Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-01-14
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

| t"Cht9 -u4th ahhiNcISidg OF lts uiSt nCnlacaton-
| Nearly three-fourths OF the churches In tie
| Episcopal diocese of Central PENNSYLVANIA have
| their seats iree or 50 out of Sc.
A great revival is nsprogrcss In the Ha-
waiian Islands. The missionaries say there has
| been nothing like it since the revival Of 1883.
Rev. Chas. Yates. Of Rappahannock. has &C
cepted the call of the Old School Baptist churca,
at luray Page county.
Rev. Vim. II. Cooke, pastor of the Presby-
terrain church in Havre de Grace, has received
a call TO Virginia, aud holds 1t under advise
ment.
BY vote ofthe faculty of Chicago Theological
Seminary the revised New Testament will here
after Toe used IN the religious exercises OF that
school.
The Rev. A. r. Simpson. who lately became
n Baptist, but is unaffated denomlnationslly.
has secured the Academy of Music, New York.
| for Sunday evening services.
The Rev. DR.. Henry Little. ST., OF Madison.
Ind, is gradually dying of cancer in the face. Q
disease which il will be remembered caused the
death of Dr. W. L. Burlington, OF Brooklyn.
The passionate of Calvary church, New York,
with Its income Of $4,000 year. has been de-
| cned by the Rev. Canon Carmichael of Hgmil-
ton, Canada, TO whom it was offered recently.
The Central Congregational church az
| Brooklyn has a body 50 Cinnamon under its
care. The recent Christmas festival in which
| they participated was novel ana interesting
affair.
The Roman Catholic Archbishop OF San
Francisco has taken steps TO establish semi
nary in that city for evangelizing the Chinese.
/ Two or three young priests have been sent TO
| China for special training.
| Mr. Beecher, last Sunday expressed disbe-
lief in the doctrine of eternal punishment. His
doctrine is this: Penalty so long ~ it ceases to
| do good; then humiliation If YOU believe il: but
| eternal punishment never"
DR.. Jessup of Beirut reports that unusual
crowds have been attending services in the
| Greek church, and that it is the preaching OF
| Mr.. Moody sermons obtained from the Beirut
press, that has caused the great str.
The synod OF the French Protestant church
| has appointed a commission TO consider all the
| existing French TRANSACTIONS OF the Bible. with
a view either 10 the adoption Of one or the rec
| concentration that new version be made.
Those members of the Cooke church, Toron-
to, who separated from the congregation on ac-
! count of the introduction OF a musical instrIl-
ment, have formed themselves into society
| called The Presbyterian Defense Association"
The Arkansas conference Of the Union AfrI-
can Methodist Episcopal church has been all
sorbed 10y the Little Rock conference (also COL
| ored) OF the Methodist Episcopal church. The
| former conference embraced % preachers and
| $50 members
| 1t is reported at Rome that the Pone has
| consented TO allow Cardinal Ledochowsky. the
Archbishop OF POsen, to resign his see. The
| Cardinal is considered the chief obstacle to a
! reconciliation between the Vatican and Ger
many
Chaplain David A. Wills. who is now sta
toned at Walla Walla, Washington Territory. hes
! consented to occupy the pulpit of the Cumbcr-
land Presbyterian church, al that place, just va
I al hKT 2nN
! pastor can be obtained.
The Rev. w. IL. Ryder, D. D.. probably the
! ablcst Universalist preacher in the United
! States. has resigned his parish in Chicago and
will withdraw from the ministry to study law
lie Is said TO be wealthy and able TO live a rest
fu lie if he desires II is also said that his doc
trinal views have undergone change.
The Year Book of the Unitarian churches
for 1852 gives as the whole number of churches
344, seven more than for 1881. The whole
number of ministers is 404 Orthe list for 1881
ii died the past year; 10 were graduated from
the two divinity schools, 6 from Cambridge and
from Meadyille. The names OF four wo.
men are in the list OF ministers.
"A very successful revival is in progress ut
| High Street NJ. E. church, Baltimore. conducted
by the pastor, Rev. DR.. f. d. Owen Already
more than fifty persons have professed CONVEX
sion, and the interest seems undated. DIR. Owen
was emnently successful in the several stations
oil which he was pastor in this city the last
twelve or fifteen years.
The " Boy Preacher" Harrison, commenced
series of revival meetings in Cincinnati We'd
nesday evening. The attendance was
not as large as had been eypecfed
but he declared that he had come ito
shake Cincinnati from end TO end" and that
"a breeze of Almightiness would sweep over the
city, and a thousand night be converted"
There are in Richmond, Va, SIS churches,
with 80, l46 members. The list of churches in
cudes Catholic, 10 Baptist, 10 Episcopal, 10
Methodist, and Presbyterian congregations.
The BaptiSts number 16 554 of whom 10 21a are
colored. The Episcopalans number 1881. the
Methodsts $3.50. the Presbyterians l.47l. and
the Catholics 505l- The population Of the city
is 81, go, and nearly one-half are church men,
bers,
"A correspondent ofthe Living Church writes
from Buffalo: Bishop Coke has been expressing
himself very decidedly in Buffalo paper on
theater-going parsons His views condemna
tory of this custom are well put and to the
point, and will doubtless have much more in
fiuence than his Official Counsels' of last sum-
mer on confirmation wells. 1t is not likely how
ever that theater-going on the part Of the
clergy is very widespread habit"
DIR. Pentecost, who was once a Baptist. but
is now CongregatiOnalist, thus states in the
independent his position ''infant BAPTISM"
81 have had but two infants presented for con-
secration since have been here. In both cases
/ have distinctly disayowed infant baptism and
administered the rite Of conservation. never
using the word baptism in the service. do not
believe in infant baptism. but l do believe and
practice infant consecration, when parents so
desire it.
-Spurgeon thus speaks of the mlsrepresenta-
ton OF clergymen: GAS surely as any of You
speak for the Lord you will be misunderstood
That is not the worst Of it, you viii be wilfully
misrepresented. They will turn your words up
side down. AS for me. it is utterly Impossible
for me to say single sentence which some
fool or another cannot twist into mischief, andI
give patent and license TO everybody to do so
that chooses to do it, as far as am concerned.
The thing that was faTthest from our mind. and
which our soul abhored, has often been made TO
be said when we neither said nor thought any
thing OF the kind"
-Inanswerto the inquiry, "ifCongregational-
ism has any permanent hold nthe District Of Col
umbia," correspondent of the Chicago Adrdnce