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gramtait Umitftaran.
THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1867.
On the second page will be found the sec
ond of our special European correspondent s lively
letters , Mr. Hammond’s account of a visit to the
Convent of Mar Saba, in the Valley of the
Kedron, also, How to get a D. D., A word to
Svbbafh-schools Teachers , and a report of the
late Commencement of Lincoln University. Page
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Ledger; page sixth the usual miscellany for the
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The Twelfth' National Convention of
the Young Men’s, Christian, Associations met this
year in Montreal, June 19th. H. Thane Miller,
of Cincinnati, who has lost bis sight since the
last convention met a year ago in Albany, was
re-elected'President; Major Gen. Russell, C. 8.,
Ex-Governor Pollock, Hon. William, E. Dodge,
Sir Henry Havelock and others were present, be
sides five hundred and thirty delegates, A res
olution condemning the introduction of games of
chance, (such as bijliards, checkersj[!] j)r, domi
noes) into the rooms of the Associations was car
ried afifer a prolonged -discussion.. The next
convention meets in Detroit.
End of the McCune Case.— The Rev. W. C.
McCune, who was condemned by .the last General
Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church for
holding errors on the subject of church fellowship,
lias been? dismissed by his'Presbytery to join a Pres-'
hytery in another body,; we believe the New School
Presbyterian Church.— Presbyterian , 0. (S'.
We understand that, since the General Assem
bly's adjournment, at a session of the Presbytery
held in Monroe, brother M’Cune demanded a deter
mination of the case., His brethren, embarrassed
with it, were unwilling to proceed, whereupon he
asked for his certificate, and it was granted. Meet
ing him with this in his pocket, one day last week,
we proposed to “ open the doors” of the Methodist
Church and let him in. His presence and labors
will be a blessing to any Church. —Central Christ.
Advocate.
Connection Dissolved. —The church on Orchard
street, Cincinnati, of which Rev. W. C. M’Cune is
pastor, expressed on Monday evening of last week,
by a unanimous vote, their desire to dissolve their
connection with the United Presbyterian Church,
and appointed a committee to inquire concerning
the most eligible denomination with which to con
nect themselveß. —Central Christ. Advocate.
Such, we believe, is the end of the McCune
case, and we, like our Methodist brother of Cin
cinnati, offer him a hearty welcome if he has de
cided to cast his lot with us. Such a condemna
tion and on such grounds, is the best certificate
he can bring wuh him. Or, if there is one bet
ter and higher commendation it is-this, —that al
though subjected to the trying ordeal of a con
troversy largely personal, not a breath of imputa
tion has sullied his good name.
Something said- in the course of the controver
sy in the U. P. Church misled us into supposing
(and saying) that “ on intercommuning with other
denominations) on. Psalmody and on secret So
cieties, Mr.'McC. holds’ the strict views of his
own body.” In regard to these three points he
writes us:— . .
“ (1.) This statement occurs in the preface of
rny book: ‘ The law of Christ’s Church is that all
who give satisfactory and scriptural evidence that
tiiey have a saving faith in Christ have a right
to membership in the Church, which of eourse
includes the fight to observe the Lord’s Supper.’
We have ever admitted members of other Evan
gelical Churches to commune in the church of
which I was pastor. I myself communed in a
New School Presbyterian Church several years
ago. lam opposed to open communion, as prac
ticed by Unitarians and other anti-Evangelical
sects.
,f (2.) On the subject of Psalmody my belief is
that we should carefully maintain the distinc
tion between the inspired Psalter and uninspired
hymns, however Scriptural and Evangelical. And
I hold that a moderately faithful version of S rip
ture must practically be recognized as inspired
as to the matter of it. But I firmly hold that
where the Bible gives no law, the Church has no
rio-ht to enact one, and I can see no law in the
Bible forbidding the use of uninspired hymns.
“ (3.) I believe that Secret Societies are real
rivals of the Christian -Church —that they are
generally Christless and ensnaring. But Ido not
b lieve that a man who gives good evidence that
he is a disciple of Christ-should either be exclu
ded from the Church or required-to yield his
convictionS'Or his liberty <in ; this .matter.”
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, SHURSDAY, JULY 4, 1867.
