The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-26
UNCONVENTIONAL NOTES.

METHODIST.
Next year will be the jubilee year Of the Primitive
Methodist Church in Canada. the frat class having
been organized in 1880. OF those who formed that
class nearly all have passed away. There are now
5000 in the membership Of tho denomination in
Canada.
The Albrights now number 10 conferences. s4e
itinerant clergymen 563 local preachers, 1O7. 732
communicates. l.422 congregations. Their church
property is worth SO. 900. COS. They own 401 par
sonages. Their contributions to missionary OBJ
jects amount to almost $4,000. Their German
organ Evangelscae Botschaer enjoys circulation Of
$4,000. and their German Sunday school paper
$4,000.
For many years the Primitive Methodists of Eng
land made slow progress. especially in London But
in 1854 the Conference gave its sanction to Metro
poitan Chapel Building Fund. They had then in
London twentyfour chapels which had cost f22 1897.
with hearers $50 and sittngs for $780, They have
now In London station seventy-two chapcls. which
have cost &88 s74 with hearers 10S5O and sittings
for 81. Ala. and membership Of .0s4 The member
ship in Leeds is $751; and they supporting eight
ministers. Their chapel and school property in
Leeds is valued At f66.5s6. They provide nearly
attings and have nearly 1000 regular hearers.
The Methodist Church. South. report Of their
Mexican mission twelve native preachers, eight
they report nineteen members. six of whom are
Brazilian citizens and thirteen Foreigners these are
in Rio Janeiro.
The Swedish Methodist Episcopal Conference re-
ports s. preachers. "a societies. with sos appoint
ments, 43 church buildings 100 local preachers
6.536 members and S.461 practitioners. 1SS Sunday
schools and $3.50 scholars.
The whole number OF Methodists In Louisville
KY. in 1865 was 1.424 The number at the close Of
1878 4.ss2. The net increase since 1866 Is 2AS
per cent.
The Epscopalians OF Mount Pleasant, Manasquan.
n j.. having received from Captain Arnold. Of that
the erection Of q house Of worship. They propose
increase this amount before next spring. and then
to build and have their house ready tor dedication
before the influx of summer visitors takes place.
Two meetings will shortly be held In London by
the Ritusliss Ito make collective demonstration Of
prayer book now publicly In preparation and to
declare that. regard being had to all the circum-
sut to- make any such attempt At this tme
Rev. Francis Harrison, ID. d. Of Troy, N. Y, 10
supposed to be the candidate informally proposed
by the High Church party a. successor to the late
Bishop Odenheimer. He enjoys very favorable
reputation talented divine and pulpit orator.
Grace Church. Newark. in that diocese-Northern
prominently named for Office.
ing more clergy aud more churches than any other
in the kingdom lone incumbent to every 600 Of the
Dc8lOe6l,
the most backward. This is certainly strange
state things. ana one explanation which has been
offered attributes to the enormous proportion Of
private patronage in this particular diocese. Thus,
out Of $50 lvings only 306 in the hands OF pub
lie bodies or individuals. while less than 633 arc
under the control Of private and irresponsible
sons. !.
Since his return from Africa several years ago he
has, so TO speak, "been lying around loose" He
was in New York when the Conference of the Evan
gelical Alliance held, and was shocked to
the Dean OF Canterbury and other Churchmen par-
tihed at once my Lord" Bishop Potter. OF this city,
and the Deans ecclesiastical superior in England Of
the awful offence. His grief was quite painful to
see william George Tozer goes to Jamaica bishop.
PRESBYTERIAN.
The Observer editor knows y church in this city
where pews were rented last year for SIS 900. and
every cent of the whole sum was paid without defal
cation discount. except about $26 which was de-
times OF failures all around it is certainly remark
able, and very creditAnle to all parties concerned.
showing q healthful state of things. gratifying to
The Third Presbyterian Church of Paterson. N. j.,
the Rev. James II. Clark pastor. has recently paid
OIL q debt OF S20,000, Messrs. X. L. A. stuart, Of
this city, having agreed to pay first mortgage of
5000 II the congregation would pay tho second
II Is Wonderful to what an extent the custom Of
hiring ministers prevails ut the West For example.
in tho Presbytery OF Nebraska City. out of nearly
forty churches only two have settled pastors and in
the entire State there hardly more than half
dozen in the situation. All the rest employ their
slider that there is sacredness in the
tract than in any Of the others. The tho between
pastor and people being thus slight and informal.
IL il easily broken. and the result centrally per-
smbulating ministry. having all the evils and
OF the benefits Of the Methodist itinsrancy.
The debt OF &14, 552 77-principal and interested
the First Presb terrain Church or Wilmington N. c..
has been paid, aud the church and its property Is
now free OF sncumbrance.
met with . misfortune the loss Of $4,000 by the
failure OF its English bankers II has also debt OF
The areonock u. p. Presbytery have decided not
take any legal steps ut present 10 obtain posses
sion Of the Gourouk Church now held by the Nd
herents OF the Rev. David Macrse he having rcsigned
and gone to charge in Dundee, Scotland. HIS depo-
sition is not recognized by the civil courts.
ROMAN CATHOLIC.
The Rev. Father Bodhsh returned to Boston last
week from visit to the Catholic colonies In Mime
sofa
theological conference of the clergy Of tho arch.
diocese OF Boston will be held in the Cathedral Of
that city November ~ and 49, and tho annual re-
QUEEN for deceased bishops and priests will be cee-
brated at tho same place November 8.
The congregation of the Little sisters Of the Poor
IL an extensive order and has now In various parts
OF the world more than 1870 establishments.
Father OConnor, y. j., late OF st. Mary's Church,
has taken the place OF Father GuIda 5. j.. at the
Church Of tho lnmsc ulate Conception. Boston, the
latter gentleman having been transferred to Denver
Colorado, IN the province OF Missouri
Iowa will soon be divided into bishoprics, and
will be known "a the Eastern and Western diocesos.
A new bishop will be stationed In Council Bluffs,
and will DO known as the Bishop OF Council Bluffs
The other. Bishop Hcnnessoy. win be retained at
Dubuque.
Bishop Rogers and the Catholics OF Chatham.
N. b. having suffered q blow last year by the
destruction OF the cathedral college and episcopal
residence, one OF the clergymon Of the diocese Rev.
Father Bowling, has been sent to the United states
to appeal for assistance from the charitable He
ct present collecting in New York, with the per-
mission OF the Cardinal.
The Revs Bernard Aling and Anthony Daum-
gartner. members of the Franciscan Order ordained
during the summer, have been sent missionaries
among the Indians in Michigan by Bishop Borgsss.
They speak the Indian, German and English
languages.
BAPTIST.
The colored Baptists of Alabama have for the last
year sustained theological and normal school Mt
Selma, with Ave teachers aud 262 students, without
mourning any debt, and paid $1,000, besides what
they had previously paid. ON the purchase OF
grounds and buildings. IN.
The Baptists OF Pittsburg. Pa. and vicinity
lament their slow growth in that section. Though
their denomination was the first to enter Allegheny
county In 1773, when they organized church at
Peters Greek, and Ia 1912 ut Pittsburg still other
denom nations have outrun them In the eccesasti-
cal race.