Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-08
Church Notes.

At the Church of the Redeemer yesterday preached a fine discourse. Four young ladies were received into the church. Rev. Dr.. Todd officiated at the communion service in the afternoon.
 At Center church yesterday Rev. MT. Will Hams oficiated, preaching in the morning afternoon. Rev. Dr. Dennen preached an interesting discourse yesterday afternoon on the subject ssDoes Church Going Pay ?"
 At Howard avenue church last evening Rev. Dr. Dennen preached on the value of church attendance. Two new members were received yesterday. At this church stere- opticon exhibition takes place this evening, given by Professor Turner, of Boston,, The entertainment will be very interesting. The proceeds are for church purposes.
 NORTH CHURCH.
 The annual rental of pews appears to have made few changes in their occupants from the seatings of last year. The presence and hallowed influence of the two long loved of- fee bearers of the church, Deacons Jocelyn and Treat, and of MT. Nathan Peck, who so recently have gone home to their reward, is brought to mind at this beginning of the church year. The 23rd verse of the vi. chap ter Romans was the text of the morning, s'The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" The unsatisfying and tormenting life of sin stands in such warning contrast to the peaceful and well ordered life of right eousness, said the speaker, that to choose a life of sin would seem unnatural and impos- sible. Only the inborn corruption of heart can account for the wrong choice, and only the Holy Spirits power can aid infrnaity and so make us choose the right and escape the wrong. Man seeks wealth and great posses sions. He is not satisfied when having ob- tained them. So of honor and all earthly success. Instead of reward and reliance in the hours of sickness and affiiction, the part ing from things so dear and so hardly won only adds pain and grief of mind to bodily torment. But the Christian is ever coming nearer and nearer to a real home in heaven to be there made one with Christ, Gods greatest gift. The Rev. Dr. O. H. White assisted in the afternoon communion service Seven infants, the future representatives of six families of the congregation, were pre- sented by their parents and received the rite of baptism. So interesting an array of fath CTS and mothers with their little ones before the communion table set out with the bread and wine in commemOration of the Lords supper is seldom seen. It was fit- ting introduction to the service following. A large audience were in attendance, including the orphans from the asylum with their mat ron and teachers. The pastor gave notice of the change in the afternoon Sunday service to Bible and Sunday school instruction in- stead of the preaching service on next Sab bath and hereafter. The singing led by the chorister MT. Beach, and the alto singer of the choir, Mrs. Mansfield, was finely ren- dered.
 DAVENPORT CHURCH.
 At the Davenport church there was 8 large attendance at, the communion service in the into the church at this service, ten by con- fession of faith and eleven by certificates from other churches. The pastor, MT. Me serve, made an address in which he spoke of this being the eighth anniversary of the con- mencement of services in the new church building; of the growth of the church from 8 membership of little over one hundred members then to it's present numbers and also spoke feelingly of the members who have passed away to join the church above. One of the deacons of this church Isaac Mor- ris who has been an active supporter of the church from it's first inception as mission enterprise in Wallace street. is now lying ill at his residence from stroke of paralysis, and fears are expressed that he may not re- cover.