The New York herald., 1878-12-01
MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.
EPIscoPALIAN.

MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.
EpIscoPAILAN.
st. AIMS Church having become free by the gen.
erous gift Of $4,000 by Mr.. Cutting. lay member.
has leisure now to give attention to those without
the pale of the Church. Hence ''St AIMS Brother
hood" has been organized and Mr.. Charles Dimon
elected president The object OF the Brotherhood is
to do mission work among men Of the neighborhood
who do not attend church anywhere.
The women OF more than five hundred parishes
scattered through thrty-fve dioceses banded to-
gether to work for missions. and during the year
just closed they contributed $32 S43 money. and in
goods OF various kinds suitable missions in value
$65.033.
Rev. j. L. Boxer will assume the rectorship Of st.
Paul's Church. Laporte. Ind to-day. Bishop Young.
of Florida, il in this city severely i'll with pneumonia.
and has been so for two weeks.
The Rev. ]. w. Chesley has accepted the rectorship
of the parishes of New Market and Vienna. Md.
accepted an appointment to Kingsclear. diocese Of
Frederickton
The Rev. James Grammer has accepted appoint
rnent to Ashland and Louisa Court House. Va. to
take effect early in December. The Rev. Z. p Gray
has accepted the rectorship Of st. Georges Chapel.
Baltimore. Md.
The Rev. Newton Perkins. Of Islip. has become as
sistant to Rev. DR.. Schenck at St. AIMS Episcopal
Church, Brooklyn.
The conservation of Grace Church. Stafford Springs.
will take place Tuesday. Sd inst.
METHODIST.
The Southern Methodist churches are troubled
with hypocritical members who can't be expelled
under any existing ecclesiastical code for according
70 the discipline charges must be preferred and proved
before committee of the Quarterly Conference be-
persuade witnesses to absent themselves (and the
Church has power to compel them to appe r. then
the is clear for him. correspondent therefore
demands a change in the law giving pastors with
threefourths OF their official boards the right Of
clusion, aud many Of the sinners in Zion. he says.
will be speedily furnished with transportation.
The Austraiasian Wesleyan Missionary Society
raised last year over $50.000 (f10,9Ol).
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilpin. OF the United Methodist FREQ
Churches Missionary Society. will sail for China
Bishop Harris, DIR. King. OF Poughkeepsie and Rev.
A. X Sanford will dedicate new Methodist Episcopal
Church At verbank N. y. next Wednesday.
PRESBYTERIAN.
Mr.. William R. Lord has been called to the Church
at Riverdale the Hudson, and will be ordained and
installed after the January meeting of the Presby
terry Of Westchester.
There is q steady decline Of Presbyterianism in
connection with the Southern Assembly. In 1876
there were 10 churches reported, with q membership
ot over four hundred; now there are only 8. There
were then Ii churches. with . membership number
ans over three hundred: now there Is. In 1875
there were "a churches, with . membership OF two
hundred and upward; there are ST. 1439
churches number less than hundred. and " with
from two to ten members.
The sum contributed to Princeton College under
the presidency OF DR. McCosh has reached 1900 OOO
The Presbyterian Sunday schools Of Canada
tributed for mission purposes last year uS77-'7s)
$ll, $50 IL
To the surprise Of his family and friends Rev. Alex
ander Macfarane OF Hanson Place Baptist Church,
Brooklyn. who left this port for Europe u sick
leave for six months returned the 18th ult by the
same steamer that took him out.
Rev. q, j. Travis. OF WAterville N, Y. has
q charge in Chittenango. N. Y.
The second Baptist church Of Brooklyn, E. D.. Rev.
j. N. Folwell pastor, dedicated Thursday
evening, DIR. Wayand Hoyt preaching the sermon.
The edifice cost $4,000.
The Rev. H. B Ewell on the 18th ult. preached the
same sermon to his Church in Pavilion. N. Y, which
lac had preached to it forty before. Not who
heard it first was present to hear it the second time.
