Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-03
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
The annual meettpr of he mar, q,

B. Marche. of Washington nc secretary:
s sa,,so newman y treaSurer; Rev. E. J. Drink,
Ringer and large number OF stockholders
During the day the sites for tents were sold
the price being $40 per site. On each site the
| managers erect secure double tent with
boarded door. The camp meeting viii be held
/ OF August.
The Rational Dress Society,"" is the latest
effort OF some Of the Christian women OF Eng
land to institute revolutions. Ia feminine ap-
parel.
Although Ohio has furnished the nation
With so many statesmen, there are within It's
pounds half million children who do nou go to
Sunday shcool
The Free Church Assembly of scotland con.
| sisted OF 13S members, yet the body was not
considered unwieldy. The contributions OF the
chu ~ to religious objects last year amounted
= Rev. Sanford Richardson, disabled mis-
sonary from Turkey, row at ST. Johnsnury,
| VI. has had his waiting chamber connected by
telephone with the church at the instance OF
| Kind friends.
/ The yearly meeting OF Friends In England
reports Il, sSl members, a gain the past year OF
lo6. The rapid decline OF the last half century
stopped q few years ago and now small an
| hual increase Is reported.
bishops Simpson and Peck have arrived IN
England On their way TO the Ecumenical Con-
ference. Bishop Peck will make trio through
Ireland and Scotland before beginning his
abors on The continent.
The Supreme Court of New Hampshire has
decided. In the case of the Franklin Street Con.
gregational Church against the city OF Man
chester, that the constitution does not exempt
church property from taxation.
The Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph makes
strong plea for the performance of marriage cere-
monies In the morning, according to the Eng.
lish rule, rather than In the afternoon or even
Ing, as Is customary In most parts OF THIS
| country.
"A committee has been appointed BY the
Welsh bishops to consider the expediency of
revising the Welsh translation OF the New Tes-
| lament taking as a basis the Greek text
| adopted by the English revlsers. The Welsh
version now In use was translated from the
| King James English text
- The organization OF the Emmanuel Baptist
church, Chicago. with DR.. Lorimer as pastor.
has been completed. 1t begins with 2S5 mem
bers, mostly On letters of dismissal from the
| First. DR.. Lorimer, 1t will be remembered. IS
| the divine charged With stealing or absorb
| Ing" other ministers sermons
There is just now an interesting discussion
in England as to whether the late NJ. Littr6.
| the French litterateur we'll known PositivIst,
really received clerical BAPTISM at the hands
OF priest In the last six months OF his ute
| The scenes at the grave between Posluvists
| anu ptitSlS CauStu great SCANDAL.
| The International Convention OF the Young
Mems Christian Association Will be held in E1-
| eter Hall, London. from July so to August 6
Inclusive The American delegates are ex-
| pected 10 sail July 16. The associations In the
! United States and Canada now number about
1000 and have 100, 900 members.
| Mr.. Moody. the evangelist, proposes 20
gather about him, at Mortified, Mass, In the
| month OF August, those who are interested In
| Bible study. Only few hours each day will
| be gwen to these meetings. Mr. Moody ex-
| poets that DR.. Andrew Bonar, OF Glasgow.
Scotland, will be with him TO take charge of
| the meetings.
AT the annual reunion of the Methodist
Episcopal church, Baltimore, Thursday, at the
Wesley Grove camp ground, Mr.. T. j. Magru-
| der, president OF Wesley Grove Camp meet.
| Ing Association, proposed that the only DEBT
Which rested upon the association should be
removed. and that s, 500 be taken In stock for
this purpose. In about thirty minutes the en-
| tire amount was subscribed.
Mrs. Murray Mitchell, who has been visit
| ing the English Presbyterian missionaries at
Annoy, China, writes: 81 am very sorry to say
| that binding the foot is as common and Inn
perat1ve fashion as ever. It is not connected
girls are supposed not to be marriageable
| unless 1t is complied with. Even among the
CHRISTIANS 1t is hard to get 1t dispensed with"
The position OF the Reformed Datch)
church as to secret societies is definitely stated
| In resolutions passed at the recent meeting of
the general synod: 1t is very simple and IN
assallable one. The church Will In no wise
assume responsibility for Free Masonry nor
encourage secret societies. Neither VIII it be
oraWn INTO sweeping condemnation OF the
thing per Sc, DOR into declaring membership OF
such organizations to be necessarily incom-
patlole with Christian profession, any more
than membership In stock exchange.
Grace church, in Broadway, presents not
only an elaborate and costly specimen OF eccle-
siasticai architecture but one of the pretuest
necti0n with any city church The praise
worthy ingenuity and taste displayed IN the
laying out OF this not very large piece of
may wen serve as an INCENTIVE TO other
CANT This Is matter which Is much neg
lected both In City and country. In the city it
narrow patch of territory alongside of a sane.
tuary or IN front Of 1t can be made beautiful
A translation should be q window of glass
through which the reader may look on the
Word just as 1t is. This result. we believe, the
revisers have aimed at. Thirty-eight OF the
first scholars In England and America have
given their unstfnted labor to this end We
believe that they have done a good WORK; they
have not gone as far as We could wish; they
have been too much ham pered by fear OF array
World and the New; but they have made an adj.
vance toward a complete and faithful transia-
tlon, for which we are sincerely grateful They
can afford TO estimate the censures of DR.. Tai
madge at just what they are worth, critically
and morally.-The National Baptist.
A pleasant attrac ton is offered for the
month OF August to those who are fond of
Bible study as carried on by Mr.. Moody and
hts associates. Moody will spend the month at
his home In NOrthfeld, having as his special
a. stStant the Rev. Andrew BOnar, D. D.. of
Glasgow, who has great reputation as an ey-
FOUNDER OF the Bible. He Is q brother of the
celebrated hymn writer, DR.. Horatfus Bonar.
While neither DR.. Bonar nor Mr. Moody EN-.
brace the complete doctrines Of those who are
known as ''PerfectiOnists,' - many OF those VINO
affiliate with the holiness wing of the Meth
odists will naturally resort to this series OF
meetings There viii be no formal erganiza-
ton OF convention or conference in connec.
lion With these meetings, but the sessions will
be free to all who come.
Some curious questions were discussed at
the annual convention of the Dunkards In Ash
Lard, Ohio. In the course Of the meeting q
paper was read In which a request was made
that rule be adopted by the church ''denounc-
ing the wearing OF plain hats by the sisters
and even making such wearing OF hats for
fixture OF church fellowship" This proposition
provoked general discussion. One speaker
made the somewhat alarming prediction that
III sister be allowed to wear plain hat, be-
fore We know 1t there will be feather In It."
The prevailing sentiment among the members