The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-01
Religious Notes.

Religious Notes.
Systematic Beneyolence" was the ti,eIoe
discussed at the Baptist Ministers meeting
to-day
Fifty six have been added to the Cent1d
Christian Church since the revival meetings
began.
The ordinance of baptism was admins
tered last evening at the First Baptist
Church.
Arrangements are being made for Cen
eral Church Congress, to-be held in this crty
in October next.
The Annual Minutes of the Methodist
S;;isGCr@l is,,IC r,@l InuTcil may now be obtuned "a
the Book Concern.
Rev DR.. NJ w. Taylor has been returned
by the appointing power to Union Chapel
for another year.
DR.. Walden, of the Methodist Book Con-
Germ, has returned from an extended tour
among the Western Conferences.
Philip Phillips, who is on his way FROM
Texas to the East, will sing tomorrow eve
ming at Christie Chapel, on Court street.
Rev. Mr.. Mann, deaf mute, conducted
the services yesterday afternoon at the st.
John P. d. Church, in the sign language.
DR.. Phillips, returned missionary. VIII
address the Woman's Union Missionary
Society at Christ's Church tomorrow eve
ming.
Several addresses, interspersed with Some
Interesting exercises by the infant class,
took the place of the Bible lesson at tho
Third Presbyterian Church yesterday aftes-
noon.
The Rev. 0. A. Hills yesterday resigned
the pastorate OF the Central Presbyterian
Church Oh Mound street, to accept the lars-
torate of the First Presbyterian Church of
Allegheny City.
Rev. Eben HALEY, of the Seventh-strees
Congregational Church. has expressed his
determination not to comply with the IL
quest of his congregation that he withdnB
his resignation
The question, SHOULD a Sabbath AlE-
anee be formed in Cincinnati%' was dis
cuSsed by the General Evangelical Ministe-
rial Association which met at the Presby.
terian Rooms this afternoon.
The Young Peoples Missionary Union
of the Third Baptist Church give an enter.
tainment tomorrow evening, which will be
followed with several short addresses by
prominent men of the city.
The Cincinnati Pioneer Association, ae-
cording to its custom, will observe the n,ni-
vcrsary of the first settlement of Ohio u
Marietta on the 7th day of April, 1888. The
services will be held at Wesley Chapel, both
morning and afternoon, and will consist oi
a sermon, addresses, "reminiscences and
choice music.
The Dunbar temperance meetings at R-
Bile Chapel, Longworth street, west OF Cen
tral avenue, prove decided success. About
three hundred have signed during the paSi
week. They will be continued this week
at the same place Prayer-meeting at }
children's meeting at 4, and mass meeting
at N p III. You are invited. Seats free
PonSon du TerraiPs dolls ought to have
Joined the company of lnourners at his ia.
neral i'll Paris three weeks ago. He MAS q
most popular author of feuileton and WIS
in the habit of writing several stories at
once, which appeared simultaneously in
various papers. He used to dress UP little
wooden dolls to represent the characters ol
his Stories and in order to keep his loa
free from confusion, he would place
each set of figures in pCSitiun
on its own stage, so that whenever new
installmentof the romance was called for he
could see at o glance how aud where he had
left the children of his brain when he lad
wrote of them. Once he killed off here
without removing from the board the doia
that represented the character. and sUbsc
quently the young man rcappeared in thx
story, much to the aStonishment of the
readers, who had already mourned his l0sss
but as the author killed him off again few
chapters further on, nobody's feelings were
hurt.
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A paupers' strike is new idea A com.
pany of able-boded men of this class in tie
English city of Sheffield were recently scn
from the old workhouse to help build new
one. They refused to work, and organized
strike Their grievance was that the hash
supplied to them for dinner was stale.
They called upon the chairman of the Bond
of Guardians and submitted for insp, ctipR
a sample of their ratons andhe was cont