The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-02-15
GENERAL CHURCH NOTES.
Methodist Episcopal Church Consolida'
tion-CardinaI Manning's VIII.

Methodist Episcopal Church Consolida-
tion-CardinaI Manning's Will.
The will of the late Cardinal Manning
was made public last Thursday. The
only funds be reckoned his own are e100
in consols, which he left to his aged
sister. In his purse were left q sovereign,
a hall sovereign, a shilling and sixpence
he had saved for himself. or the large
sums received by him all had been dis
posed of in charities during his lifetime.
Principal A.. M. Fairbairn, OF Mansfield
College, Oxford. England, is announced
to deliver. this spring. a series of lectures
ut the Union Theological Seminary, New
York, on The Place of Christ In Theol-
gv." The exact date is not yet liked.
The Methodist Episcopalianr of New
YORK are carefully considering a plan of
church consolidation which was proposed
recently by St. Paul's Methodist Epis-
copal Church. and has been agreed to by
st. Luke's, the Forty-third Street and st.
Johns churches. The basis of coutribu-
ton to the expence which will be incurred In
purchasing Il site and constructing a new
building will be for each society to put
into the common fund the available pro-
ceeds realized from the sale of the present
church property. st. Paufs Church So
ciety has about $3.50. 900 cash in hand.
The Forty-third Street Church property
il considered worth 500. 900, ana St.
Johns 500, 900. AS St. Luke's Church
is situated on leased ground. the
value of it's property is nominal. The
amount which can thus be realized will
constitute the chief part of the society's
contribution to the new church. h
expense of the new structure and site.
which will be in Broadway, between
Fortieth aud Fiftieth streets, is estimated
to be 5000, 900. 1t will be a free church, of
imposing Dimensions. The membership
pF thn uGporoI nturrha1 nnmhinn 10
approximately as follows: st. Paul's, $50;
st. Luke's, $50; St. JOINTS, $50, and Forty
third Street Church, 800. 1t is proposed
to have a pastor and two or three assis-
tauts, who will have charge OF the active
and aggressive church work. The main
details OF the new church have yet to be
arranged.
Cardinal Manning is said to have been
so careless in his dress as to be positively
shabby in appearance at times. They
| even relate that ON one occasion when
he took a d~runkard's bottle away on the
street the wretch gazed at him u moment
and then said: "Take it, poor fellow.
take 1t; We need it more then l do"
Mr.. David Macrae. the successor of Mr..
George Gilfllan. of Dundee. can tell d
| good story. Here is one related by him
in a lecture at Eaiuburg the other even
ing: A parish minister got a professional
brother to preach for him one Sabbath
day. Some time nfterward the " met.
and the obliged minister remarked:
"Man, we'll hae tae get ye tae preach ut
| our kirk again. We never had such a
big collection as we had last Sabbath"
II am glad TO hear that" remarked his
| friend; ''how much was it?" Nine
| pence, and some days it's only three baw
- s, and never mair than threepence."
N,il." replied the friend, 'thev can't
ta,ak much of my eloquence, for l put in
sixpence."