Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-09-16
RELIGIOUS NOTES.


- The Methodists have 1850 ministers and
TO. 600 members in Canada
-Ex-Bishop Humber Of United Brethren,
died at Dayton, Ohio, recently, aged 50.
- Rev. r. II. Williams has accepted the call to
the First Presbyterian church. Annapolis.
Rev. John Mcmillan, of Philadelphia. pres
byterian,) died recently at Nantucket, Mass.
= In number Of places in Cumberland dis
trict NJ. E. church revivals are breaking out.
Rev. j. l.. Grice, (Congregationalist,) Of
Howard University, has accepted q call to
MERIDIAN. Miss.
Hon. Joseph Sleeper has been superintend-
ent OF NJ. f. Sunday school In Boston for SO
consecutive years.
Rev. J. H. Britain, Of Moorestown, n Y,
Baptist, has accepted call to Fuller Memorial
church, Baltimore.
Rev. W. NJ. Frysnger has entered on his
duties as president Of the Centenary Biblical In
stitute, Baltimore.
w. w. Sleeper has been ordained BY the
CongregatiOnalists at Worcester, Mass, as q
foreign missionary.
Rev. I. P. McCurdy, presbyterian Of
Frederick Nd, has declined the presidency of
Oxford College, Ohio.
-Duringthe past two weeks Rev. A. B. Simp.
son, of the Esd street On. ~ Gospel tent, has
baptized thirty persons.
= Rev. Peter Akers, of Jacksonville, Ill, was
" years Old on the LIST inst and preached in the
centenary church on the Sd.
= Rev. NV. Hanna, of St. Matthew's Luthe-
ran church, Brooklyn, has accepted the call of
the First church, Baltimore.
KEY. Chas. A. Mattingly, a Catholic priest
at Nanticoke Pa, died at st. Mary's hospital.
Philadelphia, on the 18th inst.
Rev. c. 81. A. Buckley, of the PRESBYTERIAN
church. will enter on his duties as professor in
Howard university October 1.
i Rev. Mr.. Green, of Raleigh, N c., is called
the champion immerser, having immersed l4O
persons recently in 70 minutes.
In consequence Of the prevalence Of the
smallpox at Paterson, N. j., the Sunday schools
suspended sessions last Sunday.
Inc basement of the new Catholic church of
st. Monica, in New York city, was dedicated by
Archolshop CorTigan last Sunday.
Rev. DR.. James A. Dean, of New York East
conference ONE. church, has accepted the presi-
dency OF the New Orleans university.
AT Dayton appointment, in Rawlings cir
cult, Cumberland district. II probationers were
recently received into the N. e. church.
Rev. w. H. Van Doren, of the PRESBYTERIAN
church and the author of commentary on the
Bible, died at Indianapolis on the 9Th inst.
Sister Of Charity Mary John Coughlan.
native Of Quebec, died at ST. Mary's Orphan
Asylum. Baltimore, on Tuesday, in her 25th
year.
- Archbishop Gibbons confirmed class of SO
at Doughegran Manor, Howard county, Nd, on
Sunday last. Two-thirds of the class were con-
verts.
Bishop Borgess., of Michigan, has issued a
pastoral forbidding the marrying Of Catholics
| and PrOtestants under pain of excommunica-
ton.
Mr.. Moody, the evangelist, is said to con-
| slider the Rev. George o. Barnes equal to Spur
geon in his elOquence and command over the
people
The late John Magee. jr., of Watkins N.
T., left $4,000 for the erection of five Episcopal
churches in New York, Pennsylvania, and Viz
ginia.
Rev. J. 7. Mcfarland pastor of the First
IL. E. church at Peoria, ILL.,, has been elected to
the chair of belle-lettres of the Iowa Wesleyan
University.
On the Sth instant the upper story of the
'Home for Aged Members OF the Hebrew B'nai
Birth Society" at Mt. st. Vincent, on the Hud-
son. was dedicated as synagogue.
Rev. Father H. l.. Geveney, assisted by
Father John j. Murphy and other priests, will
conduct the two weeks mission which will be
commenced at st. Aloysius tomorrow.
- Mrs. Richard Baxter, of Boston, has pre-
sented the Charming Memorial Church, at New
port Il. L., with magnificent memorial window
concentrating her husband and daughter.
Rev. Homer A. King, of Springfield, Mass,
is holding revival services at the 44th street NJ
E. church, New York. He began his work by
showing LOCO square feet OF Gospel paintings.
In England memorial chapel is to be
erected to Bishop Asbury at his birthplace.
Handsworth, near Birmingham. It is proposed
to raise $20. 900 of the S45, 900 required in the
United States
- The synod Of the Church of Spain recently
held in Madrid comprises over 20 churches
which adopted a Presbyterian organization.
Twelve ministers We're present, four Of whom
were eX-priests.
The secretary of the Chautauaua Baptist
association is alleged to be defaulter to the
extent of $4,000; and an investigation is now
going on. This association has no connection
with the Chautauqua assembly.
The Rev. H. W. Thomas, D. D., of Chicago,
who was recently cast out of the Methodist
church for his heretical views. is said to be
making great success of his "PeOple's
church." whose local habitation is Hooley's
theater.
The Rev. Joseph Cook left Sydney, Austria
liza, on August 10 for this country. He intends
to visit the Sandwich Islands on his homeward
voyage, and will probably not arrive at San
Francisco before October l. 1t is announced
that he may resume his Boston lectureship.
-Rt. Rev. Bishop Moore, OF st. Angus
tine, Fla, is the guest of Archbishop Gibbons,
of Baltimore, and will accompany the latter In
his circuit of Montgomery and Frederick coun-
ties, Md, which he will commence tomorrow at
Rockville
The Episcopal Clergymen's Insurance
League in the last thirteen years has paid
S316 600 to the widows and orphans IF deceased
clergymen, and of this sum SIS, 552 was paid
during the past year.
- The Independent has the following very
neatly turned paragraph" Brother Van Meter
wants to go back to Rome as missionary and
as no missionary organization now in existence
cares to send him, he disappointed a committee
to open the way for him to CO."
OF ninety-eight Presbyterian ministers who
died last year, the oldest was 81 years of age,
the Youngest 80. Twenty-one were between so
and 90 thlrty-one between 60 and TO- twenty
three between 50 and 60. Thus rs of the 80 had
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