jzntillignitE, iii nitroitur.o cnIIRcHES. _Thu arch, Steubenville, have .y must build a new house Second church. This is „ .1 during the coming sum , to cost $60,000 at least. ler, church at Wellsville, in , :lie one that was destroyed by - tape ago, is under roof and /„,,,, rapidly pushed to completion. new church of eight members „ in Warsaw, Benton county, Jet. 23d. There is a good pros- L t for the growth of the church. —The new and beautiful church at runna, Mich., was dedicated on anksotiving Day, to the worship of e 'This congregation have lived ',out thirty years without a house of orship, but with little or no growth. 'he Church Erection's promise of $6OO id gave them courage to rise and build, ,m 1 now they have a fair prospect to ),come self-sustaining. —A church of ten members was or inized by Rev. J. Veal; Oct. 24th, 1 , :G9, at Granville, Jefferson Co., Kan., ',the Kansas Pacific R. R., eight miles east of Topeka. —The roof is on the New Church in Hartford, Ct., and the substantial struc ore stone rapidly advances toward ,uipletion under the attentive super ision of Rev. J. Aspinwall Hodge. —The First and Second Churches at i)sford, 0., having agreed to become ~no, invited the Presbyteries of Oxford iind Hamilton to meet with them. The Presbyteries at first met separately, each with the church under its care, and'.con • ilered and approved of a basis of union, marriage contract, which had been 1-()pared by the Sessions. They then iiidd a joint convention and congrega tional meeting, Rev. B. W. Chidlaw pre ,tding, and by a unanimous vote united the two churches under the name of The Presbyterian Church of Oxford;” the Sessions of the two churches, con of five elders each, Were unani'- r ariusry chosen as the Session of the new church ; six deacons were chosen, who ,re also to be incorporated as a Board of Trustees ; and Rev. Alexander H. Young, of Oxford Presbytery, (who has ten preachinc , b for the Second Church,) was invited totbecome stated supply for one year. It is understood that the united congregation will occupy the house of worship of the late First Church, which it will enlarge in due time to meet the demand for increased lecommodations. —The little congregation of Ottawa Putnam county, 0., have finished a neat, tasteful and commodious brick edifice., The basement contains rooms fbr Sab bath school, infantclass and prayer meeting. The audience•room above is complete in arrangement, architectural beauty and workmanship, and has been richly and tastefully furnished by the ladies of the church. —The Second church of Indianapolis is just finishing its edifice, which will be dedicated in December. The beautiful lecture and Sabbath-school rooms have been occupied for more than a year. The entire edifice is of' stone, and is said to be the most thoroughly built church edifice in the State. The pastorate of Rev. Mr. Edson has been very successful, he having received last Spring over one. hundred converts as his 'share in• the fruits of the great revival. The church es of Indianapolis are in excellent condi tion. —The Presbyterians, as well as the Methodists, are making special efforts in the districts along the Pacific Railroad, Col. Bridges, the Chicago ready-made house builder, has sent them'seven meet ing houses. But several of the church es started in Nevada, are already quies cent —Advance. —Allen st. church, New York, celebra ted their fiftieth anniversary, Deo. 5. The church was beautifully decorated. The organ was closed. The old choir, with bass viol and violin, was led by Mr. Lucius Hart. Rev. Dr. Coe, a former pastor, offered prayer. The pastor, Rev. Dr. Newell, preached the semi,centen nial sermon. This church was formed in 1819, in Madison street, by eleven persons, mostly from the Brick church. Rev. Ward Stafford was the acting mis sionary. Rev. Wtn. Gray succeeded Mr. Stafford, and the church was formed at his house. The third and present sanctuary was built during the ministry of Rev. Henry White, D.D. The church was firmly established under his admin istrations. Itshared in the great revi vals of 1831 and 1834. Dr. White left the church to accept the Professorship of Systematic Theology in our Union Theological Seminary. The pastors that succeeded Dr. White were, Rev. Mr. Bradley, Dr. George B. Cheever, Dr. D. B. Coe, Rev. George Thatcher; and the present incumbent, Rev. W. W. Newell, DD. Dr. Newell's ministrations have continued nearly ten years. During the fifty years, 1,808 persons have united with the hurch. During the present pastorate, 586 have plaited. In the eve ling there was a grand reunion . of ex pastors and former members, when Hon. IV. E. Dodge and others made spirited addresses.