Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-28
CHURCHES AND MINISTERS.

At the advent ordinations in England,
l56 persons were admitted to holy orders.
Prof Messmer, of Munich, editor of the
Deutscher We,katr, organ of the Old Cath
olics of Germany, is dead.
The Rev. Edward Palmer, father of DR..
B. NJ Palmer of New Orleans, has entered
his ninty second year. He preached re-
Gently an animated sermon.
The death is announced OF the Rev.
Reuben Gaylord at Omaha, Neb. He was
a Congregational minister nearly forty-fve
years. He graduated from Yale in 1894.
The Bishops of the Southern Methodist
Church are growing old. Bishop Paine is
! so; Kavanaugh, IS; Pierce, So; Wight
man, y; Doggett, SO; Keener, 80, and
McTyeire, Sc.
1t is announced that General Rathbone
has given $4,000 toward the proposed
$3.50, 900 endowment fund for the Uni
versity of Rochester tBaptistI. There only
remains $40, 900 to raise to complete the
] endowment.
The Church of God German Baptist),
founded by DR.. Winebrenner, will cele-
brate this year the semi centenary of its
existence. Special contributions for be-
nevolent purposes are asked for, and some
$50. coo wanted for classical school.
The Free Baptists are increasing in
North Carolina. They have now about
Is, 900 members, besides 1000 colored
members. They are in sympathy, but not
in connection, with the General Confer
ence of the Free-will Baptists of the North.
The General Theological Seminary (Epis-
eopal) New York, has educated more than
a score of Bishops and upward of 1000
clergymen. It has now in its classes 100
students. The seminary is under the direct
control of the General Convention.
The oldest Non conformst place of wor-
ship in England is to be seen in the village
of Horningsham, Willis. 1t bears the date
of 1866, and was built for some Presbyte-
rian workmen who were engaged upon the
erection OF palace in the neighorhood.
The Congregational denomination has in
Massachusetts 52S churches, of which 2S2
have pastors, $50 acting pastors, and 66
are vacant. There are 655 ministers, of
whom l95 are not in pastoral service. The
number of members is 81, 1871. The addi-
tions the past year numbered 4, 200. Of
these 2, 42l were by profession.
Some of the ministers of the Irish Epis-
copal Churcl, holding that disestablishment
has annulled the privileges of Non-conform-
lists in the parish church-yards, and re-
fused to allow dissenting burial services,
an appeal has been taken to the Church
Representative Body, which decides that
the rights of Non-conformists in parish
church-yards remain intact.
The United Presbyterian Presbytery OF
Edinburgh has adopted resolution calling
on the Queen ''to exercise her authority to
put stop to the atrocities which are beng
perpetrated in Afghanistan in burning vii
lagos and in leaving helpless women and
children to die of cold and hunger-pro-
ceedings at variance not only with the die
tates Of Christianity, but even with the
laws Of civilized warfare"
The New York ''Baptist Annual for
1850 reports the whole number OF Baptist
churches in that State at So, with liz, IA
members, showing a decrease of seven
churches aud an increase of 81 members.
Four of the churches have more than 500
members: The Abyssinian, New York,
with l. 400 members; Strong Place, Brook
lyn. sos the church in Binghamton, with
S57, and Calvary Church, New York, with
| Sl7.
/ The Church of Jesus, in Mexico (Episco-
pail, has been maintaining services IN vera
4 Cruz, which we're conducted by lay
reader. Albino Soto. Soto was recently In-
formed that circumstances made 1t neces-
| sary to withdraw the support gwen his
mission. In reply, Soto declared that the
1 mission must not be closed, and, for the
purpose of keeping it open, he would get
| some work to do so as to pay the rent OF
the hall and support his family,