Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-03-01
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

- The Tresbyterians have 100 congregations
In Mexico ard seS raj good schools: theT have
ten native preachers and four Ready for ortiaa-
ton
- In Cincinnati the Methodists have raised
S6.5OO to establish home to shelter women
seeking refuge from potygamy i'll salt Lake
City. Utah.
= Thsservices of Messrs Moody and Sankey
at Battersea Eng, closed January -. They
have been very successful They are expected
at EllnbuEg.
- The Rev. Rodcrick Henderson, recently
pastor of the Presbyterian church at Ports
mouth, Va, has accepted an invitation to be-
come evangelist in the Presbytery OF savannah
The Mennonite colony. who have been liv-
Ing about seven miles south of Dakota City,
have scld Their farm and effects to Yankton
parties iJT -. 0pI, and viii return to Pennsyl-
ya:ia-
- The IJo1,- Cru. the gazette of the Salvation
ARMY. is said to have been circulated las. year.
to tie extent of 80 900 copies. 1t is published
In English. f:rnch. Swedish and several other
l";isUa2cs-
- Tne corner stone of the new addition to
the Presbyterian Theological seminary Of the
Northwest Was laid January 90. The new
building is tn" gift OF NF. &. II. Mccormick,
ana vii! cost, When completed $4,000.
- Conductor E. 4. Harris and wife. of Fitch
burr. Mass, who last winter engaged in the
revival work among the T. and o. r. r. men,
are with David Little. a Baltimore evangelist
holding meetings at Chicopee Fails. Mass.
- The government of Natal. South Africa,
has granted q tract OF land. Of about 3,40O
acres. to a society in England that proposes to
establish g Christ an settlement on it. on prin-
ciPlas similar 10 those adopted 10y the Mora
VANS.
= The WCGt Esd Street Presbyterian church. in
New iOrk. celebrated its sami-ccntennial ami
yersary last week. The church was organized
III February. 1854. Tie population of the city
was then .zsGCGU ard its northern limits were in
the nei5i. 3orhcod oi Washington square.
- The Eey. Mr. Guthrie of L;5erton. Scot
land. has recently bacn with Dr. BlaAie to visit
the Wa!sl'nses. bearing gift OF So 200 FROM the
Prttc:taitS OF Britain and America to the pas
tCrs OF TIE valleys The gift was greatly needed
for ti:e People OF those REGIONS are too poor 10
sustain tier ministry III 81 adequate way.
a school has been established in Sweden
in which yOung men are trained with special
view 10 hF.H1 missions. Several of the men
who have Teen trained there have been labor
Ing fnF SrlHc tine GmCn@ the Laplanlers of
Whuin there SAID to he IS 0G0 i'll the most
northern fiit OF Norway. Sweden and Russia.
= The Rev. Nicholas J. Bjerring, D. D., known
for Eiany years is the pastor OF the Greek church
In New York. has been received as member
and minister (withCut reortiinaion) of the Pres
bytCr.aD church. This. the ErG;.GttiSt saws. is
TO doubt the first instance III the history OF the
church iii this country, where q minister of the
Greek church has bGen received and recognized
as an ordained minister in the PresbS terrain
church without reCrdinati0u.
Alta recent Monday meeting of the Presby-
terrain ministers Of Chicago the subject Of church
music was discussed. 4 paper was read strong
ly iayOring congregational singing led by
chorus choir and the placing of tie music OF the
church under the control of the spiritual officers
OF the church Most of the pastors present ia
Vcred this View of the subject The drift OF
sentiment was against the system nj quaTtette
leadership OF the praise of the sanctuary.
- There is society in England bearing the
somewhat pOrtentoas name OF THE Church of
England Funeral aud Mourning Reform Asso-
Cation. which has for It's objects the improve
ment OF cemetery charels the ENCOURAGEMENT
oi better taste with respect to toGits;Ones ard
monuments the avoidance of excess in the use
OF flowers at funerals ard the disuse of Grape
and scars The council OF the society have lust
issued an address. III which they eXpress the
opinion that excess in funeral observance among
H0rkDg-peOplc has often led TO absolute want
followed i'll many cases by permanent pauper-
iSul.
a member of the New York Stock Ex-
change. Disguised at hearing so much to the dis
credit of his guild, mad, some inquiries the
ether day to ascertain how many on the floor at
apartlcu!ar time We're engaged in active Chris
lian work In very few minutes lie found no
fewer than seventeen Sunday school surernten-
dents. Among them were the supcrintenGpnts
OF the schools connected with Dr. John Halls
Dr. crnIStonS Dr. TalmaGes and the St Paul's
Methodist Episcopal churches. This he thought
aprctty fair proportion out of about 500 menu
0ers present On some other occasion he pro-
poscs 20 take census Of the number of Sunday
school teachers TO be found on the floor