— Observer. — 'The Supreme Court of Misiouri sitting at St. Louis,, November 22, de cided the case of the State against Farris, involving directly the right rof certain parties to be directors of Lin denwood College, at St.:Charles, but which turned upon the question of the validity of the famous ipso facto Order f the Gurley paper, adopted by the dene- ral Assembly at St. Louis in 1866. The Court unanimously held that the action of the General Assembly, being the highest Church Court, is conclusive in Civil Courts, in all ecclesiastical matters, and expressly sustained the action of the Assembly of 1866 and 1867, dis solving several Synods and Presbyteries, adhering to the so-called " Declara tion and Testimony party," as being within the constitutional powers of the Assembly. The effect of the decision in this State is to secure to the adherents of the General Assembly, as against the " Declaration and Testimony . party," the control of all the property held upon condition of connection with the Church. —ln the Walnut street church of St. Louis, all expenses are defrayed by collections taken up each Sunday. These have varied in amount between $2OO I and $3OO each. The treasurer of the congregation has been accustomed to hand the sums uncounted to a clerk in his employ named Barnett, who was a member of the church. The young man would take the money home and return it to t his employer the nest day at the store with a. Memorandum of its amount. It was lately suspected that these collections were embezzled in some way. Barnett was tested---his employer on one occasion .secretly counting the money before he handed• it to him. His return the next morning was too small by $46. After'hesitation, Barnett con fessed to having purloined a part of these funds for a long time, and esti mated that he had stolen in all about $1 000. —ln San Francisco, the U. P. Church numbers 212 members, of which 58 have been received since the beginning of the year. Mr. Gibson has been an earnest and faithful laborer in carrying on the work so efficiently begun t y Dr. Cooper, of our own city, and his people are looking forward •to a new church building early in the coming • year. In August last .they esalished a mission school with 22 scholars, which has, in three months. reached an average at tendance of 40. —.Rev. Levi R. Booth, who has labor- . ed for more than twenty years in South eastern Indiana, last at Vevay, has re moved to Spencer, Owen county, and will also supply the church of Vandalia in the same county. T. S. M. Church Courts.—The Committees of the several Synods of our Church in 0hi0,.0. S. and N. S., have agreed upon the following scheme of' consolidation and division 1. To give up any territory lying out side of Ohio. 2. To make five Synods. 3. To bound them as follows : North-eastern (Synod of Western Re serve :)—All W estern -Reserve, with Mahoning, Stark, and Columbiana, in all fifteen counties. North-western (Synod of Sandusky:) All the country about Toledo, including Sandusky, Seneca, Crawford, yandotte, Hardin, Logan, Champaign, Clark, Mi ami and Darke, in all twenty-five counties. South-eastern (Synod of Marietta:)— The country west and south of Steuben ville, including Carroll, Tuscarawas, Holmes, Coshocton, Muskingum, Mor gan and Washington ; thirteen counties. Southoirestern (Synod of Oincinnath) —Athens, Vinton, Ross, Fayette, Greene, Montgomery, Preble, and all south of them; twenty-one counties. Central (Synod of Ohio :)—includes ths remaining counties, fifteen in num ber. 4. The titles to be left to the Gen eral Assembly, or the Synods them selves. This throws the Presbytery of Michi gan 0. S. into the Synod of Michigan N. S. and takes the Presbyteries of Steu benville, New Lisbon, and St. Clairsville from the Synod of IVheeling, to be a part of an Ohio Synod. In view of the lines of travel in Ohio, and the relative strength and size of the 'proposed Sy nods, this plan is about the best that could be proposed. Reformed Presbyterian.- -- The P. Presbytery of Xenia met in the Church, Xenia, 0., on the 9th of De cember, at the call of the Moderator, to hear anti act upon a memorial from the congregation to be taken under the care of Presbytery as the Third U. P. Con gregation of Xenia. The memorial was heard, and there being nothing, in the judgment of the Presbytery, to prevent immediate action, the request was grant ed, and the congregation, as an organi zation, with the officers and church pro perty, was taken under the care of Pres bytery, and is to be known as the Third U. P. Church, Xenia. Rev. H. P. Jack-, son was appointed to preach' on the second Sabbath of December; and Mode rate in the Session. —The 2d. R. P. congregation (0. S.), was organized in. 1841 and three years after wards Rev. S. 0. Wylie, then a young man was installed. Though invited to other fields of labor, and specially called some time since by his Synod to a Pro fessorship in its Theological Seminary at Allegheny, Mr. Wylie has steadily, re sisted all efforts for his removal, and has been permitted to see a steadily increas ing and enduring blessing rest upon his labors and his charge. Southern.