Morning journal and courier., 1880-09-06
Church Notes.
Pastors Back i'm their PuIpfts-1Itdsum-
 mer Heat.

Pastors Back i'm their PuIpfts-1Ifdsum-
 mer Heat.
 AS stated Saturday many of the city cler- gymen are back in the city and were in their pulpits again yesterday, refreshed by their iourneyings and travels for recuperation and change of scene. The Rev. Dr. Harwood
 reached home Saturday from his European trip and feeling in fine health. He was at the sacred desk at Trinity yesterday. He re- ports delightful trip in most all particulars He sailed from New York July A, and the time of his absence was about equally divided between land and water. He fingered most in the north of France, visiting the mediaval towns of Brittany. He spent but two days
 this year in England, one at Salisbury visit I ing again the cathedral, and the other in Winchester.
 Rev. H. c. Hovey, of Fair Haven, was back in his pulpit yesterday. He arrived ! home late Saturday night. During his ab-, sence he visited Howe's cave, west of Albany, regarding which he will prepare an article for Scribner's He also made tour of the British maritime provinces, Nova Scotia New Brunswick and Prince Edward Islands, and more recently with Mrs. Hovey attended the meeting of scientists at Boston, before whom he read learned paper on caves, which he has made special subject of study in leisure ! times for a number of years past. The last part of his vacation was spent with Mrs. Hovey at the White Mountains.
 Rev. J. w. Barnhart visited Montreal and ! the rapids of St. Lawrence also the Au Sable chasm in the northern Adirondacks, Sarato- ga, Watkins Glen and Seneca Lake. In the early part of his vacation he had two weeks Fat MiddIetown with the mother of Mrs. Barnhart. During his absence also he preached one Sunday for his old parishioners at Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
 Rev. Dr. Dennen is back from his summer
 cottage at Shelter Island, and occupied his pulpit yesterday afternoon. In the morning communion service was held.
 Rev. pr. Bacon occupied the pulpit at the Center church yesterday afternoon. Rev. MT. Babcock preached to his people at the Church of the Ascension,-his first
 service since his European trip.
 Rev. Dr. Stifer preached to his people yes terday morning for the first time since his vacation. During his absence he first visited
 his fathers at Holidaysburg, Pa, and recent ly paid visit to his old parishioners at Ham, ilton, N. Y, who were rejoiced to see him and got up reception in his honor.
 At the churches there was good attend ance considering the weather, which was as hot as any midsummer brings. Fans were going in all parts of the house, and 1t was hard for perspiring humanity to give their undivided attention to the services, although they were universally fresh and spirited. The low mass which has been substituted at the last morning service during the warm weather at the Church of the Sacred Heart gave place yesterday to the regular high
 mass. Father Dougherty, the temporary as-
 sistant, was the celebrant. Owing to the
 oppressive heat preaching was dispensed
 with, but Father Dougherty took occasion to
 make few salutary remarks concerning the
 attendance of the children of the parish at
 Sunday school. He impressed on parents the
 necessity of imbuing their children with
 knowledge of the truths of religion, which knowledge, he said, was pithily set forth in
 the catechism. This study, the speaker re-
 marked, had no inherent charms for the
 youthful mind, and unless there was an in
 telligent cooperation by parents the children
 would yield to an inevitable propensity to
 shirk a study that was distasteful because of
 it's difficulty. Parents had in this matter a
 personal responsibility, which, however, in
 too many cases, they were disposed to neg
 lect, throwing the burden of instruction en-
 tirely on those who voluntarily gave the;r
 time to lead the little ones up the steeps of religious knowledge This responsibility was emphasized in clear and forcible language and evidently made deep impression on the interested congregation.