Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-09-27
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
CHURCHES HERE AND EIsEwurRr


- The NJ E. church, erected at Bowie on The
b. and p. R. R.-a neat frame ediaoe-wiu
shortly be dedicated. Arrangements have re-
Gently been made Tor putting in the pews
neat puipit-the gilt Of Mr. T. W Smith Of this
clty,-has been placed in it,
- MI ID. l.. Moody has been asked TO labor In
eight cities from Albany to Buffalo.
- The Catholic church recently dedicated NJ
Front Royal. Va. by Bishop Keane. il ono Of
tue nnest In the valley OF Virginia
Rev. J. J. Lafrerty. editor Of the Rlcbpo,a
Christian Airoolte WHO has been alar,,in.,lv an
mas recovered sufficiently TO be moved To his
home. W '''
- Ross Taylor. son Of Bishop TAYLOR. is study.
ing for admission II the ministry OF the NJ =
church,wi view OF enterRg tile missionary
deld in Africa.
- Rev. Thomas Harrison. the boy preacher.
is holding revival meetings at Freeport. Ill. and
expects 10 open m the Ada street NJ E church
IN Chicago November list
= The Maryland branch OF the woman's
Foreign Missionary society (Nethodist Protes-
tsnt: will hold its third quarterly meeting at
MI. Lebanon church, Baltimore, on October LIST.
The Protestant Episcopal church home at
Louisville, Ky, costing 100000 is nearly
completed. and will be delivered to the diocese
oy tue donor, Mr.. j. Z. Morton, as soon as tn
shed.
- The Presbytery of Newark. y. j.. has
adopted report, warmly commencing the
work OF the Rev. stephen Taylor Dekins. of
mat city, who is engaged in Z" Reformed Catho-
lie movement.
- Alter being united in marriage, near Mt
Sterling, Ky, on September Cd. Rev. F.M.
Meyers and Mrs. Mary Thompson Meyers left
Tor Mexico as missionaries OF the Southern Bap-
fist convention.
The receipts OF the woman's Foreign Mis-.
slonary society of the Presbyterian church
(Philadelphia) in July were S1.S52S5 aud OF
the Womans Board of Missions of tie north
west (Chicago) =, S49S9.
At Stokes school house. six miles from
Martinsburg. W. Na,-a new appoin. m,rt ofthe
Methodist PrOtestants-a recent series of meet
lnss resulted in the conversion of twenty-seyen
ana the formation of a class who propose to
erect church.
- Rev. Joseph Giustiniani. pastor Of the I'm
maculate Conception Catholic church. Baltimore.
for the past so years, is at Mount Hope retreat.
where he has been seriously i'll from pneumo-
ma and general debility from over exertion lie
is In his sith year.
The Methodist conference of the state of
Maine will celebrate the centennial of the es-
tabIishment OF Methodism in the United States
at Lewiston and Auburn on October Is and 16
Several bishops and about so dele gates are ex-
pected to be present.
The Protestant ministers @. New England
VIII meet in New Haven in May 1885. to take
part in the American congress of churches. an
organization formed in Pittslleld. Mass, on
June Is The object of the congress is to pro-
mote christian unity.
In the recent Roman Catholic procession
in Philadelphia the c. I. A. Union trans
parency which headed the line bore the fol-
lowing inscription: "0ur union was founded
TO combat the evils Of intemperance. We have
enlisted for the war. and with the blessing of
God we will continue the fight. until the Catho-
TIC saloon-keeper and the Catholic LIQUOR
drinker VIII be as scarce as snakes in iceland"
- The Church Adcoc1te says: "a few weeks
ago, on Sabbath morning, two heathens. who
Know nothing Of The sacredness of that day, viz.
Fung Gee and Lang Gee. who keep a laundry on
Gay street, near Monument. in Baltimore were
caught at work 10y the police aud were COM
mltted to jail by Justice Robson. The prisoners
said they were trying TO finish up some washing
Tor people who We're waiting for their clothes"
ana adds: AT the same time the saloons cigar
stores and some other places Of business were
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