fWigiims |nftllipntf. THE REFORHER CHURCHES. ministerial. —Rev. G. M. McEckron was install („) pasior of (he Westminster church, New York, ~, street, Feb. 7. Dr. John Hall preached an cnrneet discourse to the large audience that crowded ,!, e building.—Mr. W. 8. Owens, a student in the V. I’. Seminary in Allegheny, Pa., has been unani mously called to the pastoral charge of the U. P. , hnrch of Chicago, a mission enterprise, And the second Psalm-singing church established ip .that ,-itv. Thev appeal tor aid to erect a church;-*-R,ev. joint R. Findley of fiercer, Pa.,-is'catted to Deca tur, 111.—Rev. S. W. Miller, formerly of Cedar Ra (,Kk lowa, has been called to the church of Woos ;sr, 0. ’1 he congregation have raised the usual sal* nrv by $3OO. — Rev. S. W. Brown resumes tor a time i,i's charge ofthe RfejQrmedTohitrtsh’Of Djake Owasco, which lie left eight years ago to go as a missionary to Japan.— Rev. W. H. Wilson of Washington, lowa, is appointed by the U. P. Board of Home Missions, to take charge of their proposed mission lield in Salinas City, Cal. ■ ’ Churches.— Dr, .Gumming stales ttiat the. Scotch’ Citurch in Kome is now held in a granary-over a pig-stye. —Among the Choctaw Indians are sixteen Christian churches, >llOO communicant, a*-'* 1500 rtabbath-schpol children. A translation of the jo'.t.e into their language re now in.process of .printing in New York, under the auspices of the American Bi ble Society.—On the 4lli of Feb., a new congrega tion was organized by the Northern presbytery of the R. P. Church, (New Light) in East'Brooklyn, N. Y. Twenty-eight members.were admitted, apd Messrs. John B. Guthrie and Thomas M. Stewart were elected ruling elders. A large part ofthe mem bership were disinissedtby Mc- Leod’s church, New York. TheN. Y. Observer adds: “This is the fourth colony sent off frbm'that church to form otiiers during the ministry of the present pastor.” Only two of the four are “to the fore,'' the other two being driven.-fcut.of the denomination by the intolertihce dnd’exffiivfsirtfl'Of thW'-PrfesrSytery, in which Dr. McLeod is omnipotent. Thelast driven out (to the O. 8.) is Rev. George Stuart Chambers’ church, worshipping in the Historical Sp.ciety’s Hall in New York.—A remarkable petition Was present ed to the Presbytery ofBouth Carolina for a church of their order, in the new town of Walhalla hav ing upon it signatures 5f Lutherans, Baptists, and Methodists, as well as Presbyterians. It was organiz ed by Committee on;thejfiret in December. Sixteen members united.— The New York Observer mentions .the lolUvwing: Presbyterian churches as having recently’ dedicated houses of worship Amity, N, Y.; West "Dresden? .ftfiiX- t*.Dojv.quyille, Pa.; Taylor's Falls, Minn.; Delphos, Ohio; Unity, Ohio; Sharon, Obip;3tkllju>d, Mich?—Small.Ger man Reformed hoifses of‘worship’ have lately been consecrated at -Fulton,-Ohio-.; Adamq.Ohio; Flor ence, Oh id ; Clearhpring, Md: p Frostburg, Md.—lt is said on the best authority, that of all the money contributed to the board pf Foreign .Missiops in the Presbyterian Churcb (OI S.), one Presbytery alone, that of Nety Yoifk, gives one quAr^ei-,—Tbe’U- P. Home Missionary in Omaha writes: “ A, church organization was effected "bout one year ago, wjth eleven members. Our prospects at the time, favor able to the building up Of a congregation, were soon obscured. Seeing m> prospect of securing a church building.fpr tirij-e lef comi* I doncluded.tO'erecta small churohon my own’lot, at tuy-own’expehse, in the extreme southern limits of the city, hoping to he able at a future day to secure one in a more cen tral position,” He lias had a good dfgyeeof en eouragementand is earning nearly ssooayeartb keep himself and family by acting as.colpoijtSur, city missionary and pastor.