Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-11-26
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

CONCERNING THE REVISED NEW rEsr.yEST-
MOODY. STURGEON. KALLOCH. KIMBALL, THE
DEBr-RiIsER; HARRISON. THE BOY PREACHER.
Rev. T. Lehnhart. who has for some time been
edit"riaily connected with the Wecker and the
toH2fff7tad of Baltimore, has been chosen
pastor of st. Johns German Evangelical church
or this city, and will shortly enter on his new
Guties
- The colored Baptists of Iynehburg. Va,
have completed $4,000 church.
- Mary preachers seek to impress their
hearers with the fact that life is short but for
get II in their sermons
Mr.. Beecher in his sermon Sunday consid-
cred the uses and abuses of the Christian Sab
bath. Tie held that the day of rest is needed
quite much for the body as for the moral
condition of man.
trace Methodist Episcopal church in
Brooklyn has been sold for $4,000 to the Camp
BELLIES church Of Christ. The congregation of
Grace church propose to build new church
Near Prospect Park.
Kalloch of San Francisco. is now repu-
dated by most of the respectable Baptists on
the Pacific coast. Recently he went all the wav
to Portland, Oregon. to deliver a lecture and
was severely snubbed.
At the annual meeting of the MARYLAND
Baptist Union Association. which was held in
Baltimore a few days ago. the initiatory steps
were taken toward having history of the Ban
fists cf Maryland written.
The Boy Preacher" Mr. Harrison. re-
Gently said at revival meeting that he thought
ne should not die but that when his time comes
the angels will come and place him under their
wings and gently bear him away.
- Mr.. kimball, the great debt-raser who by
his magnetic influence over congregations has
conferred such solid benefit on many churches,
has been suffering for three or four months with
nervous prOstration resulting from OvefwOrk.
- The Congregational Union. of England, did
not, as reported. recommend the revised YER
sion tn It's churches for adoption 1t passed a
resolution extending thanks to the reyisers and
CONCENTRATING them on the favorable reception
the revision had met with blythe general public.
- Ii is good to be a choir singer in st. Louis
skilled tenor commands nearly 81 900 year
in the most fashionable churches: baritones are
paid about $500. and sopranos from 5000 to
$1,000. Even at these prices there is dearth
OF superior singers. because the Chicago
churches bid somewhat higher prices. and are
glad to get the best talent away from st. Louis.
A correspondent of the London Methodist
says: THE church can far better afford to wait
while her immature sons are get ting the sap
dried ont of them than she can afford to carry
the burden of their unripeness and ignorance.
When young men feel of now little consequence
any man is. they will feel the need of preparing
as hest they can, for the work to which they are
called
- Among the first to formally approve and
use The revised version of the New Testament
were the Protestant clergymen of New Haven.
few days ago. in a meeting for discussing the
subject. majority announced a change of
opinion by voting that it was too faulty to be
acceptable. The chief condemnation was OF
bad English. the Rev. DR. John f. Todd declaring
ft,atI
corrected in one of the Epistles to the COrin-
thians alone.
- The Eyangelstc committee of % of BOs-
ton. has issued a circular i'm which it is said:
However earnestly faithful pastors labor large
numbers in every city cannot be induced to at
tend any church service. many of whom will
listen to the gospel when it is brought to them.
Will crowd into public halls theaters
and similar buildings. when such places arc
opened for gospel services" 1t is therefore pro-
posse, ~ carry on meetings in public halls and
fheater-.
- Mr.. Moody has been we'll received i'm Enc
land One writer explains the secret OF his
power as follows: He talks to the peope-to
not before them: and he has thoroughly mas
tered the subject he is talking about: he has
marvellous self-pOssession; naturalncss: he
never dwellS too long on one point; his illus
tratiUrS are hOmely: he uses simple Saxon
words: he is a man of zone book he is as
he say. not merely earnest. but terribly
IN earnest; and he has spiritual power. such only
as man can have who is filed with the Holy
Spirit 0f God"
-Er. SpurgeOn has grown stOuter than
when SAW him in the oft-recurring 30 years
ago. He wears a full beard. tinged with gray
which improves his appearance. and his coun-
fenancc and complexion bear marks of the acute
pain which he has suffered in many attacks of
2out-a disease of which a venerable clergyman
said that when in its hercer parOxysms he cried
out i'll anguish. and knew what David meant
when he said. 1.-The pains Of hell gat hold upon
me- In private conversation Mr.. SpurgeOn
must resemble John Wesley as described by DR.
Whitehead. for he is affabe, full of anecdOte.
eparkiin" in repartee. and withal maintains
natural dignity which needs no mace bearer nor
Iveried servant nor title to support it.-N
BufA7fg i's the Christian AduocGte.
DIR. l.oriiner, of Chicago, about whose al
leGedha''it of plagiariziDg has made such stir.
Is remarkable man as to his pulpit demeanor
and 0rct"-y- One who has recently heard him
thus iic' ares him: '.Dr. LOrimer in the pulpit is
every bit IN actor, really as he ever was on
the s:eEc. His bearing attracts the crowd
much ara his eloquent acting more. He does
not Dcct! br- Parkers (Of London) polished rhe-
foric To- 'i',w a crowd He rose to preach with
q ctUaN III the most dillettanti fashion with its
delicate APE gracefully covering his form His
beginning Was similar to that of John n
Maffit :. His lower tones are those of the most
exquisite music His reading cannot be sur
passed. His discourse was all housed in his
memory. He quietly walked to and fro until.
warming up. he gently threw back his cape.
anu the, rising with mis- theme he tossed aside
his CLOAK and stripped for his work. As long rs
ne Kept the lower tones no music could be
wectef than his rich tones but when he rose to
the higher key the bald decainer of tine stage
Instant: Vas heard But he knows the secret
power q. his voice and with consummate skill
he draws a crowded house wherever and when
ever nt j. announced. Some think his doctrines
are at t'.,. 'Su@aTcoated pin sort.
NRANssELL LAND.