Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-06-04
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

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mas elected three vestry women, case with.
out precedent In this country.
-Rev.James 81. Smith, OF Roekbridge county.
mas been called 10 the pSstorate OF the pressy-
terian church At Leespurg, Va.
| THE Man with the Scarlet Letter. Is Thu
ute which st. Louis newspaper conferred
upon the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher when be
iectured In that town last week.
A Young Mems Christian Association has
been organized at Toxic, Japan. Most OF thu
Prominent young men In the mission chacels
vi that City are connected with it.
REV. DR.. Gage of Hartford Ct, In speaking
OF marriage and divorce recently, said that
curing his ministry OF Is years he had knowr
nar uts one anstance OF separation where both
parties were protesting Christians
-one OF the most significant events or she
recent annual session Of the Southern Baptist
convention at Columbus, Miss, was the OFFER
VI tne deDlew temple to the gathered Bapststs
| pit. A A'' Pui-
TIE Cummins Memorial Reformed Eols-
copal church in Baltimore was nearly lost to
LIE denomination, and would have been sold by
me snefiH but for the timely relief afforded
oy the Sl2, 0c0 which Mrs. Thos. RI PoTars
| kindly sent. The successful future of this
church Is now thought to be assured
During the last year the Baptistsi increased
16S,6l4; the Methc dists, 81. $50; the Lutherans
| 1928; the Episcopailans, 0,Sl6; the Prespy.
| teTlaDs. 16,43S. The Baptist gain. therefore
| was ne crly double that OF the other four de-
nominations CO nbiDed. The Methodtsts Nor in
and South, However, outnumber the Baptists.
- The revolt against the Kalloch influence
In California Is becoming sufficiently marked
to give Joy to good Blptists every where. Four.
teen OF their best churches have recently y tn.
Drawn from the California Baptist convention
and formed one Of their own which will have
kallochs.
The Supreme Court of the state OF Maine
has decided that "a church Is not corpora
ton with authority to create debt In erecting a
house Of worship" II this Interpretation of
law were to prevail throughout the country IT
would revolutioElze the church building bust
ness Dy putting 1t on cash basis and cutting
OIL so much OF 1t as is now managed on trust
"A man calling himself the Rev. E. Ran
dali, and pretending to be an evangel-
ist, has been feecing the citizens of
Upper Marlboro. He held an open
air meeting, distributed Scripture texts. begged
from door TO door, and, taking advantage Of ali
who befr1ended him. left town In a hurry. ne
ported that several years ago the same man
was convicted In Virginia of forgery and sent
to the penitentiary.
The congregational Year Book lust out
shows that the growth OF the church was very
small Last year, the Increase being only !, 1872
NlchpcIS, VI nalI d fneEnoer 10 q cnurcl. and
The total membership 3S4 332 There are 8 745
churche-, a gain OF Il, but 945 of them are va
can't, and there are 3,517 minister's of whom
24i2 are 10 pastoral work, $40 as pastors and
$40 as acting pastors. The total of benevo-
lent contributions last year was 81, 032, 49, and
OF home expenditures So. 4i6 4S9.
The announcement OF the purchase of
Emory Grove camp grounds by friends of the
ate association, and that camp meeting would
De held, commencing August H. was gratifying
news to large number Of church going people
1t Is understood that meeting Of clergymen
and prominent laymen will be called shortly
for the formation OF a new association without
the stock" feature OF the Old body. Rev. ID. L.
Carroll writes to the Baltimore American, say
Ing that the question OF opening or closing the
gates OF the grounds on Sunday has not yet
been decided upon. and can only be settled by
the association about to be formed.
The Salvation Army, who met speedy
and effective opposition In this country, are
becoming to be felt as nuisances in England,
and are being summarily dealt with. They
have several times invaded KeynSham, a small
town near Bath, and their vigorous demon
STATIONS have caused so many rlo6ous scenes
that the authorities recently ordered the
leaders to break up their procession. They de-
fed the police for a while, but finally took
refuge In dissenting chapel and began any
began to get personal, the audience got MAD,
and free fight ensued which resulted In the
inglor1ous rout OF the army.
DR.. Gray, IN his letter to the Christian at
Work, on the General Assembly of the North
ern Presbyterian Church, remarks: ''The sub
ject OF fraternal relations with the southern
church Is taking new turn. Brethren from
that section say that between the two branches
OF the church Is gap which the willy Congre-
very eood FfesbJ teI.an churches. who have
become d'saffected. II anything will bring the
oflish PreabyteI brethren to terms, it VIII be
such practical evidences OF their folly In stand
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celent people, but Presbyterians don't wan
them to profit by their plumbers and SINS"
"A writer in the New York Tribune points
out an error which the religious world have
somehow held for centuries. In contound'ng
Mary Magdalene with the woman OF whom
simon where Jesus was eating, washed his
feet with her tears. wiped them with her hair,
and annO1nted them with ointment She was
fallen woman; that is all we know OF her. for
lot even her name Is given. But the T-lGune's
correspondent thinks there is no reason to
think she was Mary Magdalene, one OF the
noble1t women Of the New Testament who
had been cured by Jesus OF terrible af1itction,
ut whom the record does not charge With
having ever sunk to life Of shame.
Bishop Littlejohn says that the separation
OF Church and State in England Is further off
than it was ten years ago. While he regards
the religious condition Of the continent of
Europe as anything but prosperous. he sees
IL
OF The Church OF England. He believes that
This Is proved by the expenditure, within the
last thirty years of over 500, 600 900 In building
and repairing churches and cathedrals, and In
spending 100000 600 1n eleven years In the e5-
Enlistment and maintenance of church
schools. During his stay In England, Bishop
Littejohn spent much OF his time with emf
nent dignitarieS OF the church, and had large
opportunity for seeing what is actually going
on In ecclesiastical work there.
The customary complaint comes up anew
in the Presbyterian General Assembly at
Buffalo in regard to the lack of ministers.
The secretary of the Board of Education COM
plains that In Philadelphia there are twelve va
cant churches, and In Rochester and 9th er
principal cities quite as large proportion.
rhe inference Is tnat 1t Is because OF a deartn
OF men for the work that these churches are
lot supplied. This Is great mistake. There
IRE plenty OF men who are good enough for
these churches or for any others which may
pressing forward as candidates and earnestly
desiring to be called. The trouble is that the
churches are too hard to please, and will not
be suited with the material that offers. II
there were twice or thrice as many ministers
10 be had the difficulty would be increased
instead OF diminished.
- 1t sounds little at jar with conventional
lotions that Methodist or any dissenter can
not by English law be a clergyman, but this is
The case. He gets the title OF Reverend only By
courtesy, since none but those ordained in the
Protestant and Roman Catholic churches Car
be regarded as legally In holy orders. The
| legislature for some centuries has considered