New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-12-04

| personal friends" 1t Is intended that the
church shall be mainly for those employed by
! the railroad and their families. with these
! ends in view" says circular letter recently
issued it is essential that the church should be
conveniently located, and it has been suggested
! that the organization OF Grace Evangelical
! Lutheran Church, the Rev. John Ii. Menges,
pastor, at Thirty fifth and Spring Garden-sts.,
| could be utilized for this purpose. This So
ciety, which owns a lot very desirably located,
| is at present largely composed of employees or
| the Pennsylvania Railroad. The pastor Is
thoroughly in accord with this mOyen ., and
his present congregation has been gathered
mainly from railroad men. Ii Is proposed TO
raise $4,000 to build this Memorial Church,
| and as the plan suggested would not require
any outlay for the purchase of a lot hand
some, substantial and suitable building could
be erected with that amount of money" Sub
scriptiOns may be sent To b. X JamisOn, trea-
surer OF the fund, Third and Chestnut-sts.
Philadelphia.
The Rev. DR.. Goodell, of the Pilgrim COngre-
gatOnal Church, ST. Louis, believes that hard,
systematic work is the tue way to raise money
for church objects. His plan, III his own
words, is as follows: In "A passionate OF twenty
years 7 have found the most successful way of
raising money to be this : Pick out live OF six
earnest, influential Christian ladies in the
church, divide the parish into districts, put one
lady in district, and let her gO--subscrptl0n
paper In hand-to every man, woman and child
in the parish, worldly men as well as Christians,
and the stranger III the gate, and get from each
something, heading each paper with good man
and a round sum. In New Britain, Conn, by
this plan, the sum for Home Missions went up in
fourteen years from $3.50 TO $l,94O year,
and each year but one was an increase over tho
last. Tins Is one KIND Of wOnlans work that
tells. By the same method our Foreign Mis-
sion offering rose from $3.50 to $4,000"
A monument is to be erected to the memory
of the late Bishop +. .. Haven, who died and
was buried in Salem, Oregon, by the Methodist
Episcopal Church. of which he was most con-
spicuOuS member. The committee OF the
Oregon Conference, which has the matter in
charge has issued an appeal for subscriptions.
# is stated that not less than 80, 800 Will he
needed to erect a suitable monument. The
committee suggests TO all Annual Confer
cnces, District Conferences, Ministerial ASSo-
Citations, Preachers Meetings, and all like
organizations, the prOpriety OF their cooperate
ing in this work, each in its own way, and ear
nestly invites such cooperation. like invita-
ton is extended to those institutions of learning
with which Bishop Haven had been identified,
and To his friends at large. Subscriptions nay
be sent TO the Rev. G.. ". lzeT, Portland.
Oregon, who is the treasurer of the fund.
The Virginia Annual Conference of the
| Methodist Episcopal Church was held at
Charlottesville recently, Bishop McTyeire pre-
siding. The reports presented show the follow
ing to be the condition of the Church IN the
State: Local preachers, l59; white members,
57.37l cOlOred members, 1876; infants bap-
TIED, 1,26l adults baptized, 2O6S; sunday
schools G7O teachers, 7,23l and scholars,
~ .OO6 The contributions for all purposes
during the past year amounted TO SOL, lS3 II,
an increase OF fS, 1913 over the year before.
The sum of Sl5,3S3 81 was devoted to the
work OF building and repairing churches.
There recently appeared in this column a
statement showing the number OF persons who
attended church III Liverpool on certain sun
day morning. \ second count which has
L., L.. n I IpF-
sons attend public worship III the evening than
i'm the morning. "Sull,' says The london
Globe, the fact remains that the habit OF
church going in Liverpool is declining as the
population grows; for, while the anendcd
returns give total of 10000 attendants at all
the places of worship in the city, the census
taken in 1853, with a vastly smaller popuia-
ton, exhibited total of 100000
The Rev. DR.. Lorimer expects that his church
in Chicago, the Emmanuel Baptist, viii DO
dedicated about the 18th of December. DE-.
I.oIimer visited Boston recently, and while De
was there his friends contributed to the church
| fund 81 ,6S7 in money and various articles for
! the use of the church, including full COM
munion service, pulplt,chalIS' etc. ana piano
! for the Sunday -schOol, valued at 1913. These
facts are taken from pleasantly written
acknowledgment addressed by DR.. LOrmeT to
the Baptlsts of Boston, and published in The
Udtchman of last week.
Bags instead of plates have been introduced
in many parishes in England to receive the
offerings of the congregations. ! - amount OF
the contributions Las consequently fallen OIL,
copper coins taking the place of silver and
gold. \ few Sundays ago Liverpool clergy
man preached upon the subject, taking for ms
text the words, Z" Alexander the cOppersmlth
hath done me much harm The sermon had
good effect. the contribution at its close being
much larger than usual.
There are in the Canadian Provinces ninety
..l.r how r,fpE
pastors with twenty-eight assemblies nor
churches. and eghty-fOur preaching stations.
The total average attendance at the sunday
Scrvices'was 1920. The total membership Is
, 63J. The Sundav-schOol scholars number
6, 1913 The church property. is valued at
TJO9 12j, on which there are debts amounting
to $lJ7,lSO.
II Is currently reported that Dean Bradley,
successor of the late Dean Stanley contem-
plates calling a meeting TO consider the best
method of securing the erection Oh Il mohumehG
IN the memory of his predecessor in WcSthiln-
ster Abbey. lie faVJrs, it is SAID, design OF
an altar tomb, with IA recumbent statue, to DO
placed IN the chapel of Henry VIII, near the
graves OF the Dean and his WIFE,
The Emanuel Baptist Church, at Albany,
has extended call to the Rev. DR.. Henry NJ.
King, pastor of the Dudley Street Baptist
Church, Boston. DR.. King has mad charge OF
his church for about eighteen years, and Is de-
scribed as preacher OF unusual force
Bishop Wightman, the Oldest bishop of tho
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, who has
been failing i'm health for some time is lying
in an extremely critical condition at his homo
in Charleston, 5. c.
CURRENT RELIGIOUS OPINION
Awritero on the Decay of New-England Thought
saws thar :" I'nitarIauism has not n single great
name in philosophy or theology" lie honors its
distinguished ministry, but says thai the two
vornrer men now apparently most honored in It's
ranks and representatives. Of its tendencies ".
j. Savage and John W. Chadwick, and of them be
GAYS: Both OF whom long since honestly gave up
CLristanltN for the ethics OF ey0ntion, or The be-