Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-02-03
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
THE CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE.

- Tomorrow the Forty Hours Devotion will
commence at st. Mary's church.
- Archbishop Gibbons, OF Baltimore, will
oflcate at st. Stephens church on Sunday.
- The revival meetings at Mount Zion church,
Georgetown, have resulted in ninety-three con-
versions, ninety having joined the church.
During Lent the plan inaugurated last year
hepriests exchanging pulpits will be observed
In Baltimore. and it is probable that this plan
will be introduced in the churches Of the Dis
trict.
Rev. Father Broullit, of the Catholic In
dian missions is under treatment at Providence
hospital in this city for an affection of the eyes,
and he will be confined to a dark room some
days.
- Solemn high mass was said at st. Alloys ius
church. on Thursday. for the repose of the soul
OF the late Father Wiget formerly pastor of the
church. who died few weeks ago in Charles
county. Md.
- Rev. DIR. Dashicl. formerly of McKendree
NJ. +. church. and Rev. G. w. Heyde. formerly
of 18th street NJ. E. church-the first now of
Hagerstown and the latter of AnnapOlis-were
in the city this week T.iey were here as wit
nesses in case before our grand jury.
In NorristOwn. Pa. forty tobacco dealers
have signed an agreement to close their shops
on Sunday.
- The Catholic Benevolent Legion organized
in Baltimore a little over a year ago. now num-
bers over three hundred
- Rev. DR.. w. II. Meade Of CharlestOwn, w.
Va. has accepted call to the Church of the
Saviour (EpiscopaD at Philadelphia.
The revival at Trinity NJ. E. Church South.
in Baltimore, recently closed. resulted in "a con-
versions and the addition of 80 to the church.
- Rev. John Scott, Of Charlottesville, Va.
Well-knOwn preacher of the African Methodist
Episcopal church. died at that place on Sunday.
1t is reported from Scotland that the health
OF Francis Murphy. the temperance orator and
wor.er, has given way under pressure of over
work.
Rev DR.. F. II. Kerfoot of Baltimore. having
accepted call to the Strong Baptist church. of
Brooklyn. n Y. took leave of his fellow minis
tiers last Monday.
Lent comes early this year, and will not
again come so early in the year until 1894 Ash
Wednesday is the It'll of February, and Easter
the 18th of March.
Chaplain G. A. Crawford. [. N. Is having
revival on the Richmond, now In Japanese
waters. There is hourisadng lodge of Good
Templars On board.
- Rev. Thomas W. Anderson, pastor of the
First United Presbyterian church, Baltimore,
has declined a call to Aisquith Street Presbyte-
rian church, in that city.
Prof. Robertson. whose alleged heresies
made such commOtiOn in the ecclesiastical circles
of Scotland. has accepted the Professorship of
Arabic in Cambridge. England.
The Nottingham Memorial P. E. church.
tiOn of the late Bishop Nottingham, is SO far
completed that services are held in it.
The Archbishop of Paris throws cold water
on the practice of duelling. by ordering that
Christian burial shall be refused to combatants
who fall while trying to kill each other.
- With the completion of the Baptist and
Catholic churches now in course of erection
at Amherst Court House, Va, there will be
churches provided for every one hundred of it's
population.
Rev Leo Rosser, one of the most prominent
of the Virginia conference of the NE.
Church South. has been transferred to the west
and appointed to the charge of the church at
Denver, Col.
Rev. Lucius N. VOigt, rector of the Protes-
Church of the Messiah. Philadel-
phia, died of typhoid-pneumona Wednesday.
Rev Richard O'Connor, pastor of St Budgets
Catholic church, Falls Of Schuylkill. died the
same day. of apopleSy.
KEY. Chas. S. Barrett, of Cherry Valley, N.
Y, having accepted call from the Hampden
Presbyterian church. in Baltimore county, he
will be installed on February Sth The Balti-
more Presbytery made arrangements for the
ceremony on Monday last.
1T is stated that the Baptist church occupies
a commanding position among the religious
bodies of Ohio. According to a recent report
made to the state Baptist convention. the total
for 1882 numbered sc, 056 showing
a net gain over the previous year Of $780,
The ladies Of Madison. Wis, who are con-
nected with the Women's Christian Temper
ance Union of that city have rendered efficient
service. BY persistent and vigorous effort they
have succeeded in closing all the drinking bars
along the line Of the Milwaukee and st. Paul
road.
At Eutaw-street NJ. E. church, Baltimore.
of which Rev. A. w. Rudesell is PASTOR there
have been recently sixty conversions. On Mont
gomery circuit, NJ. E. church, Revs. r. R, Muir
ply and f. H. Watson, pastors. one hundred
and thirty have professed conversion at the sew
eral appointments.
"A most remarkable religious awakening is
in progress in York county, IN the state of
Maine, through the preaching OF the Rev. John
T. Vine, the Evangelist. He has been preach
ing nightly for nine wee ks in Sanford and East
Lebanon, and crowds flock to hear him. Such
a revival has not occurred in Sanford Tor a
quarter OF century. and it is still spreading.
The question Is raised as to whether the
Rev. Heber Newton, of New York, will be dis
ciplined by the bishop ofthe Diocese for his re-
cent sermons about the Bible The general
opinion fs that he will not. as Bishop Potter.
who is very conservative old gentleman and
very much averse to litigation, has allowed
among his clergy many diverse doctrines and
practices.
GENERALLY. when young minister receives
call to wealthy and important church, he
jumps at it, whether he is tit for the position or
not. In some cases only short time is neces-
sary to show what blunder he has made It
must require considerable grace and patience
in young country pastor to refrain from ac-
cepting an So 900 call to Boston church. Yet
this is what the Rev. Mr.. Gordon, of Green
witch, Conn.,, has done. He says he has been
but short time with his Greenwich congre-
CATION, and that he would be doing Injustice
both to them and to himself if he were suddenly
to go away.
Gambetta'S OratOry.