Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-08-23
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE

CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE
st. Matthew'S church. which has been rem
ovated and refurnished was reopened for SER
vice last Sunday.
Rev. Fathers Denny and Boone. of st.
Aloysius. have been transferred. the first to
New York and the other to Philadelphia. They
will be succeeded by Fathers Coppln and Bren-
nan
- Rev. :. B. Treadway. who ul to last March
was the pastor of the Alexandria VA Metho-
dist Protestant church. and now of Salisbury.
Nd. has been transferred to The First NJ p
church, in'East Washington, to succeed the late
Rev. {. I. COcheI.
- The Primary 5. 5. Teachers union of Wash
iE@tCn recOnvcnes after its summer recess on
Friday. September 5th meeting every Friday at
4:05 p m. tor one hour in the Congregational
church. 10th and G. streets northwest This
union Is an undenOmnatiOna organization of
primary sunday school teachers and other
teachers of children who NAV unite, meeting
weekly. with the prime objects of mutual con-
ference end help in their work. and the study of
the international lesson with reference to teach
Ing it TO young children.
North Capitol NJ E. church will hold
grove meeting al Owens Grove. two and a half
miles from the city. TO commence on Wednes-
day. the I'D of September and to close on the
follow ing Wednesday. The meeting will be
under the charge of the pastor Of North Capitol
Nj. T. church. The services will be- mainly held
in the evening. Wagons will leave the govern
ment printing office at , o'clock each evening
and return from the grove at $50 in the morn
In@ in order To accommodate those who have
business in the city.
- The cornerstone of the Centenary Mctho-
dist Episcopal church. at Laurel Nd, was re-
Gently laid. There was a large gathering. in
Guiding many from Washington and Baltimore
Laurel Wreath Lodge. Free and Accepted Ma
sons. of Laurel, and Solomon Lodge of Savage
Howard county. were present, and laid the stone
with the rites of their order. Rev. J. It. Clair
Neal, Of Baltimore and Rev. Fl. X. Naylor of
Washington. delivered appropriate addresses.
The edIhce is located in the center of the town.
on Vain street, and will be constructed of
brick.
- From the fact that a member Of the Metro
politan NJ. f.. church at Ocean Grove last Sun
day met some thirty members of that church
and many members of other Washington
churches there. il would seem that the Grove is
point of attraction to Neutrality-suspicious.. The
anniversary OF the WOTans Foreign Missionary
Society was held there Sunday. and the attend
ahce. about 10000, IL said to have been the
largest ever known there. The collections in
the morning We're nearly $500. and with the
afternoon collection exceeded $4,000. The an
nual camp meeting there commenced last Tues
day.
htf JdlEeS BECKETT, >. D.. recently OF
LeonardtoWn. has been sent to Jersey City.
- Rev. l.. B. Plumer. of Grocer Baptist Col
lege. has been elected pastor o: the York Pa)
Baptist church.
- The secular clergy of the Catholic archdio-
eese of Baltimore will hold retreat at ST.
Mary's academy in Baltimore commencing Mon
day and ending next Saturday.
= At Frederick last week tour young men
graduates of Loyola college entered the order
of Jesuits as novces. Mr.. Brent Thomas. of
1T thomas near Port Tobacco, was one OF the
number.
- Grace Baptist church. formerly the As
quth street church. Baltimore has moved
from the house on Asquith street (whieI is to
be Sold to the Bethany chapel Eager street
near Broadway, in the vicinity of their new
church lot.
- Archbishop Gibbons is at st. Charles col
lege, where the conference of theo,Ogians has
been in session this Week to determine the form
IN which some Of the matters to come before the
pienary council next November can best De pre-
scented for consideration.
- The tH!-,d P5eSi yttrjcn tells of q minister
who said: He would not pcddIe the Gospel to
anybody; if men wanted to hear it from him.
they must Come t0 L:s church" But he found
that PASTORAL visitation was q necessity to sue
cess III MS work. has confessed himself fail
ufc. aid given himself to other employment.
- The Catholic archbishop Elder of Cincin-
natl. the successor 10 Archbishop Purcell, has
written letter to the clergy ard la!ty under
his charge with regard to the enormous debt OF
ne TAT" archbishop. He has decided that the
diocese Is not idorally For legally under Obliea-
ton To iquidate the Debt; bat az the same time
h urges all, out OF charity and zeal for religion
10 contribute according to their ability to paw it,
ana declaIrs iiiat when all las been done that
can be toward meeting just claims in the did,
cese, he VII appeal IA outsiders for help.
a meeting of tie board of publication of
the Methodist Protestant church was held in
fi'tshurg this week to carry out the resolution
or the late general conference elccting an editor
Of sunday school literature and consolidating
That branch OF the church work into separate
department. The fittsburg members of the
board proposed that il the Maryland members
wcuid agree that the printing should be done
nj the Pttsburr house they would be response
Tie for the salary oi the editor and all expenses
incurred. and wOGld allow Ssh per cent dis
count on all orders from the Baltimore house
ms c1fer vas accepted us the very best lnan-
Gal arrangement that could be made