St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-08-30
IN NERAL.
of 1850.

Rev. Edward Halves, D. D., of Burling-
ton, preached August Is in the Second
church, Bridgeport, Conn.
On August - new Congregational
church was recognized by Council in San
Francisco, Cal, it being the twelfth Con-
gregational church in that city. 1t is
called the Pierce Street church. Rev. w.
d. Williams, formerly of Vermont, was
moderator of the Council and gave the
right hand of fellowship.
The Presbyterian church of Canada
has . ,239 churches and stations, l 70, 527
communicates, ,SSS Sunday schools,
1882 teachers, and 1908 scholars.
The annual income aggregates upward
of 50 100000. The figures received give
$1,000 for congregational purposes
alone, $63,703 for Home Missions,
$31 ,407 for the Augmentation Fund,
$59,6SS for Foreign Missions,
$25, 239 for the Evangelization Fund.-
and $4S,77O by the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Societies.
Ex-Iustice William Strong, of the United
States Supreme Court, died Aug. 10, aged
81. He was born in Somers, Conn. He
was member of Congress from Penn
sylvania from 1S47to 1851. He was for
eleven years justice of the supreme court
of Pennsylvania, and for two years JUS
tice of the supreme court of the United
States. At the age of 70 he resigned that
office He was a prominent member of
the Presbyterian church, and for some
years was president of the American
Tract Society and the American Sunday
School Union.
Rev. Charles Spurgeon, son of the ia
nous preacher OF that name and brother
OF the present pastor of the Metropolitan
Tabernacle, London, England, recently
arrived in England from South Africa,
where he went to recruit his health. Be
fore he left England heresigned discharge
at Greenwich, near London, where he
had labored with much success for many
years He is now in very much better
health, and the church at Greenwich has
given him warm invitation to return
to its pastorate.
President Warren, of Salt Lake City
Utah, has accepted the presidency OF
Nankton College, and all the friends Of
the college are rejoicing, Rev. W. B. D.
Gray, the general treasurer, has recently
returned after prolonged absence at the
East. Mrs. Ward writes "ln view Of
all that our general treasurer has beer
able to accomplish, in wiping out the
entire Indebtedness of the institution the
past year, through the gifts OF noble
friends of Christian educationin the West
and by his own fine generalship on thi:
financial battlefield, we can only say
What hath God wrought The pros
poets OF Yankton College never were
brighter than at the present time"
a distinguished company of mission
aries, ofthe Protestant Episcopal church
left New York on the 18th inst, on Their
journey to Vancouver, from which place
they sailed August 26 by the Canadian
Pacific steamer Empress of Japan, fol
China. The party consists of Bisho1
Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky
Mrs. and Miss Schereschewskv, of Cam
bridge, Mass. Rev. d. Trumbull Hun
tington, OF Hartford, Conn, and Mis-,
Steva l.. Dodson of Wytheville, Va. AT
Vancouver the company will be Joined
by DR.. William Ludlow, of Seattle
Wash, a medical missionary. Bishol
Schereschewsky, although aged anc
infrm, will return to China, where III
was for many years a missionary, anc
subsequently bishop of the American
church, for the purpose of superintendent!
the work of printing his translation o
the Scriptures into the Wen-Li, the liter
= AIRY and unspoken language of China.