Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-07-26
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE.


j. J. Cavanaugh, we'll known here as q
Free Methodist exhorter. will leave next
week for camp meeting in New Jersey and
will attend the Free Methodist conference in
Philadelphia, under which he proposes 10 take
work As an eXhOrter
- Rev. f. II. Sven. lately pastor of the Tab
ernacle Baptist church, OF New Albany, Ind.
where he has been emineatly successful in his
ininlsteriaf labOrs. was recently called to take
charge of the past0rate OF the Second Baptist
church OF this city. and will preach his first ser
mon OF Sunday, August 3.
Last Sunday Rev W. Perry Ryder. of John
Wesley (coloreD church. Baltimore. preached
a sermon condemnng the practice OF carrying
ire arms Mr.. Ryder saw much of the effects
OF this practice IN the District i'll the riOtOus elec
tons succeeding the war. He was then mes
sengcr i'll one of the departments, but resigned
to 20 into the ministry.
- The Mount Zion NJ Z. Church. Georgetown
which was dedicated last Sunday is about the
oldest colOred Methodist church in the District
dating from 1916. For many years it was under
the care of the Baltimore conference but is nos
one OF the charges of the Washington confer
eace. The new e,liice cost $4,000, which with
the exception of a few hundred dollars has been
paid.
- st. Matthew's Catholic church. at 18th and
Fl streets, is undergoing an extensive overhaul
ing. The pews have all been altered to the
same width. thus adding twenty-four pews to
the former number. with an additional seating
capacity OF 12J. The main body and gallery of
the church will be newly painted. Two new
conessonalS are being erected in the vestibule
OF the main entrance. The carpets, cushions,
aud knecl!ng stools are being thoroughly reno
waited and tae work will be completed, it is ex-
pected by August LIST. At present the services
are held in the chapel In the base ment.
- Rev. DR.. Newman Hail. of London. recently
celebrated the thrteth anniversary OF his pas
torate.
The Presbyterian council, which con-
cluded its session at Belfast, Ireland July Sd,
will meet in London in 1888.
- Rev. Thomas B. Lemon, now superinten.
dent of the West Nebraska NJ E. missions, form
erly Of the Baltimore conference of the NJ E.
church. was recently made ID. ID by York col
lege. Nebraska.
- Rev. DR.. E. N. Potter, the newly elected
president of Hobart college, has decided to &C.
cept his election to the Episcopal BshOpric OF
Nebraska. DR.. Potter will be the fourth of his
name and kindred in the American Epscopate.
= Rev. P. II. Lenaghan. lately assis tant pas.
tor of st. Mary's Star of the Sea church, OF
Baltimore, has been transferred to st. Joseph's
church, Texas. Baltimore county. Rev. James
OBrien, lately of Homecoming. Nd, succeeds
him at st. Mary's.
-Rev. DR.. W. P. Strickland died last week
at Ocean Grove, N. J. DR.. Strickland was
prominent in the NJ E. church years ago. and
was for some years assistant editor of the New
YORK Christian AdCOcGte but he united with the
presbyterian Church some years AFRO.
- The new Reformed Episcopal theological
seminary which will be opened next December
in Chicago. will be the fifth theological school in
that enterprising city. The library of the late
BiShOp Cummins, an extensive and valuable
collection. has been offered for the use of the
institution by Mrs. Cummins.
Rev. George A. Beranek, a RedemptOrlst.
and assistant pastor of st. James church, Bati-
more. celebrated recently his golden jubilee
the Hitch anniversary OF his ordination as
priest. lie is 10 years old. and native of BO-
hernia. He was ordained July % 1884. in the
Cathedral church of the diocese of OmutZ and
entered the Redemptorist Order at Vienna in
lS4l.
"A party of seventeen missionaries of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South and their fam
lilies will soon leave for China Miss Laura Hav-
good. sister of Dr. Atticus G.. Raygood. and the
Rev. w A. Bonnell. president of Cayington Col
lege. Will head TIE party. The work OF Miss
HaygoOd Will consist in Su,,erintenueuce of all
the wOmeDS WORK of the Southern Methodist
missions in China.