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


- Rev. r. d. Power, of the Garfield Memorial
Hartford, Conn. on Man 10th. and speak on
the Relation of Divided Christendom TO an
Aggressive Christianity.
- Dickinson Seminary has Ii candidates for
| the ministry for the year.
- Rev. David May, OF the diocese OF Virginia,
| has accepted a call to Christ church. Ironton,
Ohio, and entered on his duties.
| - After forty years service In China. Is o
| Presbyterian missionary, Rev. DIR. Harper has
| returned TO this country for needed rest
Rev. Thomas w. Atkinson, cf North Caro-
! lima, has declined the call OF Grace church,
| Petersburg. to become the assistant 10 the Rev.
| DIR. Gibson.
Christ Episcopal church. Bedford avenue.
Brooklyn, y. ", has paid of $500 OF debt
since Advent sunday. Twom memorial windows
have recently been placed in the church.
- The Church of the Reformation, New York,
Rev. DIR. f. +. Miles. rector, proposes to erect a
new edlflce, and si2,o 600 have been secured Of
| the required $4,000.
- Mrs. Jane Goheen, wife of Rev. Maybury
Goheen, some years ago the pastor OF McKen-
dree church in this city, died recently at Hsgers-
/ town, Nd.
- The Baltimore NJ. e. Preachers Association
has elected Rev. T. Daugherty. NJ. D.. president;
Rev. w. F. Spinke, vice president; Rev. C. +.
Young, secretary, and Rev. DIR. ID. III. Carroll,
treasurer.
- Rev. Benjamin H. Latrobe for several wears
rector OF the Seamans Mission, Philadelphia,
| Church of the Redeemer) has been called to his
| former parish. Calvary church, Wilmington,
| Del. and will take charge on May j.
On the invitation OF nearly all the Protes-
! tant ministers of Pittsburg and Allegheny, Mr..
Moody viii hold a Christian convention I'm
| Pittsburg, April 9th and 10th. and preach on
the l2th. He viii be accompanied by Mr.. San
key.
| The Preachers Aid Society, of the Baiti-
more NJ. f. Conference, has elected F. A. Crook,
| president: Rev. ]. II. Brown and :. Baldwin,
vice president: W. 4. Leitch, recording secre-
| tary: \. II. Greenfield. corresponding secretary,
ana X Cornelius, treasurer.
| Rev. Or. VIM. ii. Hare, missionary bishop
of South Dakota, has during his missionary
episcopate confirmed one thousand Indians.
Several converted Sioux have been ordained to
the ministry, and there are now twenty-five
| congregations who contribute literally TO the
! support OF the gospel among them
- The secretaries of the home mission board
of the Lutheran General synod Rev. J. A. Clutz,
OF Baltimore. Md, and Rev. :. b. Barnitz, OF
Des Moines, iowa, report increased and increas-
ing interest in their field. Pastors and congre-
cations in the general synod are calling for mis-
sionary meetings, literature, addresses. ETC., far
! beyond the ability Of the boards To supply.
| - The late Cornelia Graham, of Newburgh "
Y, widow OF Commodore John Il. Graham, be-
queathed to the board Of domestic missions Of
the Reformed church in America, 100000, in
trust, as a memorial fund, and $4,000 10 ST.
Seamen's Friend Society is made residuary
legatee.
- Or. John De Forest, of WATERFOWL, Conn.,,
who died recently, left $4,000 each to the
American Missionary Society and Home Mis-.
sionary Society, $4,000 TO the American Board
of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, s., 900
TO the American Bible Society, $4,000 to the
Connecticut Bible Society, 81. 500 to the Ameri-
can Tract Society, 81 800 to the American
Seamens Friend society. and 81 900 to the
American Female Guardian Society.
cf,x-t. IDl,Gl< -
phia, Pa received I61 new members on March
10, % by letter and 80 on confession. Ofthe 13s
only % had not been baptized i'm their infancy.
The pastor, Rev. DIR. Pierson, conducts "A Union
Bible class on saturday afternoons attended by
Christians of all the Evangelical denominations.
The friends here Of Rev. Dr. w. T. Eva who
some twenty-five years ago was the pastor OF
Presbyterian churches in Montgomery county,
will be glad to learn that AT recent communiom
OF his congregation-1Sethesda church. Phila.
delphia. Pa.-twenty-eight members have been
added, nearly all on examination. The finan-
cial condition OF the church is good. and it has
contributed this wear more than ever before Tor
missionary and benevolent purposes.
- The friends of the Theological Seminary OF
the reformed church at Lancaster, Pa, are
making an effort to add three new professor.
10 raise 100000; the Potomac synod $50 600:
and the Eastern synod. $4,000. OF this last
sum- $4,000 are to meet yearly deficiency in
the present income OF the seminary; $4,000
are to complete the endowment of the chair Of
Hebrew and Old Testament Theology, and the
remaining $4,000 are 10 endow new profess
sorship.
The Centenary Biblical Institute, of Bal.
timore, for the education OF colored youth,
especially for the ministry, is seeking an
endowment, and besides the $4,000
pledged 10y the Baltimore conference, and
$4,000 by the Delaware conference, has
$4,000 sS.r plssdged as follows lows; Rev. j F.
81 900 eacn, Rev. Or. L. 4. Morgan and minis
ter and wife $500 ach.