Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-10-21
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
sHE DISTRICT u. E. CHURCHEs-OTHER LOCAL
CHURCHES-THE RELIGIOUS FIELD ELSE
WHERE

The forty hours devotion will commence at
St Stephens (Rev. Father McNalley's) to-mor-
row.
= The improved chapel of the North Baptist
church. on 14th street, is a handsome struc-
ture.
"A revival of much interest is in progress at
Laurel on. E. church under the charge Of Rev.
7. Myers
The twenty-fifth meeting of the ME-. Local
Preachers Association met to-day at Parkers-
burg. VIVA.
On Hampstead circuit VI. f. church. Revs.
]. p. Wilson and w : Wheeler. there have been
81 conversions recently.
Rev b. A. Mcguire 5. j., formerly of St
Aloysus church here on Sunday last opened
a mission at st. Andrews church, New York
city.
= Revs. Fl. Nice and W. L. Mcdonald report
prosperous revivals on West river circuit OF the
NJ. f. church. - penitents having been at the
altar at one time.
= Bishop FOss, of the NJ. f. church. who was
few months ago quite i'll in the west is in
New York. and will attend a meeting of the
bishops next week.
= Rev. j. Clarke Hagey, the pastor of Grace
NJ T. church, who has been in bad health for
some years. will leave next week for the Hot
springs. Arkansas, for medical treatment.
Union NJ f. church has recently been mod
ernized by the construction of new 'front.'
much Of the work being galvanized iron. Be-
lore it was painted some of the ministers sug-
gested new name for 1.-THE tin front church.
i The Church of the Ascension (P. F. }, of
Chicago, recently reached the climax of ritual
Ism by celebrating solemn high mass. Bishop
McLaren, whose name used in the adver-
tisement of the same, published a card in which
he said that any inference that he would partici-
pate was incorrect.
- The Christian Adrocate of New York. in
abiding to q want of harmony in the Church of
Christian Endeavor. first German Reformed
church. then Congregational. next Independent,
then Congregational again, saws the ex-Metho-
olst pastors have not been brilliant success,
naming HestOn, Hicks, EgglestOn and Crafts,
all OF whom have found thOrny roads.
The Church of the Fatherland. corner of
9th and streets northwest. first an Old
Lutheran. then German Presbyterian, and now
English and German Lutheran. under the
Charge of Rev. Mr. HOmrighaus. late of Frost
burg, Md. commences under its present name
with good prospects the services being we'll
attended. 1t Is now regarded as mission of
memorial church.
= Under the rule of the Meth ndst Episcopal
churches, by which minister may be appointed
to and serve station for three years consecu-
lively, there will be but two churches in this city
requiring change of pastors at the session of
the Baltimore annual conference at Winchester,
Va. in March next. viz: Rev. C. Herbert Rich
ardsOn. OF Mckendree chapel, and Rev. r. n
Baer. of Metropolitan. Ali the other charges
have had their present pastors less than three
years Foundry. REV. W. F. Ward); Wesley.
(Rev- W l. Mckenney); Hamline. (Rev. S. VI
Hartsock(: Waugh. (Rev. W. Downs; 10Th
street east. (Rev. t. A. Morgan) and Gorsuch
(Rey. W. H. Lang. but two years each. and I'm
lon, (Rev.W. T. L.WeeCh); Grace. (Rev. J. Clarke
HageyE Memorial, (Rey. J. Hirst Reed; East
Washington. (Rev. DR.. France), and Ryland
(Rey X. Norris); one year each. 1t is stated
that there will be some changes in these
churches To succeed Mr.. Richardson at Nc
kendree it is said Rev. b. Peyton Brown for
merry presiding elder. and now stationed at
Frederick. will be appointed. Just now who
DR.. Baer's successor will be is beyond conjec-
turc- Hamline will likely take their present
pastor. to secure whom an effort is being made
by one of the Baltimore churches. Rey Mr.
Norris. who has served Ryand chanel for one
year, will probably be sent to Hamline. aud pos
eibiy new man will be sent to Grace church.
The Rev. Charles Sturgeon. son of the IA
nous London clergyman. has been preaching
In Chicago. 49, -
The English congregational union has lust
met at Bristol. The attendance was good and
the subjects discussed were of unusual inter-
est.
Rome Is asserted to be unprecedentedly
healthy. Last winter only sixteen English
6S and one %. The municipality contemplates
further improvements on great scale.
Dean Burgon has recently become promi-
Rent by his sharp not to say savage criticisms of
the work of the revisers of the new testament
He can say sharp things evidently in other di-
reetiOns. as witness hate utterance from the
Cambridge university pulpit: For my part. |
am quite content to seek nv ancestors in the
garden of Eden; let others. if they choose look
for theirs in the garden called geological" y
The Religious Herald
In a recent sermon Bishop Fraser. of Man.
chester, England said that he believed that licen-
tiousness was the sin which was eating out the
mOrallife of the nation, that licentiousnes which
they saw rampant through the streets of Man.
chester every evening that they moved through
those streets That was curse which in pulpits
they hardly dared to mention for fear of shock
Ing some delicate taste but it needed to be men,
toned sometimes, when they knew the ravages
was causing on every side.
L. A. in the Christian Union. says: 'In
England it is practically impossible for one to
maintain eminent social standing unless he is
az Epscopaiian or Unitarian. For some good
reason doubtless. but what it is do not know
and could not find out. a Unitarian Dissenter is
as socially respected as a church of England
coilmunicant; and was informed that the Uni
tM1ails as body are opposed to dsestablsll-
ncat. BUt with the exception of the Unita-
r,eEs. ard outside Of Scotland Dissenters are
almost universally regarded as belonging to the
second ciGss.
The wealthy MethOdists of Philadelphia
who are building the new Trinity church have
planned an extraordinary edjfce which is not q
copy OF any Othe: on earth. The new building
will have under one roof the church auditorium
the Sunday school. the dining room, and all the
colyenielces that advanced architectural inge-
Euity suggest or liberal expenditure procure
the style is Gothic. with profusion OF stained
glass windows. One majestic pOlychromatiC
window Is 10 be twenty feet wide and forty high
admitting food of many-cOlOrcd light. The
church viii seat about 500persons. but is so con
neetcd with the Sunday school room that the
two Gun DE- thrown into one thus accommodating
more than $500 persons. Bishop Simpson laiG
the corner stone for the new building assisted
by DIS. Carlow. Todd. and others.
Tic Rev. Arthur I. Person late of Detroit
but now OF indianapolis. makes vigorous pro
test against rented pcyys. He maintains that il
the early times OF christianity all places of wor-
ship We're free. and the services voluntarily con