The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-13
RELIGIOUS.

tions.
The new Presbyterian church at Sioux
| City, Iowa, COST 10, 800.
A new Presbyterian church has been
dedicated at Poynette, Wis.
! A new Presbyterian church was Or
ganized in Chicago, February IA.
Rev. j. j. Irving has received call TO
the Western avenue Baptist church, Chi
cago, Ill.
Rev. s. H. Tying, jr., d. D., will spend
the next month in the South to recruit
his health.
The Pittsburg NJ. E. Conference meets
at Alliance, Ohio, on Wednesday, March
II, Bishop Bowman presiding.
Rev. Father p. McMichael, one of the
most aged of the Catholic priesthood in
Louisville, KY, is lying very i'll.
Eighty-two new members Joined the
Chicago Y. M. g. A. during last month,
making its total membership 1891.
Three converts from Romanism have
connected themselves with Rev. J. M.
Pullman's Universalist Church, in New
York.
The West Virginia M. e. Conference
met Wednesday, March 3, a. Point Pleas.
ant, West Virginia, Bishop Bowman, pre-
siding.
Rev. W. H. sloan, of Marion, Wayne
county, Ohio, has been appointed by the
Baptist Missionary Union missionary
to Burmah.
DR.. Parker, of London, writes to the
/ Christian at Work that next July the
Anti -Ritualism bill will 60 into opera
tion In England.
DR.. Reuben Jeffrey has resigned his
professorship in the Tabernacle Lay Col
lege, Brooklyn, and Rev. II. p. Thuring
has succeeded to his place.
The semi-centennial anniversary o1
the settlement OF Rev. DR.. Leonard Ba
con as pastor over the Centre Church
New Haven, was celebrated last Tues
day.
The shrines and relics which Rev
Father Dealy secured while in Rome
last summer have arrived and are now
in st. Francis Xavier's Church Of New
York.
DR.. Reid, the Missionary Secretary
left New York last Monday for tOul
: among the Southern and Southwestern
Conferences between West Virginia and
J Kansas.
:. The proceedings of the eighth annual
convention OF the Y. NJ. q. A. OF the Mari.
time Provinces has lately been published
The names of ninety-one association
are OH the roll.
st. James Methodist Episcopal churof
of Harlem last Sunday took up mis-
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the amount OF $1,350, OF which the Sun
day-scbool gave $700.
4 The number of scholars in the Sunday.
schools in the Presbyterian Church,
North and South, is SO, 434; the Baptist
Church Of the United States, $50, 152; anG
. the M. Il. Church, 1,3S3, ,227.
Miss Coiburn and Miss Burnett left
New York March for Pekin, China, II
join the mission with Miss Douw ant
> Miss North, from the W0man's Unior
Missionary Society Of America.
i Rev. +. 2. Tower, Of the New Yorl
/ East Conference, intends, after thu
, meeting OF his Conference next month
} to be transferred to Southern California
I where be will reside and labor hereafter
DR.. Cross, OF Toungoo, Burmah, re
lpeats the statement already made, tha
on account Of the famine in that region
caused by the plague Of rats, large
number OF churches will be nearly bro
ken up.
: The Presbyterians and Cumberland
Presbyterians of the Pacific coast have
| by synodical committees, agreed upon ;
/ basis OF union for the two bodies, whicl
: now needs only to be ratified by thei
: constituents.
, Forty-tiye parishes and $4,000 Roman
, Catholics in Poland have gone complete
ly over to the Russian-G Greek Church 0l
account Of the attempted enforcement o
the PapaI Encyclical of May IL, 1874
There are twenJy-six priests among tn
converts.
Rev. Joseph Nee sima, the japanese
convert, who spent several years III thi'
country, retArned to Japan last Iall, ant
now writes back to his friends at Am
herst, where he graduated, that he il
: having unexpected success as a mission
r airy to his cOuntFymen.
/ Dean Stanley is TO be invited to deliv
/ er the inaugural address at the unveil
: ing of a statue OF Baxter, the author o
q the "Saint's Rest" at KidderminsteT
, The statue has been the result OF sub
Q lscription by Churchmen and Non-con
formisJs, and the Bishop of Worceste
has been a liberal contributor.
The Boston South Baptist Sunday
K school Convention, which met few day
I ago, reported 913 officers and teacher
Q and TAB scholars in lis 43 schools. In
! North Baptist Convention, OF the sam
b city, reported 33 schools. 1,0S9 teacher
Q and officers, and S,S73 scholars.
The Sixty-tirst-street Methodist Epis
2 copal church in New York will be dedi
! Gated tomorrow by Bishops James an
9 Andrews. The entire cost OF the churc
and parsonage will be $4,000. Durin
p the week following the deuication ther
: will be preaching by Rev. Drs. Foss, Tai
mage and Tying.
1 Rev. DIR. John p. Newman, form
\ erly Chaplain Of the United State Senate
= and later Inspector of Consulates, VIII
! has been travelling in an official capacl
: ty, making some very interesting discov
) cries in The course of his travels, ha
). returned to Washington. 1t is said h
: will resume the pastorate of the Metre
. pelitan Methodist Episcopal Church
Where General Grant Worships.
Mr.. George II. Stuart, of Philadelphia
o estimates the number Of conversions j
Great Britain, through the instrumeI
!. tality OF Messrs. Moody and Sankey, &
J, Chicago, at 25,000 or $4,000. Anothe
d pair OF evangelists, sent out by tn
v Young Mems Christian Association Z
9 Chicago, are toiling in the differen
J, towns Of Illinois, and an additions
!, Twain are in Louisville, n.y., meetin
n with great success.
L The petty jealousies that aetuate Chris
o tian men and ministers has had anothe
!, Illustration in Rome, Italy, where th
= Rev. Mr.. Waite, pastor OF the America
t Union Church in that city, had accuse
Il Signor Godaleta, an Assistant in Mr.. Va
Meters mission work, with being
"Jesuit," and applying to him other o
y fensive epithets. Signor Godaleta sue
- | Ar Matt, mho thprpfl non Dtlbiiafy hDO