EPISCOPAL IMPRESSIONS ABROAD.
The Pennsylvania Bishop Stevens, recent
ly returned, and the Ohio Assistant Bishop
Bedell, still abroad, have just expressed the
impressions, which their visits to Italy and
Rome have given them, respecting the struc
ture and services of their own Church. The
Pennsylvania Diocesan, in a meeting of- the
clergy and laity held recently to welcome
his return; stated in effect;-that his observa
tion of the religious movements in Italy
awakened in him a deeper sense of the value
of the Episcopal Ghureh order, and he had
returned with freshened purpose to promote
it within the sphere of his .labors. In this
connection, it may. be . remembered that,
sometime last year, this-,prelate united with
an English Bishop, also travelling in Italy,
in discountenancing the Protestantizing ef
forts, of the Waldenses, .American mission
aries, and othersdn that Kingdom,'and rec-’
ommending in<plac.e .of an attempt at radi
cal change, that there should be a gentle
sliding out from the more abhorrent fea
tures of the Papacy, into a reformed chureh
ism, which should preserve enough of the
forms and rituals, to which the Italians had
been accustomed, to save their feelings from
the shock of a change of religion. Taken in
connection with that, {manifesto, we “can
easily understand the impressions to which
the Bishop now gives utterance as a reflec
tion upon the whole "Waldensian .work, so
far as it is an aggression upon and
upon the entire missionary forc.e in Italy.
There is no mission there which works upon ’
the plan of the Bishop, no Protestant effort
which attempts to patch up a rotten system,
and no immediate prospect, that we are
aware of, of an attempt to Staleyize that
field.
Bishop Bedell writes from Rome to the
Diocesan Convention of Ohio, recently in
session in Cleveland. He looks out from
the Protestant stand-point. He betrays no
alarm lest the dissenting interest should be
found in the lead of reform. Rome has been
his study —that Rome toward which the
ritualistic movement is so fast drifting the
Church. He has seen the mother of abomi
nations; he recognizes her as such, and his
impressions are that his Church should put
the utmost possible distance between her
and itself, and that, to this end, the severest
construction should be given to every sen
tence in the Standards of the Ghureh against
supernumerary vestments, and ceremonials
—in short against everything Popish. 1 'The
Ohio Diocese, under the chief episcopate of
Bishop Mcllvaine, is probably least affected
by high-churchlsin of any in the c'ouiftry,
and the letter of the Assistant Bishop is re
ported as having given great satisfaction.
FROM OUR ROCHESTER CORRESPONDENT.
A SABBATH IN ELMIRA.
It was a hot one, and well filled with varied
services. Dr. Curtis, however, was .absent, hav
ing gone to Galesburg, 111., to deliver an address
at the Commencement of Knox College. Rev.
Isaac Clark, of the Second Church, was also
away, being in attendance upon the meeting of
the Young Men’s Christian Association in Mon
treal. Rev. T. K. Beecher, of the Congrega
tional Church has recently returned, with “per
fect health,” he says, from his journey of four
teen thousand miles, completely around South
America. He is now engaged preaching a series
of morning sermons on the old Testament. He
has also changed the character of his evening
services; he omits the sermon, and has “ves
pers,” consisting of reading, singing and pray
ers. His congregation is very large, and much
attached to their gifted pastor.
But the day, we said, was filled with varied
services. Somebody preached on Missions in
the morning in the Second Church. Dr. Cur
tis’ pulpit was supplied by Rev. D. S. Johnson,
late of Waverley. A children’s meeting was
held in the Seeond Church at half past four
o’clock .in the afternoon A sermon was preached
in the Academy by Prof. Steele at five o’clock;
Vespers at Mr. Beecher’s at six o’clock, and the
Baccalaureate of President Cowles at the Col
lege at eight o’clock. The sermon of Dr. Cowles
was excellent, laying down valuable principles
and giving admirable advice to the young ladies.
The graduating class numbers ten, and is well
spoken of for ability, and scholarship. One hun
dred and thirty pupils have been in attendance
the past year, one-half in the collegiate depart
ment, not half so many as there ought to be in
this excellent institution.
