Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-05-07
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

RELIGIOUS NOTES.
The Rev Nelson Ayres has taken charge of
ST. Adams Church, District OF Columbia.
1T Is stated that all the members OF Pres,-
dent Garfe.ds Cabinet are regular church
Goers.
Rev. David Stoner, OF York county, Pa q
prominent minister in the Dankard church, was
paralyZed Wednesday.
Archbishop Gibbons confirmed class OF
40 persons, OF whom 80 were a1ults. at st.
Francis Xavier Catholic colored church, Balti-
more, Thursday night
the Presoytery OF Palmyra, in session at
LOUISIANA MO-, recently, by q unanim ou, vote
suspended the Rev. OTTO NJ :hulez from the
Gosrei ministry for contumacy.
Inc year Book OF the Presbyter!ans Issued
10 fhiiaoeiphis, gives the number Of Presbyte-
rlan COMMITMENTS at 5000 600 and thu popu.
lation OF aoherents l2O 200.
The receipts Of the American Baptist Mis-
Sl0nary Mon for the financial year Just closed
were 80 1ollews: Donations, $l69, 6S5 70; lega.
cles S2s 66l.i0; from WomanS Societies
$5S.SOS 81; from other sources $50 56S a.. tOf All
sass; Sos 81: The debt Of the Union now stands
The Maryland Association OF Indenendenr
Methodist churches clio sed Its session Thursday
Eight at Chatsworth church. Baltimore Thera
was Sunday school and missionary meeting
Addresses were made by Rev. w. II. McAllis e.
OF Bethany church; Rev. j. r. Tharp. OF Tenn
pleviile. Queen Aupe's county. Md; Rev. II. E.
johnson and VIM. r. Barry. Rev. C. M. G fin
presided. There are quite number of pros De.-
Gus Independent Methodist churches In BaltI-
more.
A religious paper In Londol speaks of the
great annoyance which some ministers suffer
while preaching. from the thoughtles suess OF
restless and hdgety persons, who pull their
wa,ches from their pockets or turn around to
~ en eugS1 En- S CLOCK This
takes out his watch or looks at the clock dur
Ing sermon should be condemned to sit out the
monotonous reading OF one OF the longest SER
mons OF one OF the dryeSt sixteenth century
dfvines.
Mrs. Mottashed, OF Hamilton, Ont. had
long been sufferer from various diseases
which had kept her in bed for eight months.
Sne read little book by Buffalo lady, en-
this, she wrote to the author, and engaged
with her to join In prayer at a certain time.
t a. > O'Clock on q recent evening Mrs. Mot
taa 6 lei u.s. suddenly nvgorated She leaped
Is not romance, but that number OF promi.
nent Hamilton people stand ready to attest
restoration to health and vigor.
The Chicago Times has been comparing
the membership OF five leading Protestant de-
nominations In the city In 1870 and in 1885,
The increase In the decade was about ~ per
cent from "a .l2O to 26, S22; the growth OF the
city IN the same period has been 20 per cent
The Congregationall5ts, MethOdists and PresDy-
teIlans make the largest relative advance, the
the EpiscOpaiians, who return more than one
third OF the total membership. have done little
more than hold their own. 1t is maintained
gy some however 10 that at the present time the
attendance do not accurately represent the
real influence OF the church.
The Rev. DR.. Tying, in preaching his fare
well sermon In New York Sunday
not not only blessed his people but cursed
were. BE said: "Let it never be forgotten
that this church is Protestant church. Let
no faint OF recommendation or SacerdOtalism
solemn 1mprecation: May the God OF Heaven
burn and blast this church and lay it even
with the ground II It ever deserts It's prIncI-
pies so OF ndelty to the simple truth as it is In
jesus" DR.. Tying, in using these words. has
been accused OF having reference to rumor
that his congregation and himself wers about
to become Roman Catholics, but 1t Is stated he
had no such intention. He referred only to the
contingency OF his congregation becoming
"Ritual1Sts," and having his church turned
into place where ecclesiastical millinery"
was displayed.
Religious ''Cacophony" is the euphonious
term the Boston Wdtchman applies to the IT.
reverent slang in which even clergymen some
times indulge. 1.-THE American habit OF frrev-
erence and the Anglo-Saxon habit OF slang. :"
II says, nave combined to produce way OF
very unseemly. and. We believe, sinful
Many OF us have observed in some good and
plous brothers one special fault That is, an
easy going familiarity In their illusions to Goa.
Ihey are In some danger always of talking
ABOUT the Lord as If the great Creator and sus-
talner OF million OrbS was crony OF theirs
IL Is doubtful whether we ought at any time to
speak OF our God In an easy going, jolly man
ner. It is true that by the gospel we may be
brought into the nearest and tenderesJ rela-
ton to the Eternal, but this never anrogates hts
primal and 1nal1enable claim, as our Creator
10 reverence supreme and unce asing. MY
name Is dreadful, he saith; and II we are TO
tremole at his word we ouqa5 not to be rash
toward himself"
church at Manassas, has been exonerated from
charges made against him. 1t seems he walked
home one night from Good Templar's meeting
with pretty young lady OF his congregation. a
couple saunfer1ng along by the light of the
moon. This was sufficient. The village rang
with grave charges against Mr.. Todd, In which
Todd was arralgned before the session Of his
church on the charge OF improper intimacy with
the young lady in question. The session COM
pf 6e the and a. meeting
which was largely attended, the evidence taken
Oy the session and their report on the charges
made agalnsttheir pastor was submitted to the
meeting and approved without dissenting
voice. The elders OF the neighboring presbyte.
rtan churches at Clifton and Hartford were Also
present, and Endorsed the action OF the session,
Mr.. Todd ministers to all three churches
Some OF the trustees of the churches In
Albany are discussing the expediency of in
PRODUCING electric lights in place of gas. A few
OF the church members object, alleging that the
light Is too dazzling, and that II 1t shines in the
minister's eyes It might blind him. The reply
Is made to this that there is nothing more I'M
pleasant to the eyes OF the gentleman in the
pulpit than the mahy-colored stained glass
windows, the glare OF which he has to face on q
sunshiny morning. 1t Is not considered the
correct thing to cover these windows with
curtains for most OF them have cost a great
deal OF money, and the trustees feel that It
would not be right to conceal that which has
cost SO much. The most natural feeling on the
part OF preacher who has to face the glare OF a
polychromatic window Illuminated by the sun
Is that he would like to have a pair of dark
colored spectacles. The old fashion OF turning
the gas partly of during the delivery OF the
sermon, so as to let the congregation have a
chance OF resting their eyes by going to sleep
does not now prevail as much as formerly. No.
BODY could tell whether the churches WIFI Oh
practfced this economy most desired to save
gas bills Or eyesight-
Leo XIII at HOmes
lColnische Zeitung.l
When one inquiries after the Pope among
the masses In Rome from the men one receives
Invariably the answer Non syrapaticO s.He
is not sympathetic To which the women
add, trOppO br,tttO HE Is too uply,n They