The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1879-10-08
AZ. 15---NO. 10.

Inc " ~ IIesUy UeIidn SHuIVHi DehVeIi
now vacat zSlos supplied during the summer by.
Rev. Mr.. oooss. 1t will seat twelve hundred
people and cost $4,000 The stone of
which it is built was taken from the mountains
near Boulder, and it is said to contain between
$25 and $75 worth of silver to the ton.
Twenty-Five new students were matriculsted
at the opening of Princeton Seminary, and it is
expected that the number will increase to forty
Forty-one new students were actually in attend
ance at the Seminary in Allegheny early last
week and probably some have since arrived.
Other Churches. III,
Union Theological Seminary, New York, has
forty five new students in theJunior Glass Al
legheny Seminary has the same number. -,s
Rev. Telfair Hodgson, D D., has been elected
Vice Chancellor of the University of the South
Episcopal,) at Sewanee, Tenn DR.. Hodgson
has been Dean of the Theological Department
The Ministerial Union of Philadelphia has in
vited the exhibitors of the great Model of Je-
rusalem" to bring it to Philadelphia for exhibit
ton, also to cause the lectures on Biblical His
tory, as related to Jerusalem, to be delivered
connection herewith.
According to the Texas Baptist Year Book,
the first Baptist church in that State was formed
in 1886 Now the white Baptists number TO-
900, and the colored about $4,000 There are
nine schools under the care of the Baptists.-
Missionary work among the Germans of the
State is being prosecuted with considerable yigor.
The church at Kalkosko Mich. Rev. G. H.
Rhoades, pastor, dedicated its new edifce Sep
tember 14th 1t is the only Baptist house of
worship in the county, and cost $500. T
Rev. F A Douglass, formerly pastor of the
Walnut Hills church, Cincinnati, o. has been
appointed Executive Secretary of the American
and Foreign Bible Society.
The bonds Ghree hundred thousand dollars)
authorized to be sold for the relief of the South
ern Methodist Publishing House have all been
disposed Of and the subscribers are now being
called upon to pay their money and take their
bonds. The prospects of the Publishing House
are bright and promising once more.
Rev a. Jameson, pastor of the Methodist
church at Clear Lake, Iowa, recently baptized
ten persons-three by immersion, and received
eighteen into full membership. The pastor is
closing his third year happily; he has received
by letter and conversion ninetys members
during this term.
Five hundred thousand of the population Of
Philadelphia seldom, if ever, frequent the house
of God The Tract and Mission Society was or
ganzed in the prayerful desire to reach this vast
population with the invitations of our blessed
gospel and in its past history has been more or
less successful. A vigorous effort is being made
this fall by the managers of the Society to visit
every house in Philadelphia, and leave with
every family some precious leaves from the Tree
of Life. To this end the managers are engaged
at present in holding series of meetings in the
various churches in Philadelphia to elicit sym
pathy and cooperation in their commendable
work.-Presbyteria
The New York Herald, noticing the strongly
marked Ritualistic tendencies both in this coun-
try and in England, says:
"No wonder that the Reformed Episcopal
Church makes such headway as it does, both in
Great Britain and the United States, when with
in four years it has established parishes and or
ganized congregations in seventeen States and
Territories of the Union in the Dominion of
Canada from St. Thomas Ont, to Digby, N. s.,
and British Columbia; in the Island of Bermu-
da and within the dioceses of the Church of Eng
land in the United Kingdom, with its FIVE bish
ops, its more than one hundred clergymen and
its thousands of communicants
The largest church in the United States is the
first African Baptist Church of Richmond, Va.
1t has $500 members. ,,...
PETERSBURG, VA, October 2-One of the
most notable events of the day is the great mum
Der of religious revivals that have occurred dur
ing the past two months in this city and the sur
rounding counties, and even extending into the
neighboring counties of North Carolina In
number of instances there have been from sew
enty-fve to one hundred conversions at a single
meeting and from forty to fifty are common.
They occur alike in all denominations, among
the whites as well as blacks. Large additions
have been made to churches and congregations
The revivals arestill progressing. Dispatch
Mr. A. Bronson Alcott, the devoted follower
of Mr.. Emerson, the other day, in answer to this
question put by Rev. Joseph Cook, What is the
future of Unitarianism?" said: In my opinion
Unitarianism will be short-lived, and will be
absorbed partly by Orthodoxy, and the remain
ing portion will descend to something worse
than itself"
Rev Francis Harrison, D. D., of Troy, N. Y,
is supposed to be the candidate informally pro
posed by the High Church party as successor to
the late Bishop Odenheimer He enjoys very
favorable reputation as a talented divine and
pulpit orator, having formally served most ac-
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