, 1879-06-15

The death Of the Rev. John Whitney, OF Ne1
ton Centre, Mass, is announced.
The Rev. George Boutwell, has accepted ca
to the Congregational Church OF Sa1isbur,
N. e.
Spurgeon has completed his pastoral quarte
! century. His people presented him With oye
$4,000.
| The Rev. C. ". Tomlinson, OF Hudson, N. 7.
has accepted call to the Universalist Church a
Galcsburg, III.
Mgr Andre de Ia Vile, q French prelate at
! tached to the Vatican, has joined the 1talia1
Methodist Church.
The Rev: C. II. Fraser, OF Kel}ey's Island, ha
| made himself dislked because Of making US
of fraudulent credentials.
The Rev. Mr.. Abbott, formerly Of the edito-
rial staff Of the CongregatonaIix has joined the
Reformed Episcopal Church.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey's j" Hold the Fort
was played by the band OF the besieged II
Ekowe, Zutuland, every Sunday.
No successor to the Akhoond Of Swat has YET
appeared to claim the spiritual power, though
Que Fakir Sahib dreams OF securing the ten
Doral.
The Rev. q. NJ. Collision, late Of st. Paul's
Church Oh the West Side, has left the Reformed
Episcopal Church to return to the Presbyterian
Church.
Marshal iacsfahon's mother-iu-law, the
Couptesse de Castries, has organized q Protes.
tunt congregation at Monturgis, near her
chateau.
A Congregational Council at Kepnebunk, Me-,
recently refused to install tie Rev. G. A. Lock-
wood. because he wasn't sound on the eternal
punishment doctrine.
The Pope is said to have given the Duchesa
Of Madrid hopes that her grandau1t, Nine
Elizabeth, Louis XVI.'s sister, who WAS gull
Iotined May 1Q, 1874, may be beatifed-
The Rev. ]. D. Cowap, lately admitted to
Holy Orders BY Bishop McLaren, has been
called to St. Stephens Church Of this city, OF
which the Rev. Ur. Cushtnan was recently Rec
tor.
The Rev. 8. G. Brown, President Of Hamilton
College, Clinton, N. T., has been chosen dele
gate from this country to the Evangelical
Alliance to meet ut Basic, Switzerland, next
August
fSDr. rusey writes to q friend denying a report,
which gained much circulation 10 England, that
he had most earnestly urged Dr. Newman to re-
fuse the offer Of CARDINALS hat. The fdea is
he says, "simply absurd"
In Uniyersalist Church in Watertown, q
short time ago, the Rev. G.. J. Porter opened
the service, his father offered the prayer, and
his mother preached the sermon. The text IVES,
" would not live Away"
The Rev. F. ". Geissenhoiner, OF New York,
who deda few days ago, was a Lutheran minister
for sixty-two years His ancestors for seven
generations were clergymen, the sacred Office
descending regularly from father to eldest son*
Tile New York Times SAYS: *sThere seems to
be 10 doubt now that the Rev. Robert Collyer,
Of Chicago, Is to be regularly installed, with the
beginning Of autumn, as pastor OF the Church
Of the Messiah, Thirty street and Park
avenue"
George Hoover, Of 3lillville, Ind, married =
SECOND wife within six months after the death
OF bis first The Dunkuri Church, in which he
was an elder, deemed his precipItancy serious
offense. aud expelled him. The punishment
had so great an effect On him that he has become
insane.
Canon q. B. Tristram, F. R. s., Of the College
of Durham, VINO has written many books on the
Holy Land and subjects connected Herewith,
has been offered the Bishoprtc Of Jerusalem, but
has declined the appointment, which, through
Or. tiobat's death, has fallen to Lord Beacons-
field to make
The Rev. Joseph D. Wilson, OF Christ Church,
Peoria, has accepted call to st. Johns Reform
ed Episcopal Church, on Ellis Avenue. this city.