The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-01-02

superintendcnt. Officers and teachers,
30 !; scbo lars. i7j-totaI, 2os. Volumes In
library. 1000.
The Dorcas Society aids number OF
destitute children. The school assists In
supporting mission school In China.
The church IL not in debt. More than
$4,000 were raised for various purposes
last year.
CIay-street Methodist Church,
Corner OF Clay and Adams streets. Rev.
s. s. Lambeth, pastor; residence, No. IA
west Marshall street. Membership, 4Si.
TIE SUNDAY SCHOOL numbers $50.
The MISSION SCHOOL on Belle Isle, under
superintendency Of j. ii. Bausell, has
about 30 scholars, but Is temporarily sus-
pended.
THE PARSONAGE souErY.-Mrs. Lucy J.
Mcdowell, president; Miss Lucy Vaughan,
treasurer.
The D0RcAs SOCrETY.-Miss Mary +.
Cardwell, treasurer.
WouEN's MISSIONARY SoCIETy.-Mrs.
Mary A. johnson, president.
ROSEBUD MISSIONARY SOcIETY.-Asa
johnson, president.
The AID SocIETY.-escar +. Adams,
secretary.
Uraicn-Sfation ehurch.
This is n substantial brick cdifice, seating
about seven hundred persons. and situated
OH the corner OF Twenty-fourth and N
streets. Membership, AIS. The present
pastor, Rev. Henry G. Cheatham, has only
lately taken charge OF this church. The
parsonage is n brick building, owned by
the church, and located on Twenty-fourth
street, No. TIC. 1t has lately been reftted
and refurnished and placed in an elegant
and comfortable condition. II Is under
the control OF the Ladies' Parsonage So
ciety-Mrs. 8. Y. Hasker, president.
SUNDAY ScH0OL.--T. Wiley Davis, super
intendent. officers and teachcH, 4S;
scholars, 2SG-total, 334. The school has
good and Improving library.
THE LADIES' AID SOCIETY.-This Society
has for its object the assistance Of destitute
children Of the Sabbath school.
The RosEBups.- il q ehildren's
missionary society, numbering 20S men,
bers. 1t has raised during the last year.
for missionary and Sunday-sehooi pur-
poses, $40. Its officers are Miss Carrie
| Clark, president; Miss Mamie Smith, vice
president; and G. II. Hasker. secretary.
This church IL well organized and in
good working condition.
Park-Placc Church
| Stands at the corner Of Franklin and Pine
streets, directly opposite the north gate OF
entrance to Monroe Park. Ii ~ situated IN
growing part OF the city, surrounded by
the best class OF private residences, and
when completed after the original design
| it win be The most conspicuous and attrac-
tive church edifice in Richmond. Rev. DIR.
John Harmon il pastor. The membership
Of the church numbers 3ls, showing 4 net
gain OF Is during the year.
The Ladies' Industrial Society, the Wo-
mems Missionary Society, the Girls Home
Mission Society, the Rosebud Missionary
Society, connected with the church, are in
la prosperous condition.
| The SUNDAY SCHOOL is under Me super
ntendence OF Mr.. John Thompson Brown,
and was larger durhg the past year than
ever before. During the past year the
church raised for al purposes 5000. The
outlook for the future we regard rs very
encouraging.
Laurel-Street Methodist Episcopal Church,
Corner of Laurel and AlbemarIe streets.
| Rev. A. G.. Wardlaw, pastor. Total gains,
| Ga; losses, II; net increase AZ; total menu
| bersbip, $40. Value OF church, $4,000; all
other church property, Si,15o-total value,
S9,750.
SUNDAY Scu0OL.-H. G. Osterbind, SUI
periniendent; officers and teachers, 36;
scholars, 800.
Nicholson-Strcet Church.
Rev. Joseph Lear, pastor. Present men,
bership, 100.
SUNDAY SCHOOL, officers, 8; teachers,
9; scholars, 81; total, 95.
COLORED MEEa0DfSTS.
African Methodist Episcopal Church,
Third street between Leigh and Jackson.
Rev. W. III. Bryant, pastor, No. III west
Baker street. Membership, 205.
SUNDAY SCH0OL.-Ofticers and teachers,
8; scholars, 100; total. los.
Asbury Chapel.
! Twenty-ffth street. Rev. j. Il. OwingS,
pastor. Membership, go.
SUNDAY SCHOOL.-Otticers and teachers,
Z; scholars, 80; total, 81.
LelQh-Street Colored Methodist Episcopal
Church.
William ". Browne, pastor. Number
Of members enrolled, 100; number OF sum
day-school scholars, 60: books in library,
| 407; contributions, S93o.30.
PRESBYTERIAN.
| Presbyterian Committee Of Publication.
No. 2G north Ninth street. Rev. James Is.
Hazen, d. D., secretary and treasurer. The
book business-publishin and selling-i
carried on for the committee, under con-
tract, by the ". Louis Presbyterian Pub
fishing Company-Rey. Alexander shot
I well. business agent. The Sabbath-school
papers The Earnest Worker monthly),
Tie Chidrei'S Friend (semi-monthlyl les
son OuGrterlV, and Lesson Papers (mOnth-
lyl-are edited by the Secretary OF Publ
cation. and are published for the committee
by Messrs. Whttet d Sbepperson. The
number OF these papers issued from the
press Is as follows: Earnest Worker, l2O,-
600: ChildreR's Friend, 100000; lesson
Papers, 100000; Lesson Quarterly, 1900.
Presbyterian sundey chool Union.
This Union is composed Of all the Pres
beterian Sunday schools OF Richmond and
Manchester. The presidency is ut this
time vacant: w. l.. Hill, secretary. The
Union having sustained great boss in Tie
removal TO philadelphia OF its former presi-
dent, J. y. X. Slcight. A thorough re-
organizai ION will be effected early in Jan
ary. This Union holds monthly, quarterl.
and semiannual meetings, ut which re-
ports are made. and the Sunday-School
work IN all its departments IL considere
nv workers Connected with the Union.
! lin, .il length IL as follows: Officers
Lao tcacu -., ,e6; scholars, l,200--total,
+ TT .bytcrian Church,
.ner~ capitol streets. Phomas
IL. Pros.on .4,,Of. This church is COM
posed OF about 800 resident members, and
has 10 elders and IL deacons. During the
wear b members have been added TO It's
communion and have been removed by
death. The church has two Sabbath
schools under it, control, the one for white,
the other for colored children. The SUI
perintendent OF the morning school Is
lion. James Lyons, and OF the afternoon
school 1Ir. Robert Whittet. Mr.. j. ID. x