Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-09-30
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

6elphia, propose to build Gilbert Hover me-
mortal church.
- The revival at jefferson NJ. E. church. Rev.
NJ F. B. Price pastor. has resulted in the addi-
tion of 80 to the church.
- The Josephite Fathers OF Baltimore contem-
plate the erection Of church in south Balti-
more for colored people.
Rev. Father John Crowley of the Josephite
order of priests, formally of St Mary's church.
at Upper Marlboro, now of Louisville. KY, Is
visiting Baltimore.
Col. Greenville Moody, ''the fighting par
SON of the Cincinnati conference Of the NJ. f.
church, has been granted superannuated re-
lati0n. at his own request.
- Rev. Claudian B. Northrup. well-known
Catholic priest of Charleston. S. c., who was
ordained to the priesthood in 1861, died on the
2lst instant at Hickory. n. c.
The Sunday school of Memorial Lutheran
church, which will hold its missionary anniver
saTy tomorrow. has in the past year raised
500 for the cause Of missions.
- Bishop Bowman. Of the NJ f. Church. has
regained his health after long and severe i'll
ness and was able to preach two weeks since
occupying the Union pulpit in st. Louis
The old John Street NJ. E. Church. New
York. is enjoying high degree of prosperity
all the meetings being well attended and the
Sunday school being larger than for twenty
years.
At Laurel, Prince Georges county Md.
there is quite spirited revival in progress at
the NJ E. church, under Rev. Thomas Myers, and
already there have been eighteen accessions to
the church.
- On the 21st instant. the corner stone
Of Cornell Memorial NJ. E. church, 10Th
street New York. was laid with appropriative
- oh,
] $50 persons.
- Rev. Father Brouet. of the Catholic IN
dian mission bureau, has returned from Mon
treal. and will leave in few days for DEVILS
Lake Dakota, where he will establish an in
6ustTial school.
- At Calvary Baptist church in this city, the
Primary Teachers Union meet every Friday af-
ternOon. and the meetings are attended by rep
resentatves from nearly all the primary Sunday
school classes in the District.
The Central Me. church, of Washington
conference, colOred. of which Rev. J.W. Steven
son is the pastor. hold services at Wayland Hall
twice each Sabbath. and Sunday school of
fOrty-twO pupils has been organized.
- Rev. F. W. Briggs, Wesleyan minister of
England. was in Baltimore this week, and lee
tured on Bishop Asbury Monday night. He is
travelling in the interests of the Asbury monu-
Hon W. c. De Paw recently presented the
Indiana conference the NJ E. church s. 900 each
for missionary purposes and for the Preachers
Aid Society. This is in accordance with Gus
tom he has maintained for thirteen years.
- Ernest Gebhart, pastor of the Methodist
church at Zurich. Switzerland, who has repu-
tation as a poet, composer and singer, has
sailed for the United States on singing tour to
raise funds for the work of the Church in Ger
many.
Georgetown station (now Dunbarton street,
NJ. f. church, antedates the revolution and the
original building is now used as a public school
The church has recently been newly frescOed
and furnished. and will be reOpened tomorrow
week. October Sth.
The Maryland synod of the Lutheran church
will meet at Emmittsburg next Wednesday, and
the churches here-St Paul's. Memorial. and
Reformation-will be represented by the pas
tOrs-Revs. 5. Domer J. G. Butler and Mr.
ParsOns-and a delegate.
During the early part of October a state
convention Of ladies who labor as auxiliaries of
the Young Mems Christian associations will be
held in Baltimore. Miss Jennie Smith, national
superintendent of railway work; Mrs. s. H.
Martin, Mrs George Hulse Mcleod are ex-
pected TO be present.
- The Baltimore Methodist SAYS: "The Chris
only in regard to personal piety. but also as to
the feelings INDUCED towards one another.
Evangelical denominations are drawing nearer
to each other. taking their position as brethren
on the broad platform of the fundamental doc
trneS OF Christianity. whilst their minor differ
ences. though held firmly. are nevertheless held
more in a spirit of love and forbearance than
formerly. They are learning to look more on
the points in which they agree than on those in
which they differ.
The German congregation at the corner of
9th and streets. of some thirty families, Or
ganiZed some years since as an evangelical
Lutheran church. and recently known as a
PRESBYTERIAN church. will in a short time be
transferred and adopted rs mission of Memo
rial Lutheran church, of which Rev. DR. j. q.
Butter is the pastor. and placed under the
charge Of Rev. "A. Hemrishttils. late of Frost
burr. Md, as a missionary. Under the new
arrangement the services on Sabbath mornings
Will be in German and in the evenings in Eng
lish, and an English Sunday school will be or
ganlZed at once under the superintendent OF
Prof Guss.
- That great, all important and influential
doctrine of the general redemption of the world
by the one sacrfcial Offering of our Lord. Jesus
Christ, has greater number of adherents to-
day than it has had for centuries past The
consequence is that evangelical Christians meet
on this common platform, and the enunciation
OF the doctrine from the various pupts meets
with glad response from those who occupy the
pews The truth is conveyed with conyicting
power TO the hearts of congregations by the
Holy Spirit souls are awakened and converted
ana brought In large numbers into the kingdom
oil Christ a paternal feeling is elected and an
earnest endeavOr put forth ito keep the unity
u tHe spirit in the bond Of peace"
- a correspondent of the Montreal Witness.
writing from London and describing various
religious meetings which he attended. says -
" And here let me remark what heard at the
meeting while | attended, that the wives of the
three leading men in the religious world of
London are quite up to their husbands In abil-
ity, deyotedness and personal influence viz:
Mrs. Gathan Guinness, Mrs Spurgeon and Mrs
Booth.
- The Examiner gives no comfort to Inger-
soil, but thus makes an example Of him: "At
the trial of the star route robbers In Washing
ton the other day. he rallied at Christian institu
lions and at Christ Himse I, if there ever was q
Christ, tor such was the sense of his blasphe-
nous language. But Mr.. Ingersoll told the
Judge and the jury that he sOlemnly believed In
the integrity, the manhood, the honor and the
lofty character Of the Dorseys"
DIR. COplestone bishop Of Colombo has re-