—A beautiful hause.oL wor ship has been lately, built, at Hazleton, Pa., by Mr. A. Pardee, at an expense of $25,000, and has been presented by him to the Presbyterian church of that place, under the pastoral caw of J&tr.' Dr. Newlin. i tie B6W 681 P Cfe' wag dedicated■ ow-yWATth ul t-. Pre sident Cattell of Lafayette College, preacJiijjg the sermon.—The R. P. church of Ederi, Randolph Co., 111., have voted the suspension of Mr. Geo, H. Stuart to be “unkind, unchristian, and showing a sad tack of brotherly love." The part of the con gregation who reside in were authorized some time ago to organize a. new R. P. church in that place. They resolve to hold on to their v.ener able pastor (Rev. Dr. S. Wylie), till General Synod meets, and then to organize in connection with the O, S. or N.'B. Presbytery. Revivals are reported (1) in the O. S. chureh, of Madison, G. f where,thirty, have been received on ex amination and many are inquiring ; (2) in Wrights vilie, Pa., where twenty-two have professed faith in Christ; (3) in HarmQgVv.N. J., have been added; (4) in EaatHampton, L:!-,: where the inquirers number .three, or four hundred; . (6) in West Union, Washington Presbytery; where over one hundred and fqrtyi havg joined,the church and others areinquiririg; (6) in Amity, Pa., where eleven have professed their faith; (7) in Liberty (O.) church where thirty-seven have been admitted on examination, nineteen, by baptism?; (8) in Bridge water (Pa.) church, where thirty-one have been re ceived; (9) ‘insMuncie, lud.. where, twenty-eight have united oh profession.; (10) in Williamsburg; 0., where many are inquiring; (il) in Ruehsylva nia, 0., where! eighteen liayg professed , faith. in Christ, and .where the,- church,which dedicated a house of worship last July, has doubled its num-, hers by recent accessions; (12) in Summit (Iowa) church, where the meetings have continued since the Week of Prayer, and many of all classes, in cluding not a few Germans, (wive awakened and COirttefted,? 1(13} id Liberty (o.)jch<jrcb, where after meetings held for five-weeks thirty-seven were received op .examination ;, (14) ; in . Atlanta. 111., where meetings held for three weeks awakened thir ty-five at least to their lost state, of whom twenty itave, joined the chupch; (15) in parllngton, Jnd., - persods have joined the church; (46) in .Dalton, 0., where nine have joined the church.. Educational. —Rev. Dr. John Oißankin, ofßask ingridge, N. J., has accepted, an .appointment to raise funds for the benefit of Carroll .College, Wis consin, a favorite institution of Dr.Yanßens . sellaer,'. Secretary of the Board of Education- , It is greatly in want of funds.—The Western .Theologi cal Seminary in Alleghany, Pa.;, contains ,«72 stu dents, viz.: 17 Seniors, 13' Middlers, and 24 Juniors. [We give these'erroneous figures as we find? them.] At Prince ton, as W 6 have already noticedjthere are 103, ahd in UniOn Seminary,’‘l27 'students in the three.olasses.— Mr.'MdCorraick writes Dr.’Lord a sik-cSlbtan tetter in regard toHlle ehdowrrrent'of the N. W. Tlieo. Seminary at Chicago, the gistot which is that after all his great difficulty is not With Dr, Lord, but; Gw.erfjl Assembly,,and the Church might as wßUlbok atitiirthrs light at once. He expreksly says '• that the* odurseof the General Assembly of 1866 in ‘f the.taking from.the original friends of the Seminary the Chair of Theology, in the election .of.Dr-'Mac.Master, giving a wotking majority in the' Board of Directors tofthe ‘hew friends,*" was the cause of the 1 withholding of the fourth installment. “ And in another plfbe he says that the passage of the “ Spring ; ReaoluCiens, in connection with the course .since pursued, towards himself and friends, is another* reaeotL v*y_he re fuses to pay auy more and Church has forfeited what he has already paid. In other words, Mr. McCorrniok looks Upon the Ghurch as .apostate. ■ Cumberland Presbyterian'Colleges.