The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-03-18
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

On Sunday, March s, seventy-five new
members were received into the Second
Reformed Church of Philadelphia.
Over six hundred conversions have oc-
Cured on the Trenton District, New
Jersey, M. E. Conference, this winter.
Rev. Mr.. Coggeshall. OF Pawtucket, !
Rhode Island, has left the Protestant,
Episcopal church to Join the Roman
Catholic.
Rev. Magruder Maury, of Virginia,
has been deposed from the Episcopal
Church. He Joined the Reformed Epis-
copal Church.
Carleton College within the last year
has raised in Minnesota, and that in
thirteen of its churches, $40, 600 for the
endowment of the Chair OF Physical Sci
ence.
Rev. James Little, of Quincy, Florida,
has received a unanimous call to the
First Presbyterian Church of Bowman;
vile, Ontario, Canada, which he has ac-;
cepted.
The Baptist Church In Franklin, We
mango County, Pa, f. Evans, pastor i
has just closed a series OF meetings, I'M
which one hundred accessions have been
made to the church.
The late Senators Buckingham and
Ferry and Representative Starkweather,
all of Connecticut, were all Sunday
school teachers up to the time OF their
going 10 Washington.
| In Troy, Pa, great work has been
lately enjoyed. More than one hundred
CONVERSIONS are reported. Many drunk
ards are among them. ALI the churches
nave co-operated. and been blessed.
Germany is a most stproductive field for
labor in the Sunday y-school. Twelve
years ago there were no Sunday-schools
in the country; now there are $50
schools, 200 teachers, and $4,000 schol-
ars.
s:My pew" says writer in the Con-
gregatienalist, sis q certain portion of
the house OF God which l have engaged
to see filed up." II more Christians
were OF the same mind the churches
would be better patronized.
In the First Lutheran Church, Altoona,
Penn, about two hundred and fifty pro-
fessed faith in Christ during a series of
meetings, and one hundred and ninety
five have been admitted to the church
since the Week of Prayer.
The Watchman has news of wonder
full revival OF religion In Windsor,
Nova Scotia, whore over Q hundred
have united with the Baptist Church,
and where equal, II not greater, numbers
have Joined the Methodists and Presby-
terians.
Thirty.two of nearly fifty converts
among the students In Fisk University
united with the Union Church iIrN ash
vile, Tenn, February 10; fifteen were
baptized by immersion, 8nd nine by
Isprinkling. Tie interest in the institii-
tiOn continues.
The Presbyteries OF Ohio and Indiana
are invited to send one or tive delegates
each to the annual examinations OF Lane
Theological Seminary. The public ex-
aminations will begin at . A. n. Of Mon
day, May 8, and will be continued till
Wednesday noon.
Az the Cohocksink Presbyterian
Church, Philadelphia, one hundred and
thirty-nine persons were recently added
TO the church BY confession OF faith, and
q number by certificate from other
churches; making the whole number
about one hundred and fifty.
The Cincinnati Methodist ministers
want piece OF the old elm tree lately
blown down on Boston Common. 1t was
4 under that elm that Jesse Lee. the
founder Of New England Methodism,
preached his first sermon In Boston,
Sunday afternoon, July II, 1890. Meth.
odism has had even q more healthy
| growth than the famous elm. Its roots
and branches are all over the land.
The receipts OF the Boards Of the Pres.
| byterian Church during the month OF
January were as follows: Board oil
Home Missions (Missions), 500, ,167 98,
| sustentation }, 81, 1,69l 93; Board OF Edu-
cation, s6,656 56; Board Of Foreign Mis-
sions, $9S,596 So; Board or Publication
| Missionary Fnnd), $l,66l "a; Board oi
phurcn Ersoll0aaja1ll ~; kslls{ Epna' l:.l