Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-04-01
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

= TheLMheran charges at Jeunertown. Pa,
and Boaisburg, Centre county, are now vacant.
Rev. A. T. NJ Handy has accepted a call to
| the passionate Of the Calvary Baptist church,
tarnweil. Loudoun county, Va.
- Rev. J. 7. Lassell. who has taken charge of
the Ninth street NJ. p. church. finds this church
| clear of debt on the church building, but the
| parsonage property adjoining is encountered.
= Rev. E. C. Cowl, pastor of a Methodist
Protestant church of Pittsburg, Pa. has become
| Unitari an, and succeeds Rev. Mr. Min as pas
| tor OF the Chicago Unitarian church.
= The Rev. ]. Harry Chesley, late of Mary
| land, has arrived at Hampton to do the important
mission work at Newport News aud other points
around Hampton, Va.
Boston goes west for her ministers now.
| fremont Temple lately went to Denver for its
| pastor less recently the Park street congrega-
| ton called an Indianapolis minister, and now
| st. Pauls Episcopal church calls Rev. Frederick
| Courtney, of Chicago.
T Dean. Farrar has contributed to the Corate,n-
porayy Reciec strong article on the Revised
Version, in which he stakes his reputation as a
| scholar and his faith as o man on its final sue
cess. and roundiy compares the criticism made
| upon 1t with the assaults leveled at King James
| version on Its appearance.
According to resolution passed at It's an
nual meeting in Boston on February s. the New
England Divorce Reform League has addressed
| circular to cergymen throughout the country
| asking them to preach on the approaching Fast
| Day sermons with respect to the evils of polyg-
amy and divorce.
Nothing is more demoralizing than gamb-
ling. Church rafies are the devils internal ma
chimes; they come in like Harmless amusements
| but they appeal to the same passion which fills
| the gambling saloon and the policy shops. Art
rasfes, like church raffles, are Satan coming as
an anger of hght.-Neao York Christian Aduo-
lscdte
THE Rev. DR.. James Houston Eccleston,
now pastor of Trinity church, Newark, n j.,
has been called to st. Georges Protestant
| born in Chestertown, Md. in 1887, and was or
dained in st. Paurs church. in Baltimore, in
1865. He is unmarried, and is one of the most
widely known clergymen of the Protestant
| Episcopal denomination.
The Rev. George II. Austin, who forged a
note at Madison, Ind, and escaped with the
| money, says that he resolved never to
| preach again, because he deemed his
crime sufficient reason for quitting the
pulpit. He went to Texas, and engaged in
school teaching under an assumed name.
After several months, however, he was offered a
job at lecturng, and from that he went into
preaching again, which led to his identiticati on
John G. Craddock is the gray-haired editor
Of the True Kaatucaiaa. For many years he has
| slipped his mint-julep and drawn SO lace from
| the depth of the Bourbon bowl. On the even
ing of the 18th instant Mr.. Craddock arose i'm
the midst OF meeting at Paris KY, and told
Mr.. Barnes, the mountain evangelist, that he
had been born again, that he saw the light
shining in the streets of New Jerusalem, and
that his soul was saved.
Bishop A. Cleveland Coke, of Butfalo. n Y.
and formerly rector OF Grace church, Baltimore.
is undergoing painful ordeal by the publica-
ton in the Chicago Tribune of an alleged poem
under his sacerdOtal signature, entitled 'The
AVenging Gar" containing fierce denuncia-
| tlOn OF our German citizens. The bishop is rea-
sonably indignant at this forgeTy-all the more
SO because he has received numerous cOndem-
natory letters from exasperated Germans.
- There has been a split in that division of
the Salvation Army which has been trying to
| evangeliZe Ireland. The new organization is
known as the Hallelujah Army. Its general is
named Gault, and its methods are about as wild
and sensational as those of the original saliva
tionists. The Hallelujah Army has its head
quaters in BalIymena. and carries on its opera
lions In eight or ten towns. 1t issues q weekly
paper, which begins to have large circula-
ton.
The North Carolina avenue Methodist
Protestant church, which at the recent session
of the Maryland annual conference. was left
| without pastor, is endeavOrng to secure the
services of Rev. J. W. Trout, who very accept
| ably served the church few years ago. Mr..
Trout was recently appointedetO Eutaw, Balti-
| more county. Md, and it is understood that if
the president of the conference can send a
minister there Mr.. Trout will settle at the North
Carolina avenue church.
Nonsense the hint that any minister "a
likely to get into trouble from ordinary parish
visits, because he is so apt to find only the
women at home. Let him only behave with
proper reserve and dignity and he needs no acct
dent Insurance policy to warrant his safety; but
let him be fool, and go around greeting the
Young women with "a holy kiss and making
long visits where he ought to make short ones,
| and his business becomes far more dangerous
| than that Of a Gloucester sailOr.-The C0ng,'ega-
tiOnalist.
One of the most astounding things in the
religious world is the extraordinary growth of
the Methodist Episcopal church since the OPEN
ing of the present year. The Methodist has been
| Keeping careful account of the conversions
reported by all the churches which consent to
send their reports. Thus far 1854 of the
| churches have reported that SO, $50 persons have
| been converted since the LIST of January. This
is the more wonderful in view of the fact that
there are 1855 Methodist churches, and that
| the total number of additions to them during
| 1881 was only IS. S92. II conversions and addi-
tiOns GO on for the rest of this year as they have
begun. the increase will be the most phenomenal
| on record.
The changes in the pastorates of the
various Methodist churches in the District have
been effected, and the new ministers have
| made the acquaintance of their congregations
Last Sunday they occupied their pulpits for the
| first time, and this week they have been arrang-
| ing to move their families. On Wednesday
next Rev. DR.. France, of the Fourth-street
church, will move to this city, and on Tuesday
Rev. Mr.. Weech, of the Union NJ. e. church
Rev. Mr. Webster, of Georgetown, will move
some time during the coming week. Rev. Mr.
Reed, Of the North Capitol church, and Rev. Mr.
Hagey, Of Grace church, have already moved.
The churches. under their new pastors, are
working admirably, and the ministers have been
| cordially received.
| AT Melrose, Mass, new plan has been
tried as to the eatables at the church sociables.
| It had been the custom of the ladies to contrib
ute the food and to serve it. Now 1t falls to the
| lot of the male members. Clumsy fellows some
| of them are at serving tables, yet they proved
to be liberal gIvers as regards quantity. They
provided without that delicate attention to pro-
portions which is generally shown when the
ladies are response bic for arepast. OF some ar
ticles there was a great excess, while others
| were almost ent irely omitted. The waiting on