The Evening critic., 1882-05-20

IUcyM-SfTctt NJ. n. ChUfch, corner OF Twelfth
street and Pennsylvania avenue southeast II.
A. Morgan, pastor.-Services at IL n. m. and
Sp. m.
Unirersalist church, Lincoln Hail, corner
Ninth and ID streets.-Services tomorrow at
IL n. M; sermon by Rev. w. W. Curry; sun
doy.school at :45 a. m.
Coggress-street NJ p. Church, s. D. souther.
land, D. D., Understanding at IL a. m; by
the pastor; at p. M, by Rev. It. Il. Coul.
bourne; praise meeting at 6:30 p. m; all
arc welcome.
Mount Pleasant M p. Church, West washing
ton Heights, Rev. T. Il. Coulbourne, PASTOR
Preaching at IL q. m. by the pastor; at 3 p. M,
by s. b. southerland, d. D.; sunday-school at
p. mi all are welcome.
Mount Zion NJ. n. Church, Green street, near
Beall.-Preaching tomorrow at IL a. m. and
p. m, by members OF the General Conference
Of the 9. M. E. Church; sunday-school at a.
m. md 2:3O p. m. Como over TO Macedonia
and help us. t. W. Booth, pastor.
HaDtine AZ. n. church, corner Ninth and P
9i1b, sunday.school; IL q. M, by the pastor,
Friends in Heaven p @ p. M, young peoples
meeting, led by Mrs. Roach; interesting
speakers; Miss Jennie Cutter will be present
and sing; pm, by Mrs. L. b. sevens, OF
Delaware, subject =" Loaves and Fishcs;" vel
come.
East Washington.
Gospel Temperance Tent, North Capitol and
streets.-Speaking, good music and pledge
signing at 80 p m.; Messrs. Bud Eagleston
and A. II. Hilton.
Chyistddelphidn Ecclesid, McCaulty's Hall,
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IL a. m.
Religious News.
A large number of Episcopal churches are
now being erected in Texas.
The Virginia Baptist General Association
will meet at Warrenton, Va, May 81.
The Rev. DIR. Hannah, Bishop of the
Catholic Church, Halifax, N. s., is dead.
Moody and Sankey have declined to de-
vote one year 10 labor in London at present
The English Baptist mission boat on the
Corgo River is Of steel, and seventy feet long.
The Archbishop Of Canterbury is frail
and feeble in health and contemplates re-
signing.
A census of churchgoers in Augusta, Me-,
showed that about half tho population are
attendants.
The Rev. J. L. Kettridge, of Geuesee,
was elected Chancellor of Ingham University
on Monday.
A Catholic priest, the Rev. Frederick
Crucana, has joined the Methodist mission In
Rome, Italy.
The boy preacher, Rev. Thomas Har-
rison, is holding meetings in st. Paul, Mimi,
since the first Of the month.
Twelve Episcopal churches were built in
Michigan during the past year, nine Of which
have already been consecrated.
The Rev. A. G. Powell, of Cincinnati, has
received a call TO the vacant rectorship Of st.
Johns Episcopal parish, York, Pa.
Rev. d. Watson Winn, of West Point
Va, has accepted the place OF assistant In
Christ Episcopal Church, Macon, Ga.
Rev. A. G. Barron, pastor of the Baptist
Church at Culpeper, Va, has accepted call
to the Baptist Church at Berryville, Va.
Rev. DIR. Thomas Cuard is announced to
preach in the Washington Street M. E. Church
South, Petersburg, Va, o-morrow-morning
and evening.
Rev. VIM. P. Corbit, of New York, is
very Ill with inflammatory rheumatism. He
was pastor of Fayette-street Church, Baltimore
some years ago.
Bishop Stevens, of the Episcopal Diocese
OF Pennsylvania, has set apart tomorrow as n
day Of intercession for missions in the several
parishes and congregations.
