REV. DR. W. S. Plumer, formerly Pastor of the Franklin Street Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, and now Professor of Pastoral Theology in the Seminary of Columbia, S. C., has been unanimously called to the Pastorate of the Central Presbyterian Church, Alleghany City, Pa., a Church of which he was pastor for several years before the war.

THE venerable Job F. Halsey, D.D., opened with prayer the memorial services at Valley Forge, Penn., on June 10th. Thirty thousand people were present to celebrate the day and the memorable scenes of Washington's sojourn in that valley one hundred years ago.

THE Independent Methodist Churches are larger in number, and of greater wealth and influence, in and about Baltimore than elsewhere. At their recent annual convention in that city, they appointed a Board of twelve managers, to have general oversight of the interests represented by the Churches composing the Convention.

THE demand for the five cent Testament issued by the American Bible Society is so great that it has led to the issue of 1,000 copies a day throughout the month of May. A new price-list has been adopted in which the various publications of the Society are greatly reduced. The receipts for May were $24,322.94; copies of Scriptures issued, 104,087.

"WESLEY CLOCK," the first Methodist Church clock in America the gift of Mr. Wesley-is still in service in the main audience-room of the old John Street Church in this city.

THE Southern Presbyterian Church has an Indian Presbytery, which held its annual meeting recently at Sandy Creek, Chickasaw Nation. The sermon was preached in Choctaw. Seven ministers and sixteen ruling elders were in attendance. The Narrative of the State of Religion stated that there had been a number of additions on profession of faith, one church had been erected, and another was in course of erection.

Ar Tremont Temple, Boston, on two Sundays in May, the actual attendance was over 100 per cent. of its seating capacity; at Park Street Church about 33 per cent; at Trinity, 50 per cent; at the Church of the Unity, 66; Church of the Disciples, 65; Clarendon Street Church, 62; New Old South (Back Bay), 38; Mr. Collier's Church, 45; Berkeley Street Church, 50; Somerset Street Church, 50. The aggregate was as follows: Total seats, 12,950. Filled, 7,593. Vacant, 5,357.

THE Baptist Church at Ann Arbor have just celebrated their semi-centennial. It was first called the Ypsilanti Church, but four years later changed its name and fixed its location at the village of Ann Arbor, then first starting into existence. Its first pastor was the Rev. Moses Clark. His latest successor is the Rev. S. Haskell.

THE REV. D. B. Jutten closed his fifth year as pastor of the Sixteenth Street Church of this city. In the five years he has baptized more than 200 persons, and the church has 661 members. Its annual receipts pay its annual expenses, and all are united and hopeful.

Rev. Dr. J. O. A. Clarke, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, has sailed for Furope on his special mission as agent of Wesley Monument Church, Savannah.

The new Methodist Episcopal Church at Hornellsville, N. Y., was recently dedicated without debt.

THE Rev. Joseph P. Cameron has resigned the Rectorship of St. Paul's Church, Canton, Ohio, to take effect on or before October 1st.

age.

LATE dispatches from Rome announce that Pope Leo has sent a dispatch to the Emperor of Germany expressing his regret at the atrocious attempt on the life of His Imperial Majesty, and has also directed Cardinal Franchi to dispatch urgent instructions to the Catholic clergy of Germany to use every effort to prevent the spreading of Socialism. His Holiness has had a long conference on the subject with Cardinal Ledochowski, Archbishop of Posen, to obtain exact information respecting the Socialist party in Germany.

THE Central Committee of Old Catholics at Munich

lately called a meeting of all the Bavarian delegates at Munich on the 30th of May, in order to discuss the celibacy question, and to concert a common attitude on it at the coming synod.

THE British Company of New Testament Revisers have completed the first revision and sent it to the American Committee. The latter have revised all except Revelations and four of the smaller Epistles, and sent over the larger part of their work. The grand rhythm of the rich old that have lost their original meaning or which do not conEnglish is every where preserved, and only words changed form to the most authentic text of ancient manuscripts.

WE note that the distinguished minister, Dr. Leyburn, spends his vacation in Europe. Dr. Leyburn is one of the good men of the Presbyterian Church. He is the Pastor of the Associate Reformed Church of this city. The men who were the founders, and their descendants who are now prominent in the life of this Church are among the great and good of Baltimore, Their pastor is one of the most untiring men in the ministry, and the field occupied by this Church is most exhausting upon the mental and physical energies of so marked a man as is Dr. Leyburn. We wish him a pleasant and recuperative trip. He has often visited Europe, and goes now for rest.

Ir not infrequently happens that Presbyterian ministers continue to act as supplies for the same Churches through several years. At Hixton, Wis., a Presbyterian minister has been regularly installed as pastor after serving the Church as a supply for sixteen years.

THE disestablished Irish Church is thriving, In seven years the Irish Churchmen have raised over $10,000,000 for the support of their Church. The salaries of the the Church has been much widened. Besides, they have poorer clergy have been greatly increased, and the work of revised their Prayer-book and got the Popery out of it, aud they have got the laymen into their Church Councils. A pretty good seven years' work.

