y. Cushnlan has been appointed BY Bishop
Haven presiding elder Of Houston District tiexas)
I,cy. Dc Witt g. Challis ana Rov. stephen Thomon
sailed last Tue. day bulgaria. 10y Of England.
They hope to reach the field occupied by the Meth.
odisl missionaries about the LIST OF February.
Tho Methodist ministers of Chicago IN recent
meeting discussed Mvrinonisn. DIR. Hatfield held
that not matter Of conscience, but soul de-
basing crime and the increase under government
protection. The vote Of the mccLing that good
government ought to iisranchlsc all poygamists.
the village OF 1onkers, 4. Y, now there arc 500 40
writes DR. L. II. King. pastor Ut The Fist Methodist
Episcopal Church there. whose scmi-centcnnial was
celebrated few days ago. But Guch progress IL
hardly worth boastng very much about.
ROMAN CATHOLIC.
REV. Father p. Moynihnl. pastor of the Church of
ST. Mary Of the Cataract. az Niagara Falls, and who
accompanied Right Rev Bishop Ryan TO Europe, last
fall, died ut Genoa, Italy u few days ago.
The Pope has sent 2,OjU francs for the support of
the missionary college of the Rev Don Bosco, Of
Turin He has also given 500 francs to the ArcnCon-
fraternity OF Christian Doctrine TO be distributed
among those young persons who distinguish Them
selves in the cateche,ca examination and in the dis
putc which Will shortly take place in the Church Of
San carlo a. Catnari.
The fathers conducting the Eedemptorists' mis-
sion. Boston Highlands, have already heard two
thousand confessions. and the mission Is expected to
prove, when finished ia about two weeks, Of the
largest held In Boston.
The mission of the Dominican Fathers under the
Rev. &. A. Mckenna, which has just closed ut the
Gate Of Heaven Church, south Boston, has given en-
tire satisfaction to them and to the pastor Father
Higgins. It Ia announced that there were la all