The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-23
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

son with the Churches in this country.
D In one of the Catholic Jubilee Churches
OF Brooklyn last week there were 9,OO(
lrernies deposited In the aims box OF
! OK day..
. Cardinal McCloskey writes to rela
tive In Washington intimating that ht
|, will return home about the 25th of No
Yember' q.
The Baptist Tabernacle, of Boston, IL
approaching completion. 1t is expected
that it will be dedicated on the evening
of the 2Sth inst.
DIR. Clark of the Southern Methodist
Church, has raised $4,000 Tor Wesley
Monumental Church, Savannah, Ca, by
mis- tour North.
| A memorial window to the distin
Iguished Irish scholar and philanthro-
pist, Bishop Berkeley, in Yale College,
has been proposed.
The Church Council at st. Johns, AL
lentown, Pa, has resolved to invite the
Lutheran General Council to meet in
their church next year.
Rev. P. Brady. pastor OF the Annun-
citation Church (Catholic), St. Louis,
after an absence of three months in Eu-
rope, returns In good health.
The Baptists' Review, of LAGRANGE,
N. c., the object OF which was to unite
the open-communion Baptists of Georgia
and Alabama, has suspended.
Rev. C. G. skillman resigns the care OF
the'Baptist church in Carrollton, KY to
accept the position of State Superintend-
en5 OF the Baptist Sunday schools.
The First Baptist Church of San Fran
cisco has been sold to the Chinese fol
$50 900. The PURCHASERS intend to spend
$1,000 in changing it into business
block.
The New York Presbytery, at its ses-
sion last week, received under its care
six theological students and dismissed
two OF its members to other Presby.
teres.
st. Johns Protestant Episcopal Church,
Chillicotne, Illinois, has been trans
rerred to the Reformed Episcopal
Church, and Rev. j. p. Davis appointed
rector.
The Evangelical Union of Boston min
listers have adopted resolution recon-
.mending the efforts for securing Messrs.
| Moody and Sankey to labor in Boston
tuis winter.
Dean Stanley, being convinced that
John and Charles. Wesley deserved me-
MORALS in Westminster Abbey, has ar.
| ranged to introduce them himself and at
his own expense.
The July reports from the Chinese
Mission-schools of the American Mis-.
sionary Association show q total mem.
bership tor that month of 4S3, and an ay-
erage attendance of SO.
At the recent session of the Illinois
Methodist Conference, Rev. II. o, Hoff-
man was returned to Vermont-street
Church, in Quincy, H., where as pas.
tor he has been so successful
i The preachers OF the NJ. e. Church
South report three hundred conversions
as the fruits of their late camp meetings
in Maryland. combined with subsequent
lservices in their churches.
II The city of Termorth, in Belgium, the
birthplace OF the late Father De Smet
S. j., has commenced the erection of 6
monument in honor OF the memory Of the
great Indian missionary.
Bishop Corrigan has issued a circular
, letter to the priests of the diocese o
: Newark, asking for enlarged contribu
tinue for fha od unotiou Il mn ~
+ OF students for the priesthood.
The number of Baptist communicates
in Nova Scotia, as reported to the recen
annual convention. is 20.495: in New
D Brunswick. II .375; in Prince Edward Is
land, 1,072-making total of 32.942.
1t is said that there are SO manysteeblt
! Methodist Churches in and around New
York that the authorities are consider
itg the question Of refusing to rec0gniz,
any Church not able to support itself.
Rev. j. 8. Backus, D.. D., for man.
years Secretary OF the American Baptis
Home Mission Society. has accepted tin
position OF District Secretary OF West
ern New York for the Publication So
ciety.
The Southern Baptist missionaries
have just held a camp.meeting amon
the Seminoles. There were seventeel
e tents on the ground, interesting service,
d were held and one Seminole convert Sc
!. cured.
Rev. G. P. Sheldon, D. D., of Troy, ha
\ accepted the appointment of Finapcia
: Secretary OF the Baptist Home Mission
d Society for New York and New Jersey
) He will enter at once upon the duties 0
' the Office.
At the Carmel Chapel, in the Bowery
|. near Grand street, under the auspices c
y the City Mission, daily prayer meeting
r at twelve o'clock noon has been held TO
g three years. The third anniversary wal
8 observed on Friday with appropriate ex
t ercises.
Rev. DR.. Dickey, of st. Louis, has
q unanimous and enthusiastic call froE
8 the Calvary Presbyterian Church, Phi
y adelphia, late the pastoral charge of Rev
DR.. q. M. Humphrey, now at Lane Sen
q mary, Cincinnati.
o The census-takers Of New Zealan
found no less than 127 denominations
u distinctions, among which were sBibl