The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-02
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

Rev. y. IL. Tying, Jr., sailed from Liv-
erpool on the-iSth.
Rev. J. s. Inskip is recruiting his
health at Clifton Springs, N. Y.
The address of Rev. E. Wilson Pres
byteran) is changed from ts,w brighton,
Pa, to jackson u. H., OHIO.
Rev. De Witt Q. Challis, Of the Detroit
Methodist Conference, has been ap-
pointed missionary to Bulgaria.
Bishop Bedell, of Ohio, sailed from
Europe for home September IS. He is
expected here, therefore, during this
week.
The annual Convention of the Catholic
Total Abstinence Union of America, will
be held in Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 9th OF
October.
The First NJ. E. Church in Bath (sec.
ond charge). New York, will be dedi.
Gated Sept. 80, by DR.. w. ii. Du Puy, oi
New York.
Rev. David Moore, Pastor OF the Wash.
| ington-ayenue Baptist Church, Brock.
| lyn, will spend the winter at the Arkan-
sas Hot Sulphur Springs.
The statistics of the Southwest Ger
! man Conference show an increase Of AZ
members, 2 local preachers, 12 Sunday
schools, 86 teachers and 546 scholars.
The Paulist Fathers from New York
began their missions in Minnesota on
| September 10Th. Several parishes OF the
| diocese are to receive visits from them.
During the last three months 1,460
copies OF the Bible have been circulated d
in Uruguay, South America, 1,395 of
which We're sold in eighteen different
| towns.
Rev. s. B. Bell, D. D., of Washington
College, California, has received and ac-
cepted unanimous call to til pastorate
of the Congregational Church Of Mans
| field, Ohio.
Rev. William e. Eigenbrodt, D. D.,
! Professor in the General Theological
Seminary, has been unanimously elected
rector Of st. PauPs, Edgewater, Staten
Island, N. Y.
Rev. Samuel Lawrence, the oldest
member of the Presbytery Of Hunting
| don, died at his residence in Lewistown,
Penn, on the Both Of August, in the 80th
| year of his age.
The cost OF Moody's church in Chi
cago, which will be completed in Decem-
Der, will be sixty thousand dollars, and
its seating capacity will be between
| three and four thousand.
The Detroit Methodist Conference sta
tistics show: Members, q, 204; churches,
246; parsonages, 128; collected for mis-
si0ns, $7,206; Sunday-sehools, 214, and
scholars in schools, 29,3J4.
Rev. John Leiper, from Scotland, who
is travelling in this country for his
health, spent the Sabbath, Sept. 19, with
Rev. j. +. Hamilton, of Newport, and
preached in the Second Church.
Rev. Fathers Thiess, Ebe and Herseh,
three exled priests from Germany, have
just arrived in Baltimore. The first
uamed will remain in that city, the 9TH
ers will 80 respectively to Chicago and
Annapolis.
The Boston North Baptist Associa-
tion comprises 36 churches, % ministers
and 10,367 communicates. Their contri.
buttons for benevolent and church pur.
poses during the last financial year
amounted to s133, ,235 SO.
Rev. II. Fl. Lipse Presbyterian can
be addressed at Kendallyille, Noble Co.,
Ind, by any vacant church desiring his
| services. he has been serving the
church at Kendallyille for considerable
time very acceptably.
The English Methodists are making q
very serious business of the question
concerning the admission of laymen to
| church councils, aud the situation al
present Is pronounced "a great crisis''
in the history Of Methodism.
The membership Of the Central Pres
byterian Church, Atlanta, Ga, has in
| creased to about four hundred, and they
will be compelled to "arise and build, p
| or to swarm out, Ii they continue to ad
vance at the same rate in the next five
years.
The Northern Methodists have opened
another new church In convent al
Puebla, Mexico. The Southern Method
lists have also dedicated new churct
in the City of Mexico. Rev. G. W. Dreet
is a pastor Of the former, and Rev. Toe
Davis OF the latter.
The new Unitarian Church built fol
Rev. DR.. Lathrop, in Boston, has tower
that rises square to height of two hun
dred and fifty teet. Toward the top are
immense bas reliels Of Scriptural scenes
and at the corners are four enormous
angels blowing trumpets.
Moody and Sankey are to hold meet
ings in the Chicago Exposition building
next month. after the close OF the Expo
sition. p. P. Bliss, Major Whittle and
Mr.. Cole are to assist them in theil
work. The clergy of the city are to co
operate and conduct affairs.
At a late meeting of the Presbytery Of
Louisville (South), the First Church
Shelbyville, presented call for the pas
toral service|of Raw. 8. M. Neel, of the
Presbytery OF Chickasaw, and its com
missioners were authorized to prosecute
the call before his Presbytery.
Rev. Father Dufresne, pastor OF the
French Church of the Preci6As Blood
Holyoke, Mass, is building q spl lendid