The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-05-20
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

The colored Catholics OF Washington
have thei finest Catholic church in that
city.
The German Free.thinkers are I'd have
a convention in Philadelphia June &c
and q.
The receipts OF the English Wesleyan
Missionary Societv the past year reached
the large sum OF $92O, 900.
Bishop Stevens, OF Pennsylvania. coil !
frmed sixteen hundred persons during
the month OF Aprii--an unusually large
number. t. t3..s s.....
/ The receipts OF the American Board
for the first seven monthssol its financial
year have fallen about $4,000 belo " the
collections for the same period last year.
The Foreign Missionary Board Of the
Reformed Dutch y Church has received
$b4, 900 the past year, OF which 81, 900 was
from legacles and $53, 900 from contribu-
tions. ~
I Rev. j. Il. Harpster, missionary OF the
Lutheran General Synod at Guntur, II.
dia, hal. been compelled to return TO the
United States OH account of impaired |
health. e---.-- |
DIR. Taylor says, .sIf you want good
congregational singing, you must'have |
rousing preaching. Tue best way TO
leat "a church is to have the stove III the
pulpit"
Toronto, Canada, is announced as the
meetlng-plaee tor the international Con-
ventlon of The Young Men's Christian
| Associations, to be held on the 18th OF
! next July. .5....s.5s..> s,
| A town of five hundred inhabitants in
| Syria has been converted to Protestant
ism. A chapel and a school-hUuse have
4 lN.A.,,, htIil t,.l taIto oI,nr
stationed there.
The English address of thanks to Dr..
Doiiinger has been signed by three thou
sand sIXhundred ana twenty clergy and
thlrty-three b.snops, besides several
Thousand laymen.
Rev. DR.. j. l.. M. Curry has returned
to Ricumond alter long tour abroad.
He was formerly member of Congress
from Alabama. anu is now one OF the
most prominent BapList diyines in the
South.
4 The Missionary Society,of the Lutheran
4 General ~ nod reports siXty-sepen mis-
stonailes, colpor,eurs, anu teachers in
India, with one thousand two hundred
ana ninety-iour commandments anu two
nundred and elghty-three pupils in tne
: SCHOOLS.
II Col. Jameson, an editorial writer con.
necLed with the ST. Louis GIobe-Demo-
: crat, was ordained a Baptist MINISTER
s last Saturday. Tnis seems to be in u
. measure a reiutation Of the common
charge that newspaper-workh has an ire
ligious tendency.
The Roman Catholic Cathedral in Bal
: timore, Md, Is to be consecrated during
The present mouth. Itwas commenced
! seventy years ago, but has always been
c UeDL nlLll now. and the pnrlp AL
a authorities have sternly refused TO acl
until the debt should be paid.
st. Johns Parish, in Detroit, is one oil
the strongest Episcopal churches in the
Q lcOuntry. During The past Juree months
8 one hundred anu four persons were re-
NJ. celyed ny confirmation, and on Easter
Daymore than seven hundred communl.
d cants participated in the services.
t The New TestamentER Revision N C Commit
S tee nave struck out as spurious the Iast
q seven verses OF the last chapter OF ST
Mark. Taey have also struck out, as be-
ing false interpolation, a verse in one
: ot the Epistles wn1ch is frequently
: quoted as proof OF the existence OF the
trinity.
Bishop Littlejohn, who was to have ar
= rived from Eu.ope about this Time, de
Hays his return Tor some weeks, owing Il
u the death OF his son-lll-law, Glr. Mills
\ aud the serious illness of Bishop Hare
a l.who has been his travelling companion
Bishop Hare is in Venice, unable to b,
moved atpresent.
A trustee OF the Fifth Ayenu,
Church, New York, explains that Dir
!, John Hall is not PAID "a salary OF $40, 90
Y guild" as reported, but ''$l0, 900 in green
:, Dacks;" he has iaILh in the resources O
: the country as Well as in other things