Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-02-24
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
The CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE.

Waugh ME-. church, Capitol HILL Rev. Will
,tord Downs. pastor, has received forty-two on
PROBATION during the conference year.
- DumbartOn-street N. f. Sunday school
raised for missionary purposes this year $50
IN increase OF 70 per cent over last year.
Tomorrow Archbishop Gibbons, of Balti-
more will visit st. Mary's Catholic church in the
morning and st. Joseph's in the afternoon and
administer the rite of confirmation
1t Is stated in Baltimore that. McKendree
H. f. church In this city has asked for Rev. Dr.
". s. Edwards to succeed Rev c. H. Richard
son, ana that Broadway has askedfO the latter.
- Rev. Daniel De Winnie, who died in Brook
lyn recently. at ninety years of age, was native
Of Ireland. hut came here when very young In
1915 he assisted in organizing the first Sunday
school in that city.
The revival. or rs some call the awaken
ing of religions interest" in the Fifth Baptist
church (Rev. c. C. Meadors), in South Wash
tngton. continues. and the interest is Increasing
There have been fifteen conversions since Janu-
airy 1st last
= Rev Page Miiburn. who was relieved of
ministerial wor. at Mt. Savage (Md) ME-.
church, on account Of i'll health has greatly i'm
proved during the winter, which he has spent
here, ana viii apply for work at the Baltimore
conference next month.
- Rt. Rev. J. J. Keane ID. d., formerly of ST.
Patrick's Catholic church in this city, and now
Bishop OF Virginia, was in the city few days
this week. Bishop Keane will sail for Rome in
April. and pay his respects to the Pope and
VIII also visit the Holy Land.
= The golden wedding of Rev Oliver Eye and
wife was recently celebrated at fredericksburg
Pa Mr.. Eye was formerly of the Baltimore
q .;x-
years ago. and is the father of Mrs. J. E. Zugg.
OF this city. Mr.. Eye after working third of
century in the itinerancy, settled down at his
old home.
AS two ministers from other conferences
will join the Baltimore conference of the NJ. f.
church, one OF whom Grew. Dr.. Huntley) will
take the Metropolitan pulpit there is consider
able conjecture as to changes. There is very
little doubt tia: Rev. DIR. Joseph France will be
returned to East Washington 9th street,. Rev.
Dr. X y. Baer will. of course. leave the Metro
poiitan. but his future appointment is a matter
OF conjecture, as also that of Rev. c. Herbert
Richardson OF Mckentree chapel
The revival work in the Sandwich Islands
continues.
In New Orleans there Is but one white NJ.
Z. church and fourteen colored.
- Rev. f. u. Owen, of High street church,
Baltimore, took in six members last Sunday.
A revival in St Peters NJ. E. church at
Reading. Pa, has resulted in about 100 CONVEX
sOns.
Rev. W. A. Alrich, rector of Emanuel
Episcopal church at Chatham, Va, has re-
signed.
On Hereford circuit EAST Baltimore cir
cult of the NJ. f. church there have been about
fifty conversions.
Mother Ferdinand, superior of the Sisters
OF LIE Bon Seeours. is seriously i'll at the house
Of the order in Baltimore.
Rev. DIR. Lyman Atwater. a well known
Presbyterian divine. author and professor, died
recently at Princeton, n. j.
Bishop Simpson. of the NJ. E. church. adj
vises. never invest any money in mines that
you are not prepared To lose"
Emanuel VI. e church in Philadelphia was
dedicated on sunday last. 1t cost $50 eco of
which sum but $1,000 remained to be raised
The Wesleyan McthOdists of England have
In Ceylon, in the missionary work 20 chapels
5000 members, l2c schools and ID, 900 scholars.
The aggregate clear profits of the Book
Concern Of the NJ. f. church for the past forty
Six years is q, IA .29-an annual average of
e592l9
- Bishop Pinkney preached last night at st.
Marks p. E. church, Baltimore. of which Rev.
=. l.. Kemp is rector, and confirmed class OF
Ten persons.
- The LivingstOnia mission of the Free
church of Scotland has stopped the slave trade
about Lake Nyassa. Africa, whence 10 600 were
annually carried off.
AT the Me. church in Alexandria a revival
has been in progress for about two weeks. and
the first fruits were nine practitioners on Sum
Gay last. 1t Is in charge of Rev. DR.. POutson.
I'm 1,c+
death of Bishop Foley. of Chicago, formerly of
Baltimore, solemn requiem mass was celebrated
ct st. Martins Catholic church in the latter city.
BY the will of the late Jesse Calvert his
farm at Burnt Factory, near Winchester, Va.
was directed to be sold and the proceeds paid
into the treasury of the Missionary Society OF
the NJ. f. church 1t was recently sold for over
$500.
- Rev John Mccarthy, Catholic priest died
ct Pittsburg, Pa, Thursday. He was only TWEEN
ty-six years OF age. He was educated at ST.
Aiehaers school and at st. Mary's college. Nd,
and was professor of philosophy at the latter in
etitute for some time.
- The Baptist ministers society Of New York.
chartered for the purpose Of providing a COM
Portable home for disabled ministers Of New
York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, has been
presented by James Angus with deed for one
house of sixteen rooms.
= Rev. DR.. Lansing in a letter to the mission
airy committee Of the United Presbyterian church.
says that during the war in Egypt, In all the
mission stations except two. the religious meet
nus were kept up. no member of the churches
was killed. and. so far from the mission work
being broken up, the evangelical cause is to-
day stronger than it was six months ago."
harvest, met a fashionaby dressed person with
large handful of ears of wheat. taken from my
fields 1 saiuted him respectfully, and ex-
pressed my admiration of the beauty of the
wheat Yes said he. 1T is truly fine SAMPLE,
and does the farmer great credit who grew it,
acknowledged the compliment. and asked him
nom which Of my fields he took it, After he had
pointed it out he assured me be always liked to
take good sample home as it interested the
ladies' Upon this. noticing with admiration the
style of his coat, i asked him to allow me to
look at the skirt. He readily did 80. and
quietly took out my pen-knife and cut large
piece from the tall. The gentleman bounced
and swOre, but told him always took SAMPLES
OF cloth as found they greatly interested my