The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-01-01

T. SUNDAY. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
10; scholars enrolled, III; total, 133.
rms church has paid during the year owe
$4,000 upon It's property, ana IN lev
months win dedicate its beautiful chape
free OF all debt. 1880
The Lutheran Union aud Ladies Ait
Society are active and energetic organizes
lions OF the church.
German Evangelical Lutheran Bethlehem
Church,
Sixth street above Clay. Rev. Fred. Dreyel
pastor: residence, 217 east Broad street
Present membership. 105; additions, 10:
deceased, 2. Instruction in the Catecbisn
every Sunday afternoon in the presence OF
the congregation.
There is in connection with the church q
ladies, society. The church also has q
parochial day-schooI numbering 40 scho-
lars.
This congregation is united with the Ger,
man Lutheran Synod OF Missouri, Ohio,
and other States, numbering sos ministers,
with 625 congregations. The church has
attached to its name the letters gu. A. CO.
which signify that this congregation pro-
fesses the doctrines OF the Word OF God as
cxpounded in the Unaltered Augsburg
Confession from the year 1880.
herman EVanIellCstl ST. JOHHs
Corner Fifth aud Jackson streets. Rev. Ed.
Huber pastor; residence, 213 west Marshall
street. Present membership, 30 the same
as last year.
SUNDAY ScHooL.-Teachers and officers,
80; scholars, $50.
Observation-Disclosures teachers and Is
scholars. G.. Bersch principal.
PASTORS SPECIAL STATISTICs.-Baptisms
81; confirmed, 80; present class OF con-
tirmands, 81; marriages, 10; funerals, 90.
METHODIST.
Methodist Sunday-School Society.
Officers: Albert l.. West, president
Charles 2. Rady, secretary; J. l.. Sims,
assistant secretary; and t. l.. d. Walford,
treasurer. This Society was organized in
1866, Immediately after the termination OF
the war, the one that existed prior to the
war having been disbanded. It represents
all the Methodist Sunday schools OF Rich
mond and suburbs, and of Manchester, and
numbering eleven schools at present.
Monthly meetings have been and are now
held regularly, alternating at the various
churches, on the second Sunday in each
month.
The exercises consist OF singing, statiSti-
cal reports. exercises by the children, and
addresses from ministers and prominent lay
men connected with this good cause. During
the past year the Society has held regular
meetings, and the interest in the Society and
the cause is undated. All the meetings
arc largely attended.
The average roll OF officers, teachers, and
scholars for the past year was 2,2l2; aver
age attendance, 1921. Al. the schools raise
weekly contributions for current expenses
and missionary work. Special attention is
paid to circulating libraries, and several Of
the schools have about 1000 volumes in the
library. Nearly all the schools study the
tancuus Instruction.
The regular business of the Society is
conducted by board OF directors COM
posed OF three delegates from each school,
who meet quarterly.
Trinity Church,
Corner Twentieth and Broad streets. Pas
tor, Rev. William f. Judkins. Parsonage,
No. 220S Broad street. Present member
ship, $50.
SUNDAY SCHoOL.-Thomas W. Pembcrton,
superintendent; Charles p. Rady, assistant
sur crintendent; James E. Riddick, secre-
tary. Officers and teachers, 81; scholars,
300-total, 3j4.
The church has SUNDAY-SCHOoL SOCIETY.
OF which SIlaS L. Johnson is president, and
James E. Riddck secretary.
Centenary Church
Is on Grace street between Fourth and Fifth.
Rev. r. n. Sledd, d. D., pastor. The
church building is commodious and ele-
CANT. The seats are. free. There are 40S
communicates.
THE SABBATH SCHOOL is under the super
intendence of Asa Snyder, Esq. Number OF
scholars, 32G.
There are several ladies' societies in the
church that contribute largely 10 its etfi-
cheney. The Dorcas Society, under the
presidency OF Mrs. j. II. Rogers, provides
clothing for about fifty destitute children of
the Sunday school. The Ladies' Aid So
ciety, Mrs. Joseph Morton president, and the
Young Ladies' Circle OF Industry, Mrs. a.
w. CARRIER president, are agencies OF great
usefulness. The last-named society has just
purchased an elegant organ at a cost OF
$4,000, and have in hand $4,000 OF the
amount.
The church has raised for all purposes
during the year the sum OF S7,TOO.
Broad-Street Church
Is centrally located on the corner OF Broad
and Tenth streets, only one square from
the Capitol. 1t is one OF the largest and
most beautiful churches in the city. 4 me-
mortal tablet in the church states that the
late Rev. James y. Duncan. D. D., was its
founder and first pastor. The church is il
prosperous condition. Pastor, Rev. s.
A. Steel. COS north Eighth street. Mem
bership, 32j.
The Ladies' Foreign and Young Men's
Home Missionary Societies are efficient and
rourishing organizations.
SUNDAY SCHOOL. - William E.. Turner,
SUPERINTENDENT; officers and teachers, "a
scholars, 190-total, 224. The Dorcas So
ciety aids destitute children. The schoo
assists in supporting a mission school in
China.
Clay-Street Church,
Garner OF Clay and Adams streets. Pastor,
Rev. a. G. Brown; pastors residence, No
Il west Marshall street, between First and
\ dams streets. Membership, 4S3; sittings
500. Seats free. The interior OF the church
building has been greatly beantitied anc
improved, making it one Of the most pleas
ant and attractive houses Of worship in the
city, while its location in a rapidly improy
inc part OF the city gives it an inviting ant
fruitful field OF usefulness.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL has 29S scholars and
A officers and teachers. G.. j. Hunt is sll
2erintendent, assisted by James P. Turner
THE Mission CHAPEL, on Belle Isle, has
Sunday school OF 40 scholars under the care
of William =. Crutchtield, assisted b.
Robert T. Redford and John \. Bausell.
THE PARSONAGE SocIETY.-Miss Mary T
Cardwell, president; Mrs. Ella p. Hamp
ton, secretary.
THE DoRCAs SOCIETY. - Mrs. Calie p
Temple, president; Miss Estelle Crutch
field, secretary.
Union Station Church.
Pastor, Rev. j. a. Proctor, TIC Twenty
fourth street between N and n. Member