The Evening critic., 1882-02-25

eve iy Iucsd0y, celebration $3.50 n. M. every |
Thursday, celebration l n. M; continuation |
lecture, Thursday, O;30 y. M; daily prayer, |
p. m. Every one welcome; every scat Is FREQ. |
Udugh ". N. Chu,ch, Third and streets
northcast.-ScatS free; missionary day TO- |
morrow Sunday, February %; sermon by the
pastor, Row Wilford Downs, at II n, M; NJ : 80
y. m interesting exercises by the children, and
Pennsylvania, and Mr.. +. II. Cobb, Of this city;
offerings for missions received ut both services;
nt . y. M, " Gospel temperance" by Mrs. DR..
McKcndree Riley, ana others; come
81. PoWs English lutheran ChV1cA, corner
of Eleventh and II streets northwest Services
tomorrow morning ut II o'clock. sermon by
the pastor, s. Domer; no service at night on
account OF union meeting for tho y. NJ. q. A.
The Rossini Choral Society win give n grand
concert nj this church on Wednesday evening
next under the auspices OF the Ladies' Aid So
cicty. fine programme VIII be presented.
Young Mons thist,ap ASSOCIATION. a.-Ex-Goy.
Nelson Dingley, IT., OF Maine, will speak at the
service held by the Young Mems Christian AS
sociation I'm Tallmadgc Hall at p. M. to-nor-
row. The first fifteen minutes Of the service
will be devoted to service OF song. q. u. Fox
Will preside Mt the organ and Elphonzo Youngs
will lead with the cornct. The singing win be
congregational, and all who have the Gospel
hymns combined are requested TO bring thcm.
NiHhhstyoet lfcthOdiSt Protestant Church,
Ninth street, between L and L streets north
west.-DedicatoIy services at this church (Rev.
Philip T. Hall, pastor), sunday morning, Feb
Conference, Rev. II. ID. valiant, assisted by
Rev. f. J. Drinkhousc, u. D., editor OF NeHt-
cdiI PiotestdnL Baltimore, Nd, and the pastor
VIII conduct the exercises. Rev. =. b. SOuther-
land, d. D., member OF "Ecumenical Confer.
cnce and pastor Of Georgetown Station, Will
preach at z $50 p. m, after which the Lords
tunity given to all who desire 20 unite with
the church. The above exercises Will take
place, irrespective of weather. Public cordially
The Btthesda Bdptid Cnt7ch, NJ street. near
Twenty-eighth street northwest on
the SABBATH preaching at IL n. m. and $50
D., M. Hpy. q, Robinson. pastor,
Friends Meeting, orthodox, is held every
first day, Sunday, at IL q. M, In tho Chnpel
OF the Young Mems Christian Association,
sOi + street northwest. The public are in
vited.
linton Bethel A. N. n. Cha,ch, NJ street, near
Sixteenth, Notwithstanding by tho pas
tor Rev. J. W. stevenson, at ! 1 a. IN. aud at
go p. M; sunday.school atoa,ni.
Religious Intelligence.
The income Of Talmage's Tabernacle for
1850 is estimated at $4,000. AN
The village of Bertrolla, near Turin,
Italy, has been converted TO Professionalism.
Archbishop Alernany of San Francisco,
Is establishing II Chinese mission In that city.
yicars-General Quinn and Preston, of
New York, have been made domestic chuplains
TO the Pope.
Six healthy Bap ist Churches have grown
out Of one at Minneapolis, which was organ
lied In 1858.
The Fathers of the Holy Sacrament at
AnHelS, france, whose monastery was closed q
year ago. are about TO start for Canada.
The Methodist Board of Church Extension
extended aid to 1856 churches in q single year.
being twenty more than one for every day.
1t is proposed to unite tho three Metho-
| dist bodies In Canada in one. few years ago
| three united to form the Canada Methodist
| Church.
A Jewish paper published in Jerusalem
| invites the Jews who are being driven from
other countries to settle in Palestine and form
| agricultural colonies.
The Rev. Alfred H. Kellogg of Philadel-
| phia, now in London, England, has received
| and accepted call to the Jcfferson-aYenuo
Presbyterian Church, Detroit, Mich.
Messrs. d. l.. Moody and Ira d. Sankey
commenced their evangelistic work in Glas-
gov, Scotland, in st. Andrews Hall, on Sunday
| evening, January ID. There was an enormous
attendance.
Rev. Frederick Courtney, Of st. James
Episcopal Church, Chicago, has been chosen
| rector of the Church of the Ascension, New
York, to MI the vacancy caused by the death
| of Rev. John Cotton Smith.
The Lutheran Church of Winchester, Va,
Rev. d. NJ. Gilbert, D. D., pastor, has met all
paid in addition $1,000 on Its debt, leaving
only $500, which II IS proposed to wipe out nj
the Easter service.
A correspondent in the West says
"fhings do get little mixed occasionally
| 'out West. A Presbyterian church was re
Gently organized in the first story OF Il school
| house In Salem, Dakota, while a Catholic mass
was going on in the second story"
In tho first decade of the Methodist
| Episcopal Church there was ono minister t
| every 100 members; in the fifth decade tn,
| proportion was one to 2Si; the present proper
ton is one minister to 1i7 members, agalns
142 in the ninth and tenth decades.
The Providence Baptist Church in Mon
rovia, the capital of Liberia, In West Africa
has moro than 200 members, and tho Sunday
school has % teachers aud 160 scholars. Tht
pastor is Rev. NJ Il. Worrell. There are six
teen Baptist churches in Montservado County
containing 1,343 members
1t is understood that bill will shortly
be introduced in the Ohio Legislature, at til,
| request of representative Catholics of Cleve
| land, providing for tho establishment of
separate refuge department for Catholic chill
dren sentenced from police courts. 1t is saiC
the reformatory VIII furnish officers anC
teachers without asking the aid Of the publ,
fund.
Episcopal Bishop Coke, of Western New
York, has written an open letter to the presld
ing Bishop, urging him to call together tn
"House of Bishops" in order that they ma.
come to some decision in regard to the subiec
OF astrological education" and OF those canon
which bear upon candidates for orders an
their prescribed examinations, which, he says
is assuming immense Importance.