Such pastorates rare in the Baptist Church.
At the Cleveland (Ohio) ministers meeting the
other day something was said about ministers who
roam from one denomination to another and . case
was cited OF who left the Tabernacle Methodist
Episcopal Church OF that city and to the Supe-
ror street Baptist Church. thence to the First Metho
dist Church, and thence to the station house-al in
the same city.
The First baptist Church of Cleveland. Ohio. has
called ~ its pastorate the highest Calvnst II
fnd-the Rev. r. =. Moxom OF Mount Morris N. Y,
who stands six feet three inches high He is
graduate OF Rochester Theological Seminary. N. Y
The Hev. G. N. Harding ordained and installed
pastor of the Mount Hope Baptist Church of fremont
n " on the 2lst ult.. by council composed OF New
York city minister's. Mr.. Harding was formerly
Christian.
CONGREGATIONAL.
The Rev. A. G. Reed OF Flushing. L. l.. has
ceptcd = call to the congregational Church at Man.
chester VT.
Owing to the sickness Of DR.. Noble. of New Haven.
who to preach ut the installation of Rev. George
c. Min pastor of the East Congr, gational Church.
Brooklyn. which was to have taken place last Tues
day. has been postponed. probably until next WED
nesday evening"
ROMAN CATHOLIC
The Jesuit mission Ill st. Agnes Church, Brooklyn.
was brought to q close on Sunday November H. with
results quite cOngOlinp to tho uuRtOr. Rev Father
Duffy. Father Coghlan who conducted the mission.
WAS aided by Fathers Niederkorn. vcnneman and
Bouige. OF Chicago The fruits of the mission
$500 communions and nine converts. while at the
close of the mission Right Rev. Bishop Loughn ad-
ministcred confirmation to 2O PERSONS about sixty
Of whom adults.
Bishop McQuaid. of Rochester. passed through
London. England. early in November. ON his way to
Rome He sent word hither of his safe arrival there.
The Jesuit Fathers, under Father Damen. have gone
to Chicago where they are now conducting mission
in st. Marys Church. They closed very successful
mission of days the Church OF the Sacred
Heart, In that city They will return to New York
after Christmas and on the second Sunday in
Advent will begin mission in st. Patricks Cathe-
dral.
The Rev. John Keble Karcher Of the Episcopal
Church, formerly Unitarian minister. has
ceived into the Roman Catholic Church in Minnesota.
The Catholics Of Medfed, Mass. will soon build
church The edifce will be located near the lower
end Of Pleasant street. upon site given ~ the
ciety by Mr.. Patrick Martin The work will be under
the personal supervision Of the pastor. the Rev.
Father brennan. - ,,,,,,,,,
The Rev. J. W. warnshicus. of Illinois, has been
lately installed pastor Of the Reformed Church ut
East Orange. Iowa.
The Rev. A. u. vanhuscn recently celebrated the
twenty fifth year of his pastorate with the Reformed
Dutch Church in East Williamson. Wayne county.
NY. During his ministry two colonies from his
church have gone out and become strong and one Of
them seli-supportng.
Mr.. b. v. d. Wyckof has accepted q call from the
Reformed Dutch Church ut Preakness. N j.. and will
shortly be ordained.
Unless $l2.OUO are raised before the middle of De-
cembcr one more missions OF the Reformed Dutch
Church must be abandoned. And yet there seems to
be little stir effort in the denomination to ward of
the fearful calamity. The Women's Board OF Mis-
sions of the Church has donated $500 and loaned
other $500 to the general churchs board toward this
object, and Dr. Scudder, returned missionary, has
added $25 The missionary treasury IN In debt
and s threatened with bankruptcy unless the Church
ct large comes promptly and literally to the
MISCELLANEOUS.
There in japan 1856 Protestant church
buildings and preaching places A. organized church
societies. 161 missionaries, 1O2 native preachers "a
coporteurs and Bible women. 81 Sabbath schools. in
which 1856 children taught, and 1.76l church
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