—Cumber 11land University is swiftly gaining its former' high Position as .the leading ,institution ip-thp Smith. It 'has done a noble work for the Church in other day,?, THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1869. and’we rejoice to know that its prospects were never brighter. A largenumberofyoung men are at Camp Blake, preparing for the ministry. President Mc- Donald is making noble exertions to rebuild the fallen fortunes of this institution.— Lincoln Univer sity, in Illinois, iB vieing with its sister in Tennessee in the good work. Here, too, a large number of young men are preparing for the ministry.— McGee College, in Missouri, has already regained, if it has not passed, its former position. Crowds of students are poring over their books. Dr. Mitchell and his able faculty are doing a noble work.— Waynesburg College, in old Pennsylvania, was perhaps never do ing so well. Dr. Miller all know to be a scholar and a teacher of the first order. — Cumberland Pres bylerian OTHER DENOMINATIONS. Congregationalist. —Hon. F. Durant, Esq., of the Boston bar, ha 3 been laboring as an Evan gelist among the churches of NevV Hampshire and Massachusetts. In Farmington and Dover (N. II.,) the churohes have been aroused, the Free Will Baptists uniting in the work in the former place; and in Brirafield, Mass., forty or fifty'have been converted through his labors.—ln Royalt&j Mass., thirty have been added to the church.—The Boston churches annually give about one-twelfth of the total contributions in the United States to the Amarican Board. Last year they gave $41,446. Rev. H’. W. Gilbert was, by a council,, installed, ; pastor of the Congregational church in Peru, Mass., tV). 2nd. Rev. John Todd, D.D., of Pittsfield, preached the sermon.—Rev. R. M. Sawyer, lias re signed his pastorate in Middleborough, Mass,, and accepted a call to the Congregational church in Ripon, Wiß, Salqry $1,500, This change is dic tated by ill health, as related to the east winds of the'Old Colony.—Hampden East'Association, em bracing the clergymen of Springfield, Mass., and vicinity, at last meeting, gave the unanimous opinion that children -by baptism become,members<ol the church’ so as thus' to be entitled to Come to the Lord's Supper, as soon as they give evidence of per sonal piety; which should be expected, as the rule and not the exception ;at an early age.—Rev. J. S. Clark, now seventy-eight years old, has been min isterof the church in Morgan, Vt., forty-two.years, but for four years has withdrawn fromactivelabor. —The Second church of Walerbury, Conn., have built a handsome lecture room at a cost of $6,000. Three committees Have lately been appointed for home work, viz.: On the poor, and sick, and Sab bath school, a “stranger” committee, and a com mittee for conversation with' the impenitent, and paper and tract, distribution. Fifty-Six were added to this church last year by profession and twenty two by letter.—Rev. G-eorge iFoftf, formerly a mis sionary. in India, is to leave the church in Tolland, Mass.,..and go to the Indians in Western. New York, under the A. B. C. F. M.—Mr. M. Porter Snell, of the last class at Hartford,.and now chap lain of the Y.M. C. A. in that city, has received a call (by telegram, via San Francisco,) to .the church at Honolulu, Sandwich Islands. Salary, two thou sand dollars in gold.—Rev. Dr. Anderson is deliver ing his lectures on missions before the Hartford Tlieologi6al;Seminary. —The Congregationalist ; says: “The church at Washington is heeding the. ad vice of the late council. Monday evening of last week .was spent in prayer and consultation by the leading members of both sides. The regular church meet- iugßr—tfre first that has been held since May, 1868, —were held ohTuesday and Wednesday evenings; and though the old party lines were visible in every vote, both tiieetings were hartnonio'us and peaceful, not a jarring word was heard, ; and tlie conclusions reached were satisfactory to, bothi-sides.” —The Ob server gives tne as having're cently dedicated nonses of worship, with their re spective’cost: Town. Cost, Newark, N. Y., $13,000 Camden, N.