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

- Rev. ]. ]. Wheeler. Of Rhode Island. has
accepted call to the North Baptist church Of
this city. and will probably enter upon his
chagre about the middle OF this month
- The Cohocksiuk NJ f. church building in
Philadelphia has been purchased by ST. Mchaels
7. A. Beneficial society.
- The receipts of the Missionary Society. OF
the N. f. church for 1883, were S15i, 459 90
nearly $4,000 in excess of last year.
- Messrs Moody and Sankey began their ser
vices in the Lavender hill hall, Queens road,
Battersea, January 6.
Two Presbyterian ministers-Rev George
E. Jones Of Broadway church, and Rev. John p
Campbell Of Faith chapel-have arranged for
an extended European tour this summer.
- The Metropolitan NJ. E. church, (colored.)
in Baltimore. of which Rev. II. A. Carroll, is the
pastor. has now membership of 500, with
about 100 probationers.
1t is announced that Moody and Sankey have
made an engagement to visit East Saginaw,
Mich, early in May, and hold extended services
there.
- The report that Rev. ]. S. Inskip, (of the
Christian Standard, Philadelphia had had a
second attack of paralysis at Ocean Grove, is in
correct. 1t was an attack of vertigo. and he is
improving.
In Baltimore there is an auxiliary Of the
McAll mission. composed Of representatives of
thirty or forty churches, the special object being
to support mission station in Paris known as
The Sale Baltimore"
- The benefactious Of Mrs Valera G.. Stone.
who died at Maiden, Mass. January Is, foot up
81. 80, 500, of which $50. 600 were to churches
and the poor. and 81 l00, 800 to colleges and
other institutions.
- Rey. Arthur Mitchell. formerly OF Chicago.
and now pastor Of the First Presbyterian
| church, Cleveland, Ohio. has received a call to
New York city to act as secretary of the Pres
byterian board of foreign missions.
- The New England Congregational church,
Chicago, Rev. Arthur Little, ID. D.. pastor,
reports the sum of S37 $50 raised during the
year. Of which So, 225 was for benevolences; the
American Board receiving S30f6: Illinois ii. NJ
3. Sl55S; the A. M. A. 81, 236; New West COM
mission, a ,e66; Chicago seminary, 1906.
- The Second Presbyterian church of Chi
| cage gave a reception January 2lst to Rev r.
N. Patterson, D. D.. who has just completed his
threescore and ten years. DR.. Patterson was
| pastor Of the Second church for thirty-two
years, and has been resident of Chicago for
nearly half a century.
- Given to Cardinal McCloskey at the re-
cent celebration Of the fttieth anniversary of
his ordination was crucifx ten feet high, made
entirely from olive wood grown in the garden of
| Gethsemane. The inlaid marble pulpit to be
| presented to the cardinal in commemoration Of
| the day will not be finished for six months yet.
At meeting held at the Y. Nj. c. A.
Apudng to further the preaching Of the Gospel
| in Chicago, I'm the Gaelic language it was an
| nOunced that there were 1000 Highlanders in
| the city who understood that language better
than any other, and that DR.. Campbell, of Col
| lngwOOd. Canada, would soon arrive in Chicago
to take charge of the work.
Rev. j. W. Rosebro, Of Lewisburg, West
Virginia, Presbyterian church. has received q
call to Concord, N. C. Rev. R. E. Lackey. of
New York has accepted call to the Presby-
| terrain church, at Glade Run, Pa. Rev. Dr.
Robinson, of Market Square Presbyterian church,
| Harrisburg, Pa, has accepted the chair of pas
| toral theology In the Western Theological Semi
| nary at Allegheny, Pa.
| - Rev. Francis Hawley. father of Senator
| Hawley, who died at Westfeld, Mass, January
I'd, aged 50 years, first entered the Baptist
ministry in South Carolina but, being an
| earnest opponent OF slavery, was obliged to
| leave there and come north. He preached i'm
Bristol, Celebrock and Wafingford. Conn. and
| CaZenOvia and PeterborO. n. Y, where he was
| the pastor of Congregational churches. retain
| ing his views on baptism, but rejecting close
communion.
At the Eleventh annual convention of the
Illinois Y. NJ. c. A. fifty associations were re-
ported in the state, with four branches. Num-
| Der employed as secretaries and assistants.
| thirty-three. an Increase of twelve; five new
| reading-roOms have been opened. and CONVEX
| siOns are reported from almost all the auxilia-
ries. The number Of corresponding members
was 1873, the largest in its history The year has
been one of great activity in all departments,
and of corresponding success.
- The floral offering at the Claiming Memo
rial church in Newport, r. L., January 18th, was
arranged with reference to the recent death Of
keshub Chunder Sen, the India reformer and
philanthropist. large cross of smlax bore on
| its face a crescent of white roses, while above
: it was suspended star of flowers symbolizing,
'that union of Christianity and HindOO Theism
| which it was the mission Of Mr.. Sens life to ini-
| tiate." Mr.. Wendte in his sermon expressed
| the prayer of Unitarians for the success of the
| movement now under the inspiration of Mr..
| Mozoomdar and Others of the Brahmo Soma