Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-25
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE.

- The Metropolitan VI. f. Sunday school has
recently graded the classes into primary. inter-
mediate, senior and normal departments.
- Already the Sunday schools the District,
particularly the Methodist, Presbyterian Bap-
fist and Congregational schools, have COM
menced preparations tor "Chiidren's Day." the
second Sunday in June.
- The annual meeting of the P. E. convo-
| cation o. Washington will be held in Christ
church, East Washington, next Tuesday at 7:30
o'clock r. IN. The convocation sermon will be
Preached by the Rev. DIR. CrummeIl. Rev. DIR.
| Townsend will deliver the convocation address
- Rev. DIR. Hurtlcy last sunday in his sermon
ON make joyful noise" &c. Psalms kew, l.,
brought n smile to many of the congregation
when he referred to the applause heard on the
base ball grounds and expressed his fondness
for the national game
- Rev. r. II. Ball. who died recently in this
city, was for many years unstationed min
lister OF the Methodist Protestant church. His
first service was as assistant on Anne Arundel
circuit, hut in consequence of ill-health he was
left without an appointment, and for many
years followed school teaching. The latter part
OF his lie he spent i'll the government service.
The Southern Presbytery of the Chesapeake
Will meet at MiddlebuGg, Va, Tuesday next.
- Rev W. l.. Gray has been appointed cor
responding secretary of the Philadelphia Metho-
dist and Book Concern.
The WoInan's Christian TEMPERANCE Union
at Trenton. y. J.. has building with grounds
costing $4,000, apd library OF ). 900 volumes.
Rev. We n. Braman, pastor of the NJ. E.
church at Hopkinton, Mass. died suddenly re-
Gently while in attendance at the session of the
New England conference.
A camp-meeting, in charge of DR.. Dougan
| Clarke and David Updegra1, will be held July
| tl-20. at Mountain Lake Park, Garrett county,
Md. III which Miss Jennie Smith will assist.
j Rev. +. l.. Harris travelling evangelist of
the Texas Holiness association. wishes to go as
missionary to the Congo valley, Africa, and his
ri are. rats bp f,upi To
him.
- One hundred Chinese young men, partly
educated in the United States, but recently re-
caIlel. now at work in China. As they are
in government employ, they have to be most
careful about offending native religious preju-
dIceS.
- The Rev. Alex. Proudfit, of Germantown,
Pa, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the
Second Presbyterian church, Baltimore, and
was admitted to the Baltimore Presbytery re-
Gently. His installation will take place May 4.
The churches of the Baltimore conference
NJ. f. Church South, at the last session reported
collections follows: For foreign missions,
SlO.639; domestic. S262O.5O; foreign woman's
board, s4,oOI Oh foreign centenary fund,
81 81 L; total. Sic, S71.54.
- The meeting in Fincastle, Va, has resulted,
it is reported, in genuine revival of religion.
Rev. DIR. Tyree, of the Baptist church, and Rev.
L. c. Gordon, of the Presbyterian church, have
been preaching ably, and the Christian people
anu theI pastors nave ullltcu III the WORK
AT ST. Mary s Seminary, Wednesday, Bishop
Bondell, of Montana, acting for Archbishop
Gibbons, ordained to the priesthood Thomas
Reilly, of the diocese of Columbus. Ohio. Bishop
GlorieuX ordained to the deaconshp Mr.. Reilly,
Frank y. Perry, of the Chicago diocese, and +.
Fallon OF the New Orleans diocese.
The number of Congregational churches
which gave over $4,000 each for benevolence
during the past year is 90, and their aggregate
gifts amounted to S4S3. 53O-an average of over
81 800 each. The largest amount given
by Plymouth church, of Minneapolis, sis, los;
the second by the First church of Chicago,
S26,974: and the third, the Pilgrim church of
St Louis, S21 .Sl4.