The Evening critic., 1883-06-16
Religious News.

French Baptists in Montreal have built
and dedicated church.
The a00th birthday of Martin Luther
Will be celebrated next November.
The domestic mission at Berlin dstrib-
utes each Sunday 10000 printed sermons.
Thomas Harrison, the boy preacher, is
holding revival meetings in Kansas City, Mo.
The Baptists are building q church in
Salt Lake City, close to the great Mormon Tenn
pie.
Rev. Mr.. Chamberlain becomes pastor Of
Classon Avenue Presbyterian Church, Brook
lyn, Mt salary of $4,000.
Tho late DR.. Mackoy, of Montreal, has
bequeathed over 100000 TO Presbyterian
churches and Institutions.
A AJewish Synagogue of the third century
has Just been discovered near Carthage, and
but ten miles from Tunis, Africa.
Mrs. Charles Butler of Great Darlington,
Mass, has given 100000 for an Episcopal
church at StockbrIdge, her native home.
The Rev. DIR. Grammer has been invited
TO preach the baccalaureate sermon before the
graduating class OF the Delaware College.
Cardinal Manning, of London, is to at
tend q levee held by the Prince OF Wales.
The Princess OF Wales Is an advanced Rltualist.
There is great demand for young min.
listers in the Methodist churches OF Maryland,
and the church papers are advertising for
such.
The commencement exercises of Dickiu-
son College will begin tomorrow week. Rob
ert CoIlyer will deliver IN oratlon on the
occasion.
Miss Frances T. Foss, daughter of Bishop
Foss, was married May %, at Minneapolis, to
Francis A. Chamberlain, Of that city. Her
father married them.
Mormon missionaries are at work in some
parts OF North Carolina, and the Influence
which they are gaining over the Ignorant
classes is causing alarm.
A porter in q Mexican Mission, with a
monthly salary of $40, has built In San Lo-
renzo n church for the free use OF tho mission,
and home for the native preacher.
Rev. w, II. Kincaid, of Pittsburg, has
met with n sad bereavement In the loss Of his
youngest child, Olln. Many friends sympa-
thize deeply with the stricken parents.
Rev. William II. Barnes, formerly pastor
of a church at Laurel, Md, has resigned the
pastorate OF the Church OF the Atonement
tReformed Episcopal) In Brooklyn, NY.
Mr.. Frank f. Gibson, a son of Rev. DIR.
Alex L. Gibson, formerly pastor of Foundry
Church, was ordained to the deaconate In tho
| Episcopal Church In Baltimore last week.
A Montreal clergyman who was too i'll to
| preach, wrote n sermon, and by the use OF a
| telephone heard II delivered in his church by
another preacher as he lay on his slck-bed.
A most remarkable revival of religion is
| going on In the Yalence and vicinity, in
| France. The conviction for sin and the con-
version OF sinners are after the real Methodist
| type.
The Rev. James @. Pratt, son of Mr.. A. S.
| Pratt, of this city, has resigned the charge of
| the Reformed Episcopal Church of Denver,
| Col, where he has been rector for several
years.
Mission work in the Philippine Islands is
| carried on by Hollandish societies, and is very
| prosperous. The number of Christians In the
| Islands OF Sam and Sansuba has Increased TO
| 14,OO0.
| Rev. r. Saillens, of the McAll Mission in
| france, says that 10000 meetings were hold
| last year by unsalaried workers, through
whom the gospel was presented TO 1,0o0,000
| OF people.
| Rev. J. c. Bracq, formerly Catholic, was
| ordained to the ministry In the First Baptist
| Church at Burlington, VT, last night. Forty
| clergymen from the New England States and
New York were present.
| The Temperance Alliance for the West
| minister (MdO District has chosen Rev. O. A
| Reid, president; DR.. ]. W. Herring, vice-presi
dent; VIM. A. Wampler, secretary; II. b. Nor
| ment, treasurer, and DR.. Charles Billingslea
chairman OF executive committee.
The veteran Rev. Landon Taylor, autho
| OF 'vThe Battlefield Reviewed." now more thar
| 20 years old, on a recent Sunday made an ad
tended two class.meetings, and rode sixteor
Richard Leipsius, Professor of Egyptology
and Comparative Philology Mt Berlin, recently
celebrated the iftieth anniversary of his doc
torate, and received on that occasion n con
gratulatory address signed by ia eminen
literary, scientific and professional Ren and
women of England.