Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-02-04
RELIGIOUS NOTES.


- The Second Street PRESBYTERIAN church in
| Troy is reconstructing its house of worship at
an expense Of $4,000
The Union Baptist church in Baltimore
composed Of colored people, most of whom are
| in humble circumstances, has shown remarkable
l LID Its contributions for a year are
$4,000, and five of the young men Of the church
are preparing for the ministry.
Archbishop Purcell continues feeble in mind
from the decay of his mental faculties, and un-
disturbed by any thought Of his financial
troubles. He requires as much care an in
iant, and receives it lovingly at the Ursuline
Convent, in Brown county, Ohio.
- The great defect in the present manage
ment of charities in New York, says the Chris
ttdn Union, is the lack of central organization.
In Buffalo, where the charities have been orga-
niZed Tor some time, and also in Boston, the
central system works admirably.
- The revival in Cincinnati, conducted by
Rev. Thos. Harrison, is said to surpass anything
yet known in the history of the Boy Preacher
Inc meetings have only been running little
over three weeks, and the number of converts
reaches already nearly five hundred.
- The Observer reprints the following SEN
fences from New York correspondence of the
London Record: do not suppose, however,
that the Ritualsts rule or are likely to do SO in
TINS diocese They will, by and by, make a
desperate effort to elect their man for bishop.
and will find that blood is thicker than water"
- The Christian Leader turns in disgust from
grldiron parties, Punch and Judy fandangoes,
minstrel singing, calico gatherings. and forty
other attractions in order to interest the young
people, and asks significantly, lis the house
OF God to run race with the theater, and the
sospel preacher to be put ia competition with
the COMEDIAN
- The First Baptist church in Indianapolis
has band of young ladies and gentlemen who
are united under the title of Yoke Fellows"
and who are doing an excellent and much
needed work. feature OF their work is to
visit strangers, and interest them in religious
associations and attendance on church services.
Many have thus been redeemed from the snares
that In every city are laid Tor the young.
- The Rev. DR.. Chester of this city, who is
publishing series of articles on Mormonism in
the Presbyterian. maintains that the Mormon
problem cannot be worked out simply by abol-
fishing pOygamy. The real seat OF the power OF
Morlnonistn he holds lies in its hierarchy-the
root which in its ramiiicatOns has entwined
around the whole religious. social. and political
LIE OF its people. The heaviest blow that could
| be struck at Mormonisn, therefore. would be to
deprive it Of its temporal power.
The new Tabernacle" church in South
Washington, will, it is expected. be finished and
! furnished by Friday the 18th inst 1t ia pro-
| posed to open the building with an organ con.
cert on that date The dedication will take
place on Sunday following, 18th inst, and the
services Oh this occasion viii include the ordina-
ton of deacons. 1t is not known definitely
who will assist and take part with the pastor,
! Rev. DR.. W. W. Hicks. in these exercises. but
probably DR.. Talmage, Of Brooklyn, and other
| preachers Of note will be here.
- The Chmclt,nan says: '.Seven executions
in the United States Or the Feast OF the
| Epiphany this year are CHASTITY commentary
upon American disregard of traditions. No
| Judge would appoint an execution for Christmas
! day, though it should fall on a Friday, as
Epiphany did this year. The Epiphany is Christ
mas day for all the SclavoRic race, and it is a
| very sacred day for many other people. A judge
who caR respect tradition to the extent of re-
| Meufbering that Friday is 'hangman's ,lay.
should go a little further and consult his alma
nae in his choice Of Fridays AS long as it is
pretended that this is Christian country these
scandals should be avoided"
| An English ''Agnostic'' makes a plea for
church going, on the ground that it is only in
church that the rules of good breeding are
! sufficiently relaxed to allow man to inform
yon that you are remiss in the minor and major
|
a man will stand from minister If Jones calls
| Brown a liar, Brown Immediately hits straight
| out from the shoulder and knocks Jones down.
But Brown will go to church and allow a little
fellow. weighing perhaps ninety pounds, to tell
! him that he is miserable sinner and is going
straight to hades. Brown, so far from wax
! ing wrOth, will commend the sermon and put a
! S. bill in the plate.
- The California correspondent of the Herald
! and Presbyer says: Il want to protest against
/ the criticisms Of the active, Jealous and liberal
members Of church. by the lazy and illiteral
/ Ii brother A thinks that some Improvement is
/ imperatiyely needed. if he talks about it. if he
/ heads a subscription, if he gets plans and esti-
mates, some body will say Yes brother A wants
| to run this church, and every cOld-hearted
stin9y man and woman viii echo the sheer. Let
these critics try to Go what they accuse brother
A ofdoing, and nobody will rejoice more he artily
| than he. He wants the church run. He is tired
Of seeing it drag"
- There was loud call among the Meth
odist brethren for supply of low-priced read
ing matter to counterfeit the perncious effect of
the ten-cent stuff which is so largely ceruptng
| the youthful mind. At Dr.. Vncent's urgent
| suggestion. the Book Concern published two
] series OF books, one for chiireu and the other
| for older persons. These bear the name of
''The Lyceum Library" and sell for ten cents a
volume. DR.. Vincent now publishes his official
complaint that the Methodist public will not buy
! this kind OF ten-cent literature and states that
! although it has for months been on the counter
not one thousand copies have yet been sold.
= 1t was recently announced that the Rev
George c. Min of Chicago had become SO hetero-
dox in his theology that he was no longer at
nome in the Unitarian church, and that he con-
| sequently felt the necessity Of reaching out iato
some religious fellowship where he would be
! free to adopt and preach any new theories
which might present themselves to his mind
With this view, he was about to give up his
church. But he has now taken a new view of
the situation, and has concluded to remain
where he is. Hispeople have urged him to with
| draw his resignation, and he has consented,
| they giving him the largest liberty to preach
from their pulpit such doctrines as may seem
good to him.
A wel-knOwn preacher recently expert
enced painful sense of sutfocation during his
preaching services on Sunday, followed by
severe pain in his throat after going home On
| Monday he felt hardly able to speak, and on
Tuesday he could with difficulty utter a whisper.
| By Wednesday tile trouble generally relieved it.
self. This continued for some weeks, alarming
the poor man all the time. and increasing in
| main and Inconvenience Tho s,,ffpr;n,r