Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-04-23
RELIGIOUS NOTES

RELIGIOUS NOTES
The Jews talk OF erecting national syna-
gogue in Washington.
1T Is stated that the Easter festival was
never 60 widely observed as on last Sunday.
Two hundred and seven persons are said
TO have been added to Rev. DR.. Talmages
cnu1ch, during its recent revival
the Governor OF Kansas denies the sensa-
uonal reports that the new prohioitory law OF
his state interferes with the administration Of
Willie In communion services.
"A Boston publisher has Just issued book
called 'The Boy Preacher; or. the Life and
Laeors or Rev. Thomas Harrison" Mr.. Har-
risons labors In this city are well known.
The new Spanish Cabinet are strongly in
favor Of religious liberation. A Protestant
minister. In prison for holding prayer-mest-
Ing, has been set at liberty, and judicial pro-
ceeolngs against others have been ABANDONED
AT coming Church Congress at New
castle-on-Tyne, England the advantages or
disadvantages Of establishment, the Revised
New Testament, the limits of Ritual, and the
duty OF the church as to the opium trade In
China, are to be debated.
The Baltimore Presbyterian in reference
to the act OF the Rev. Mr.. Ramsden, In mar
rying Catholic wife thinks such thing is
calculated to impair q minister's usefulness,
pelltng him from the Presbytery.
AT Baptist church conference In New
England, when action was about to be taken
as to the call of a pastor, q brother arose and
moved. q p0stponement. giving as a reason the
effect that the candidate who was to be voted
On was addicted TO the use OF tobacco. The
matter was postponed.
Not being able to get rid OF their pastor
an ex.Methodist brother, whose preaching
they found more sensational than edifying
one hundred an fifty members of a Brooklyn
Baptist church have withdrawn In body.
Before taking their departure they assured
what was left OF the church that they went
away with reluctance, but they really
couldn't live On any longer "unblessed, un-
helped and unhappy"
The following handful was lately dis
tributod in London as call to prayer-meet-
ing: Important Notica-Express Trains from
Earth to Heaven. Tickets free; available at
rrovidence Hall ISL cnureh ST. PadSngto9
every Evening during the Week. Pass on
through the Wicket Gate of Repentance; turn
to the right. You cannot mistake, as the
Carriages are all First Class and not any
Smoking compartments"
In the case OF the Manchester Memorial
church In Philadelphia, 1t has been decided by
the court that seventeen Presbyterians consti-
tute a sufficiently respectable number" to
warrant their organization Into church, and
late millionaire, Manchester, for the purpose of
making such church enthusiastically aud
archtecturally respectable" The fight over
this matter has been protracted one and has
called forth at considerable expense some Of
the talent Of the Philadelphia bar.
Bishop PiDkney. of the Protestant Episco.
pal church, during Lent confirmed the follow.
ing number OF persons at the Baltimore
churches named: st. Paul's Church, 80; Grace
church, 80; Emmanuel Church, 80; Christ
nP !,
Calvary, 20; Church of st. Mary the Virgin, 60;
Hensbaw Memorial Church, 81; Church OF Sc.
John the Baptist, 10; Chapel Of the Good Shep-
herd, S; ST. Matthew's Church, 10.
The following Catholic dignitarIes Will be
present at the conservation of Bishop elect
Janssens which takes place at st. Peters Ca
thedral Richmond. Va, next Sunday week:
Archbishop Gibbons, Bishop Becker OF VII
Inington, Bishop Eden of Cincinnati, Bishop
Gross of Savannah, Bishop Kahn OF wheeling,
Bishop Keane OF Richmond, and Monsigneur
Seton, prothonotary apostolic OF Newark, N. J.
The archbishop will be consecrator, with
Bishops Becker and Keane, assistants.
A Few evidence OF the favor which Howard
University is finding with the Christian public
appears in the gift just made, by Mrs. Hannah
s. Leland, who lives near Philadelphia, Pres.
byterian lady. OF J1re thousand dollars as
fund, the income Of which shall be used to aid
theological students in that Institution, the
missionary woTk Ia Africa. Benevolent friends
OF the colored race cannot do better than to
endow fully this central, national university
chicago Adrance.
The following clerical changes in the
Catholic diocese OF Richmond have been made:
Father Van de Vyver has entered on the dis.
charge OF his duties as successor to Bishop
Jsnssens; Father Hasty, OF Lynchbury, has
been transferred to Keyser, made vacant by the
7. moval OF Father Van de Vyver; Father Nc
KERRY, OF Norfolk assumes pastoral charge of
tile church at Martinsburg, and Father O'RsilIy
OF HaTpeI's Ferry; Father Goodwin takes
Father McKeefry's place as assistant at Nor
folk, ard Father Mccarthy Father Hasty's as
assistant at Lynchburg.
The application OF Ella G. Schneider against
tie Rev. j. G. Schneider q Presbyterian Clergy
nan, for divorce, was denied in Brooklyn on
Tuesday. She charged that she once found the
2mDr0type OF woman In her husDa nd'S truck
ara c sSa men upon IT. SAID What large
picture and said, my wife must not say such
thirgs OF the woman love-" Other charges
were that he frequently brought Ltmberger
cheese into the house, and that he once beat
ner with pair OF wet flannel pantalOOnS and
threatened to hit her on the head with chair.
"A revolution has taken place In the congre-
CATION Of ST. Timothy's church in Philadelphia,
resulting from the recent election Of vestry-
men. The ticket OF the high church party was
0efeated and In consequence Rev. Wilberforce
Wells, who had been the pastor for two years
PAST. sent In his resignation. When his friends
found how the election was going, they under
p1etence OF removing the Easter decorations
carried on the altar coverings crowns, crosses
and other ornaments, leaving only on old pine
ls ole and green calico curtain: The small room
stripped OF 1ts decorations. The new vestry
win obtain another rector as soon as possible
81 the ritualstic members Will withdraw from
the congregation.
ALI doctrinal controversies are to be ex-
c'uded from the great Methodist E;umenlcal
conference, which meets In London next Sep-
Il mixer. Some OF the brethren wanted to dis
cuss the sense In which the conference would
regard the fifty three sermons OF John Wesley
aid his notes on the New Testament, and the
power OF the living church to supersede all
doctrinal standards that are published. The
discussion OF these points would keep the Con-
ference or Council In session until Christmas,
unless 1t should happen to result In the split
ti'g CT the body into fragments before that
tine.
English churchmen are asking where the
curates OF the future are to come FROM Il
seems to be agreed that 1t is becoming more
ard more difficult to find them, and that when
found they are not always what had been de-
or