The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-17
RELIGIOUS.

The c0lOfed congregation OF St. Fran
els Xavier, Baltimore, numbers 5000.
Young women take up the contribu-
tfons IN the Methodist church at Bath,
Maine.
Pearsall Smith, Of Philadelphia, a re-
vival preacher, is holding crowded
meetings daily In Berlin.
Catholic churches In Worcester,
Mass, amount ed to about 5000.
The new building erected for the Y.
M. q. A. at Halifax, N. g., cost $38, 800.
The association has TOO members.
Phe second General Council Of the
Reformed Episcopal Church of the Uni
ted States meet in Chicago in May.
There are forty-one Baptist churches
in New Orleans, thirty.nine OF which be-
long to colored congregations and two
to white. te
The Methodists of Worcester, Mass,
lately kept a meeting going for ten
hours and raised $S5,OOO to pay OFT their
church debt.
Rev. w. w. Curtis, of Kansas, has
been sent by Lhe Presbyterian Board OF
Missions as a missionary TO Silver City,
New Mexico.
The Marquis of Lorne and his wife,
the Princess Louise, contemplate visit
ing the United States during the ensu.
ing summer.
The chief of the Delawares is said to
be Baptist minister, and of 1000 per-
sons composing the tribe, 230 are meln-
bers OF his church.
Rev. Henry Moorhouse, an English
evangelist who mas been preaching in
St. LOUIS, has lett tnat city and is on his
way back to England.
During the ten years. patorate of Rev.
lIS nf th., ohx,tn n,.t,,
church, ST. Louis, 8OO persons have been
added to the membership.
An Interstate conference of the Y. NJ.
G. A. workers of OHIO, Illinois, Indiana,
Michigan and Kentucky was held at
Fort Wayne, April 8 and7.
sThe Louisville, KY, Y. M. q. A. have
new rooms at No. 10 Fourth, between
Main and Market streets in tnat city, and
Thursday night held their first meeting
there.
Professor Dollinger has declared that
the assertion made in the Lower Aus
TRAN House that he had accepted the
doctrine OF Iniallibility as a base cal
umny.
Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, in letter
to his brothers. Christian Union, says
sable preaching, by itself, produces la
illness, sp0nglness, sentimentalism in
the pews"
|. The work of building the new St. Pat
rick's church, at the corner OF f and
Tenth streets, Washington, d. g., has
been commenced. The entire cost will
be $20D,OV0.
st. Luke's church, Philadelphia, on
Easter Sueday raised in the OtferIory
1900, with which they intend to erect
a mission chapel and to improve their
church edIfce.
The Newark Methodist Conference
during its session in Jersey City, the
past week, adopted memorial to the
Legislature against the passage Of the
Catnolic Protectory bill.
The Muravians in the United States,
according to their latest statistics 1874 y
number altogether 1890. They have
seyenty-fve churches and 8,075 commu-
nicants, an increase OF 400 during the
year.
The Hanc6ck-street Methodist Episco-
pal church, Philadelphia, has been
locked against the Rev. George Nc
Laughlin, the new Conference appolntee
as pastor. The congregation. wanted
some one else.
A proposition is made for Centennia al
celebrations throughout the State of the
organization OF MeCnodism in N orth Car
0lina. Methodist societies were first es-
tablished III that State in 1775 and q cir
cult was formed in 1176.
"The Roman Catnoiic Directory for
1872 shows the steady growth OF that
faith in England. The roman clergy
have increased during the year from
l,662 10 1,72S; and they have now 1,94I
churches, being an increase OF 16.
Bishop Relnkens, the leader OF the old
Catholics, has issued a pastoral letter
enforcing the duty of obedience to the
civil government. He denies With great
ability the papal doctrine OF allegiance
first to the Church and then to the
State.
The Philadelphia Conference, which
just closed its annual session, reports
44,69O members and probatiouers, 3l4 To-
Cal preachers, 3O9 churches and VI par
sonages, $50 Sunday-sclools and b3, ,OU3
teachers and scholars. Missionary col
lectIon, 47,453.
The Estabilsned Church in England is
to have new bishoprIc-St. AlDan's-
formed Of Essex and Herttordshire. The
grand old abbey, ehurcn of st. Albap's,
will be the cathedral OF the diocese, and
Or. Claughton, the present Bishop OF
Rochester, Will probably be the tirst in
cumbent OF the new See.
The great church OF Flatbush, Long
Island, Is the Reformed Dutch). II has
held the ground for a century. 1t is one
OF the richest parishes In the State, out
OF New YorK. The parish is really q
millionaire. Its fortune was secured by
donations of land, given i'll other days.
1t has probably the most costly and con-
venient Sunday-school room in the
world.
Rev. Dr.. N. Bouton, now entering ON
the tifty-first year of his settlement over
the North Congregational church at Z on
cord, N. H., first suggested the idea OF a
home missionary society which should
be national in its proportions and field
OF operations, the germ whence sprang
the American Home Missionary Society.
He was then an Andover student.
MIR Sankey, the American revivalist in
an address. delivered iq Liverpool, called
attention to- the many advantages en-
joysd by young men In the United States
over and above those OF Europe. He at
tributed this In a great measure to the
admirable working Of the Young Mems
Christian Associations, with The man Y
attractions offered through their means
10 induce our clerks and employees to
spend their evenings in "a profitable
manner.
The fiftieth anniversary Of the Ameri-
can Tract Society was recently celeDrat-
ed in Washington. The report shows
total receiDts OF SS 600 5t3 i'm sales and