Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-06-10
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
EVENTS OF THE Week.-Mrs. DISTRICT CHURCHES
WHAT is GOING ON IN THE RELIGIOUS
WORLD.

Grace N. E. church will be dedicated on
Sunday, the 18th inst
Bishop Simpson dedicated the new Straw
bridge church in Baltimore last Sunday.
Bishop Foss, Of the Methodist church, is
still feeble, but slowly and hopefully improving.
At st. Johns Lutheran church, New York.
ITO young persons have been confirmed recently.
= The Seventh Baptist church, of Baltimore,
has called Rev. DR.. ]. B. Thomas, of Brooklyn.
= At Trinity (Catholc) church, Georgetown,
the forty hours devotion will commence to-
morrow.
The North Baptist church, in this city, is
still without pastor, but efforts are being made
to obtain one.
AT a college in Ceylon, India, over seventy
students have renowned paganism and en-
braced Christianity.
MFR. Adams, secretary Of the Y. NJ. C. A. of
place is not yet filed.
Bishop Pinkney was Methodist in his
young days, and studied at first for it's ministry
He is a native Of Annapolis.
The 156th anniversary Of the birth Of Otter
bein. founder of the United Brethren church,
was celebrated last Sunday in Baltimore
Over 100000 Bibles were given to immi-
grants during the past year upon arriving in
this country, by the American Bible Society.
- Bishop Payne, Of the Methodist Episcopal
church south, is very old and in the Christian
ministry Is years, 80 of which he has been a
bishop.
Rev. DR.. James H. Rigg, one Of the ablest
English MethOdists, has just written the article
on "Methodism' for the new Encyclopedias
BrittanIca."
Bishop Peck, of the NJ E. church. recently
met with severe accident in Detroit. He got
a severe fall and sprained his shoulder, and was
hurt badly.
- The Mt.ZiOn Lutheran church. near PUNK
sutawney, Jefferson county, Pa, and Christ g
Evangelical church, at Harrisburg, Ohio, will be
dedicated tomorrow.
= Rev. Charles A. Stokeley, a young Baptist
minister, who until recently was a practising
lawyer. ia meeting with considerable success in
revivals at ElbertOn and Hartwell. Ga.
- Archbishop Gibbons ON Tuesday last con-
tirmed IA young ladies at the Academy of the
Visitation, Georgetown, among them Miss Mar
tinez, the daughter of the CHILEAN minister.
Rev. DR.. Newman, for some years of Metro
pOlitan II. E. Church, in this city, and now OF
Madison avenue Congregational church, New
York, contemplates trip to Europe shortly for
the benefit OF his health.
= There is a religious war going on among
the Mohammedans of Egypt. The object is to
overthrow the yoke of the sultan of Turkey as
head of the Mohammedan church. The war
continues to spread in SOudan.
- Rev. Father Fulton, recently elected pro-
vncial of the Order of Jesuits, will not leave St
AIOysius (Catholic) church and Gonzaga col
lege until about July LIST. His successor has
not yet been determined upon.
DR. John Halls church, in New York. be-
sides $685., 597 for congregational purposes, gives
M hop fori ei<v xn;o
gives also $40, 600 to the Presbyterian Home and
Foreign Missionary Boards, and to the other
boards in the same proportions.
The Presbyterians of the north and south
have at length become fraternal in their rela-
tiOns. They have been divided for many wears.
like the Methodists, on the subject of slavery;
but hencefOrth they are to appoint fraternal
delegates to each others assemblies, and have
already exchanged greetings.
The Swedenborgians met in Chicago in gen.
eral conference the first week in June The
temple in Chicago, Van Buren, street and Michi-
gan avenue, was dedicated free from debt in
Chauncey Giles, president of the general con-
ventiOn, treated Of the distinctively spiritual
tenets OF the new church, and especially Of it's
cardinal doctrine, the oneness of God.
The new Catholic church of Poplar Springs,
near Ellicott City, Md. was dedicated Thursday.
High mass was celebrated at 1890 am. by Arch
bishop Gibbons assisted by Father Griffin, the
oldest priest in the diocese, and several priests
from st. Charles and Woodstock Colleges. The
archbishop afterwards confirmed q large
Class OF the new congregation. The church
will be under the direction of the Jesuiti-
cal College of Woodstock.
Tomorrow is "Children's Day" in the Meth
Odist Sunday-scfbols and churches, and will
also be observed by other denominations. Elab-
crate preparations are being made and pleasing
programs will be presented, in which will be
short addresses, responsive readings, recitations
and singing. The infant class exercises will be
particularly entertaining. All of the churches
will be decorated. and in some will be cages
OF birds, notices, &c.
- The following calls and designations have
recently taken place in the Lutheran churches :
Rev. c. E. Wirick, Just graduated at Wittenburg
seminary, to Tarlton, Ohio; Rev. F. d. Altman,
from same institute. to Tippecanoe City, OHIO ;
Rev. J: N. Rice, of Williamsburg. Pa, has re-
signed his Charge there and accepted a call from
St Cla'rsviile, Bedford county, Pa; Rev. L. E.
Densmore. Of Stone Mills, n Y, resigned to
accept a call to the Poestenkin IN. " church.
The following changes in the Baptist minis
try have recently taken place: Rev. L. NJ Whiting,
OF Manchester, Iowa, resigned to go to Greedy,
Colorado; Mr.. F. Hutchinson, of BROOKLYN. "a
graduate Of the Union theological seminary, ) to
First church, birmingham, Mass. Rev. Thomas
Crudgington, late Of Compton, R. l., accepts
the pastorate Of Cottage City church, Mass. !;
Rev. A. G. Dixon, Of Asheville, N. c., has re-
signed his pastorate there.
i Reports from the Baptist churches in vari-
GUS quarters show continued accessions. In
Illinois, De Kalb reports IA accessions; Norris
Is and Sycamore 80; veray, Ind, 20; Indianola,
Iowa. 81; Topeka, Kansas, "a; C0rinth, N. c.,
40; Asbury Park, N. j., 20; Raleigh, N G., over
4OO-149 having been baptized by Rev. Mr.. Greer
In 10 minutes; Eaton, Ohio, z; Tabernacle,
Philadelphia, 80 during the year; two German
congregations at Milwaukee, Wis.,, GO.
The members Of st. Joseph's Catholic
church, Baltimore. are preparing testimonial
for Rev. P. L. Chappelle, late pastor, now of st.
Matthews church. here, in the shape of mag
nifcent gold watch. Rev. N. ]. Brennan, Of
Baltimore. who has recently been elevated to
the priesthood, will assist Dr. Chappelle, of st.
Matthew'S. for q few weeks, during the tempo
rary indisposftion Of Rev. ]. d. BOland. assist
ant pastor, and will then take charge of st.
Peter, Baltimore.
= The recent meeting Of the Virginia Baptist
association, at Warrenton, was harmonious and
successful. The general association represents
the white Baptists Of the state-22 district asso-
Citations fsS5 churches ordainoN r~a,,.x..n