The Evening critic., 1883-05-26

Capitol HilI.-services ii a. m. ana 8 p. MI
the annual sermon 10 several OF the Grand |
the pastor, Rev. ". i. Parson, tomorrow |
morning; seats FREQ; sundayechool at o 80.
Onion ~ N. Church, Twentieth street northp |
Seg I've near easoT Rey W. %oeeS a
m. '"rhe Fulnllment of Purpose;" at 8 p. m.
'Tbe Centurian's Sick Servant" Sunday.
school at On. M; monthly missionary meeting
at p. m; young peoples meeting AZ p.
M; seats free; cordial invitation to all.
Iouno Mems Clr,stian association, 1400 New
York avenue.-Young mons Bible class, 4:3O
to 80 p. M. conducted by the secretary;
Gospel meeting O to p. M, led by u. u. f.
Mcfarland: Association meeting Monday,
Msy 2s epSr
and election OF new members.
Grace y. n. Church, corner OF Ninth and
streets, South Washington, Rev. Frederick q.
Lee, rector.-Services at IL q. IN. and 1880
p. M; seats free; music by quartet choir.
Religious News.
Tho Congregational Jubilee Fund OF
Great Britain has reached the sum OF 81 ,10O,-
600.
A religious awakening more general than
II has enjoyed In twenty nve years, has lately
pervaded Yale College,
Professor Paul Haupt has been appointed
Professor OF Assyriology for three years in the
University OF Baltimore.
Newman Halls Church, in London, has
1,O71 members. Its thirteen Sunday y-schools
have $500 children and 400 teachers.
The Mennonites in this country now num-
ber 40 churches or organizations, $50 min
listers and about 10000 communicates.
Sixty-six persons were baptized on re-
cent Sunday In the Baptist Church at Canaan
daigua, N. Y, Rev. g. E. Hiscox, pastor.
Twelve hundred students were converted
at Trinity College Church South, North Caro-.
lima, while the late DR.. Braxton Craven was
president.
Rev. James McLaIen, formerly pastor at
North Cupitol street Church and also Mt Union
town, is seriously III at his charge near Cum
berland, Md.
Mrs. G. II. Spurgeon, who has been con-
| fined Mt home during several years by Illness,
was present at the great Tabernacle, May O.,
and heard her husband preach In the morning.
New England Congregationalism is to
have new monthly magazine, the And0rer
| ReUieap, to be published in Boston by private
| enterprise and edited by four of the Andover
| professors.
Phillips Congregational Church, South
raised raised 5000 in In fvo days for the erection OF
Phillips Chapel, for tho accommodation OF the
Bay View branch of the Sunday school, located
| at City Point.
| The independent Methodist churches of
there this week In Epworth Church, and Mr..
Charles J. Baker was secretary. He has do
mated $4,000 toward erecting Epworth
Church.
The Congregational Year Book reports
1,19S ministers unemployed, and 1923
churches without pastor. The conundrum
The e. Mothodists know how this Is done, and
make.no secret OF It,.
Out of a population of 25,000,000, Eng.
land sends only 5000 students to her two
uniVersities. Scotland, with population OF
Germany, with n population of 13,000,0 ,000
has 22,5O0 students In her various unlversi-
ties.
The petition of the Wesleyan Methodist:
in England in favor OF the English sunda,
Closing Act, presented to the Parliament by
Sir william Macarthur April 10, required foui
men to carry It Into the House Of Commons
1893.
The Archdeacon of Westminster, who
died on the 9th ultimo, at the age of SO years
had held his llvings for upward OF fifty years
He was the sole surviving clergyman who OIL
ciated at the coronation OF Queen Victoria II
1888. 1t is reported that Canon Farrar Will b.
his successor.
A preacher, raising his eyes from hi
| desk In the midst OF his sermon, was para
| lyzed with Rmazement to see his rude boy II
the gallery pelting the hearers in the pews be
low with horse chestnuts. But, while the goo
man was preparing frown OF reproof, th
young hopeful cried out: "You tend +
your preaching, daddy. I'll keep them awake.
Angels have opened prison doors (Acts v
and viz and they have carried the Master
message; but the angels never preach. Yo
| never find an angel calling on sinners to re
pent. There is not a Gospel according to tn
angels. Angels are like little children en-
ployed to carry letters to the Masters friends
They may try TO peep into the contents by th
way, but they cannot comprehend the mean
ing.
Zion's Herald of this week says: Hon
Thomas L. Tullock, OF Washington, d. c., VIII
was to the ''manner born," continues in tn
May number Of the Granite Monthly his yer
Interesting historical and biographical sketc
OF Methodsm in Portsmouth, N. II. He ha
recovered and preserved dates and incident
OF glorious men Of O former day whose memor
had become like the vision of a fading cloud.
Mr.. w. Hoyle has made his well-know
, | annual statement to the London Times In re
erepce to tho drink traffic. In 1876 tn
| amount spent in drink was, he shows, 8147
, 2SS,759; last year the figures were f126
| 251,359. This decrease, taking into accour
the Increase In population, ought surely to {
least encourage temperance workers, but M
= Hoyle Is not satisfied. The various tempe
ance societies and organizations, of which
gives numerous list, have not, he maintain
told upon the nation to the extent whic
! might reasonably have been expected. "
does seem appalling" he says, "that the mo
. which all these organizations have been alb
l to effect during the past year has been to STE
the further rising OF the tide OF the inten
perance which 80 fearfully deluges our b
8 loved country"