The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-20
RELIGIOUS.

IneellHS OIL Ine EVanSellcdl AlllduCe Will
be held in Edinburgh.
A special session Of the Chassis Of
Newark was held in the Second Re
formed church, on Wednesday.
The members of st. PauPs Church
Springfield, have decided to increase the
salary of their pastor, Rev. Albert Ii
Sweetser, to $4,000.
A committee of the Christian Temper
ance Union reported that it was advis.
able to hold Grand Ministerial Confer
ence in Boston on Anniversary week.
Mrs. Van Cott thinks that q man
should be just as much interested when
the Lord is asking him to do something,
as when he is asking the Lord to do
something.
During the past six months no fewer
than eight pastors have dissolved their
relations with their churches in Jersey
City and West Hoboken, either by ex-
pulsion or resignation.
A Ladies' Relief Society has been
established in connection with the Bap.
tist Church at Union Hill, N. j., and
forty-two of the sufferers by the late fire
have been relieved thereby.
Bishop Wood, of Philadelphia, has
gone to Florida Tor his health's sake, and
has appointed Very Rev. Charles j. Ii.
Carter, Vicar General, administrator OF
the diocese during his absence.
Most Rev. Archbishop McCloskey ad-
ministered the sacrament OF contirma-
tion to 415 persons in the Church of st.
Francis Xavier, West Sixteenth street,
New York, on Thursday, 4th inst.
The Moravians in the United States,
according to their latest statistics 1874 J,
number altogether 1890. They have 10
churches and S,705 communicates. an in
crease of 400 during the year.
Rev. Brooks Hereford, of England, one
of the most prominent "Liberal Chris
tians" IN that country, will succeed Rev.
Robert Laird Collyer in the pastorate
of the Church of the Messiah, at Chicago.
The pulpit of the Western Methodist
Episcopal church, Philadelphia, recent
ly left vacant by the death of Rev. r. H..
Pattison, ID. D., has been filed Temporal
rlly by the appointment of Rev. 4. b.
Nicely.
An example of self-sacrifice worthy of
record has taken place in Brooklyn. A
heavy debt rests upon DR.. CarroiPs Re-
formed church, on Bedford avenue. He
mas relinquished his years salary CSC, 00O)
toward It's liquidation.
Rev. Father Vanuta, pastor of St. 10.
sephs Church, Jersey City Heights, was
lately confined 10 his house Tor several
WeeAe w iiihess. Dy Ine aufice ol his
Pn! sicialls ne was lenoVeo 10 tne nos
pitni IA cnafse Vi 'ne oisIers Oh ohafity
III ~. a a'elson' 20 49,
he iaeest case vi resIlsuelo4 tarough
li' Ine coniessioHai riha occurred IN HoDokeh.
ine i"tnoA VI oenei ai llaGhelo nau
ago. The watch has just been returned
by the pastor of st. Mary''s Church,
Father Duggan.
Ing hulnDe, VI hoinan Oatnolic jour-
nais Az oelhnany mas lncieasee ae very
iapiu Iase ISae mi.hin tne tas. ieW years.
nanars nv onu in,nnc+onoo wa ,.,Lnn auou
apYpplnsivo ppli of pav.ria ' tnera 49, ara , nUW,
['1,S. h,,,'S.oa '"--"' 'Aoi0 "A0 h0"'iy
nr TaImaae don;os tho r,,nra th,t ho
T.. ooinr to Enrona ond adda, .th,, mi ,,hno no
he has attended, to his TahernaoIo ~
Law Colleoe and Tha Christian OF Worl,
and nrenared three hook in nine monIhS' '
ha hns not m-lnh tima iatt for tr'ns'
AtIantic M eyneditions ~ ' AoA 'i"n'-
Tbe Protestant EnisconaI Almanac for
1879 giyes 10 bishnns < bishnns-aieot
2 OS5 nriests and deacons 2 I'D clarav'
men. 2750 parishes S73 092 :commuHni-
cants. W OW SImGav.schnol teanhers
225, 733 Sunday.schooI scholars and con,
tributions DURING tho vear s6 AZ O0G1 ~
The annual missionary collection In
Washington-square Methodist Episcopal
church, N. Y, last Sabbath amounted to
$4,000, OF which sum the Sunday-school
gave 81, 800. There have been eighty con-
in this church during the win
ter.
Rev. Henry Morgan, of Boston, has
engaged a corps OF twenty young men to
80 Iounu alulng tne poor WIN prayer,
colllort anu occasional donations. Ihey
report ato O'CLOCK III the afternoon, re-
celve 91oV hoItn among themselves,
ana alstrlpute ike amount among the
poor. u,
huWaLo Legleston, autnor, eulGof ana
ulVihe, mas acceptea 6le can TO Oongre-
arranUamantS and enIu. saiarv Assf "f
se no0 Mr. EsSinstnm vii oo,tin"a'hi
v.luahIe contrIhutions to tho litararv
'vnrId wbiIe disch.r,rinr his d,,+u in ~ M
"iniS}1rw w n'-' N'' e'ns "i' ""'' IL 'n0
Mr usnrv vorlov whom, Mr. snnrooon
,oiis tha 4ro.tasI'' Wv "D nraaahar ~ stHn IN
,%a hoe baan esnon;,,iy snnoasof,,, r 'ie
as work in New York. lie held services
in the Church of the Disciples. and the
crowds that filled the capacious editice
,ttested the general interest felt in this
movement.
Thirtoor EnisoonoI h;sbon, touo hoo,
,IaatnG sin ~ piooUpai th pishopt ~ nay G ueeh
'onuontinn .tuo smo ; otin VI 'no s oeneiai @ "a
oonren'iom' ~ Nv hne lnisslohaiy anu anu zen ui-
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