-Yj, 20,000 Mt. Vernon, 0., 34,000 Chicago, 111., 2,690 . Independence, lowa- Odell, 111., —— Alden, lowa , Malta, Hhy- —— 6YlO&- -Beiiini«-Cal„ 8,000 Nequanee, Mich., 5,000 San Mateo, Cal., 4,535 N. Portland, Me., Baptist. —The National Baptist .ol this, city .says.: ‘‘.While there is no very special religious interest in any of our churches, ,in the.city, yet. we believe there are ingatherings -into nearly-all-of them, and their meetings are marked, with a higher degree of spirituality than ordinary.”—Rev. E. L. Bailey ha 9: for the third time been elected Chaplain to tne Se nate of Pennsylvania. He has also beten-unani mously elected pastor of the Berean church at Car-i bondale, where, he was ordained in. 1854, and served the church as pastor for twelve years.—The Home Mission Board and the National Theological -'lnsti tute for the education of Ereedmen’s Preachers have agreed to manage the denominational work "among the freed men by a standing jiiint committee: ot five members,-and the educational .part of the: work is to be dealt with as of primary importance.— Dr. J._ A. Smith, the editor of The Standard of Chi cago, is chosen to the pastorate of the newly or ganized University Place church in ''that city.— The Fifty-first St. church, of New York; received sortie twenty German converts to membership re cently, and is to establish a German mission.—The accessions to the churches, in Virginia numbered some. 4,000 last year. Yet thereia,great destitution of pastors and of Sunday and day, schools.—The l Home Mission Board must, raise $BO,OOO, and the Foreign Missionary Union $130,000, before the end of March, if the financial year is to close without a debt. — The Examiner and Chronicle, noticing our statement (copied from The Christian fntelligcncer,) that “The most magnificent church in New York is.said to be Dr. Corey’s on Murray Hill,” says i "The [American]Presbyterian's informant must have a nicer appreciation for the quality than the quan tity of a thing.” ■ ■ ■ Episcopalian. —Of the wealthy churches; in-New - York diocese,. St. George’s church (Dr. S. H. Tyng’s) and her two chapels, raised last year for all purpo ses $230,183, while Trinity and her three chapels raised not half as much—-$108,238. Next comeß the church : of the Incarnation (Dr. John Cotton Smith’s), which raised $42,000, while the fourth is the church of the Holy irinity (Rev, S. H. T-yng, Jr.’s). Thus of the 5667,828 raised by the forty-five churches and chapels of New York county, three Low churches give $307,183, of nearly half. The diocese includes eight other comities, and contri buted to all purposes in 1868 $937,492, a gafin of nearly fifty per ceutsince last year, when the amount Was $494,893.86. The growth in membership id from'2l,o9B to 22,177. The Bishop of Kansas posi tively refused last week to walk through the street?' in the procession of singing clergy at the consecra tion of Bishop Littlejohn, and was made the subject of merriment among the assembled Bishops and clergy for his scruples. —The church of the Good Shepherd, built by Mrs. Col. .Samuel Colt of Hartford, at a cost ot $200,000, was dedicated a few days since. —Bishop Eastburn has resigned the rectorship of Trinity church, Boston. This-renders vacant a se cond influential, Episcopal, pqlpit in .Boston, Rev. Dr. Huntington's acceptance .of the bishopric of Central New York having just emptied one.