A MOVEMENT is on foot for establishing in London a college or seminary in connection with the Reformed Episcopal Church. A newspaper is also to be started to advocate the interests of this new evangelical system.

Sunday morning when Mr. Reed's resignation was offered, quite a dramatic scene took place, one of the congregation reading a protest, to which the whole audience gave their assent by rising, while many in all parts of the house indicated the depth of their emotion by sobs and crying.

Ar the last meeting of the Board of Trustees of Wake Forest College, N. C., they decided to establish an elementary course at the College in Bible literature, for young men who may attend school at the College and feel that they have been called to preach the Gospel.

THE LATE REV. JOHN DOWLING. - The Rev. Dr. John Dowling, who died July 4th, had for nearly fifty years occupied a conspicuous place in the American Church. Born in England in 1807, and by vigorous study attaining a position as instructor in a classical institute in Buckinghamshire at the age of

twenty one, he three years later resolved to prepare for the ministry, and with his family sailed for this country. Very soon after his arrival he accepted a call from the Baptist Church at Catskill, where he was ordained in November, 1832, and preached with success for two years. He afterward passed two years at Newport, R. I., and in August, 1836, was installed as pastor of a congregation worshiping in Masonic Hall, New York City. For two or three years he also preached to the Broadway Baptist congregation, Hope Chapel, and at another period went to a church in Providence, whence he was called in 1844 to become pastor of the Berean Church. After a successful ministry of eight years, he accepted a call to the Sansom Street Baptist Church,

| degree of D.D. from the Transylvania University. Shortly before his death his mind became affected, and it was found necessary to remove him to an asylum at Middletown, N. Y., where he died.

MISSION NOTES.

A MISSIONARY PERIODICAL.-We take great pleasure in commending the Missionary Review, published at Princeton, N. J., at $1.50 a year, and edited by the Rev. R. G. Wilder, whom we personally know as a large-hearted and catholic Christian. Not only are Presbyterian Mission interests represented, but whatever concerns the progress of the cause of our ONE LORD, anywhere in the world, is lovingly set forth. We make here a comprehensive acknowledgment of our indebtedness to Mr. Wilder's Review in our monthly

Philadelphia, where he remained for some time. In 1856, at the urgent and unanimous request of the congregation, he resumed his charge of the Berean Church, and continued there for about twelve years, after which he occupied pulpits in Newark, N. J., and in New York. Then, having accumulated a large fortune by successful investments in real estate, he retired from active service, but occasionally preached in different city churches. Dr. Dowling was a diligent student and prolific writer. In England he published three school text books, which are still in use. In this country he published a "History of Romanism"-of which 30,000 copies were sold, and which brought him wide renown"Powers of Illustration," " Nights and Mornings," "Indoor Offering," etc. He also contributed to the religious and periodical literature of the day, and published many anniversary sermons and college addresses. In 1834 the honorary degree of A.M. was conferred upon Dr. Dowling by Brown University, and in 1846, shortly after the publication of his "History of Romanism," he received the

preparation of the Missionary Department of the SUNDAY MAGAZINE. But there is much in it we wish our readers might enjoy excluded from our pages by want of space.

IT is said that Rev. T. S. Tyng, rector of St. James's Episcopal Church, Cambridge, Mass., and a grandson of Rev. Dr. S. H. Tyng,

of this city, has determined to enter the missionary service in Japan, and that he will take his departure therefor very

soon.

SOME short time since the Rev. J. H. Messmore, of Lucknow, wrote to the Rev. James Baume, of Galena, Ill,, that the new church in Lucknow was completed, but needed a bell

of two hundred and fifty pounds. Mr. Baume interested himself in the matter, and presented the case to Joseph Rodd, Esq., of Rockford, Ill., who now gives the bell in memory of a beloved daughter early called to her home in heaven. The bell is being cast at Troy, and will go forward at once. The Centennial School at Lucknow wants a bell. Who will donate?

has been abandoned by the General Assembly. The balance THE "Sustentation Scheme" in the Presbyterian Church of $40,000 in its treasury is to be turned over to the Home Missionary Board, with this proviso: that all feeble churches which raise $600, on a basis of $6.50 per member, shall have $300 additional from the Home Mission fund.

THE REV. F. W. Flocken, Superintendent of the Bulgaria Mission, writes from Vienna, May 19th, en route for the Bulgaria Mission. He says: "I made inquiry of my friends who have connections with Sistora and Rustchuk, and was informed that there is not the least hindrance in my way to get to Rustchuk. I hope to reach Rustchuk on the 24th inst. From there I will write at once."

SUNDAY-SCHOOL NOTES.

Ir is reported that the good effects of the Atlanta Convention are already to be seen in many Sunday-schools in Georgia. At Augusta a series of monthly meetings of the

teachers of all the schools has been started.

NEW JERSEY is one of the States in which the growth of Sunday-school membership keeps pace with the growth of the population.

KANSAS Sunday-schools report 100,000 children.

OVER one-third of the Sunday-school scholars in the United States are found in three States, as follows: New York stands first, with 903,399; Pennsylvania is next, with 782,025; and Ohio third, with 621,702.

