Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-09-22
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE.

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- Bishop Brown, OF the A. N. f. church. who
resides near Howard university, has been seri-
ously III, but Is improving.
A younger brother of Rev. Father Tewes,
of st. Mary's church, in this city, viii cele-
brate his first mass In Baltimore tomorrow.
- Rev. c. b. Ram dell, OF the North Presby-
terrain church, has returned from his vacation,
which he spent in Baltimore county, Nd, and
resumed his duties.
- Prof J. p. Plat, of Manhattan. Kan. has
been appointed state Sunday school superin-
tendent.
At st. Michaers Catholic church. Bati-
more. Archbishop Gibbons hast Sunday con-
firmed 2l4 persons.
- Sunday morning Archbishop Gibbons con-
frmed lSl girls and l73 boys at St. Michaers
church. Baltimore.
A Catholic priest is said to he living In Ger
many, In excellent health, aged l09 years who
has been 81 years priest.
- Rev. DR.. James Brownee has been for
forty-sight years pastor OF the Reformed church
at Port Richmond, Staten Island.
- Rev. John Mayo Peasants Atkinson. n. D.,
LID, for many years president OF Hampden-
Sidney College, one OF the leading ministers OF
the southern Presbyterian church. died recently.
"A Luther Memorial church is to be erected
In Berlin. costing about $4,000, as a worthy
commemoration of this jubilee year Halle and
Leipzig have also resolved to erect Luther me-
mortal churches.
= The Mortuary chapel at Metropolis View
cemetery (near Glenwood) will be dedicated
Sunday. 30th instant. at 3 O'clock All the so-
cieties of st. Mary's church and other societies
will participate.
- Dew. DIR. James A. Williams, rector OF st.
Marks Episcopal church, Orange, n. Y, died
September ID. He was native of Orange,
and had been rector of st. Marks church FOR up
wards of fifty Years.
= An association by the name Of THE Young
Mems Talmud Thora association Of Baltimore
city" was organized last sunday. Its object il
to promote the study of the Talmud, the source
Of all Jewish precepts.
II Rev. c. n. Robinson has been holding
revival meetings in large tent at Brooklyn,
near Baltimore assisted by ministers OF all
branches of the Methodist church. number
of conversions have taken place.
- Rev. DIR. Goodwin. of Chicago, baptized
several children at the First Congregational
church. Sunday the 9th instant. among them Q
Chinese baby. whose father and mother united
with the church the previous Sunday.
=" The opening services Of the Emmanuel
Baptist church, Brooklyn, In their new chapel,
were held on the 9th instant The chapel ID
slightly stone edifice about 50 by 80 feet and il
said to have cost $4,000. 1t was announced
that all this ia paid for.
Very Rev. J. A. Corcoran, a professor in the
Catholic seminary of st. Charles Borromea near
Philadelphia. and editor of the American Catho-
lie Quarterly Review. has been selected az theo-
Logan to the American archbishops at the coun.
Gil in Rome next month.
Rev. F. w. Brakeman six years ago took
the pastoral charge of the Baptist church in Au-
burn. Me-, when its debt amounted to SOS. 600,
ana with the annual deficit of running expenses
five months ago the debt stood at $4,000. This,
however, has all been raised.
On the night of the Goth ult thieves
made an entrance into the Lutheran church at
Joliet. Ill.,. and robbed the saving box in which
contributions for a church bell had been de-
posted. They also destroyed the pulpit and altar
Bibles. and greatly damaged the whole Sunday
school library.
- Rev. DR.. McClelland. OF the Fort Greene
Presbyterian church. in Brooklyn, has accepted
professorship in the German Theological Sem.
mary of the Northwest at Dubuque, Iowa For
twenty-five years, though totally blind. he has
been the beloved and successful pastor of the
Fort Greene church.
Rev. Father Horstmann, pastor of St Mary's
Catholic Church, Philadelphia, has donated to
Mount Saint Mary's College, Emmittsburg,
5000 for the free education of young men who
will devote themselves TO the poor missions In
the northwest and south. especially among the
colored people and Indians.
Rev. James Mcleod. pastor of one of the
most prominent Presbyterian churches in Buff
falo, returned from his four weeks vacation re-
Gently and offered his resignation. He ex-
planned the unexpected act by saving he had
heard criticisms of his course that led him to
believe it would be acceptable
= Rev. r. T. Hall, Congregationalist, OF Mt.
Vernon, Ohio, preached his fourth anniversary
sermon on Sept. 3. In the four years LII per-
sons have been received 126 by profession OF
faith. Nearly a, 600 have been given for beney.
client objects. and $23 600 in all raised by tho
church. which is united and aggressive.
- The Western Theological seminary, at Allie
gheny City, has called DR.. 8. J Niccolls, Of st.
Louis. to the Chair of Sacred Rhetoric and
Church Government. and DIR. Charles ;. Pome-
roy, of Cleveland, to that of Sacred and Ecclesi-
astical History, to fill the places made vacant by
the death of Drs. Hornblower and Wilson.
- The receipts Of the American Board Com
gregationaD during the last year We're $4,000
In excess Ofthe estimates of the prudential COM
mittee. made one year ago. The Portland meet
ing last year called for an advance of 100000
and the committee made their appropriations
for the year on the basis of one-haf this gain.
On last Sunday the newly erected and COM
pleted Concordia College and Theological Semi
nary of the Missouri Lutheran synod at ST. Louis
Mo was dedicated with appropriate services. and
the feast of dedication was continued during
Monday following. Prominent ministers from
nine states were present, besides ten Thousand
laymen.
The Cumberland Presbyterians are about to
establish school for the education of their
ministry among the Choctaws and the Chlcka-
saws of the Indian Territ Dry. They call for
$40, 900 to start it. Already seven licentiates
and six candidates, all full-blOoded Choctaws.
are under the care Of the local Presbytery, and
will enter the school,
- The New York Christian Advocate CMetho-
dist EpiscOpaD says: ''Times change There 10
Bible-stand near the Piazza della Signorla, In
Florence where Savonarola was burned at the
stake In 1893 A resident thus writes: The |
ashes of the celebrated Prior of s. Marco were
thrown into the AnO, but the Word for which
he and many Others suffered is now being pub
licly sold midway between the stake and the |
river"
Eullv IN mn y,oopla inclu1ipp 4 000 pYcur.