Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-08-18
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
rHE CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE.

- Rev. Father Brennan, s. j., of st. Aloysius.
has been ordered to St Francis Xavier's college,
New York city, where he is to be vice president.
The Sunday school room of the Metropoli-
tan III. +. church is being improved. The foun-
tain in the center will be removed This work
nccessitates a suspension of the school services
Tor three or four weeks
- st. Aloysius church will be closed until
about the middle of September, so that the work
of repairing and re- frcscoing can be carried on In
the meantime masses and vespers will be at the
usual hours in the basement.
At st. Patricks Catholic church last Sun
day Rev James Connolly. recently ordained at
the American college ut Rome said mass and
preached his first sermon. He has been assigned
as assistant to Rev Father Bartlett at ST. AIMS
Baltimore.
- The Garfield Memorial Christian church. OF
which Rev. +. ID. Power is the pastor Is all
completed except the furniture, seats and gas
fixtures. and contracts are about being made
foI these e is expected that the work will be
completed aId the church opened about NOvem-
Der list.
Rev. DR.. J. II. Dashel formerly ofthis city
who has been in charge of the editorial depart
mcnt of the Baltimore M-ttoiist some moatsh
and Rev. j. w. Cornelius. who was stationed
some wears ago at Waugh chapel succeeds
him. Mr. Mcleod takes Mr. Cornelius place as
In charge of the general make up of the paper.
- The ladies' OF the 9th street Methodist Prot
estant church on the camp ground Jackson
GroveJ last Wednesday formed an auxiliary of
the WOmans Foreign Missionary Society. by
eiecting Mrs E. Moore. president; Mrs. E. Par
sons, vice president: Miss Lizzie Sindorff treas
urer; Mrs NJ. ID. Mills, recording secretary, and
Mrs. Julia Perkins, corresponding secretary.
- Rev Father Tewes, pastor of st. Mary's
Church. is making very extensive changes in the
orphan asylum attached to the church, and in
the parOchial schools. Owing to defective
plumbing. the health of the children was in
great danger from deadly sewer gas. and nearly
800 has been expended to improve the sanitary
condition OF the building. The orphans were
removed to st. Joseph's school. on Capitol hill,
while the work was progressing and upon their
return they will have very comfortable home.
As stated in last Saturdays STAR, fare
well meeting to number of missionaries will
be held at Memorial Lutheran church next
Tuesday evening. The party consists Of Rev.
DR.. f. UnangSt. wife and daughter, who return
to GuintoOr. India, where the doctor and wife
have spent more than a quarter of century in
missionary work; Rev. Luther b. Walp and
wife. with Miss Dryden late of Carthage col
lege. Illinois. and Miss Anna S. Kugler, MD.
There will also be present at this meeting the
Rev. W. C. Shelter, of Richmond. chairman of
the mission committee of the Southern general
synod of the Lutheran church, and Rev. j. w.
Strickler. of Virginia. under appointment for
India by the Church South.
The Congregationalists intend to start a
Swedish mission in New Haven.
On the 5th instant the new Lutheran church
Ut st. Paris, Ohio. was dedicated.
Three were baptized into the membership
of the Baptist church at Wilson, N. Y, ON the
22d ult.
st. Johns Catholic church. Baltimore is
receiving extensive repairs, which will cost about
100000
- Mr.. d. L. Moody. the evangelist will begin
series of revival meetings in Baltimore on Sep
TENDER Is.
- Rev. DIR. A. s. Freeman, of Haverstraw. N.
Y. has been in his pastOrate for just thirty
seven years.
- Rev. Robert Laird Collier. formerly of Bos-
ton. has accepted a call to the Free Christian
church in KentshtOwn, England.
- Rev. A. E. Winship, of Massachusetts,. has
accepted the secretaryship of the New West
education commission of the Congregations
alsts.
- Rev. F. Payson Hammond, the Evangelist.
Is holding meetings at Mahtomedi. watering
place on White Bear Lake, ON the ST. Paul &
Duluth railroad.
- Rev. Mr.. Fish. of Oxford Mass. has &C
cepted call from the CHAMPION Baptist church,
Warwick. r. L.. as successor to the lamented
Rev. A. C. Bronson.
- During the last ecclesiastical year there
were eighty-nine deaths i'm the ministry Of the
Northern Presbyterian church. The average
age was sixty-nine years.
Rev. A. E. Rose has resigned the pastorate
of the North (Baptist) church, Camden, N j.
Among the causes assigned is the nervous
Fof,,
wife.
The Rev. Dwight Spencer has obtained the
e1O 600 needed for the erection of Baptist
house of worship at Salt Lake city, and returns
at once to Utah TO superintend the erection of
the building.
Mrs. Frank Leslie, widow of the well-known
American illustrated newspaper publisher. is
about TO be married to the Marquis de Leuville,
and, it is understood, will shortly be received
into the Catholic church.
The Methodsts in France own 80 chapels
and a total property valued at S165.OOO They
have 134 ehapes and preaching stations 80
ministers, 100 local preachers, lit class leaders
and about Zoo members.
Monsignor Capel, the distinguished Lon
don divine. now summering at Newport, has
consented to give Sunday night lecture in
Baltimore at an early date under the auspices
At a recent meeting in London, General
Booth said the Salvation Army was still march
Ing on. and in twenty years, if the rates OF
progress of the last six years were continued
there would be 80 600 officers and $50 900 600
soldiers.
- The White Earth (Catholic) Indian mission
has church convent. school and pastoral resi-
dence which were lately insured for $25 900
The buildings have all been erected by the Bele-
dictines withinthe last five years. Three sisters
are employed teaching schools.
- TIE Christian Advocate says: 1.-THE Rev. j.
N. Crane. of the Newark conference, preached
july % in the Methodist Episcopal church at
New Providence. n. ]. The. remarkable fact is
that the venerable minister began his ministry
In that church ffty-one years ago, and had never
returned for half a century till last Sunday"
Camp meetings are coming to be a marked
feature of New England summer life. The
Unitarians recently held such a meeting at
Weirs. n H.. on Lake Winnipiseogee 1t was
largely attended, and it would have been hard