Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-04-19
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE.


= The recovery OF Father MeNailey, of st.
Stephens church, is now assured.
- Sister Blanche. Of st. Ninccnt's Orphan Asy-
lum. who has been suffering from an attack OF
paralysis. is Improving.
Mrs Mary a. Woodbridge, of Ohio the
well-known temperance worker Who has been
lcctGring here GiIing tile week IS Il cougreGa-
tionalist.
- Bishop Randolph. of Virginia. will admins
ter the rite Of confirmation to fifteen candidate;
al Christ church. West Washington. tomorrow
evening.
- The following have been elected the coun-
Gil Of St Paul's Lutheran church: I. \. kalb. J
{. Parker. VI. RouZer. 4. L. Fox, G.. W. LinkinS
". = Davis. and 4. 5. johnson.
Tomorrow afternoon the rte Of confir1aa-
ton Will be administered lay Archbishop Glib
bons. of Baltimore, at the Church of the Iinmac-
ulate Conceptjnn.
- Last Sunday Rev Or. Domer. of st. Paul's
Lutheran church. received 81 members into the
church-e0 by confirmation. by baptism and
10 by letter. There are now about 230 commu-
Hlcants belonging to the church.
- Bishop Perry. of Iowa, during his recent
visitation of portion of the Episcopal diocese
umbia. made 80 visItations. delivered over sc
sermons and addresses. and confirmed 5.} per
sons and all within the short period OF forty
days.
The last dollar on the subscription for the
temporary endowment of the Cook academy at
Havana. n. u, has been raised.
- General Green Clay Smith. formerly mem
Der of Congress and now Baptist minister, is
conducting series of meetings at Louisville.
- The Asquith-street Baptist church. Balti-
more. has changed its name to Grace Baptist
church. and Rev j. d. English entered tile pas
tOrate April LIST.
- The first session of New Testament Insti-
tute' will be held at Granville O., from JULY
30th to ..uTust eth. There will be SIX depart
ments of instruction.
- Maryland has 1852 Sunday schools, "a sos
officers and teachers aud 237 51i scholars. and is
now far ahead of all the other states and terri.
tories of the Union. The percentage of pcpula-
ton in Sunday schools for Maryland is 26 a.
District of Columbia. 12$..
- Bishop Hurst, of the ~ f. church, in adj
dressing a class of young men admitted to the
ministry by the Newark conference recently
said: Preach temperance fully and freely but
when you have created the temperance senti-
ment and made the truth dominant. leave the
organization and secular work to others"
Among the passengers on the steamer Gel
tic for New York from London Thursday. were
the Rev. Mr.. Young secretary of the Wesleyan
conference. and Rev. Mr. Whitehead formerly a
missionary to China They will attend the
general conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church at Philadelphia to be held in May.
- The Berean Baptist church. New York,
Rev. Edward Judson, d. D., pastor, has a
L.
Habrial. a German Bible class, the Kinmonth
HON" i'll Hamilton. and wood and coal ward.
Any member of tne church or regular attendant
OF its services, or any person having child In
the Sunday school, may apply for q few hours
work any day at the coal yard.
"A minister has been collecting facts as to
the length of pastorates and the terms of
Stated supplies in the Congregational churches
Of this country. He finds that of the whole
number Of ministers in 1883. 20 per cent had
been settled 20 years and upwards. He eX-
presses the conviction that the average pastor
ateS Of other noI-itinerant churches are much
shorter than in the Congregational church.
- Captain" Dinah johnson. of the Salvation
Army. brought suit to recover 81 600 from the
chief of the New Haven police fer alleged false
imprisonment Her counsel asserted that the
evidence proved that the defendant was actu-
ittu ll!ttiitt III the arrest. ana 1ldI
simple singing in the public squares was not a
breach ofthe peace. But the Jury returned the
verdict: The defendant to recover costs"
- The members OF the New York East NJ F.
conference We're treated last week to spirited
discussion of the proposition to memorlalze the
general conference in favor of an extension of
the pastoral term, now limited to three years
Strong speeches We're made in favor of it by
some of the younger ministers. but the older
men were disposed to stand By the old order
tor fear Il change would work more harm than
good
- The Peoples Baptist church of New York. of
which Rev George w. Samson formerly of Co.
npbia College here. is now. in consequence of
he sale oftne SD street house. without home
During the occupancy of this building it cat H.
red a large. Sunday school and a class Of Chi
icsc under the charge OF All Gee and ne has
aiken it To the Calvary church. DR.. Samson
las removed his school for Bible workers to the
sd street church.
- Noting the fact that city councilman OF
Pittsburg, Pa. was recently sent to the work.
house for sixty days for disturbing worship in
,ne of the local churches The Christian Adro-
'dff admOn!shes chose rough boys and gi9gling
girls who in some places disturb our Worship to
earn a lesson from his fate. AS to dealing with
such offenders. it says s1crnly, "EXp0stulate
'nce p''tr0tiy. once publicly, then turn the dis
,urberS over to the law"
A Hallway Ladder.
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