Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-11-06
RELIGIOUS NOTES.


leading soprano OF ST. Johns Up. E-) church.
The Roman Catholic Journals contradict
the statement that Monslgnor CIpel is bank
rupt.
The Southern BaptiSts have just organiz ID
q church OF Chinese Communicates in san
Francisco.
The Southern Methodist church has very
fourishIDg mission among the Mexicans, with
1,1S2 members.
The Congregationaists stand next to the
church OF England IN the city OF LONDON, pro
vfding nearly one-eighth OF the whole re1gious
EVANGELIST Hammond has gone to Winni-
neg. where he will hold revival services among
the little WlnnipeggerS Winnipeg Is the prin-
cfpaI city OF Manitoba, and Is 500 miles from
here.
The Shakers publish periodical called the
shaker Manifesto. The queer people of this
persuasion write poetry and compose tunes OF
their own for their peculiar songs But, says
the poet Whittier. Il do not think the world
Will steal their music"
The English Church Missionary Society Ia
bored for twenty years before it could report one
convert. Now It reports 10000.
"A CongregatIonaliSt remarked at the CIu-
berland Conference MAINE, few days ago,
that deacOnS were fast losing their Old-tme lm-
portance, aud that the efficiency o. church o..
CARNATIONS would be promoted II the O1lGa
would Be magnifled
The Seventh Day Adventists report 10 $40
members. gain of 1 429 the past year; IA mia
isteTs 165 IcentiateS, a loss OF So, and $40
churches. a gain OF Al. The total OF collections
was SOL $50, an increase OF sl0,142. There are
81 conferences and Missions
The Lltherans who range themselves ua-
der the Synodical conference are just now cd
gagged in general cCntroveIJ ~ on the doctrine
or preds StInatiOn. AT the recent meeting OF
the ;oint Synod OF Ohio the subject was dis
cussed aud 1t was resolved to hold pastoral
conference on it.
Sc oft o1iIr co no
Herald ana FreSJWer, sis spiritually IN
healthy. Every one should. when it is posi-
bic, eat his vicJUals at his own table and wOr-
ship at hts own church. Moreover, spiritual as
well as temporal food should be taken regu-
larly."
In Baltimore the colored Methodlsts have
twenty churches. The col0red Episcopalians
and Presby teTfans each have two, while the
Roman Catholics have one, ana the BiptlS,5
several. The two Episcopal churches have
white ministers, aud are somewhat on the
ritualistic order.
THE Presbyterian speaks OF certain good
people who pray with great regularity for the
church. but never let an occasion 90 by ID
stick pins in the pastor. IL calls them the
big Indians OF the spiritual reservation" and
says that their robe OF righteousness Is a
patchwork OF scalp5-"
AT the convention OF the Women's M
tional Christian Temperance Union In Boston,
last week. one OF the speakers said thas the
Methodists. PresbyteTians, and BaptiotS are
gradually adopting the use OF unfermente1
wine az the communion table, and that there
Is good reason to believe that other churches
will follow the example set by them.
The COrenant, which is the organ OF the
Reformed Episcopal church. says that several
OF the principal Protestant Episcopal churches
In Baltimore are on the high road to Rome,
and that in some of those churches the rector5
regularly hear confession. IL mentions as chief
among these ST. PaQl5, Mount Calvary, and
st. LuEe'S.
r-,-o~--o,,,. rJo~-,-or 4, l,,,-,ro, = bot@or
time In Philadelphia than he had IN his last
engagement IN that cl!y. He IS at the Scott
Methodist Episcopal church. where he has al
ready swept IN about hundred converts and
Is hoping Tor i've hundred more. he still says
that he viii make CONSERVATION prevail IN he'll
while heaven rejOices over his victory.
Concerning public Prayers an eccentric
Presbyterian divine says: 1--WE have three
prayers-the invocation, the long prayer. aud
the closing prayer. Some people spend the in
vocation in arranging their apparel after COM
Ing TO church, the long prayer in wishing IL
were over, and the Closing prayer In getting
ready 10 start hOmeward."
The First Baptist church In san Francisco
Is burdened with a debt 50 heavy as to ue
greater than the value OF It's property. TIE
probability Is that the church Will, before very
long. have 10 go into bankruptcy, or in some
other way be wiped out OF existence. Churches
have hard time in California, for the people
generally have little reverence for religion, and
no particular respect for Sunday above other
days.
The American Bible Revision committee
have completed the revision OF the English
verSon of the New Testament aud transn &c d
the result OF their lab0rs to England The
British committee Will meet In November for
final action. and the University presses of Ok
ford and Cambridge are exp ct"d TO issue the
revised New Testament In February, 1881. TIE
Old Testament will be published TWO Or three
years after.
A correspondent writes to a London paper
as follows: much has been said by the Phi
mate and by speakers Pt the recent Church
Congress about the importance OF doing SON
thing 10 improve our preaching. Bat no one
seemed 10 be aware OF what IS already in cDa-
alton. Permit me, then, TO inform your
readers that at Kings College, for many years.
we have had every week instruction and practi-
cal drill ii the composition and delivery OF SER
mons and In the reading OF the prayers and les
sons
Impressed with the religious effects of the
OberammergG2n Passion Play. several Ritual
istic c!ergymen in England have determined TO
EepreSt 1t the passion on the white sheet. The
-chancel gives them the very arrangement they
would desire. They can place the magic Ian
tern near the altar and erect sheet where the
rood screen might be. The choir, retaining
their places, sing hymns during the perform
aaee. The priest gives an explanation from
the pulpit. Ike reader at the Polytechnic.
This is an entirely new phase OF Church and
Stage"
Tine Boston Methodist preachers discussed
at their last meeting a resolution expressing
dissent from the doctrine OF a state OF prODa-
ton after death, which had been deien ded IN
paper read at the preceding meeting. While
not ssr5ei1g with some OF the sentiments eX-
pressed III the payer, not a few OF the minis
ters objected 10 disappearing or them in a
formal way, fearing they would be obliged
hereafter 10 approve or disappTOve OF all es-
says read before them. and that unpleasant
ness might be Obviated BY letting the matter
rest.
-EX-G5yernor Horace Fairbanks, represent
ing the General Convention OF Congregational
churches and ministers, recently pre- sentei 10
the Vermont Legislature memorial from that
body, requesting the passage OF a Law prohibit
Ing the de2ecr3jt0n or the sabbath and the dis
turbalce OF church congregations oy the run
ming or railroad trains on Sunday. The Con-
sJituJion or Vermont recognizes the Christian
sabbath, in the third article or the Bill or
Rights, which declares that "eyery sect or de-
nOnina, on OF christians ought 10 observe the
sabbath or Lords day." The statutes OF Ver-
mont fro.I an early day have forbidden travel
and secular labor on sunday, with the cu5tO
mary exception OF works OF necessity or charity.
There seems to be great anxiety and i'm
patience on the part OF the people 10 see the re-
NSed edition OF the Bible, that they may see
what changes have been made The trouble
With most people viii be that they don't know
enough about the old Bible 10 recognise the
change when they see t. We heard man