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

| has received 90 accessiOns.
- Hon. w. E. Dodge, of New York, has given
| 5000 to aid Iowa College
- The Methodist thinks the ''camp-meeting
| has not died any to speak of this year"
| A Mission for young men and women will
be commenced at st. Aloysius on Sunday week.
- There are 2l9 churches and SO. 600 church
members among the Indians in the United
| States
- Rev. Calvin Yale Presbyterian clergy
man, recently died at Martinsburg, Va, aged
| ninety-one years.
| - Rev. Watson NJ Hayes was recently or
dained by the presbytery Of Chenango, NY, as
missionary To China.
- Evangelist Harrison charges from 800 TO
$500 week and board for his services at camp
| meetings and revivals.
! - Rev. DR.. G. w. Musgrave, recently de-
ceased in Philadelphia, bequeathed $4,000 to
| Princeton y. J. college.
| - Mrs. Harriet Boswell, of Lincoln, H., who
died recently. left all her property, $1,000, to
the poor widows OF that town.
| Key p. F. Mccarthy of the Immaculate
Conception church, is much better In health,
! but cannot be said to be entirely well.
- The Baptists are making remarkable pro-
| gress in Sweden, having now 90 600 members,
and in one place an attendance of 500.
= Rev. John c. Hill, appointed by the board
OF foreign missions CPresbyteran). will go 10
| the capitol OF Guatemala as missionary.
- Rev. W. H. Allen. D. n. and L. L. d.. presl-
| dent of Girard College. Philadelphia. died re-
GENTLY. DR.. Allen was of the NJ. f. church.
Tomorrow Foundry NJ. E. church will be G.
years old, having been dedicated September 10.
1915, as station, Rev. Nicholas Snethen preach
| ing the sermon.
- The missionary institutes recently held at
! Atlantic Highlands We're very successful and
much interesting information as to mission
work was disseminated through them.
| The Moravians at Bethlehem celebrated re-
Gently the 150th anniversary of the beginning
| of the foreign mission work. They were the
! pioneer protestant denomination in the work
| - Rev. I. Z. Christian p. f. of Thomasville
district. South Georgia NJ E. Church South. re-
ports 500 conversions in his district this year
and expects 500 more before the close OF the
year.
| - The Dunbarton-street NJ F.. church. George
town, is being renovated, and will be reopened
| on the last Sabbath i'm this month. Rev. ]. J.
u. Webster expects to resume preaching 0cto-
Der LIST.
| DIR. WilberfOrce is the seventh English pre-
late who abstains from strong drink. The
Others are the Bishops of Exeter Gloucester
and Bristol, Rochester Durham, Dover and
Beirord
! - The missionaries of the United Presby-
terrain church in Egypt all succeeded In getting
away before actual hostilities commenced. ex-
! cept Mr.. Ewing and DR.. Watson. who are at
their posts.
| THE First Baptist church of Detroit. as soon
as they heard that their pastor had received the
degree of d. D.. raised his salary $500 This
| fixes the precise value Of that honorary title
ID. $500 d. (dollars)
| The venerable Archbishop Purcell. of Gin
cinnati, Notwithstanding his advanced age and
feeble condition, is still enjoying very excellent
health He resides at the Ursuline Convent at
| st. Martin. in Brown county Ohio
- Rev. DR.. Hicks on Sunday evening last
commenced a series of sermons on the decaIogue
of the Free Thinkers the first being In answer
to the declaration 1T is better to be an honest
man in hell than a sneak in Heaven"
! - DR.. Dabney, Of the Presbyterian Church
South. seems now to be in precisely the same
position as that held by Saul when he departed
/ on bis Journey to Damascus. The only question
is how will he be brought to see the light
REV. j. Duey Moore continues very i'll at
Harper's Ferry, and cannot survive much
longer. He has the sympathy of all his breth-
rem; Mr. Moore has many friends in this city.
having formerly served GOrsuch chapel here.
chant who gave $4,000 to the Anglo-Chinese
college at FOochOw. have embraced christianity.
and been received into the Methodist church
| He has son who is a pr06atiOner in Newark,
M.
! - The Washington Preachers Association re-
sumed its meetings on Monday last. and the
reports from the several churches showed that
they were in good condition. The subject under
discussion was the best modes Of conducting
REVEALS.
- Last year the Church Missionary Society of
| England raised 81 6i. $50; Wesleyan Missionary
! Society. sos, 9S5 Society for the Propagation
of the Gospel. 1914 $40; London Missionary So
ciety. S5So.C60; and Baptist Missionary Society,
S26l $50
| - The Methodist says that during the last forty
years. in New York city. the Presbytefians and
| MethOdists have each advanced at about the
rate of 331G per cent on their membership: the
! BaptistS about b or SIS per cent and the Episco-
palians over 200 per cent. 1t says that these are
| painful and humiiiating facts"
"A project Is on foot for uniting In one body
| the various Methodist sects in Canada There is
no bitterness nor rivalry between these various
/ bodies as they now stand, nor is there any mate
rial difference on doctrinal points or on matters
| oil church government. This makes the pro-
! jected union all the more practical and easy to
be accomplished.
- The controversy which has for some time
| ragged in the United Presbyterian church over
the instrumental music question has assumed a
! new shape. The anti-music party has secured
written opinions from two eminent LAWYERS to
the effect that the act by which the law against
instrumental music was repealed was not con-
stitntiOnal, inasWuch as it was passed by a
number of votes short of the required legal ma
jOrity.
The Archbishop Of Baltimore (Cathcllc) has
transferred Rev. T. j. Broyderick from Elkridge
to st. Martins, Bait, as assistant priest; Rev.
J. A. Cassidy. from st. Patrick's Bait to
Elkridge; Rev. COstan Schmidt from Oakland,
Md. to st. Andrews, Bait. as assistant priest
Rev. Romanus Mattingly from Cumberland to
Oakland, and Rev. r. b. Mccarthy to ST. Jo-
seph's. The Archbishop will visit Rockville
Sept. nth. Rock Creek 18th, st. Rose 18th, and
GAINESVILLE 10th.
Discussing the Sunday School Library ques-
ton. tbs Sunday School Times says: ''There are
thousands of Sunday school libraries in this
country which do not profess to be limited to
books suitable for Sunday reading. However
unwise or even sinful this may seem. It is a fact;
aud in view of it we have urged that il The
Pirates Own Booker any book Of that gen.
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