—According to the mi nutes of the last General Assembly, there are 857 ministers in this body. Of' these, 300 are pastors, 2 co-pastors, 34 pastors elect, 258 stated supplies,- 84 wiithout charges, 12 evangelists, 27 missionaries, 140 editors, teachers, &c. &c —TLev. Dr. Turner, of Abbe - vale, C. 11., S. C., has been ,eleeted Professor of Ancient languages in' he Lutheran PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1869. College, at Walhalla, South Carolina, and has accepted. He has resigned the pastoral charge of the church at Abbe ville, and will preach to two churches in the region of the College. _ _ —Rev. WM. A. FOOTE, D. D., died at his residence in _Romney, West Va., on the 22d of November, in the 76th year of his ages He was a graduate of Yale College, and has been for fifty years a Christian minister; having been, for the ,greater part-of' that time, pastor of the church in Roinney, West Va. Re was the author of three volumes of Historical Slzetc,hes. of the Presbyte rian. Churches ,in Virginia and North Carolina." —Dr. „Henry Alex.anderrwho has been elected to a professorship in the Theological Seminary at Prince Edwar4 Va., is a son of Dr. James W. Alexan der, and a grandson of Dr. Archibald Alexander, both of whom were, theolo gical professors ;'and is mow pastor of the village church at Charlotte, Court. House, Va.., a,fiela Of 106 - F which both his father and- griindfathei odcupied in 'earlier years, OTHER DENOMINATIONS Congregationalist.-It is nc) .(1,0113.t' to be anticipated that one result byterian reunion, with its natural aug mentation of church reeling an - d denomi national activity,. will be to lead '..to ;the withdrawal first of the more plonouneed' and earnest, , and eventually of all, 'or • nearly all, members of that communion,. from the company of those who Work in, the direction of Foreign Missions through the American Board: The: 'matter: ;has already found discussion itvsome of the journal of both schools , thus am Au a manner to indicate that those whti have been old2schobi will exact,' iind',"thoself who have been new-schnol willSonterof them with reluctance.—conee,cle,•that the system of carrying on missionary opera - tions by voluntary societies` is to be done away, and the Presbyterian Church to take the conduet of its affairs of this sort into its own hhuds. 'We trust Congre gationalists will prepare themselves joy fully to assinne any priVilege of this des cription in connection with the A. B. C. F. M. which Presbyterians may incline to lay down:—LCongi-egadonalist. —The Chicago Theological seminary has elected •Mr. George S. Merriam, -pro fessor of New Testament Biblical Criti cism and Rev. .Daniel Merriman, pastor of the ,Breadway 'Church, 'Norwich, Conn., to the department of Ecclesiasti cal History. Rev. Jas. T.' Hide, late of Ansonia, has been elected. lowa profes sor of Pastoral Theology. —The Union Park , Church of Chi cago, which is now receiving, its roof, will be the most splendid and costly church in the city, says the Chicago Re publican. The-entire expenditure :will reach $200,000, of which the stone,•alone cost $90.000, —The First Church, New Orleans, extend a 'call to Rev. M. W. Reed, to become their permanent pastor, in place of Rev. J. W. Healey, who, takes super vision of the, work of the A: . M. A. in that field. Mr. Reed has been released at Winona , Minn., and enters immediate ly upon work. . Methodist.—The Middletown, Conn. Constitution, says ".An agent, was in the city last week, securing teachers to go to South America. One thousand dollars a year salary is offered for' three years. Every teacher must speak the Spanish Larignage, and have :until next October to learn - it. Several Wesleyan studenis, "mostly of the Senior class, have signified their intention of accepting the offer." —Six. Roman Catholics, and nearly sixty others have joined the Methodist Church at Chicopee, during Mrs. Van Cott's preaching. —The Methodist preaching among the St. Regis Indians is under the pas toral cafe of Rev. Francis 'Le, Fort, an Indian, whose labors are quite success ful —Dr.-S. M. Vail has sailed for his post of duty as - U. S. Con` ul for Rhenish Bavaria. 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