The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-25
Among the Churches.


crease in the membership of the Presbyte-
rian Church in Los Gatos.
Rev. W. Il. Scudder, formerly pastor of
the Plymouth Congregational Church in
this city, has received call to Windsor
avenue church, Hartford, Conn, and also
to Dutch Reformed Church at Chelsea,
Mass.
Rev. NJ. S. Hartwell, who has been filling
the pulpit of Howard Presbyterian Church,
will be followed by Rev. L. Il. Y. Hunter of
indianapolis.
over, n. H., has been elected Professor of
Evidences of Christianity in Dartmouth
College.
1t is understood that the Rev. Howard
MacQucary of the Episcopal Diocese OF
Ohio will shortly be brought 10 trial before
Bishop Leonard Tor heTesy.
Rev. James Curry, well-known Scotch
evangelist, is doing acceptable work III the
Second Presbyterian Church OF Oakland.
The Presbyterians Of Lawson, Mo-, offer
to give sum OF money and FIVE acres OF
land to the Presbytery if it Will establish
and conduct high school there.
At Albany, n. Y, lately. three Cinnamon
were baptized in the Emmanuel Baptist
Church by Rev. Dr. Henry NJ. King. This
is the first instance of the admission of
Cinnamon to the Christian church in that
neighbOrhOod.
Rev. J. K. Smith has resigned the pastor
ate OF ST. Johns Presbyterian Church.
Jackson College, Mississippi, is one of
seventeen institutes for the colored race
sustained by the Baptist Home Missionary
Society. 1t has total attendance of 263, and
all of the students pledge themselves to alb
stain from tobacco and alcohol.
Professor Max Muller, Ph.D., has ac-
cepted the chair of Biblical languages aud
literature in the Divinity School of the Re-
formed Episcopal Church, at West Phila-
delrhia. He is an accomplished Orentalist,
having taken his degree at Erlangen Uni
Yersity, and is also lecturer in the Uni
yerSty Of Pennsylvania.
The Brooklyn Presbytery has approved
Rev. DR.. 1. l.. Cuyler's resignation of the
Lafayetle-avenue Presbyterian Church and
adopted complimentary resolutions for his
many valuable services.
The lators Of Rev Isaac White in Eureka
during the past three months have borne
good fruit. Under his ministratlon twenty
new members have been added to the church
in that time, school established and large
donations received for repairs to the church
building
DR.. L. T. Jeffers, late professor in Lincoln
University, has been installed pastor of the
First esbyterian Church, Oil City, Pa
The estate Of the late Newton Case of
Hartford, Conn, is appraised at $4,000,
which, with the exception of few minor
btquests, will 20 to the Congregational
Theological Seminary at Hartford, Conn,
on the OealD OF MS only cHllQ, to whom he
left a life interest in the estate.
George ". Childs has made the Presby-
terians at Wayne, Delaware County, Pa,
happy by the gift Of $1,000 lot as a site for
their new church.
The will of the late Frederick Billings of
Woodstock, VT, bequeaths to the C0ngrega-
tional Church in Woodstock and to the
American Board for Foreign Missions Sl5,-
600 each; the Vermont Domestic Missionary
Society and American Home Missionary As
ISOLATION $4,000.
Among the candidates recently ordained
by Bishop Paret TO the ministry of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in Baltimore
was the Rev. DR.. L. S. Chlds, formerly
prominent Presbyterian minister of Wash
iDgton.
Frederick II. Page, editor of the Boston
Advertiser, has resigned his position TO en-
ter Andover Theological Seminary as can
didate for the ministry.
The OHIO Wesleyan University, Delaware,
ONO, has secured subscriptions amounting
to $4,000 Tor new university building.
The trustees have adopted plans for q
structure which will cost, complete and fur
nished, about $4,000
Mr.. William Snyder, conductor on the
Grand Trunk Railway, has become well
known as an evangelist. Churches of differ
ent denominations gladly welcome him. He
breaches morning and evening, and in the
afternoon addresses railway men.
LOSING GROUND.
According to the Rev. Benjamin Parsons
of Seattle, Wash, Presbyterianism is not in
fourishlng condition at the present time
He says:
he Synod needs at least two missionaries who
shall make 1t their business 10 foster he churches
already organized and 10 organize new ones in
the most promising localities. But, alas! with
the Foreign Board falling behind III resources at
| the rate of $4,000 year and our Home Board
some $4,000 In debt aud six months behind
| hand In remttances 10 the hard workers on the
nf hnu mn f,un
| one. synodical missionary be supported?
The New York Observer takes firm
| stand in support OF those of the clergy who
| take active interest in politics. In recent
| issue it scores the secular press for its ad-
| verse comments, defends the civil rights of
| ministers, and closes an editorial with the
| following words:
| The cleIgymen Of this city, without going be.
| yond the sphere OF their duty, can do great
| deal TO secure good government One such
| speech as DR.. Mackay Smith made at Chickerng
Hall is OF great value TO the community. 1t will
| corrupt measures than dozen n,terances Of pro-
fessional politicians. IL is not The address OF
| campaigner talking for party. but Of patriotic
| citizen pleading for clean, honest and efficient
| government IL Is the talk of man whom the
| lowest Of the press would not dare to call fool
| ana whom partisanS would attempt 10 rldicule
| only because they dread his Influence. We need
more OF this talk In every city aud town, aud the