Some admirable improvements have been made
in the college building, such as painting, papering,
frescoing, new carpets and new furniture might
be expected j(o.makc in hall and parlors. Last
winter the college obtained an endowment of
§25,000 from the State, on condition that
another §50,000 should be raised from private
sources; §25,000 to add to said endowment, and
a like sum to be laid out in permanent improve
ments': Mr. Simeon Benjamin, who has already
given so much'to the institution, gives the sec
ond §25,000 for endowment; arid an effort is in
progress toward raising the third $25,000 among
other friends of the institution of which three
fifths are already pledged. This sum completed,
and-the : property of the College will be worth,
it is thought, $175,000,-; | It certainly is beauti
fully located;, has a jfinq building, an excellent
faculty, and seems wall fitted for all the proper
ends of a first class female College. It deserves
great success. , ■'
PUr.l’iTS AGAIN,
One of the finest pplpits we have seen in many,
a day was that whipi was used in Dr. Shaw's
church during the pttings of the General As
sembly; which consisiid of a simple marble table
about three, feet, lons by eighteen; inches wide,
with a small desk in fee jniddle upon .which to
lay the bible. . Therewas plentyDf room’forthe'
manuscript, or briefe notes, without such an
enormous barricade ai many ministers have be
tween them and tl|ir people... We wish all
churches would patten after, : that. It:c,eftainly.
looks more like at people with the truth,
than some arrangemets which we have seen I
GOlt| ABROAD.
Rev. C. C. Kim|ll closed his; labors at Le
Roy on the 3d Sab|th of June. - Under; his;
ministry of threeJyehi, the Churchh as increased
one half in ineinberslp, has paid’ off k 'trouble-,
some floating debt, ha virtually rebuilt its house
of worship at a cost o.about $BOOO, ,and obtain-:
ed a new organ we believe, about
$2OOO were paid. congregation was nesver'
larger than at preset, never more prosperous.'
Mr. Kimball, we are Id, preached an admirable ,
farewell sermon, and kv.es much respected- and!
esteemed by all. Has expecting to sail-in a;
few days for a six moms’ tourof Europe, hoping'
to’prepare for greaterjsefulness by a brief study
of the old world. . j . .
■A CHURCH;
“It is an ill wind”|!o a certain colored gen
tleman once interpret! the'proverb—‘‘‘it is an
ill wind' that'blows | wharf So it seems to
have been of the burng . of’ .the' Congregational
Church in Brighton.'(he, consequence .-is to .be,
the getting of a bettephufeh, in a much more
desirable , location. 1 - Aeady ground is secured,
and plans partly forni to. this, end. The old
church was small, anrather antique in struc
ture. It waslocated tfind the canal, where no
body went except; to {ito church, or go to the
graveyard. The new is; be modern and tasteful
in form, and to fee l|ted down, oa' the main
street where .ppqple ,h, gnd where it can be
more ,easily reached, bill be a great improve-,
ment everyway; • ;
—' bific.
An exploring expejon, of a scientific na
ture, headed by Prof. Akins, of Williams Col
lege, is about to start fifeouth America.. Rev.
James Orton, acting pair 0 f the Congregation
al Church in Brighton,H Col. Staunton, of Le
Roy, are to be of the pi. Mr. Orton is a fine
scholarj has acted as aftant professor of the
natural sciences in of Rochester
the last year, and hasVmdy travelled in the
East. Col. Staunton' is a rtist, ! and will doubt
less transfer many a pleas sketch to his port
folio for future study aril se. We trust they
may have a profitable tin nd return in;safety.
Rochester, June 29.
Ifeta nf -fii
Churches and Pas 1
Cabe, having resigned th
in Peru, Ind., is spendin
vil’e, 111. Rev. P.'S.'
ed his charge at Geneva;
health, his corresponds
Union Corners, Living:
Rev. E. Everett’s addres
sent from Hopewell, Or
Newberry, Lycoming cou
in Pike,'N. Y. have pur<
painted and refitted then
are anxious to secure the
who would find a useful
home, an<d competent suj
The First Church of Or
made vacant in Deceml
death of its pastor, Rev.
a call to the Rev. E. M:
mont. ■ ■ ;
Cincinnati, German
Rev. G. VV. Winnes, out
that the Second Germai
was organized with fourt
1867. Philip Linkenba
and ordained June 9th t
“My little flock, made
laid together §20.45 for
The first communion wa:
small church. The men
seven.” Mr. Winnes i;
ceptably and usefully in
tals, and has under his
Sabbath-schools.
