The Evening critic., 1882-06-17

preach at IL a. M; Rev. N. N. Carroll, Of As
bury NJ. =. Church, Will proach at o'clock p:
Alexandria, Va, will preach in the lecture
room Of the church at the same hour, y. M;
g Rey Robert Steele Of Ebenszer N: Z; Church,
REV. b. Brown, jr,, will preach in the lecture
room Of the church at the same hour
H0ley Chdrei W. h. Chllch, corner Of Fifth
at IL o'clock a. m. by the pastor, Rev. W. j.
McKenney; from @ $50 TO T;30p. M, song and
praise service; eornet accompaniment; bring
combined Gospel hymns; everybody invited,
young people especiallyi sabbath-school, 0 80
a. M; prayer meeting Thursday evening.
Religious Notes.
Protestants in India have increased in
number In the last thirty years nearly 100 per
A SEQ, 600 building is being started for the
Young Mems Christian Association In Buffalo,
Trinity Episcopal Church, Martnsburg,
W. Va, is 10 be considerably enlarged and I'm
proved.
Rev. J. L. Carroll has resigned the pas
;oral charge Of the Baptist Church in Lexing'
TOR, Va. =
Rev. s. T. Hallman has been elected pres.
ident Of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod Of
North Carolina.
In India the Hindus number 10000, 900,
the Mohammedans IL 100000 and the Budl.
hists 100000.
The cornerstone of st. Johns Reformed
Church at Catawissa, Pa, was laid on Thurs
day Of last week.
DIR. o. II. Tiffany is preaching a course of
sermons on the Labor Problem," which Is at
tracing attention in Philadelphia.
The second Sunday in June will be OBJ.
served as the annual day Of prayer for the
American Baptist Publication Society.
The Rev. Richard Newton, d. D., has re-
signed the title Of emeritus rector OF tho
Church Of the Epiphany Of Philadelphia.
| Rev. John Dewitt of Philadelphia, has
| accepted the appointment Of PROFESSIONALLY
| in Lane Theological Seminary at Cincinnati.
Ex.vicc. President Wheeler is reported to
have offered $4,000 toward new building
| tor the Congregational Church Of Malone, N. Y.
| Four.ffths of the students of Carleton
| College, Minnesota, are said TO be Christians,
as have been all Of its graduates but two or
| three.
1t is reported that Bishop Thomas Bow
| man, Of the NJ. Z. Church, is worse, and can
not make his contemplated trip East this sum
| mer.
Twenty nine students in the various
| Presbyterian theological seminaries Of the
| country have asked TO be sent out to foreign
| mission fields.
The Young Mems Christian Association
of Boston have raised 100000 for o new
building now being erected. They number
| 2,12S members.
There are twenty-three vacant Congre.
gational churches in the State of Connecticut
and about twice that number Of minister;
| reduy 10 serve lNeln
The Wesleyan Methodists sustain regu
lar preaching In ninetysix preaching places
in Italy. In the Naples District they have 81;
members and 196 probationers.
Surgeons Pastors College," during it,
existence of twenty-six years, has educate,
| G20 brethren, Of whom 461 are now In thu
ranks as pastors, evangelists and missionaries
Rev. John p. Hagan, who has been pas
tor Of the Church of the Sacred Heart (Catho
lic), Winchester, Va, for some years, has beel
/ n q cnnpaaIaI h
| Rev. DR.. O'Connell.
The higher schools of Ceylon are doing
| good work. In Jaffna College nfty out OF til
seventy-three students have renounced Pagar
| ism for Christianity, and these educated me
| VIII be an immense power in the land.
The sixteenth annual convention of TIL
Baltimore Conference Sunday. school Societ
Of the NJ. E. Church South Is to be held at Hal
Wilson is expected to be present and take pal
In the programme.
| 1t is proposed to hold Il simultaneou
celebration Of the Sunday-schools in the cal
itals and other places Of the several countrie
of the world. preliminary meeting to di:
cuss the plans and to make arrangements fc
the general meeting on october 81, 1880,
New York city, has been held.
Last year the income of the Presby terra
Board OF Foreign Missions was $59O,6SO.4s
OF the Southern Presbyterian Church, S59
Sc, 1S 5,1S7S7 @ Of os0 the reformed presbyteria I
Church, Si2,2O977; Associated synod Of tl
: South, S2,ol2.55. Total, S719,556.17.
Rev. Campbell Fair, rector of the p.
:. | Church o2 the Ascension, La Fayette Squar
Baltimore, left yesterday, and will sail fro
New York today for Europe. He Will visit h
J | mother in Ireland, and return to Baltimore
| | September. During his absence Rev. Lou
!. De Lew, formerly Of Wichita, Kansas, will @
0 fciatc at Ascension Church.
Rev. Robert T. Jackson, rector of Chr
!, | Church, Richmond, died at o'clock yeste
! | day evening at his fathers residence
Petersburg, Va, OF Brights disease of XII
neys, aged 81 years. He was ordained to II
ministry OF the Episcopol Church in 1S7
i and was man of brilliant accomplishment
!. resident one year in Wheeling, W. Va, an
l was rector Of church in Macon, Ga, sever
y years. He went TO New York last week with
view Of sailing 10 Europe, but was taken
a and returned to Petersburg on Monday.
Frances Z. Willard, president of the Y
, N. G. It. u. calls upon all the local unions
!, | observe the 27th Of June as q day of praye
u assembling in their usual places of meetin
1t is the day appointed by the Legislature
Z Iowa for the people to vote on the question
!. an amendment to the State Constitution pr
o | hlbiting the manufacture and also Of alcohol
4 | liquors. The liquor-makers and their frien
- are making tremendous fight In tho Stat
Money. is freely poured forth. The tempe
( | ance men and women propose to look earnest
8 | 10 God In prayer, and also "to keep their POI
s | der dry"