Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-06-30
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE.


CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
At the 7:30 O'Clock mass at st. Mary's
Catholic church in this city last Sunday large
number of children received their first COM
munion.
- Seventeen persons united with the First
Congregational church in this city June II, maxi
Ing sixty-three since the opening of the year.
1t has been year especially fruitful among the
children.
- The Feast Of st. Peter and St. Paul will
be celebrated at st. Peters church tomorrow
morning at half-past ten o'clock. Solemn high
mass will be rendered, with Father Dunn as
celebrant, Father O'Sullivan as deacon and
Father MARI as sub-deacOn. The panegyric of
st. Peter will be delivered by Father O'Suli-
van.
Rev. DR.. Domcr, pastor of ST. Pauls Eng
fish Lutheran church, of this city. having been
away to attend the annual commencement ex-
ercscs of Pennsylvania college, at Gettysburg.
during the week, has returned and will fill his
pulpit tomorrow. Sunday evening services are
suspended at this church during the months of
July and August. DR.. DOmer preached at Ham
over, Pa, last Sunday.
In April last Rev. G. ". Sampson. of the
Berean Bible college, commenced Bible train
ing class in the room OF the Young Mems Chris
tian Association at Brooklyn, NY. The first
evening twenty-six Joined the class on the sec
ond evening forty, and on the third fifty were
enrolled as members DIR. SIMPSONS well known
here as having filed the pulpit of the First and
E-street churches In this city, and the presi-
dency of Columbian college for some years.
AT the anniversary in connection with the
Congress street Methodist Protestant Sabbath
school, Georgetown, D. c., which took place
last Thursday evening. there was received from
the classes S1O5.67. making the total Sl65.11
since the last anniversary. to which the basket
collection of 1850 was added. The crayOn pOr-
trait which was presented to the school through
the pastor, Rev. F. T. Tagg, was of George G.
Browning. and not Mr., John Browning, as stated
in last evenings STAR.
- Rev. j. Donlan MARI, senior deacon of st.
Mary's seminary. Baltimore. is at his home in
the Immaculate Conception parish in this city.
He is a member of the ordination class of 49,
and will be ordained next Christmas The fol-
lowing from st. Mary's seminary are now enjoy
ing their summer leave in this city: Messrs Eu-
gene A. Hannah and John T. Whelan. of ST.
Patrick's parish and P. ]. DOnahue. of ST. Mat
thew's, in 'S5; Messrs. Paul Griffith and Charles
NJ. Bart, of the Immaculate Conception. and
Stephen j. HOlleran of St Stephens, in &c.
Messrs P. j. O'COnnell, OF ST. Matthew's, and
Francis x. Mckinney, of the Immaculate Con-
ceptiOn.
- The First Baptist church at Milford, Massa-
sachusetts has adopted the free pew system.
The Methodist Episcopal Church South
last year sent tour missionaries to China, two to
Mexico, and two to Brazil, and the wOmen's
board has sent four ladies'.
The census of missions to be taken next
year will, it is estimated. show an increase of
100000 native Christians in India. CeylOn and
Burmah. for the last ten years-making 500. 600
In all.
TI,o No, Eur nd In
brated its thirtieth anniversary and the fifth
anniversary of the installation of its pastor last
Sunday. DIR. Little preaching sermon review
ing mostly the last five years.
- The Chatauqua School of Theology, reor-
ganized in the fall, already numbers two hun
dred students, and its prospects are so bright
for the future that the Rev. Mr.. Wright, its eff
cient secretary, has resigned his pastOrate and
is going to take up his headquarters in Boston.
The Union Theological Seminary at New
York has received gilt of $4,000. The money
will be used for the establishment Of profess
sOrship of elOcutiOn and voice culture. Prot
Charles Roberts. jr.. will occupy the chair. A
chair OF biblical theology will also be estab-
lished.
- The Baptists in the state of Connecticut
have purchased large tract of land at Crescent
Beach. about seven miles west of New London.
and will establish UNCONVENTIONAL watering
place. Tie parties now owning the property
agree. when all the lots are bought and paid for,
to build $4,000 tabernacle for the use OF
owners of the lots.
- Rev. Frederick A. Reed, of Harvard. Mass,
who few weeks ago by fall fractured his
thigh bone, died suddenly Saturday, June 9,
and was buried from his church on Monday, the
18th. He was nineteen years pastor of the
church in COhasset Mass, ten years pastor OF
the church in East Taunton. He was the author
OF number of Sunday school works.
That there is no scarcity of ministers, the
Advance cites the fact that there are 1913 Con-
gregatiOnal ministers in Connecticut alone not
employed either as pastors or acting pastors,
and g licentiates connected with the associa-
tons Of the state. In Massachusetts there are
50 vacant churches and 672 ministers not in a
pastOrate.
In recent country trip in Japan Miss Clara
A. Sands, with her helpers, made the largest
sale OF Scriptures that was ever made in that
country in the same length of time. Three hun
dred and fifty copies of the Gospel were sold in
an hour and half, in the interval between ad-
dresses The people present numbered more
than 500.
TO encourage the students to do as much ele-
mentary work as possible in Hebrew before
entering the Chicago Theological Seminary, a
for admission to the junior class who is able to
answer three-fOurths Of the questions of the
first twenty-One sections, emitting the tenth
OF DavidsOn's Introductory Hebrew Grammar
The twentieth annual meeting of the
Women's Presbyterian board of missions was
held at Detroit, Mich, recently and there were
about 400 delegates present. The report from
the home missionary field was more than favOra-
BILE. and the interest in the foreign field is una
bated. The amount contributed from Illinois
was S13 .3l607; from Wisconsin, 50. 721; Ohio,
$1,000; Minnesota, So. 760; Indiana, SS,97S; Ne
braska. 81 ,O5l Iowa, s., 200.
- A letter to the Chicago Advance (Congrega-
tionaD from mining town In New Mexico
closes with the following: at seems strange to
me that the mission boards Of the United States
can send missionaries all over the world and let
their next door neighbOr be in darkness have
been here three years. and have listened to one
or two sermons during that time. | am not a
member of any church. nor a religious man, but
have little girl that don't like to have grow
up without going to church Can you suggest a
remedy"
At the session Of the Evangelical Lutheran
Synod at Springfield, Ohio, in May, the second
biennial report of the board of foreign missions
was presented, showing an increase of Is per
cent In the contributions In the churches during
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