Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-07-28
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
TIE CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE.

Rev. VIM. Francis Clarke, Of Loyola col
lege, a native Of this city, will celebrate his
golden jubilee as a Jesuit on the 10th OF next
October. Rev. Father Clarke is well-known for
his el0Quence.
- Rev. Mr.. Beckley has accepted the pastor
ate of Beth-Eden Baptist church, Philadelphia.
Rev f. E. Adams. late a minister Of the
Free Methodist Church, was recently ordained
as o Baptist minister in Sandusky, NY.
The Windsor Heights camp meeting near
Baltimore. will this year close its gates against
every body on the Sabbath.
There are at present in this country about
seventy Welsh Baptist churches, with an aggre-
gate membership not exceeding one thousand
persons.
The Congregational church Of the Pilgrims
at St Louis has received seventy-One members
since the first of January. forty-sx of whom
were on profession of faith.
i The Boston Young Mems Christian Asso-
Cation has. for the benefit of boys and girls, Or
gained a series of meetings at theater, and
provided popular music and speakers.
= The Chicago medical mission, under the
auspices of the Chicago avenue church. better
known as MOOdys church, has been opened in
that city, and is in charge of Miss DR.. Condet
Rev j. S. Weber, of the NJ E. church, held
revival meetings at Marysviile, Ohio, in June,
and there were over 400 conversions. Seventy
Joined the Congregational church.
Eight Of the young Cinnamon who studied
In this country are now taking medical course
In the hospital at Ticntsn conducted by Dr.
Mackenzie Of the London Missionary Society.
AT the Elmira, n. Y, Baptist church. Rev.
". T. Henry has baptized IA in the last two
weeks. Rev. E. H. Lovett, Of the Walton N. Y.
Baptist church, has received 81 members since
January.
Tho North Co,oroc,+;on,I obr,ob of pro1;
dence, II. L.. has just dedicated new ediilce
costing s27 600 and installed Rev. A. F. Keith
who has been filling the pulpit for six years, as
pastor.
AT Mountain Lake park a convention Of
Young Mems Christian Associations OF Mary
land and West Va. is being held and Will close
tomorrow, and Sunday school assembly will
be held August 9Th.
Charles C. Francklyn. the owner of the cot
tage at Elberon, N. j., in which President
Garfield died. has ordered a stained-glass
window in memory of the latter. which will be
placed in st. James Episcopal chapel at that
place.
- Mrs. Jennie H. Caldwell attended the Irish
Wesleyan conference lately held in Dublin and
conducted a revival in the church where the
conference was held. She will visit London
and Paris this month and return to this
country in August.
A meeting of the Baltimore delegates of the
AIchdioeesan Union at Carroll hall, Baltimore.
last week took preliminary action with regard
to the Young Mems Catholic national conyen-
ton, which will assemble in Baltimore in the
latter part of next May
- After a life OF Nearly twenty-five years. the
Viola, ILL.,. Congregational church. on July 16,
at a full meeting, unanimously voted to take
measures looking toward disarmament The
proceeds Of their property will be placed i'm the
treasury N n at ITni0D
- This years missionary contributions in the
Protestant Episcopal church show falling of
as compared with those of last year. For do
nestle missions $4,000 will be needed during
the summer months. and for foreign missions
$S5OO0 Urgent appeal is made by the mission
AIRY committees for these amounts.
- In 1880 the Building Fund Society of the
Episcopal church was organized. Since then
s5O,OOO has been contributed to this work. The
largest number Of applications for help come
from Texas and Virginia In the latter state
the communicates of the Episcopal church have
increased 800 per cent since 1866.
"A happy thought for Christian wedding
party found expression at Norwich, England, on
the occasion of. the marriage of Rev. j. O.
Hoare. son of Canon Hoare and principal of the
C. NJ S. college at Ningpo. After breakfast II
was proposed to make a special collection tOl
the China mission. which resulted in subscrip
tOns amounting to about $4,000.
The Episcopal church of New York has es
tabiished at fremont house of rest for con
sumptiyes. The patients are preferably thos
who are in the last stages Of the disease. tn
object of the promoters of this charity being Il
afford a home where their last hours will b.
made as pleasant as possible. At present there
are accommodations for about forty patients.
- The second Baptist church of Auburn, n
T., laid the corner-stone Of their new house o
worship on the nth inst. with appropriate ser
vices. The First church Of that city has latel
bought q lot a mile or so west Of its present 10
cation paying for it $4,000, on which 1t vii
build new house. The First church will the
have the west side of the city tor its field, an
the Second the east.
Mr.. Spurgeon surprised his congregation
few Sundays ago. He began his sermon q
usual and got through his firstly pretty well
Then feeling very warm himself and seeing hi
congregation growing listleSS. he interrupte
himselfw with the remark: This is the end Q
the firstly and it's so warm to-day that
think the secondly and thirdly will keep for
cooler sunday" So the congregation went it
way and Mr. Spurgeon went his way.
Mrs. Anadibai Joshee, Brahmin lady, ha
embarked at Calcutta in company with seyera
missionary ladies', tor America. intending Il
study medicine in the W0mans Medical Colleg
at Philadelphia. BY this act she breaks he
caste Before embarking she delivered an ad
said that in going to America to study, her oil
tect was to prepare herself to promote the eIt
walton OF her sex in India
- NOnsignore Capel, the famous CathoIi
prOselytcr, is coming to this country soon.
late years no one can compare with Capel in tn
number OF mobiles and leaders Of fashionable lii
who have been led by him to renounce Prote
tantiSu and seek admission into the CathOl
church. He is endowed with great person
magnetism. fine conversational gifts, and with
rare religious enthusiasm. which seem to mai
him irresistible in certain higher circles Of En-.
lsh society.
What was left Of the mulberry tree undt
which Leonard Calvert made his treaty wit
the Indians at st. Mary's, Maryland, in 1854, W.
cut down a, few weeks ago by the order of IL
rector of ST. Mary's Catholic parish, and fro
what little has been left by decay and rel
hunters q large number of souvenirs have bee
made, and the proceeds will go toward buidir
memorial church on the site Of the first pa,
OF worship which marked one of the first steI
In Mar, religious history.
Germany is about to celebrate the four
Centenary of Martin Luther, and the intere