REV. J. HYATT SMITH told the Albany Sunday-school Convention the story he once told his children. With a blind brother, he had, in childhood, been playing with an onion till it became bruised and juicy, and so very odorous. The moist fingers rubbed the juice into the film of the blind eye, and with delicate surgery cut the vail. The pain caused tears and crying, and these helped to complete the work. The cry was changed to a joyful shout, "I see, I see !" "Is that a trooly story?" asked his little daughter. Assured that it was, she quietly replied: "I thought you were only preaching !" So, says Mr. Smith, there is a feeling that sermons are not sincere but merely professional talk. Teachers, and preachers, and parents, need to have a serious consistent life, to accentuate the appeals of religion made in school or church.

REV. DR. J. H. VINCENT has returned from his European visit. During his absence of eight weeks he did much sight-seeing in England, France, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland, but omitted his proposed visit to Rome because of the heat of the season, which made it unsafe to hold, in midsummer, the proposed Sunday-school Congress. Dr. Vincent held, however, a Methodist Episcopal Sunday-school Congress (the eighth of the series which he has held) in the city of Basle, Switzerland. On his return from the Continent, Dr. Vincent was honored with a "Breakfast" Reception by one of the principal Committees of the Church of England Sunday-school Institute. He also met several of the Committees of the London Sunday-school Union, and lectured to a great audience on the International Sunday-school System of America, and met also, by special invitation, the Committee of the British Wesleyan Sundayschool Association. Dr. Vincent returns with recuperated

health.

THE Sunday-school in Dr. Paxton's Church, Harrisburg, Pa., numbers over 1,400. One of the elders has a Bible class of several hundred young men gathered from the offices and workshops. The contribution of the school to Foreign Missions last year was $368.

A SUNDAY-SCHOOL was started at Chicago, June 9th, for the Chinese. There are between three and four hundred in the city who may, perhaps, not only learn the way of life themselves, but carry the Gospel to their countrymen on their return home.

THE beneficial results of the Atlanta Convention are plainly seen in several Southern States. A missionary of the American Sunday-school Union in Tennessee, writes: "The good done at Atlanta will be felt for generations, especially in the South, where its influences are already manifest in a new impulse and activity, better methods of teaching and conducting schools, and a larger adoption of the International Lessons. Since my return from Atlanta, I have attended five county conventions."

ONE of the benefits of good Sunday-schools is to elevate the character of preaching in thinly settled districts. A missionary of the American Sunday-school Union, in a remote region, writes: "I hear such things as these said: Our Bible schools have done much to improve the preaching of the Gospel where they exist, by spurring up preachers to keep pace with the children in Bible knowledge. The people are asking for more intelligent preaching." Another says: "We have had preaching, such as it is, ever since we became a settlement; but our children have learned more of the Bible in one year in our Sunday-school than "Others say: from the preaching of five or even ten years. "Our children in Sunday-schools are more easily converted "Our Sunday-school has changed the than others." behavior, manners, and customs of our people." "Our school has put a stop to neighborhood dancing." Various schools report from one to twenty conversions each.

GOVERNOR COLQUITT, of Georgia, lately said at a Sundayschool Convention in Carroll County, in that State : "Some think that Sunday-school work is an insignificant worktoo small a work for the great and busy men of earth. Some men are too great to stoop to little things. If you had seen what I witnessed at the late International Sundayschool Convention in Atlanta, you would not so think. This is no insignificant matter. That body of men comprehended many of the great minds of the English-speaking nations gathered to represent this nation, Canada and Great Britain, and their aims and ends proposed are of the greatest importance to the human race.”

THE Rev. Mr. Fliendner, of Madrid, Spain, states that the Spanish Sunday-school hymn-book has just been completed, proves very successful and has been widely distributed. The Spanish authorities generally are in favor of religious culture.

SIGNOR EMPEYTAZ, of Barcelona, writes thanking the Society for donations received for the Sunday-school library. At Monistrol the mission work is progressing, and a society has been formed for Christian work; a similar one is also in operation in the main Church at Barcelona.

THE Rev. Mr. Duncan, of Seville, Spain, tells of an increased attendance at the Sunday-school; although the Sunday-school work is somewhat hindered by the fact that the heads of the household in Spain consider Sunday an appropriate day for cleaning and setting to rights their houses, mending the children's clothes, etc., so that many of the children are kept away from Sunday-school. The Spanish Church of Cordova has rallied round Mr. Duncan, and is doing a good work.

MR. ROBERT STUART, of Lisbon, Portugal, writes that the week after Easter a meeting of Christian workers was to be held twenty miles from Lisbon. A new Sunday-school has been established.

FRAU VON DUECKER, of Loest, has for been seven years engaged in the Sunday -school work. She conducts a school of over 200 children, arranged in two divisions for want of room-some coming from two to three in the afternoon, the others from three to four. There are eight to ten teachers.

MR. FARNHAM writes from China of continued success. The first Sunday-school outside of regular mission work has just been opened in Shanghai. The work began with an evening-school of thirty-nine pupils, in which some English gentlemen were persuaded to teach Chinese children English; twenty-four of these children are now in attendance at the Sunday-school.