Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-09-08
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE.


Rev. DIR. Mills, Of the 9th street N. p.
church, continues his revival meetings Sunday,
Tuesday and Thursday evenings. and penitents
are at the altar at nearly every meeting. Last
Sunday, as the first fruits, he received seven
members.
The revival meetings at Rev. J. c. Hagey's
charge North Capitol NJ. F. church, are still In
progress. and numbers are at the altar nightly.
Thus far some twenty five converts have been
reported. The many friends Of the pastor will
be glad to learn that the extra work entailed
upon him by these meetings has not had a bad
effect on his health, but on the contrary he is
getting stronger daily.
Bishop Turner of the African NJ E. church.
Is preparing q revival hymn-book for the de-
nomination.
Rev. W. II. Davenport, q Wesleyan Metho-
dist, Of Michigan, has accepted q call to the
East Brainard Congregational church, Mime
Sota
The Christian at Work gives Bishop Lee as
authority for ''the opinion that fasting in the
New Testament is unauthorized and due to as
celtic bias
The Joyful Ne,os. the new eyangelistic pub
lication under the sanction of the British Wes-
leyan conference, has already circulation of
SO, 600 copies.
- The Friends at Winthrop, Me-, are building
what will be the finest Quaker meeting -house in
the country. Are the Friends, too. becoming
smitten with pride like other people?
The First Congregational church at Oak
land, CAL. has voted to pay the superintendent
Of its Sunday school good salary, 80 that he
can devote his whole time to the work.
Rev Dwight Spencer has obtained the
1000 needed for the erection Of q Baptist
house Of worship at Salt Lake City, and re-
turned to Utah to superintend the erection OF
the building
The tenth anniversary Of the organization
| of the Reformed Episcopal church will be cele-
brated on December 10, by special services in
the various churches of the denomination
throughout the country.
- Rev. Harlan P. Beach and wife. of South
Orange, N. j., who are under appointment as
missionaries Of the American board, Presbyte-
rian, were given farewell by the South Or
ange church last Sunday week.
The United Presbyterians have held an
anti-organ convention. It is plain that on the
subject Of church music they are dis United
Presbyterians, and likely to remain 80. The Or
gan seems to ''have come to stay"
- The Washington and Alexandria Society OF
Free Methodists will hold camp-meeting at East
to last eight days. The Free Methodists hold
their camp after the old-time plan.
AT Its recent meeting In Albany the gen.
eral synod Of the Reformed Dutch church
adopted resolutions urging q revival of interest
In domestic missions. The committee reported
that only 800 new churches had been organized
| In fifty years.
The Board of Home Missions has appointed
Rev. s. E. Wishard late of Chicago, to superin-
tend its missionary work in the synod of Ken
lucky. He has accepted the appointment, and
will enter on his new duties September /, estab-
fishing his family home at Danville.
The American Bible Society has over 20
colporteurs now at work in Indiana. Some of
the results Of this work in Western Indiana for
the last four months are: Families visited
5.671 families found destitute of the Bible, 91S;
families supplied by sale or gift, GIL.
Mr.. Quintin Hogg, of London has given
$3.50, 900 for the purchase and endowment ofthe
famous old Polytechnic in Regent street, as a
home for his Youths Christian Institute. It
has membership of q O00 and classes attended
by 1900 pupils, with over 1000 others awaiting
vacancies.
Upon the question 'sWhy Don't They Go
to church," the Christian Inteligencer thinks 1t
proper to say "that the number increases of
those who. whatever may be the freeness OF the
water of life, are deferred by the cost of the
water tax required to keep the reservoir and
pipes in order"
The Christian Union says, upon the effect
Of opening the public museums and libraries on
Sunday: I'm those communities where the
library and the museum have been opened they
| have done neither the i'll that was dreaded nor
the good that was hoped. they have emptied
neither the churches nor the grog shops"
DIR. Newman Hall argues against the pew
renting system, on gospel and upon economic
grounds, and comes to the conclusion that it is
not reasonable, not equitable not expedient,
and beyond all question unscriptural. II for
no other reason than that it makes improper
distinctions in the house of God, he argues
that it ought to be abandoned.
Bishop Loughlin, Of Brooklyn. preaching
in the cathedral in that city, recently. asserted
that the Roman Catholic church discounte-
nanced excursions on account OF the moral ruin
they bring to many. closing his sermon with
this sentence: ut Is In my power to refuse the
whole sacrament of the church to those who
disobey this command" The bishops ami
mostly to excursions is based largely on the
fact that quantities of liquor are sold to boys
| under age.
Rev. DR.. A. G. Haygood, Of Georgia, presi-
dent of Emory College and of the John F. Slater
fund. believes in the future Of the negroes. In
an address at the Chautauqua assembly he said
that the census showed that the negro did not
die out. but increased largely, and there might
The interest that southern Christians are mani
Testing in the education and elevation of the
negro population is among the most encourage
ing signs of the times.
The Faith Cure convention at Old Or
chard, Me-, has closed. but prayer-meetings
will be continued three times q day for several
weeks. About go persons attended the con-
ventiOn. The most striking cures in answer
to prayers during the recent session are alleged
to have occurred in the case of Miss Gibbs, of
Oshawa, Canada whose cerebro spinal menin-
gifts of six years. standing was suddenly cured,
and in the case of Miss Jennie C. Clark of Ber-
wick, Me-, whom heart disease scarcely allowed
to reach the convention.
The practice Of setting apart one or more
hens, with the view to give the proceeds to the
mission fund, has become very common in Eu-
rope, and has begun to prevail in Africa. One
missionary writes that at q place about ten
miles from Cape Town, knowing that many
were poor, he suggested each family should set
apart hen for missions The first year the
proceeds of the missionary hens amounted to
over twenty-five dollars. One lady always calls
the eggs laid at her home on Sunday, s'mis-
sionary eggs" and the proceeds always 60 to
missions.