The Evening critic., 1882-10-21

and mission sunday.school at o a. M;
Wednesday, 7 $50 p. M, prayer service; Fri
day, $50 p. M, II. L.. 5. Clrclei you are IN
vited.
FIRST NJ r. Chufch, corner Fifth street and
Virginia avenue southeast, J. W. Gray, pastor.
AT IL q. M, awaiting on tho Lord :" AZ 1880,
"PauPs Desire and Prayerj' Sunday'school
at I'm.
Church If the Ascension, corner OF Massachu-
setts avenue and Twelfth street northwest
Morning services at IL u. M; Roy. DR.. Elliott
VIII preach; evening service at 7;3O y. MI
seats free I'm the evening.
HOLY Cross Church, corner Massachusetts
avenue and Eighteenth street.-Sundny ser
celebration OF Holy Eucharist, IL a. M; even.
song tchoran, Q p. m.; daily mathis, o a. MI
yespers, 4 $50 p. M; Holy sacrament wodnes-
day and Friday and all holy days Mt Z 80 n.
M; seats FREQ; J. A. Harold, rector
North Capitol A. h. church, corner of North
Capitol and streets, two squares north OF
Government Printing ofilco.-preaching TO.
and at 1850 p. m. by Rov. W. II. Black; Sab
bath-school, 0;3O a. m. and song service p
M; class-meeting Tuesday evening" prayer.
meeting Wednesday evening. You are earn
estly invited 10 attend these services.
A missionary Mass Meeting OF the Presbyterian
sunday-schools of this city Will be held at
the Rev. Mr.. Kellys Church, on Ninth, be.
tween q and II streets, on Sunday afternoon
october %, at . o'clock. An exceedingly inter-
esting programme has been arranged, consist
Ing OF attractive exercises by children OF va.
Rev. DR.. Bartlett, Of New York Avenue Church,
and Rev. Il. s. Wynkoop, Of the western Church.
largo and enthusiastic meeting Is antici-
Israel metropolitan O. N. b. Church, Flrst
and B streets southwest, Rov. W. II. Thomas,
pastor.-There will be quarterly meeting to-
morrow during the day; special sermon TO tho
converts at II o'clock n. m. by Professor King,
president of Wayland seminary; preaching at
3o'clock p. M; also at $3.50 p, M, by Row Il.
NJ Hamilton, the =. E.; Sunday-school at o
o'clock n. M; love feast Monday night at 8
O'Clock y. M. our sister churches are most re-
spcctfully invited TO attend, as this closes our
last quarterly programme.
Religious Notes.
A Michigan church, on hearing that their
pastor had been made d. D., added $500 to
his salary.
Rev. J. Y. Donnman has taken charge of
the Episcopal churches In King William
county, Va.
Rev. Z. II. Barnett, of Abingdon, Va,
has received n call to the pastorate OF tho Pres.
byterian Church at Edgenold, Tenn.
The whole number of Jews in the United
States, according to the census of $780, was
23S, ,S04, Of whom 60,00O live In New York.
Rev. George W. Dame entered upon tho
forty.third year OF his pastorate Of the Episco.
pal Church, Danyille, Va, on Sunday, October
The Episcopal mission Is announced to
begin at Emmanuel Church, Be1alr, on the
3Oth. Tho services will be conducted by
Bishop pinkney.
The Free Italian Church is doing evan
gelcal work among the villages on tho island
of Sardinia. The people arc eager to obtain
copies OF tho Bible.
A Boston court has decided that ice
cream Is not to be classified among tho necos-
stiles OF life, and has fined West End confoc-
tioner ten dollars, with costs, for selling 1t on
| Sunday.
The number of Moravian Church mem
bers In the United States ia only 1900. The
membership throughout the world, including
the churches In missionary fields, numbers
| 100000.
The drain of emigration from Germany
has had Its effect upon the Baptist Church OF
Germany, 1t having lost through that move
ment 1897 members last year. There are
2s,0O0 left.
The local Methodist Society of New York
| courteously loaned Its church building to the
| Unitarians for their recent convention, which
| prompts the ChriStidn AdU0cdte to wrlte an cd
itorial, "Not In Anger, but In Sorrow" on the
impropriety of the act.
| A programme for the week of prayer
| commencing January z, 1888, has Just beer
Issued by the Evangelical Alliance. The sug
| gested topics for the several days cover such
| subjects as Thanksgiving, confession, prayer
| for the church universal, for families, for the
nations and for missionaries, and special
| reference is made to education, TO intemper
| ance and to the opium traf1lc.
The Christian Inteligencer, speaking o
Mr.. Beechers heterodoxy, expresses the hop,
"counted out" hereafter In all euumeratlo,
| OF orthodox ministers. "Ho has unequivO
| cally taken ground against every distinctive
doctrine of evangelical religion, 80 that even
| the Christian Gni0a Is forced TO put in q feeble
apology for him, with plea Of oxtonuatins
circumstances"
Bishop Simpson, of the Methodist Church
| In an address at the laying OF the corner-stonI
| Of q new church the other day, made tho fol
| lowing point. sour answer to those who as
| sert that Christianity is dying out Is simpl!
| this-we build more churches. Tho line o
argument cannot hold against the line of nc
tion. Inldelity builds no churches, founds m
| asylums, endows no universities. UnDelle
provides no refuge for tho innrm and poor
nor furnishes help nor comfort for those VIII
weep"
The Sunday School World makes n happ!
contrast thus: "Tho black spots on the SUI
are more readily seen than its prevailing
splendor. Let Huxley, Tyndall and Haecko
build as many theories as they please. The
knock them down again as children do tn
sand-castes they build on the seashore. Plic
| against these scientists the names OF Roge
Bacon, Barrow, Pascal, Newton, Farraday an
Herschel and you have q higher array Q
| philosophers who were humble Christians
Moreover, whatever may bo the opinions O
men as TO Gods works and dealings, 1t vii
| always be true 'he Is In one mind, and who ca
turn him and lchat his soul desireth eve
| that he doeth.'"