—Prof.; Johnson, of the General Theological Seminary, has resigned—it is said, on account of a want, of sym pathy with the unprotestant tendencies that exist in it. —AHigh churchpaperreicently remarked that “ Brother Hubbard’s (Westerly, R. I.) millennium seems to Rave come to an end.’’ f fherei}pon, a cor respondent' of The Protestant Clturcjjinan writes: “ Brother HubbardVyeaf'ofJubilee seems literally to have expanded into a millennium. The revival appear? likrtly to become a pernrtmSif.featur? of the. Town Berlin, Wis., Cott’geGfove.Min $3,860 Chester, .10wa.,. place. Our visit being during the Week of Special Prayer, we found that nine union meetings were to be held during the week, but it was still more grati fying to learn thatfornearly a year a stirring union prayer-meeting has been held every day without a single exception. Every Sunday afternoon during the warm weather the rabble of the street are col lected together in front of the hotel, and earnestly exhorted to repent and believe. The neighboring villages also are not forgotten. One young man, himself a recent convert, has for several months driven twenty-six miles every Sunday to hold a prayer-meeting in a destitute village. Many have periiaps expected to hear of the withdrawal of Mr. Hubbard and his flock from our Church, but the tables seem now to have turned, for the union meetings, instead of injuring the churchmanship of the Episcopalians, seem to have worked just the other way. Indeed, there seems to be greater pros pect that the ‘schismatics’ will all become Episcopa- lians than of the opposite result, for we hear all of the * sects ’ have just celebrated Christmas for the first time in Westerly, the Baptists dressing their church .with evergreens.”—Bishop Coxe of Western New York has issued a pastoral against promiscuous dancing, and warning his people against the sin of foeticide. Methodist.— -Our High church papers having given the British public the impression that Amer ican Methodists are bent on re-union to the Episco pal Church, Dr. Stevens writes to the London Watch man,'. " I know not one Methodist in the Republic who believes there can .be .any identification of the two Churches. There certainly can be no such union without the fullest concession of the validity of our ordination, sacraments. &c. This concession will never be made by the High church party of the Pro testant Episcopal Church; and no Methodist ex pects, therefore. that any result will come of these ‘preliminaries. We are a Presbyterian Church, with episcopacy as ah executive ‘ office,’ not as a divine ‘ order.’ We cannot'compromise our relations to the Presbyterianism of the Protestant world by ta citly disparaging its ministerial validity in a reunion with the comparatively small Protestant Church of these States —for numerically it is one ot our mi nor religious bodies.”— Zion's Herald remarks, concerning the Episcopal Church : “It draws one fourth ot its ministry from the Methodist Episcopal Church, and not oneof them has been missed. Two of their latest-made and youngest Bishops were Methodist ministers.”—The Methodist at Belfast, Ireland, closed its term on the 17th of De cember last, with eight students in the College, and ninety-eight in the school. Two of the students have gained scholarships in Queen’s College.—A Cincinnati pastor, who believes in woman's right to work„has organized Borne forty of the sisters int-o visiting, bands. They call on the sick and the poor, inquire into and relieve their physical wants, ting and-pray with them, and do all the work that be longs to a real pastor.—The Methodist church of Saratoga has resolved to censure any member who may Bign an application for liquor license.