Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-10-07
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Rev Page Milburn, who lately returned to
his charge. Mt. Savage, Nd, NJ f. Church. has
been compelled by his health to give up work
again.
= The mission at st. Aloysius', which was in
progress for two weeks. closed on Sunday last
the concluding lecture being by Father McGev-
eny on the Infallibility of the Pope.
= Rev. Father Mccarthy, of the Immaculate
Conception church, continues quite low and is
quietly awaiting death, having come to the con-
clusion that there is no hope Of recovery.
The following delegates will represent the
7. NJ. c. A. of this city at the convention at
Charleston, W. Va, October 18th to the 18th :
Joseph Bowes, R. T. J. Falconer. E. H. Grant,
c. B. Lang, Geo. A. Hilton, and Theo. A. Hard
ing.
Madison avenue NJ. e. church, N. Y, will
probably be supplied next spring by the appoint
ment OF Rev. o. II. Tiffany, formerly of the Me-
tropolitan in this city. Rev. DR.. T. NJ. Buckley.
OF the New York Christian Advocate, is now fill
ing its pulpit.
The Baltimore Methodist devotes consider
able space this week to commenting on a
| remark of Rev. DR.. Newman contained in re-
cent letter: 81 believe God will give all chance
for salvation. If not in this fe then in the next,
even though the process takes millions of years.
Sunday week will be an interesting day at
the Keyser. w. Va. NJ. E. church-the reception
of probationers, all the result of the revival
| among the railroad men few months ago, and
80 per cent OF all the probationers will be re-
ceived.
In EbeneZer colored Methodist church east
Washington an Old-time revival is in progress,
at which the altar is crowded with penitents
| nightly. Rev. Robert Steel, the pastor, has
Charge of the meetings.
bud" Eagleston is much encouraged BY
the aid he is receiving in the erection of his
Gospel-Temperance tabernacle on and I'd
streets northeast. the corner stone of which will
be laid on the 18th. Material and labor, as well
| as money, have been given him, much of it by
parties who have been benefited by the work.
The Rev. Mr. Green, Of Raleigh, N. c., re-
Gently immersed 40 persons in seventy minutes
DIR. John Hall. of New York, has been visit
ing and preaching in his native neighborhood in
Ireland.
Bishop Andrews, of Wisconsin, has eau
toned the Methodist clergymen of his diocese
not to participate in politics.
The Evangelist thinks one of the best bene-
fits Of vacation is the new sense it gives of the
value and sweetness of home.
The Presbyterian says that "the Suez canal
Is the highway of the King Eternal and must
not fall into the hands of the worlds scourges"
The late John Magee, jr., of Watkins, N.
T., has left by will $50 900 for the erection Of
five Episcopal churches in New York, Pennsyl-
vania and Virginia.
The first church, New York (Rev Dr. W.
NJ. Paxton's) stands at the head of the Presby-
terrain roll in benevolent collections. The COL
umns last year amounted to $10S,2O
Moody and Sankey are in Paris. They give
only two Sundays to that city, as they are not
at all handy in their use of the French Ian
guage After that they return to their work
where English is spoken.
The pastor of the United Brethren church
at ROhrersville, Washington county, was locked
out OF his church by portion of his congrega-
ton recently on account of the stand he had
taken against certain secret societies.
The Northern Ohio Methodist Episcopal
conference, which has recently been in session.
unanimously adopted a report in favor of a
stringent prohibitory law for the state and
hailed with joy the passage of the Smith
Sunday law"
In Boston cOnfectiOner has been fined ten
dollars for sending ice cream to his customers
on Sunday that they might have it for dinner
The court which inflicted this fine decided that
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tence IN such sense as to warrant sending it
out on Sunday.
In letter written three years ago, Darwin
says: Christ and science have nothing to do
with each other. ] do not believe any revela-
ton has ever been made as to the future life
Everyone must draw his own conclusions from
vague and contradictory probabilities" This is
held to settle the question of his theological
opinions.
Af In oO1a al
Maryland. irrespective of denomination. was
held last week in Baltimore. The object OF the
gathering, which was large, was to carefully
consider the present condition of the colOred
race in Maryland. religiousy, morally, educa-
tionally and financially and devise WAYS and
means to better the present status of the race
along every line of duty, through all the avenues
Of life.
- Rev. DR.. j. P. Newman, of New York.
says: "There are three things true in honor OF
the Roman Catholic church: 1t has been a wall
of brass against scientific infideIity; protest
Ing power against all forms of socialism and
communism; and it has set it's face resolutely
against frequency of divorce, which has espe-
clally dlsgfaced Protestant Massachusetts,
Connecticut, Indiana and Illinois,
Some of the MethOdists and others of Ten
nessee and Georgia have determined to have a
"Chautauqua" of their own. The committee
appointed to locate it met in Atlanta last week
and decided on Mount Eagle Springs. The
place selected is on the top of the Cumberland
plateau. eighty-seven miles from Nashville and
sixty-fOur miles from Chattanooga The Uni
versity OF the South is six miles distant and
Paramount Female college is only half mile
away.
The way in which the Rev. Mr. Sullivan, of
Salem. Ohio, set about making love to nice
young married lady was as clumsy as it was
ridiculous. Instead Of going directly to her
and kissing her he wrote her gushing letter
in which he spoke Of hungering to press her
pouting, pretty, persimmon- like lips to his
own. Somehow or other this letter got abroad
with the result Of making things SO hot for
Brother Sullivan that he had to resign the pas
torate of the Methodist church of Salem.
The Church of the Ascension in Chicago IA
conspicuous for it's ritualist practices and it's
rector, the Rev. Mr.. Richie, is recognized as
one Of the most advanced ritualists in the
Protestant Episcopal communion. Last Sunday
he gave notice that High Mass would be cele-
brated in his church on Friday, being the feast
of st. Michael. He also announced that Bishop
McLaren would Of1ciate. Bishop McLaren con-
tradicted this and said that the Protestant
Episcopal church recognized no such service.