Cleveland, O.—At
Presbytery of Clevelan
June 11th, Rev. Dr.
Church, laid before the
his charge, based upon
hindrances in his worl
ments front himself, and
sioners sent by the cong
sive of attachment to t
tery voted not to receive
companied their vote u
upon a portion of the pe
of Christian duty and e
ing all to mutual forb
Euclid Avenue Church,
Dr. Sunderland would a
appointed in that hope.-j
Sandusky, O.—Of t|
our Church is neither th'j
est, but occupies a very i]
ingly influential positio
blessing, relieved them®
debt and of the many in
a debt like flies. . The?
United Presbyterian Church Statistics.—Sy
nods 4: Presbyteries 53 (Missionary 3); congre»a
trnns 717; .pastors 380; unsettled ministers 163;
(total 5-13); licentiates 53; Foreign Missionaries and
teachers 76; Home Missionaries 125; employed in
i Ereedmens' Mission 46; total membership 63 489;
families 28,894. During the year ending May 1867
2 Presbyteries and 15 congregations were or
ganized: four congregations were received from
other Churches; 33 students were licensed; 22 li
centiates were ordained; 1 minister received from
and 4 dismissed to Other Churches: 4,270 members
were added on profession, a!nd 3,7 19 on certificate,
while there were 4,489 deaths and removals; 471
adults and 3,640 infants were baptized; $lOB 9 65
was raised for Church funds, $287,113 for pastors’
nf Ifi/l’siaQ 1 for P ur Poses, a total
oi <pod4,ooo or s>lo per member.
A Family Meeting. —Five brothers, the only
surveyors Of fourteen children of the late Joseph
Junkin, of Mercer county, Pa., met in Steubenville,
Ohio, June Ist. The eldest was the Rev. Ge->. Jun
kin, D.D., LL.D., nowin his seventy-seventh year
He was the founder and first and third President of
Lafayette College, Pa., and has been President of
Miami University, Ohio, and of Washington Col
lege Va The next in years is the Hon. Benjamin
Junkin of Pennsylvania, now in his seventy-fourth
year a soldier of the war of 1812, and who had two
sons killed and one wounded in the late war against
the rebellion. The next in age is Capt, Wm. F.
Junkin of Mercer county, Pa.; and the next is m!
O. Junkin, Esq., late Mayor of Steubenville, Ohio
1 he youngest is the Rev. D.X. Junkin, D.D., aged
fifty-nme, late chaplain in the U. S. Navy, and now
pastor of the Presbyterian church in Newcastle, Pa.
ihe late Geo. Buchanan, who, for forty years was
pastor of the A. R. church in Steubenville, Ohio
married a sister of these brothers; and the late
-Key.,j. M. Galloway was son of another sister
-ritUburg Banner,
Genesee.
Cmntjirs. ■
5. —Rev. F. S. Mc
arge of the church
e summer at Oarlin-
Nes't having resign
-3., on account of ill
vill address him at
county, N. Y.-
changed for the pre
) county, N. Y., to
Pa.——The Church
:d a new organ, and
irch edifice. They
rices of a minister,
of labor, a pleasant
among them..
, N: J,, which was
ast, by the sudden
es Hoyt, have given
F Burlington, Ver-
urch Organized :—
J missionary reports
esbyterian Church,
Members,. May 13th,
as elected an elder
: the Lord's Supper,
le-will offering, and
ord’s Table service,
lessed. one, in their
hip is now twenty
) laboring very ac
prisons and hospi
;e three flourishing
A Church Saved— The Fifth Presbyterian*
church, of Cincinnati, some three years ago, was
on the eve of being abandoned. It had only about
dX -A h Waa dce P'y immersed in
debt. A brother pleaded that one more effort should
be made to save the church. With tears in his eyes
he succeeded in his pleading. Rev. J. B. Stewart
beame the pastor. The church now is out of debt
and in good repair; has over two hundred communi
cants, and some eight hundred Sunday-school
scholars under it. — Cor. Pittsburg Christian Advocate.