—The funds raised so largely in New York city for Church Extension are to be expended through the Sunday school and Missionary Society, which- has already gathered twelve mission schools of 3340 pupils, and built four chapels at a cost.of $175,000. Twelve hundred are claimed as converts through its labors. -r-In Baptist indictments of Pedo-Baptist churches for the inconsistency of.leaving ‘‘the children of the Church ’’ unbaptized, the M, E. Church has al ways had the most prominent place. Yet in the last five years 188,508 children have been baptized in the denomination, and the annual total has risen from 31,190 in 1864 to 46,107 in 1868. This shows a pretty real existence and rapid growth of Pedo- Baptist sentiment. Revivals. —ln Grace church, Buffalo, there have been 150 conversions; on Smyrna circuit, Wilming ton Conference, 200 conversions, and as many ac cessions at Centenary church ; Long Branch, New Jersey, 200 conversions, and 180 accessions ; on Westminster circuit, Baltimore Conference, 260 con versions, and 241 accessions; fFarmingdale, Long i6ta.nd, i4O Jersey, 55; Warren Street and John Street, Brooklyn, "New York, each 50; Sparrowbush, New York,-75 ; Lo cust Street, Harrisburg, . 50; Bedford Street, New York, 50. . ' Moravian. —The Moravians in the Southern States have had a separate ecclesiastical organiza tion, called a Provincial Synod, ever since the year 1771. The reason now assigned for its original creation was “ the difficulty of communication be tween the North and the,South, and for no other reason.” And yet, long before that time, the mails were carried without, interruption. But whatever may have' been the real reasons, it seem 9 that they nre now removed.. The late : Synod of the Southern district appointed a delegation to propose a unity of the two districts. The overture was met in a friendly spirit at the North, where'the Syiiod de clared its readiness to effect a union, on An equita ble basis, “in case the. General .Synod shall sanction the project.-” - ; ' Unitarian. —Rev. J. F. Ware, of Baltimore, pre dicts that Methodism is t<) be the religion of the South, but .is to become “more broad in its faith and charity;” Unitarianismp he says, cannot be popular in that section, but . will' succeed in the West.—-Rev; Dr. Gannett, who, forty-five years ago, was settled as colleague with Dr. Ghanning, has re signed his charge,, but his people generally refuse to accept the resignation, and offer him a permanent respite from duty, while continuing his salary.—The successor of Dr. Noyes in the chair of Exegetical Theology, at Harvard is Rev, Mr. Young, of, New ton, a young man of thirty-five. A Unitarian minister told the Boston correspondent of The Ob server that it was almost impossible to find a fit successor in the denomination,<for the reason that the critical study of the Bible has been greatly tie glected by the present generation of preachers. So many, of them reject the Old Testament, that the Hebrew language had not been generally “ kept up.” Romanist.— The Pope has recently addressed ac autograph letter ,on extravagance in dreßs to Madetnoiseljfe Marie de GenteMes, who has recently published a .work rebuking ladies • for their i ndul gence in this growing evil He says : “ Let all be persuaded That' to. ensure the esteem, and love of their husbands theyhave .no need of such costly hair dressing, such splendid 'tbilets ; but rather to cultivate their mind, cultivate their, heart, and to cultivate their, virtue-;- for all-,tbeir,glory cometh ironi within,”-—The conflict between 1 Church and State in Austria has recently been decided by the Courts in favor of the State, under the following. circumstances: The Archbishop of Schwarzenberg was convicted some time ago for. disturbing public order by publishing a pastoral letter, in which he advocated disobedience to the civil laws respecting marriagef TRe (jurisdiction of the Cqurt,was then' called' in question, and it was alleged that immunity in such cases .'was guaranteed!, to the Bishops by the fourteenth article.of ,the. Concordat. Tne Su preme Court of Prague has now confirmed the sen tience of the inferior Court, and has decided that, by tb'e* fundamental' MaWS,* which 'fbrifi'Wiehie# Consti. tuiion of Austria, the fourteenth article; of the Con cordat is virtually abrogated, and that the clergy are subject to the penalties inflicted. by the general laws.