Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-07-14
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE.

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Of which Rev. C. T. House is pastor, has re-
Gently been repaired. and the church roll has
been Increased by the reception os Al members.
while the Sunday school has received nearly 80
Few members.
- Rev. j. A. Adams has accepted the call to
Follmer (Pa.) Lutheran church, and entered his
pastorate.
- The Lutheran Home Missionary has re-
ceiyed from legacy of Alexis Smith, Of Freder-
lex, Nd, 81 ,O9720.
- The Lutheran Foreign Missionary society
received during June sS,913.ss including 81 500
from fund Of missions.
- Bishop Watters0n, of the diocese Of Column
bus, Ohio recently spent several days in this
CITY, the guest OF Mrs. j. l.. Barbour.
- Rev. 1. p Zimmerman, of Montoursville, Pa,
and Rev. j. V. Bodine. of Fowersville, Pa, are
to be installed tomorrow as Lutheran pastors
- Major Whitte. Rev. Mr.. Penticost and
other evangelists viii hold series of Bible
readings at Niagara NY, commencing the 18th
instant.
- The Luther statue to be erected IN front Of
Concordia Seminary at st. Louis by the young
men of the Lutheran churches in Missouri will
Cost $4,000.
The NJ. E. congregation at Canton, near
Baltimore, is about erecting new church edi-
fee. having secured lot for the purpose, to
Cost about $4,000.
- Rev. DR.. Elliott, Of Plymouth, England, q
leading Congregational minister of England is
visiting this country, and will officiate at the
First church In this city to morrow.
j. A. Mulligan and W. r. Turner. of Dr.
Ginniss' institute London, Eng, were ordained
and installed as Congregational ministers at
Buena Vista, Col. on the Sd instant.
Rev. H. @. Blinn and eighty-fiye members
OF the Presbyterian church at Cambridge re-
Gently withdrew and formed new Congrera-
tionai church, which was recognized last month.
There Is temperance boom among the
Catholics OF Chicago and vicinity, ant, the meet
Ing of the Total Abstinence Union of the arch
diocese recently held was most successful one.
The Congregational church in Alexandria,
Mimi. which has heretofore been home mission
airy church. has resolved to stand.alone and has
raised salary of : 900 for the new PASTOR Rev
Geo. e. Jewell.
Mr.. Moody's Mortified Sem mary has been
promised $4,000 by a Boston man on condition
that the friends of the school will raise a similar
amount. Several scholarships of 5000 have
recently been forwarded.
The building of the Fifth Congregational
CHURCH st. Louis, was set on fire Sunday morn
Ing, July1 at about two o'clock. Before the fire
was out the trustees had engaged a hall and all
Services went on as usual.
The Leayitt street Congregational church,
Of Chicago, ILL.,, has extended call to Rev. VIM.
Cuthoertson, b. A, of London, England to be-
come Its pastor. 1t is expected that he will ac.
eept and begin his labors about September 1.
Trinity Lutheran church of Akron, Ohio.
Rev. J. B. Helwig d. D., pastor. was rededi-
Gated on Sabbath, June oath The entire ex-
pense was $4,000 One family. that of ]. B.
seiberiing. gave s26, 100 towards the cost of re-
modelling.
The late Hon George Dwight Phelps, of
6imsbury, Conn.,, left by will $4,000 to the
American Tract Society: 50 500 to the American
Sunday-school Union: 81 600 to the church In
sims6nry. and 81 900 to the Simsbury Cemetery
association.
Tile Congregational church in Steubenyille
Ohio, occupied the lecture-roem of their new
house for the first tine June "a, and received
nineteen members; among them the Rev. D.
NcLane recently suspended for heresy by the
presbytery Of Steubenville.
- During the late convention of the Pennsyl-
Eania Lutheran Ministerium at Norristown a
number of its pastors occupied the pulpits of
pon-Lutheran congregations on the Sabbath
Gay. And yet the mnsterum condemned one
OF It's pastors for participating In union" dedi-
cation service.
A new Congregational church was dedi-
Gated on the Oath ult. at Mapleton, Mimi Rev.
Perrin B. Fisk, field agent of Carleton College.
epd Rev. E. Cash late OF Ohio, offciated and the
Iattex was finally induced to accept call he had
Just declined, and to become acting pastor
Rev. q. R. Wallace, recently of Pittston.
Penn is laboring in Highland, ILL.,, under the
ausdces OF the Illinois Home Missionary So
Getty The population Is chiefly French and
German. and until recently no services have
Deen heid IN English. In one month under the
greatest disadvantages, the congregations have
Increased from to LIZ, and twelve have
been converted.
brother Alexius. provincial Of the Xaverian
Order of Catholic Brothers. has purchased from
Mr. John Swami, 80 acres of land on Edmond
Son avenue, In Baltimore county. opposite the
Reyerdy Johnson estate. at S4OO per acre 1t is
Proposed TO erect buildings in the coming year
or two on this property for St Joseph's college,
and the present buildings on the Frederick road
VIII Dc used for the lower grade scholars.
-Rey: VI P. Case, missionary of the Conore-
gational Sunday-sch0oI Publishing Society in
colorado. has Just organized the highest Sunday
school IN merlcaTperhaps the highest in the
@0rid-at Hancock. LOCO feet above the sea.
Though the camp is three Years old no Protes-
tant religious service had ever been held there
The school starts of with forty members. and
hearty pledges from the miners to support it,
A council representing ten churches of the
Monongahela, Pa, Association was held last
month at the call of respectable minority of
The CHURCH at ConDellsville Pa After due in
vesfigation they withdrew the hand of min
isterlai fellowship from Rev. r. C. Morgan, for
Immoral conduct and found that the exclusion
OF Rev. A Hutton by the Connelisyille church
was unwarranted by the Word Of God and the
osages Of Baptist churches.
There are now in Spain about 5000 Evan
gelicai Christians who are leading consistent
Christian lives, with perhaps 5000 additional
attending, more or less regularly, the various
mission services. In Madrid there are five
Protestant chapels. and about 500 regular
nieinUers- In Seville there are some 800 men,
oers. tine remainder being found in Corunna
oSiedo, Bilbao, San Sebastian. Yalladolid Sa-
iainanca aud Barcelona, and few minor
stations.
~hsA an EnSiishman Saw AT Chiea~o
FROM Letter to the London Baily News
Ofcourse went to see the stockyards of Chi
cago. A lively biebald porker was one of