cial meeting of the
1 Portage, held on
:s, of the Second
r his resignation of
un grievances and
fter hearing state
from the commis
pn,strongly expres
)astor, the Presby
resignation, and ac
; minute, enjoining
i proper observance
ration, and exhort
®e and love. The
were confident that
■their call, are dis-
U Christian Herald.
gen churches here,
pst nor the small
liable and increas
ging, with God’s
rof the incubus of
Ifiiich gather about,
Bh-school .numbers
Churches.—On the 20th of June the O. S. Pres
bytery of Chicago organized the 28th street Pres
Chnrch with a membership of twenty-two —A
church building lately sold by the United Presbvte
rians, in Chicago, has beem removed to a location
on lewenty-eighth street, in that city, and neatly
fitted up, where it be used as a liou’se of wo/
of the V s ne 7 or ” atlizat ' on - — Tile new building
of the College street church Louisville, 0 f which
Rev. Dr. Humphrey is pastor, waa dedicated June
2d It cost about $15,000, and is nearly paid forX
chur/h, e cSgo S y eaVeS $10 ’ 00010 Second
a e Sfterian Boan/o
ese language- riVe rejoice that this great workman
been completed, and that it is about Eein* published
during the present month. This triumnh j •
can scholarship will hot only be
in forwarding »l»i.d.Vv™t2ta Sil
about three hundred, a large portion of them
gathered from the streets and lanes of the city.—
Cor. Christian Herald.
Augusta, lll.— Revival. —A work of grace
began in this place with the Union Meetings of
the week of prayer, and was the occasion of pro
tracted services, in all the denominations. In our
own Church these services were carried on for
three months, with the help of Rev. Geo. Duf
field of Galesburg, and others; and it was a pe
riod of prayer and of work, and of rich Divine
blessing. Twenty-seven, mostly adults, have uni
ted with the Church. About- thirty hopefully
pious have joined the “Children’s Band,” and
numbers more, it is expected, will unite with the
Church. More than one hundred have united
with the Methodist church, including a. large
number of interesting young folks.
Installation, ,&c.—The installation of Rev.
A, S, G-ardiner, as pastor of Prospect Church,
Peoria, county, 111., took place June sth, Pros
pect Church,is situated on the' high prairie, six
teen miles north, of Peoria. The region is ex
ceedingly picturesque. The. great beauty of the
country and the conspicuous position of the
church edifice,gaye the church its name. The
congregation is composed of intelligent and sub
stantial farmers. Every seat in the house is sold,
and more are being provided. There are four
Sabbath-schools connected with the church,
three of which are mission schools.. A parsonage,
together with thirty acres of land has recently
been purchased .for the use of the pastor. -The '
Presbytery, of Bloomington hold a special meet
ing in the. First Church, Bloomington, on the
,11th day of June, for the examination and licen
sure of, Mr- J. J.’liamp, a student of theology
under its care. " At his own' request Mr. 'Lamp
was dismissed dnd recommended to the care of the
First Presbytery of New York, where, it is un
derstood, he will soon enter an important field of
labor. 1
KEFoitmgD churches.
The Declaration and Testimony Men— A Con
ference of Four Presbyteriesiiiet recently at Louis-'
ville, and ageed tb call a meeting of' Synod for the
26th of dupe'to take final and decisive action inthe
matter of .their higher relations. A correspondent
of the Missouri Presbyterian says:—“ The sentiment
was unanimous that we are sick and tired of the con
troversy on hand for six years, and wish it closed.
And the feeling was almost unanimous infavor of
going South next fall. The exceptions were only'
too, and they were not elders, although the elders'
outnumbered the preachers in the conference.” ‘‘ ’
lhe Louisville True Christian Commonwealth' re
marks :- “ There are but three courses open before
the churches of Kentucky. .Either, Ist, a combina
tion with other churches of like opinions and cir
cumstances with them in the, formation of a third
General Assembly; or, 2d, go into open'independen
cy, either as churches, presbyteies, or as a synod;
or, 3d, form alliance with the Southern churches,
and such of the Northern as may choose to follow
our example, and endeavor to establish the present
Southern Assembly all over the coputry as. the true,
constitutional,. Old School Assembly.