—The last convent existing,in the Rhenish provinces of Prussia, that at Neustadt; has been suppressed. The work commenced in 1834, when all the’eonvents in the Rhine provinces were ordered Closed, the institutions having already been abol ished ’ in the rest of Prussia;.. Three Franciscan houses were allowed to remain, because they pos sessed no property with which to compensate the Government for the pensions it was obliged to ac cord the expelled monte. The arrangement was therefore made that these three should not be closed until the inmates died off. This process was effectual in the case of two. but the Convent at Neustadt pre served a remarkable vitality. The discovery having been made that it recruited its members secretly, the penalty of summary extinction was inflicted. —Glad- stone has six Romanists in bis Cabinet. Disraeli had not a single one. Miscellaneous.—lt, takes 30,000 men to run the Sunday railroad trains in this country. —Of 1,300 convicts at Sing Sing, N. Y., 820, or about Gu per cent., have been in Sabbath-schools.—The controversy .of the two Tract Societies goes on biiakly- The New York Society seems in the ascendant now. The Boston Society, from the division until row, has been bidly managed. The Qmgregationalist proposes- some amicable terms of separation between the Baptists, Episcopalians and its own denomination. To this The Watchman and Reflector objects. There is certainly a crisis now upon the Boston Society, and much prayer and wis dom will be required to meet it.— The Observer gives an account of the first, public meeting of the Female Branch of the New York City Mission and Tract Society, which has been in existence for more than forty years. It undertook the work of Bible read ing before it was commenced in London. During the last year eighteen assistant missionaries have been employed; 28,131 missionary visits made; 2,692 persons induced to attend church ; 585 child ren gathered into the Sundav-scliools; 565 re ligious meetings held; 97 united with churches; and'6B7 families have received temporal aid. WATERS’ New Be a 1 e PIANOS! With Iron Frame, Overstrung Fuss and Agraffe -Bridge. MELODEONS, PARLOR, CHURCH AND CABINET (MANS, The best manufactured. Warranted for 6 Years. 100 Pianos, Melodeons and Organs of six first class, makers, at low prices for pash, or one-quarter cash and the balance in Monthly Installments. 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GRIFFITH'S Patent Double Self-acting Archimedean SCREW VENTILATOR SMOKE CONDUCTOR Has been applied to thousands of buildings within the past four years, including Dwelling houses, Churches, Schools, Factories, Paper mills, Dye-houses, Ac., with unparalleled suc cess. Smofcey chimneys cured and warranted. Sold Wholesale and Retail, by HENRY MILIS, 618 Market St. junel;-'.y A liberal dkcount to the trade. LOUIS DHEEA, Stationer, Card 'and Plate Printer 1083" CHESTNUT STREET, Philadelphia . INSURE YOUR LIFE IN YOUR OWN HOME COMPANY AMERICAN OF FJfctXXjATVBIT .-PTTT /X , S. E. Cor. FOURTH & WALNUT Sts. Insurers in this Company have the additional guarantee of tbs CAPITAL STOCK ,all paid up IN CASH, which, together witfi CASH ASSISTS, on band January 1,1863, amounted to nearly $2,500,000, Income for the Year 1868, $1,000,000. Losses Paid Promptly. DIVIDENDS HADE ANNUALLY, thus aiding the insured to pay premiums. - TU© DIVIDENDS on all Mutual Policies for several years have been -. Fifty per Cent. of the amonntof PREMTUMS received each year. All Policies made nonforfeitable. Largest liberty given for travel and residence. Its Trustees are well known citizens in our midst, entitling it to more consideration than those whose managers reside in distant cities. Alexander Whilldin, J. Edgar Thomson, George Nugent. Iton. James