Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-09-19
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
cHuRcHEs HERE AND ELSEWHERE.

| RELIGIOUS NOTES.
CHURCHES HERE AND ELsEwHERE
Rev. Ward Bachelor, of Gurley and Bethany
Presbyterian missions, who left the city early
in July. quite unwell, has since been seriously
SICK with malarial fever at his iasner nonle :"
| pennsylvania.
Rev. J. II. Logan, the newly appointed pas
| tor Of the Free Methodist church, on LIN ss.ee'
| southeast and who also has charge IN Alex
andria, Va, will preach his first sermon Uo.Mor-
land, N. ].
The pastor of the Congregational church,
| Rev. 8. M. Newman, will preach tomorrow IN
the Sunday school room. The repairs 70 Inc
main audience room will not be compieGG1u US
iOre October 4th Mr. Newman returns Mrs N "
ington from his vacation alone, Mrs. Newman
| not being well enough to travel
| Archbishop Gibbons has received fom Rome
| a decree by Pope Leo Kill, commanding tnat
the regulations contained in his encyclical "su-
preme apostotatus" of 1883 concerning the Gel
ebratiOn during October of the rosary be 90,
served in all Catholic churches this year. anu
In subsequent years, $50 long as the Present
fairs continues, and so long as it is not granted
| 10 the church to return thanks for the restOra-
| tlon to the supreme pontif OF his full noerty.
| "A new Presbyterian college will be Quilt al
Emporia, Kan, to cost $75, 1000.
Rev. R. P. Kerr, pastor OF the First Pressv
terrain church, Richmond, Va, has sailed for
| Europe.
-One hundred Congregational churches, with
over 5000 members, have been established In
| the south since the war.
| The Methodist churches in Chicago have
received over one thousand new members dur
| ing the last three months.
| The Baptist autumnal conference will be
held this year in New York, commencing No
| vember 10.
Ground has been broken for Young Mems
| Christian association hal at Conn
1t will cost 100000.
- The presbytery of San Francisco has now
upon its rolls two Chinese, one Japanese, one
welsh, one Spanish, and one French church.
In the space of thirty years the number of
foreign bishoprics established by the Anglican
church has increased from seven to seventy
five.
The benefactlons Of the late Cyrus II.
Mccormick, personally and through his execu-
tors, to the Presbyterian Seminary of the North
west amount to $45O,OOO.
Pastor Voelter, in Wurtemberg, has dis
patched ten young men to this country
as Lutheran preachers and teachers among the
German settlers in the northwest.
- Rev. r. p. Kerr, pastor Of the First church
OF Richmond, Va, has been granted by his con-
gregation a furlougn of six months, and with
his wife has sailed for Europe.
The Ri. Rev. Horatio Potter, the Protestant
Episcopal bishop of New York, has been con
fined to his room for nearly two years and to
old.
The First and Calvary Presbyterian
churches, Parkersburg, West Va, have been
constituted one church, and have given a
unanimous call to Rev. Henry Runner. of st.
Georges, Delaware.
The Rev. John F. Goucher, of Baltimore,
Nd, is supporting many schools in Japan,
China and India, for the benefit of which he will
place in the treasury of the Methodist mission
airy society this year $4,000.
Tha ov,d
protestant EpiscopaD, in its tenth annual
report, states that of 3,O35 churches in the
different diOceses. 2, Jog are free-a gain IN six
years of fifty per cent
The vacancy in the pastorate of Hanover
street NJ. E. church, Baltimore, caused by the
Rev. DIR. Lanahan, presiding elder, until the
meeting OF conference in March.
The Y. NJ. c. A. work among the railroad
employees throughout the south has been very
successful, and several of the associations in the
large cities are taking steps to extend their in
huence in this direction.
1t is said that q split will occur in the
Fourth Methodist Protestant church of Pitts
burg, Pa, because roller-skating was allowed to
form one of the attractions at the church festi-
val held recently.
While the Chestnut street Baptist church,
Louisville, KY, is being repaired, the congrega-
ton will worship in the Jewish temple in that
city. VI late years the Jews have been very
hiHu III SucQ cOurteSlCS, especially TO
the Baptists.
Rev. John 6. Brown, DID,, has resigned the
office of secretary Of the United Presbyterian
Board of Home Missions and Rev. William S.
Owens, of Steubenville, Ohio, has been elected
in his place, but the latter will retain his pas
toral charge.
The Women's Missionary societies of the
Methodist church in Chicago and the ministers
of the same denomination are looking forward
to the immediate opening in that city of
Christian training-schoOl for women. Property
is to be secured, charter procured and work
at once begun.
The CbngregdtOnalist calls attention to the
decorous action of the owners of the English
yacht Genesta in observing the Sabbath which
it says is at once rebuke and an example
The vessel reached Marblehead on Saturday
evening, August Sth and on Sunday every ar
rangement on board indicated careful respect
for the day.
The secretaries of the home mission board
of the Presbyterian church report, September
LIST, that 755 churches and 70 Sabbath schools
had forwarded collections to pay the debt of the
board. amounting to $40 ,3SO79 That is, one
eighth OF the churches have paid almost one
third of that debt. Thirteen Of the Baltimore
churches raised 81 ,OO4.79.
He Stood the Test.
From the Detroit Free Press.