Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-11-06

MoIc tHdu o,UjU I1luuu RlTlS are
being educated In Christian schools
in India.
The new First Baptist church at
Brooklyn has just been completed
at a cost Of $57 800.
Rev. DR.. E. E. Hale has been
chosen president Of the Suffolk,
Mass, conference of Unitarians.
Bishop Keane, of Richmond, has
begun an extended tour through
Catholic vicariate of North Caro-
lima.
1t is rumored that Chancellor
Preston, of New York, will sue
coed Bishop Uoss,rigan in the do
cese of Newark,
The new church edifice of St.
Luke'5 parish, Lebanon, Pa, was
consecrated by Bishop Howe, last
Sunday.
Some of the Baptist churches of
California refuse to meet with the
San Francisco association until it
has rid itself Of the Rev. /. S. Kali
loch.
DR.. Thomas Guard, of Balti-
more, preaced in the Cooper In
stitute. New York, November 8,
in reply to the Bible heresies of r.
G. Ingersol.
The Rev. DR.. Morris, of Balti-
more, suggests that Pan-Luther-
an council be held at old Witten-
burg, the city Of Luther and the
Reformation.
The sixty-seventh annual meet
ing of the Synod of North Carroll
ma will assemble in the First Pres
byterian church in Raleigh, on
Wednesday evening, November
10.
Rey. j. NJ. Buckley, Of the Han
son Place Methodist church, Brook
Ign, will retire from the pulpit
next year, in view of his arduous
duties as editor of The Christian
AdU0cate.
The Rev. Wilbur Fisk Crafts, of
Chicago, preached last Sunday at
the Church of Christian Endeavor,
formerly DR.. Eggleston's, and it is
probable he will be called to take
charge of the Brooklyn parish.
Rev. Robert NJ. Luther, recent
~ thepastor of the Baptist church,
in Bennington, VT, has entered
upon his duties as the district Sec
rotary of the American Baptist
Missionary Union,
An iron church was sent from
London for the Esquimaux Pres
byterians on Little Whale river,
Hudson Bay. After being two
years on the way, it at length
reached its destination, and was
lately dedicated.
Nearly forty per cent. of the
present number of ordained mis-
sionaries of the American board
are from Amherst and Williams
colleges, and more than twenty
per cent. are from younger insti-
tutions of the West. Thirty-four
per cent. are from Andover SEM
mary.
Rev. w. II. McAllister, pastor
of the Georgetown Methodist
church, of New Haven, has accept
ed call to the Independent Meth
odist church, of Baltimore, giving
as his reason the itinerancy sys-
tenn OF the church, which allows
but a three-years' residence in one
place.
Last year there were served
within the bounds of the North
Carolina Methodist Conference six
teen domestic missions, Nearly
$4,000 were spent for domestic mis-
siOns. Within these missions there
were nearly 5000 church members,
most of whom could only be reach
ed in this way.
The Society for the Increase of
the Ministry, which held its twen-
ty-fourth anniversary in New
York last week, consists mainly
of the bishops and clergy of the
Episcopal church. 1t has receiy-
ed, since its organization over
1000, and during the past year
hes extended aid to seventy-five
scholars.
The Archbishop of Canterbury
said recently that there were few
intelligent students of theology
nowadays who saw any inconsis-
tency between the teachings ofap-
proved geological science and the
great central truths respecting
God and mans nature as commu-
nicated to us in the Mosaic re-
cords. No doubt view of these
records somewhat different from
what we were accustomed to in
old days was implied in this
change of thought, but neither in