The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1879-12-17

OF the 1886 Protestant Sunday Schools in N.
York city 70 are connected with tAg Protestant
Episcopal Church, 70 with the Presbyterian, 81
with the Methodist Episcopal, A with the Bap.
fists, 20 with the Reformed, Is with the Luthes
ran, z with the Congregational with the UNI
versalist, 5 with the Friends, with the Unita-
rian, with the Moravian, and 4 Miscellaneous.
Twenty-six are Union Sunday Schools.
st. Lukes church, the only Protestant Epico-
pal church in Montclair n. j.. is to be sold
under foreclosure on January Sd, unless the con-
gregstion raise the amount necessary to pay off
the mortgage, the original amount of which was
$4,000, but since increased to $4,000.
Rev. Dr. James P. Boyce, Of the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville, has
sent out circular in which he says, The ne
cessities of the Seminary are 50 imperative,
that while the number of students in attend
ance has been annually increasing since our re-
moval to Louisville, and the number this year
is as great as at any previous session. our means
of annual support are so utterly insufficient that
unless the brethren aid in this direction, this
must be our last session for some years to come; ;
until indeed, we can get enough endowment
raised, collected and funded to produce a suffi-
Client income for its support" The salaries for
two last quarters have been paid by money Dor
rOwed from the banks by DR.. BOyce.
New BISHOP OF LoUIsIASA.-The pastor of
Zion church of New York city, Rev. John N.
Galleher, has been elected Bishop of louisiana
He is native of Kentucky, graduate of the
University Of Virginia, and before the war
law student in Louisiana. On the breaking out
of the war he entered the Confederate service, in
which he rose to the rank of Colonel, After the
war he was admitted to the bar, and began prac
tice in Louisville, KY He soon gave up his pro-
fession to study for the ministry, and in 1868
was ordained deacon, and became assistant rector
of Christ church. After that he was rector of
Trinity church, New Orleans, and the Memorial
church, Baltimore.
The FIVE German churches and four German
ministers in Nebraska have organized them
selves into German Congregational Associa-
ton. Pledges amounting to over $4,000 have
been made towards the establishment of Theo-
logical Seminary.
The silver wedding of Rev. J. E. Rankin,
DID, and his wife, was celebrated in the parlors
of his church at Washington, D. c., November
%. Among other presents was the sum of S175,
all in silver dollars, fresh that day from the U.
S. Treasury.
The Rev. Dr. Hawley has completed twenty
two years of pastoral labor with the First
Presbyterian church of Auburn, New York
The church was founded in 1911 and has since
enrolled 1929 members, 1927 of whom have
joined under DR.. Hawley's ministry. The pre-
sent membership of the church is ESQ.,
The Philadelphia .Baptists at a recent Minis
terial Conference adopted a resolution disapprt
ing Designating by DR.. Magoon to the Re-,
Chauncey Giles of the use of his church for two
lectures on the Swedenborgian faith While
disclaiming ecclesiastical authority in the mat
ter, they felt that silence on their part might
be taken as approval, and entered upon record
a fraternal protest against employing the APP
pointments of any Baptist Westinghouse to aid
in disseminating opinions that they, as Baptists,
believe are contrary to the teachings of the
Word of God"