The Penn's Grove record., 1882-04-22
The Church Temporal, General
and Personal.

London, has just completed his seven
ty-first year.
The Rev. A. j. Gordon, ID. D., has
been elected President ofthe Northern
Baptist Education Society.
Professor NJ. +. Gates has been
unanimously elected President of
Rutgers College, New Brunswick.
The Rev. Mr.. Ashenfelter of Jersey
City, has accepted a call to the Uni
v~ersalist Church of Towanda, N. Y.
DR.. Beresford, the Archbishop of
Armagh and Primate of Ireland,
entered upon his eighty fl rst year, two
weeks ago.
The Rev. ]. W. Balm, of Cincinnati,
has accepted a call to the Alexander
ChuIch, Phi ladelphia.
In Scotland, candidating sermons
are called preaching matches"
Thirty-three English parishes were
dependent for the choice of their rec
tors on the late dissipated Lord Ions
dale.
Thirty-one scci, ties are engaged in
missionary enterprises in China. They
employ els lahorers, and last year ex-
pended $764,00O.
A native Of India is publishing in
Calcutta a journal called the Antf
Christian, in which he undertakes TO
show the absurdities of the Christian
religion. He offers to print replies
from Christians, and defes them all.
In commemoration of the five hun
dredth a~nniversy of Wycliff's death,
which will be in the year 1884, a
Wyclif society is in course of forma-
ton to secure the publication of the
great reformer's Latin works, with
English translations.
1t is stated that the re vision of the
Old Testament is finished, with the
exception of Ecelesiastes and the Song
of Solomon. The second revision will
take the whole of 1882, and the finished
work will be published in 1888.
The extensive statistics that have
been recently gathered in England
| show that in a large number cities
mere than 80 per cent. of the populf.
ton do not attend any place of wor
ship and that little more than one
quarter of the people attend the E.
tablished Church.
There was a suicide recently in the
parish church of Marstop, Lincoln
shire, and many thought the chuach
should be re-consecrated. The Vicar
consulted Bishop Wordsworth, who
suggested a ''penitential service"
This was held a very large congreea-
ton being present. The Miserere (the
ffty-first Psalm was chanted col
lects from the continuation Office were
ehanted, penitentisl litany song, and
IN appropriate sermon preached.
A minister is assigned every year by
thecon ference to the Methodist Church
al Troy, O., and is invariably locked
out by the Trustees. This lie the re-
suit Of an old disagreement, in which
the edifice was, by order of a court,
left in the Trustees hands. The last
spp0intee. the Rev. George Edgar,
announced that he would break the
door and hold services. The Trustees
put on new locks and bars to prevent
an entrance. While they were at
work the pastor appeared on the
scene. An alteration ensued. Trustee
James brandished a Ratchet and the
clergyman drew a pistol, for which
act he was arrested and put under
bonds.
The Boston correspondent of the
Hartford Courant says of the Rev.
o~ctsvius Brooks rockingham /: "Mr.
rockingham has renewed his connec-
ton with his fathers church. His
name has never been taken from its
rolls, whereit was placed in his youth.
The pastor of this church is the Rev.
Rufus Ellis, and he is one of the most
orthodox in his tendencies of any of
u Unitarian preachers. Mr.. Froth-
ingham is a constant attendene on his
ministry. He takes part in the social
meetings of the church also, and fire..
quently addresses them. In spite of
what the Rev. Mr.. Savage has said of
his holding to his former views, it APP
pears very much as ifthe radical work
of Mr.. rockingham was ended. A
mind constituted as is his, when ex-
%periencing a change in mature life
does not return from it."