Important. Legal Decision.— Judge Edwards,
of St. Charles, Mo., has granted an injunc ion ad
verse to the claims of the Declaration and Testimony
men in that State, enjoining the Board of Directory
of Linden Female College to' abstain from leasing
the college property to French Strother. The
plaintiffs urged that the Presbytery which chose the
Board is an illegal one, having been dissolved ly
act of Assembly, and that the Assembly was supreme
in the The defendants of course denied ail
tins. The jndge gave no reasons for his decision.
country, but it will also do much towards bringing
Japan into easy communication with the civilised
and Christian nations of the world. ’
The Rule of Examination. —The rule which re
quires the examination of ministers passing from
one Presbytery to another, is generally supposed to
be a rule peculiar to the Old-school Presbyterian
Church, and that it is not in force among our New
sehool brethren. This, however, capnot be true of
all the Presbyteries of that Church. We have
understood that a clergyman belonging to our
Church lately connected himself with the Presby
tery of Brooklyn, of the other branch, and that pre
vious to his admission he was examined, for more
than an hour, upon various theological topics, and
that this examination, was close and thorough. If
we are wrong in this statement, we ask for a correc
tion!—Phila. Presbyterian.
‘We, too, would be glad of a little more .definite
information on this point.
OTHER DEHOMINATIONS- ,
Congregationalist. —The Church of Orange. N.
Y., has an elaborate creed, but requires candidates
for membership only to adopt the Apostles’ Creed.
This distinction lias drawn‘down the censure of
many in the denomination. —Dr. Leonard Woods is
going to Europe.—Dr.> ,J. P. Gulliver of Chicago is
to edit the new North-Western denominational or-,
gan to take place of, the Independent.—Vr. Kirk re
cently united with his church (Mt. Vernon St.) in
celebrating the xxvth anniversary of his settlement
as pastor. The church has had 1504:menibers, and
has raised $375,000 for congregational and benevo
lent purposes.—Rev. Joel Hawes’ D.D., a venerable
pastor, as already noticed,,died June sth. On the
7th,.his fellow-student and, life-lpng.-friend-Rey., Dr.
Ceo. H. Calhoun ,of. Hartford, followed him across
the river of death. , On, die 11th, Dr. Hawes’ wife
and the mother of his six'children was also taken
to the’ rest that' remaineth.—Prof. T. G. Upham
lias closed his connection with'Bowdoin-College.
He lias: been Professor of. Mental and Moral-Phil-
osophy there for forty-two years.—The inauguration
of Rev. Dr. Bodwell as Professor of Preaching and.
the pastoral charge in the Hartford Theologial Se
minary, took place in the Chapel of the Seminary ,
on the evening of the 12th inst.—The widows of fifi
ty-two clergymen receive aid from the Massachusetts
Congregational Charitable'Society. The'yearly al
lowance is from $BO to $2OO. Unitarians and Ortho
dox unite in sustaining the Society.—Rev. E. P.
Goodwin of Columbus, 0., has , been called to the
Park St. Church, Boston. —Rev. W. B. Wright of
the South Church, Chicago, has been-edited' to the
Berkeley St. Cnurch in Boston —Rev. Chas. Beecher
of Georgetown,* Mass., asks a dismissal to labor
among the Freedmen- in Florida. Mrs. Stowe has a
large plantation there.—Rev. E. P. Tbwing has been
dismissed from Quincy, Mass.—Thos Durant Esq.,
late of Pittsfield, having left s2ooo’ to the Mission
ary cause in his will, and having expressed before
dying his intention of making iti $5OOO, liis sons in
creased it to that iraount.
Several Ministerial Associations roundly condemn
the Independent for its -new Anti-Sectarian stand,
finding out, as soon as it declared itself no longer
Congregational Ist, how wicked it has been all the
time, in opening, its columns to “infidels.”—The
foundation stone of a new church at Orange, N. Y_.
was laid June 21st. It is to be built of trap-rock,
trimmed with free-stone, and to cost s4o,ooo.—At
last accounts Rev. A. B. Earle, the Evangelist, was
preaching twice a day at Virginia City, Nevada.
