The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-01-01
German Evangelical gLusheran Bethlehem
Church,


1 German Evangelical gLutheran Bethlehem
Church,
Sixth street above Clay. Rev. Fred. Drey-
err, pastor Residence, $40 east Clay street.
Present membership. 100; additions, IL.
| Instruction In the CatecbIsm every SUNDAY
afternoon. There IL In connection withtbe
church Lodlesy Society The church also
has parocniai day school, numbering AZ
scholars. This congregation Is united with
The German Lutheran Synod OF Missouri.
OHIO, and other States, numbering 7lG min
listers, with ACCOMMODATIONS. The church
has attached to ITS name the letters ~. A.
co. which signify that this congregation
processes the doctrines OF the Word Of God
as expounded in the Unaltered Augsburg
Confession, from the year 1913.
German EVANGELICAL So. Johns Church,
Rev. I'd. Huber, pastor. This congrega-
tjon sold The old house OF worship on Fifth
street in july last, and holds its divine SER
vices az present in the Uniyei salist church,
on Mayo street, until The new and hand
some church on corner Marshall and Eighth
streets is completed. Number OF commu.
nicants about 800: confirmed. 3f /; baptized,
S5 weddings, 8; funerals, %.
SUNDAY SCHOOL numbers 255 scholars.
teachers, and officer.
METHODIST.
Methodist Sunday school Society.
Officers Albert l.. West, president:
Charles p. Rady. secretary; James i. Tur
ner. assistant secretary; and Il. l.. ID. wal
ford, treasurer. This Society was organized
in 1866. Ii represents all the METHODIST
Sunday schools Of Richmepd and suburbs,
and OF Manchester. and numbering ten
schools. Monthly meetings are held regn'
larry. Alternating at the various churches, on
the second SUNDAY IN each month.
The schools embraced In this Society are
all in good working condition. well officer
ed, and supplied with earnest and faithful
teachers. The average roll OF officers.
teachers, and scholars for the past year was
2.042: average attendance, 1861; percent
age 81. All the schools raise weekly con-
trlbutions for curreDt expenses and mis-
sionary work. and some OF them support
DoreSs societies for the purpose OF clothing
the Door children OF the school. All The
schools have circulating liOrarie>-some OF
tbem large aud valuable. This Society
SapportS a mission school in shanghai.
China, by contributions from each school
quarterly.
Trinity Church,
Corner Twentieth and Broad streets. Rev.
J. Wiley BedsOe. pastor. Parsonage, NO.
DOS Broad street. Present membership,
40.
SUNDAY SCHOOL.-ThomaS w. PembertOn,
superlnieudent; Charles Il. Rady, assistant
superintendent Jlmes f. Riddick. sccre-
tarv. Officer and teucbers, 81; scholars,
27S-toral, 329.
rhe church has a SUNDAY.SCHo0L So
CIETY, OF which Sias l.. johnson Is presi-
dent, and james +. Riddick secretary.
Centenary Church,
Situated on Grace street between FOURTH
and Fifth streets. The ediice Is cDmmo'
diOuS. comfortable. and elegant. SEATS nee.
Number 81 cOmmunicans, Az.
The SUNDAY SCHOOL has 43 officers and
teachers. and 2i3 scholars on the roll, in
GLIDING about 60 "DOrcas" children who
are glatuirously supplied with clothing by
| the DOrc1s Society.
! Rev. p. A. Peterson. pastor. residence
| 3C4 east Civ street; .. Summers Morton,
Superintendent OF SUNDAY school; ID. ,.
woodbridge, president; T.. p. Hudgins,
secretary; Allen NJ. Lyon, treasurer OF the
Board OF stewards; Mrs. Helen Graz Wat
son. president Of the Dorcas Society Mrs.
Lizzie Morton, president OF the Ladies AID
5 c'ety; Mrs. Lucy w. Walker. president
Of the Women's Missionary Society; Miss
s, Alice Weisiger, president OF the Young
LADIES' Circle Of Industry.
This church displays much activity and
enterprise in all of its work.
Z Broad-Street Church
rs one OF the hands0mfst cnurch edlhce'
in the city. 1t is located on the corner oi
Broad aud Tenth streets, only one square
from The Capitol. lis erection was IN event
IN the life Of the late Rev. DIR. james a.
Duncqn. With IFS early history his memory
is inseparably connected. The church IS at
This time in a very prosperous condition.
Rev. w. &. Starr, pastor; residence, OIL
north Eleventh street. Membership, 800
The WOMAY's FOREIGN, Young MEMS
HOVE, and the CHILDREN's lvY-LEAF MIS-
sIONARY SOCIETIES are tlourishIng and ef'
ficient organizations.
SUNDAY SCHOOL, William +. Turner. su-
perinfendent. Officers and teachers. 80
scholars, 10 total, 205; volumes in LIBRA
ry, 1000.
| The DORCAs SOCIETY aids number 0l
de slil ute children. Tue school assists ~
supportIng a mission school in Chisa.
The church is not in debt. More than
81 600 were raised for various purposes las
year.
Clay-Street Church,
Corner OF Gay and Adams streets. Rev
Alexander G.. BrOwn, u. d., pIstOr, resi-
Den. G No. IA west Marshall 'treet. Mem
btrspip, 500 Strings. 800. Sens free.
Tue SUNDAY school,. has 300 scholars. d
officers and teachers. &. /. Hunt is super
in;eudPni.
THE MISSION SCHOOL on Belle Isle has g
scholars. uuder the superintendency OF }
\. Blwsell.
THE PARSONAGE SOCIkTY-Mrs. Lucy
Mcdowell, president; Mrs. MItha a. sal