Pollock, L. M. Whilldin, P. B. Mingle, Albert C. Roberts. ALEX. WHILLDIN, President. GEO. NUGENT, Vice-President. JOHN C. SIMS, Actuary. JOHN S. WILSON, Secretary and Treasurer. HOME Life Insurance Comp'y, 258 Broadway, New York. Assets, §1,500,000 9000 Policies in Force. Its Principles, Stability Mutuality, Fidelity. advantages. An organization strictly first class. Assets proportioned to actual liabilities, as large as any compan old or new. AM the net profits go to the assured. - Dividends are declared and paid annually. All its policies are non-forfeiting in the sense that its members, under any circumstances, get all the assurances that theyliavo paid for. One-third the annual premiums loaned permanently on its poli cies. Its members are not limited as to residence or travel. No extra premium is charged therefor or permits required. All the, forms ol.Life and Annuity Policies issued. The HOME has declared and paid dividends annually, to Us assured members since its organization; Last dividend 40 per cent, applied-immediately, which is more than 50 per cent, four years hence. Officers and Directors. VALTER S. GRIFFITH, President. I. H. FROTHIHGHAM, Treasurer. GEO. 0. RIPLEY, Secretary. W. J. COFFIN, Actuary. A. A. LOWiA. A. Low A Bros., 31BurIing Slip, N. Y. I. H. FROTHINGHAM. Brest. Union Trust Co., N. Y. •J. S. T. STB.ANAHAN, Brest. Atlantic Dock Co. THOS. MESSENGER, Preat. Brooklyn Bank. SAMUEL SMITH* Ex-Mayor city of Brooklyn. : HENRY E. PIBRREPOJNT, 1 Pierrepont Place, Brooklyn. A. Bi-BAYlilS.Jlroker. New York. rETERy. CObITELD, Merchant, 80 Wall street, N. Y. 'WALTER S. GRIFFITH. President, Brooklyn. JNO, D, COCKS, Preat. Atlantic Ins. Co. E. B. CLAFIiINj.H. B. Claflin & Co., 140 Church street, N. Y S. B. CHITTENDEN* S; B, Chittenden A Co., N. Y. J, E, SOUTHWOBTH, Prest. Atlantic Bank, N. Y. C. DUNNING* Sec. South Brooklyn Savings Institution. JNO. G. BERGEN* Police Commissioner. LEWIS ROBE RTS, L, Roberts & Co., 17 South street, N. Y. - JOHN Ti MARTIN, 28 Pierrepout street, Brooklyn. JOHN HALSEY, Haight, Halsey & Co., New York. THOS. CARLTON. Methodist Book Rooms, N. Y. HAROLD PQLLNBR, Dollner, Potter A Co., N, Y. A, B« OAPWELL* Attorney and Counsellor. N. Y. NEHEMIAH KNIGHT, Hoyt, Sprague & Co., New York. EDWARD A. LAICBERT, Merchant, 45 John street, N. Y. JAMES HOW, Brest Union White Lead Co., Brooklyn. L, B* WYMAN, Merchant, 38 Burling Slip, New York GEO. A. JARVIS* Brest. Lenox Tire Ins. Co., New York. S. E. HOWARD- Howard, Sanger A Co., New York. GEO, S, STEPHENSON* Importer, 49 South street, New York OHAS.-A.tTOWNSEND, Merchant, New York. JOS. W. GREENE* J. W. Greene k Co„ N. Y. RUFUS S» GRAVES? 63 Wall street, New York. J. W. FROTHINGHAM, irothingham & Baylia. N. Y. EDWARD D. DELANO, New Yorit. Er LEWIS? Jr*» Valentine & Bergen, Brooklyn. AGENTS IN PHILADELPHIA, ESLER & COLTON, Cor. 4th: & Library sta. Wanted. STEIOT ECONOMY IN MANAGEMENT. PROVIDENT LIfFjND TRUST CO.. OF PHILAJyET.FHIA. OFFICE Vo. 11l SOUTH FOURTH STREET Organized to extend tbe benefits of Life Insurance among member of the Society of friends. Ail good'risks, of whatever denomination solicited. President, SAMUEL R. SHIPLEY, Tice President, Actuary, WM. C. LONfcSTEETH. ROWLAND PARRY. Insurance effected upon all the approved plans at the lowest cost No risks on doubtful or unsound lives taken. Funds invested in first-class securities. Economy practiced in All the branches of the business. Tbe advantages are equal to those of any company in the United States. june4 ly * IMPORTERS, * < Sj? Jlw Wtiie and Red Check S**" Ells season we offbr a large, varied and well selected Stock at reduced prices. 2iTd. 43 Strawberry Street, first Street west of Second, Hon. Alex. G. Cattell, Henry E. Bennett, Isaac Hazleburst, George W Hill, James L. Claghom, Johu Wananiaker. PHCLASILP'HIA.
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