The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-30
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

is now In session at Pittsburg.
The angel of the church in Kittery,
Me-, is Miss @. E. Angel, who becomes
pastor of the Uniyersalist church.
Ot the entire population of London, 1t
10 estimated that over one-fourth, or one
million of people never attend church.
The American Bible Society has re-
ceiyed Tor its library copy OF the Gospel
OF Luke In Japanese, printed at Y oko-
hama.
At q late meeting Of the Presbytery OF
Steubenville, Rev. James A. Cook was
ordained and installed pastor of the
Ridge Church, Ohio.
With 80, 900 scholars in regular attend.
ance in the public schools Of Baltimore,
more than $4,000 scholars attend the Sab.
bath-schools OF that city.
! The number of Presby yterian Churches
upon the Pacific Coast has increased
during the year from 105 to 115, and oi
ministers from 115 to 126.
Rev. John G. Smith has Just celebrated
the thirty-sixth anniversary of his pas
toral charge of the Fourth Presbyterian
Church, Washington City.
A Deaconesses' Home has been ded
icated in Boston, its object being to train
1 hs
seyenty-fve hundred dollars.
Rev. A. S. Gardiner, of Reading, Mass.
has accepted a call to the First Congre'
mas already entered upon his duties.
The Standing Committee of Pennsyl
vania has consented to the consecration
of DR.. Eccleston as Bishop of Iowa, and
DR.. Brown as Bishop of Fond du Lac.
The standing committee Of the diocese
OF Albany has given consent to the con.
secration OF DR.. McLaren as Bishop o.
Illinois. Ohio consents to DR.. McLa
ren's conservation.
Abel Menard has left 100000 to Drew
Theological Seminary in New JERSEY
with which to establish a professorshit
for the purpose OF giving women theo
logical education.
The Chinese Christian has finally beer
admitted to holy orders in the Che-Ki
ang mission of the English Church il
China. This is the first instance Of the
ordination Of native.
Rev. Joseph Cameron, pastor of the
only open communion Baptist Church il
New York City, hasi left the Free Will
and joined the regular Baptist orgariza
tion. He accepts call to Canada.
The First Presbyterian Church of In
dianapolis has extended a hearty ano
unanimous call to DR.. Jas. H. Brookes
OF st. Louis, at salary OF $4,000. They
have strong hopes that he will accept.
The number of Baptist Communicate
in Nova Scotia, as reported to the recen
annual conyentiOpy is 20, 495; in New
Brunswick, 1879; in Prince Edward
Island, l,O72-makiDg total OF 32,942.
Rev. N. G. Cheney, of the New Yorl
East Conference, and for the last two
and half years the pastor of Old John
street Church, New York, has been ap
pointed missionary to India, aud sta
TONED In Nylee Tai.
A new thing has happened in Boston
a '.B0ston Notiono-a series of sermons
from some of the most distinguished
| ministers in the country, Moth ant
South, to be delivered in Music Hall, t(
aid the Methodist Boston City Mission.
Thirty Sisters of Charity, from West
lphalia, who have been compelled to leayi
Germany by the operation Of the recen
ecclesiastical laws, have arrived at 10 W,
City. TDey have been quartered in al
unoccupied church on Jne outskirts o
the city.
The Presbyterian Ministerial Assoeia
i very strongly upon the publication o
Sunday newspapers. Lt denounces til,
selling and buying of such papers as 81
unlawful traffic, and calls upon CHRIS
tiaH people to discountenance their eli
culation.
| The Young Mems Christian Associa
ton have pitched large canvas tent Il
: the Court-house yard, indianapolis, an
are h0ldIpg series VI highly interestln;
; meetings, both night ana day. Ipdica
lions OF u general revival OF religion ar
truly encouraging.
Thirteen young men, students of til
!. German Theological School, were re
ceiYed under the care OF The Pfesbyter
of Newark, as candidates for the mini,
istry, on the 6sh iDsl. Rev. Joseph 4
Jennison was dismiss I'd TO the Presb,
terry OF PAiIadeiphia North.
Il The eighteenth anniversary OF the Ful
ton street prayer meeting, New YorB
was celebrated ON Thursday, SeptemDe
24lh, at the Middle Dutch Churcn i'll La
iayette Place. The occasion was one O
, rare interest, and was participated in b.
fully fifteen hundred persons.
j The sixty seventh annual eport of tn
Pennsylvania Bible Society states tia
during the past year 1T has circulate
j7l,7o6 volumes, the value OF which wa
: SO, 308. OF these volumes 27,741 wer
Bibles and 37,793 Testaments. The II
81 mainder were Iestaments and Psalm
/. and other portiops the Scriptures.
During the late session of the Fri
: slC0nference at Youngstown, Ohio, Bisl
ep Scott, who presided, was presente
!. EWith beautiful tea set valued at SIG
4 Ion the occasion of his seventy -thir
birthday, by the ministers OF the Fri
Conferenee, their wives, the lay dell
gates and their wives, and the citizen
iof the town.
Tne Methodists of st. Louis have COZ
: sented that the General Conference (
1876 shall meet in Baltimore, instead {
: st. Louis, where the last Conferenc
r lagreed 70 meet. This is owing to tn
8 financial depression by the grasshoppe
) plague and the failure OF crops, whic
/ have sorely tried the Western people
/, There was very general call through
out the Church for the change.
The managers of the Catholic Orpha
Asylum of New York City have con
1 menced the erection of q large buildin
: ON the. Boland farm, near Peekskil
: owned by them, in which they propot
D to put several hundred boys to wor
!. lmaking boots, shoes, doing tailorin
Q lprinting and other light work. III
- structure will be made of brick fol
s stories high, and Will be 100 feet lor
0 and 40 feet wide.
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