Some Mormon missionaries who began a
| proselyttng campaign in Morgan County,
| Miss, have been warned to leave the county
Immediately, never to return.
| DR.. Gibson, Superintendent of the Metho.
dist Chinese work on the Pacific Coast, has
recently purchased an eligible location for a
Chinese school and church in San Jose, Cal.
The ladies of St. Luke's Episcopal Church,
| Philadelphia, have presented to their rector,
| Rev. @. George Currie, d. D., purse OF 81 800
TO defray the expenses Of summers trip to
| Europe.
| fine residence built by the late Hon
| A. Foster at a cost of 500, ,OOO in Waterloo
| Canada, is reported TO have been purchased
for 100000 by some nuns from Montreal for G
| nunnery.
The Rev. William Kelynack, D. D., o.
| Sydney, New South Wales, by the unanimous
vote of his brethren, has been elected to the
Office Of General Secretary Of Missions of The
| Methodist Church.
The Rev. c. w. Allen and DIR. f. B. Fos-
ter, each Of whom was once pastor of tho sam,
church In Pelham, N. H., died on the same day
and were buried on the same day, after year
of service elsewhere.
Rev. DIR. W. II. Dc Puy. the able and
| genial assistant editor of the New York Chris
| ti0n Adrocate for about twenty years, has gon,
TO Europe for a few months, where his daugh
| ter has been at school.
The vestry of st. Luke's parish, Churcf
Hill, Caroline County, Nd, have called Rev
Mr.. Bynum, of North Carolina, to the vacan
rectorship of that parish. AS yet he has no
forwarded his acceptance.
Rev. r. D. Roller, rector of Trinity Epis-
| copal Church, Martinsburg, W. Va, has re
ceived a call to St. Johns Episcopal Church
Mobile, Ala, one OF the largest and wealthies
congregations IN the South.
A Mr.. Bridge, minister of the Reformed
| Episcopal persuasion, at Farmersvillo, In thu
diocese OF Ontario, Can, has, with his congre
cation, applied to be received into tho Eplsco
pal Church, in which he proposes to become ,
minister.
The Rev. r. S. Maclay, superintendent o
Methodist missions In Japan, has not left thi
country yet. His daughter is the wife of Rev
w. b. Cooper, an Episcopal minister. She wa
born in China, but has reached this country II
search OF health.
A young couple belonging to the Episco
pal Church were married the other day in In
| verary (Scotland) Presbyterian Church, tn
minister attiring himself in full canonical
for the occasion, and adopting part OF the Eng
lish ritual in the service.
There are twenty-three Congregations
| pulpits in Connecticut vacant waiting for
| "good minister" TO turn up, and the C0Rgreg0
donota says there is twice as many .'goo'
ministers" ready to supply them II amicabl
arrangements could be made.
The new Presbyterian Church at Moss,
Creek, Augusta County, Va, was dedicated o.
Thursday last, Rev. Moses d. Hoge, of Rich
mond, delivering the dedicatory sermon. Il
tho afternoon DR.. Hoge gave his famous lee
ture on ''Tent Life in the East"
In st. Thomas Episcopal Church, Ney
York, the offerings and contributions With
the parish for general and local objects wer
500, 120.6S; the revenue from pews was SiS
600; total, S11O,620. .6S-more than the COL
tributions OF a majority OF the dtoceses.
Rev. Brooke Herford of the First Uni
tartan Church, Chicago, has resigned and az
cepted the pastorate OF Arlington stree
church, Boston, made vacant by the death
Rev. j. Il. W. Ware, formerly pastor In Bait
more.
Right Hon. VIM. L. Baxter, M. r., said
after careful personal observation In tn
East, that the missionaries were ''doing NOR
for the civilization and elevation OF the ignI
rant masses OF the East than any other agenc
whatever"
The remains Of what was evidently
Christian church have been discovered 1
Athens, Greece. A sarcophagus, bearing fl
scription showing II TO be the remains of
minister, together with clerical robe, wa
| found intact,