Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-02-23
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE.

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CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
- The theological department Of Howard
University has thirty -atre students.
"A temperance SO elety has been organized
In tie Sunday seFfool of Rev. DR.. Sunderland:
presbyterian church, in this city.
- The Linnvils, Va, Presbyterian church
near Harrisonburg. was dedicated last month,
Rev. J. P. Craig, ofbelaware, has settled a;
pastor Of the Fisfseth Baptist church, in Phia
- The increase of eedergy of the Episcopal
Church in this ceantry. FOR the past nine years
has been 81 per cent.
church of Chicago has purchased site and de-
poSlleu S4oUpO 10 erect u church thereon.
- The Evangelical United Mennonite church
aud the Brethren IN Christ have united under
the name OF the Mennonite Brethren in Christ.
Rev. l. D. King. for the past nine years pas
.or OF the Centennial Baptist church. of Pliila-
oeipilla. has resigned to take effect April 1st.
- Rev. DR.. McFerriu. of the NJ E. church
south, has fully recovered from long and crit
lcal illness. and recently preached at Nashville,
Tenn.
The missionary collections of st. Luke's ".
r. church, New York, this year aggregate
S4.Uo. Which will be increased before the con-
ference.
w. W. Watson. of Chestnut Level. Pa. who
died recently, lett $500 to Lincoln university
chester county, Pa, for the education of Young
col0red men for the ministry
= Rev. DR.. A. J. Rowland. Of the Tenth Bap-
list church. Philadelphia. has accepted the call
10 the franklin Square church, Baltimore, but
IL Is not certain that he will 60
II There are said to be no fewer than 5 .00C
Scotch Highlanders in Chicago who still use the
Cache speech. A church is to be ORGANIZED tor
Their benefit, with preaching in Gaelic
| Henry Wray. one of the men who aided in
forming the Missionary Society of the NJ F.
church In 1919. recently addressed the Woman's
Toltigh missionary Societies OF Rochester, New
York.
- Miss Van Bibber, daughter Of Dr. W. Chew
Van Bibber, of Baltimore. received the black
ven ana was professed as a sister OF Mercy nj
the Mt. Washington house of the order, near
Baltimore, on the 10th inst.
- An Ohio pastor whose church has been en-
Joying powerful revival Is quoted as saying:
" ne work has convinced me more than ever OF
the power of the sinpIe Gospel. Doubt, or an
attitude of doubt, will convert no one"
- The Rev. Dominic P Coppens 8. j., OF
ieonardtown, st. Mary's county, has been
transferred to LOyola college. Baltimore. Father
Becker. ). D., of Frederick. Nd. was appointed
10 the charge at Leonardt0wn some time ago.
Mr.. Gould StOckwell, of Rochester, Vt, re-
Gently deceased, left 81 800 to the NJ E. Mission
airy society, like amount to the WOman's For
eign Missionary society. and $1,000 each to the
freedlnan's Aid society and to the church at
Rochester.
In Baltimore 'creches'' or day nurseries have
been lnaugurated by members of the Episcopal
church, the first where young colored children
are lett by their mothers While at work, having
peen opened about two weeks ago. Similar
places will be opened for white children.
- The funeral Of Rev, l. P Cook. the veteran
Methodist local preacher of Baltimore, took
place in Baltimore on Sunday last The services
were by Rev. Dr. l.. F. Morgan. assisted BY Rev.
Or j. Lanahan. u. PeytOn Brown. Rev. c. f.
Felton,, Rev. ]. A. Price, aud Rev. J. F.
GOucher
In January the New York Bible Society
distributed 6.2o6 Bibles, Testaments and parts
OF the Bible at Il total cost of 81 00333 or the
whole number, l,6O0 Bibles and iestaments
We're gwen out among tie immigrants at Castle
Garden, ana 2465 We're distributed aboard ships
anu among ScamGns churches.
IL At the fourth annual meeting of the Brook.
lyn Auxiliary to the MchlI Mission in France if
was stated that there are now 50 stations and
$500 sittings in connection with this mission.
when was begun by Rev. Robert McAll an
English clergyman. in 1872 The EXPENSE of
the entire work has been only SCI 900 The
collections OF the Brooklyn branch in 1881
amounted to ; 1855.
"A religious paper Cthe Baptist EraD,ii.e,.1
answers the question, I" Is there any harm or
hurt III church-meniber playing or hearing the
violin played:' as follows: 1T depends on the
quality OF the violin and of the playing Nothing
in the way of music is better worth hearing
than tirst-ciass violin in the hands of a master,
and few things are harder to bear than a Door
violin badly played"
- Among the requests of the late Mrs Louisa
S. Nought, Of Freehold n j.. who left an es-
tate valued at Sl20 900, is one of S2l 900 to the
Domestic and Foreign Missionary society of the
Protestant Episcopal church. of which $40 600
is to be used for foreign mission work. $40
900 among the cOlOrcd people Of the south. and
Sl.OoO among the Indians. OF the remainder.
800 OOO goes i'll various sums to benevolent Oh
jects connected with the Episcopal church and
sSi3, 0OO TO relatives and friends
- Bishop George F. Pierce of the Methodist
Church South, who celebrated his ''golden we'd
ding on the 4th inst, at Atlanta. Ga, was one
which was organized in 1881. In speaking OF
his early labors he said: MY home seemed Ia
be constantly in the saddle. / preached "A ser
mons every % days, besides sermons on extra
occasions. such as weddings funerals and house
hold services" in 1889 Bishop Pierce was an
pointed president Of the first female college in
the world, situated at iiacon, Ga
- Madame Mary Martha McNally. for forty
years a distinguished member of the Catholic
order of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. died In
the house OF the order at kenwood, near Alba
ny. n. T.. on the 10th instant in the SEVENTEEN
year OF her age. She was a daughter of the late
Prof NJ II. McNaty. and sister OF Mr. H. r.
McNaily, Mrs. Richard Wilson. and Mrs DR.
Atkinson OF Baltimore. and Father McNalIy of
st Stephens church, this city. She also has a
sister in st. Louis, and another sister Madame
Charlotte McNaliy. OF the same order was with
her in her last moments.
A MAGNETIC PHENOMENON.
The Strange Performances of LuIa
Hurst, the Wonderful Georgia Girl.
From the New York Sun.
GAINESVILLE. Ga, Feb. 16-Miss Lula Hurst
who has attracted SO marked attention in Geor.
gia by her remarkable magnetic manifestations
recently repeated her performance In Barnes
vile So wonderful has been her execution
that science Is completely baffied in accounting
for this strange freak Of nature
Some people think she is strongly magnetic
and that the objects she touches become mar,
netized by her touch. and are then renelled
from her on the prjDciOIp that .Ijl.a :.