The meetings are largely attended, as many-as one
hundred coining forward for prayer, in some, in
stances—James A. Milne, M. D„ and wife, sailed!
from New York, May 18th, on their way to Eastern
Turkey, as missionaries of the A. B. C.. F. M. \Df:'
M. is a native of’Orange, Vermont, and graduated
at the University of Micnigan, in 1865. Mrs M. is
daughter of Mr. Wm. Q. Wood, of Red Creek, N.
Y- In:the one hundred and thirty-six years since
the settlement of Concord there have been but four
incumbents of the North Church desk: Rev. Mcssm.
limothy Walker, Israel Evans, Asa McFarlandand
Nathaniel Bouton. The pastorate of Mr. Walker ‘
was nearly fifty-two years; that of Mr. Evans,
seven; that of Dr. McFarland,'- twenty-seven; and
or m Bouton, forty-two.—On the sth- inst.,
i, ,ri ,^ bboU > President of the Michigan Agri
cultural College, was ordained as a Gospel minister
in connection with the Congregational churches in
Michigan —The great revival in Oberlin has multi
plied candidates for the Theological department or
theOoHege in that town. This is timely, as the
calls from the churches m Ohio for ministers are
many and pressing.
Episcopalian.— The West Philadelphia Diviuitv
School closed its annual session June 20th Dr
Potter, of Boston, son of the late Bishop Potter,’
preached the sermon. Diplomas were given to"
eight students—A Ritualistic church is'kept up in
Pans dnnngthe Exh bition.-Bishop Stevens wa"
/n il 9i frO T " 3 P r °tracted visit to Kiirope
cliu^b 2d IT JUn L e ’ - by a mactin ° in St. Andrews
churqh He spoke in terms of condemnation in re
gard to Romanizing Ritualism.—ln 1818 the Dio
cese ot oil 10 Vitas organized with two clergymen* ami
five. lay .delegates, and has, at present, fifty-fivb
clerical members—the Bishop Potter Memorial
House was opened in this city, June li(h. Ad
dresses were ma.de by Bishop Stevens, Mr. Wblsih 1
e T' r ' Crider and Rev. Dr. Newton, eulogizing
and commendmg the work to the Christian -
m,«ef ge i de . vo . ted to training Christian women-a*
nurses and missionaries—Bishop Johns of Vir
ginia, has reached the seventy-first year of his ag<T
fifth f °??‘ elgh . th 0f hls ministry, and the Uventy- '
ofh £ episcopate—The church of the' Reduri
rect.on, N. Y., organized five years h°-o iaid t.lie •
corner-stone of a new church-edifice oV Madison ■ *
Avenue and 2ith St., June I9lh— /i .
Cathedral, Montreal, was consecrated wilh gTetl
S’ from fhe* s // arge UUmber of * clerieafdig- :
Bishops of Virginia and HlTndf, to'S'S
ceremonies. ’ P art ,u llle
aifferenee of opinion
at Vineland Pt New T® 8 S ‘ nCe been resolved to hold,
its old church property o thf fc/ hUrCh ha9S °‘ d
church, and isniovin/to bifid T, Con F e S atlonal
Madisln N°f al jf ea,i " ary haS b «n Reefed a!
l»nd h»,'e b«S t?-' k ™* rf *”«* »'
ered *i, A u ? Ue has “ved to see gath
socle fes 334 nr^ e odlSt pale ’ in P urel J
property’ fn /hurM 30 ’ : 00 “embers, wiGr"
to SPI$ P 1 173 000 h Th le iß a l d P arsona ges> amounting
X °°‘~ The Wesleyan Conference of Cana- .:
bers. They S /ofed 3o0 tl Di “ i 1 ter3 and , 58 i 26 9 mem-'-
mo • i . y yoted at their last meeting where oq
preordained to the ministry, to BHtmh
t to Sr nd pt^
English Mefhod'i/s and a ° f
geon himself Tho ac- “ ri y a ( men, to bpur
pal Conferent ifeld ite Can - Methodist Episco- ?
things deliberatpli? a nA . present. 1 they tookt
through.” Nelrfv all the dj ° UrD i! d when tbe J 8 0t
in the°church thefr wh ie h Pre r h?r? a - te and