Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-05-10
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE.

A general council of the Presbyterian
churches will be held at Belfast. Ireland, on the
24th of June next.
AT the session of the general assembly Of
the Southern Presbyterian church to be held
in Vicksburg on the 18th, an overture will
be presented from the presbytery of the
Chesapeake by Rev. DR.. Pitzer to send
down to the presbyteries for their adop-
ton, an amendment to the form of government
providing, that presbyteries shall have liberty
at their discretion, to set apart to the work of
the gospel ministry, godly and experienced men,
well versed in the English Bible and in the
standards of the Presbyterian church in the
United States, apt to teach, and evidently called
to the ministry the lord, through His spirit
and providence" This overture, if adopted,
will result in opening the doors to many excel
lent men who have hitherto been kept out of
the ministry by reason Of the strict scholastic
examination required.
- Philadelphia is the leading Methodist city
in this country. having nearly 100 churches
within the city limits
The American revisers of the Old Testa-
ment expect to complete their work in one ses-
sion more, and there is no doubt that it will be
published within this year, possibly in the fall.
- The new Baptist church organized last fall
at Nursaravopetta, india was formed with
forty-six members, and on the first day of it's
existence its membership was increased three
fold by the admission Of 1913 believers by bap-
tism.
- The late s. NJ. Edgell, of ST. Louis. be-
queathed $25, GOO to the American Home Mis-
siOnary Society. His son. Mr.. George S. Edgell
without awaiting himself of the delay allowed by
law, promptly sent the full amount to the So
ciety.
- Rev. DR.. Chester, OF this city, has been de-
signated by the faculty of Princeton College to
be one of the three judges to preside over the
Lynde debates and decide as to the victor and
award the prizes.
- DR.. Edward Terhune, pastor of the First
Congregational church of Springfield, Mass, has
accepted the call of the Bedford Avenue Re-
formed church. Brooklyn. DR.. Terhune is the
husband OF the well-known writer, "Marion
Harland."
- The COngregdtiOndist says of the New De-
parture with regard to the doctrine of future
probation that sit cannot longer be doubted
that the defective and offensive theology in
question is on the increase among US, nor that
1t is time for the friends Of pure gospel to take
counsel together as to their subsequent duty"
Rev. D. j. Pierce, of the Baptist church at
Seattle, W. T., writes as to the liberal giving by
Chinese converts that there is Chinese church
of over sixty members in Portland Oregon, for
which the Chinese paid more than 81 600. They
support Chinese missionary In the province of
Canton. and make large individual gifts for the
support OF the Gospel.
One Of the effective Observation-Disclosures I'm the
McAll mission work in Paris is the singing of
popular hymns Mrs. McAll writes to The Am
erican McAu Record rnar one of the favorites is
the familiar Sunday school hymn, Tell me the
old, old story" We hear. she says, "of these
hymns and tunes going everywhere; children In
the streets, young men coming from meeting
In the country, singing along the road as they
return at night"
-Pere MOnsabre has taken the place of Pere
Hyacinthe as the popular preacher at Notre
Dame. Paris. 1t Is said that he breaches in
NOtre Dame only six times in the year-on the
six Sundays OF Lent. For each sermon he
receives the modest stipend of thousand franc,
which, OF course, according to the rules of tho
religious community to which he belongs he
DominicanS for general use of the order.
In reply to the question, sought church
member to be disciplined for keeping race
horses. and running and trotting them for
prizes at our county and state fairs?" religious
paper says: "Prizes to stimulate farmers in i'm
proving the breeds OF their cattle, and the
quality and yield of their produce. are In every
respect admissible and right; but in testing the
best speed OF horses entered for exhibition there
Is always large amount Of betting on one side
or the other. This is gambling, and we are
sorry to say that it is fast becoming an enor-
nous evil In agricultural fairs from one end of
the country to the other. :"