Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-27
RELIGIOUS NOTES
CHURCHES HERE AND FIsEwHrpv


BY the death of Rev. II. Adolphus Gross. a
: local minister, Rev. Daniel Haskell the pastor
OF West Georgetown NJ E church has lost a
valuable assistant. ~
Rev. A. F. Steele. of st. Marks P. E. church
Capitol Hill, is meeting with much success in
i ms ehurch work, and his congregations are
Rev. DIR. Chester's CONGREGATION Metro.
poiitan Presbyterian Will close the Sunday
evening services tomorrow week for the warm
weather DIR. Chester proposes to take snort
Last Thursday a number of persons visited
the jackson Grove camp ground with the
ofncers and committees of the association
making arrangements for the camp, which
commences July 31st.
Rev. Charles Adams for fifteen years q
clerk In the Post Office, during which time he
has frequently preached in the Metropolitan
and other VI. f. churches has gone to Chicago
10 reside with his daughter.
The quarterly conference OF jefferson cir
cult. NJ. +. church. in Frederick co., Nd, has
decided to sell the parsonage property in
frederick and build at Buckle ystown. Rev. j.
M sheridan, formerly ofGeorgetown, is the
pastor.
The Rev. Edmond Hez SVEN, pastor Of the
f, Second Baptist church, has been granted a
vacation, and will sail for Europe July 4th on
the lnman steamer City of Berlin. He will
! visit England, France, Germany, Belgium,
Italy, Austria and switzerland, and will return
in September.
, The Southern Methodist church proposes to
raise S265,O0O for missions in 1885 and 1886.
:, - Bishop W. E. McLaren, OF Chicago, has been
collected dean of the Western Theological society.
Rev. Edward a. Shook has accepted the
pastorate of the Deer Creek, Nd, Harmony
Presbyterian church.
Several Hampton Institute Indians were I'm
! the class confirmed by Bishop Randolph in St.
Johns church, Hampton, Va, recently.
"A Catholic newspaper asserts that 10000
Protestant children are attending the Catholic
schools in this country.
The total number of communicates in the
United Presbyterian church in 1855 is reported
at SS.o.1, being a gain over last year of ,234.
DIR. John Hall will spend most of the sum-
mer in near New York. he preached the
baecalaurate sermon As chancellor OF the New
York University, in the University Presbyte-
rian church.
The will of the late Emily Waterman of
Providence, X. l., gives 81, 900 to the Domestic
and Foreign Missionary society of the Protest
ant Episcopal church.
The Rev. George Cooper. d. d., pastor of the
Baptist church at Wlliamsport, Pa, and
formerly of West Philadelphia, has accepted a
call to the First Baptist church, Richmond, Va.
MIR. George w. Childs has presented to the
Asbury Methodist Episcopal church, Phila-
{ delphia, a Simpson memorial window. The
inquire OF Bishop Simpson Is said To be good
likeness
Before Sam Jones left Nashville he lifted q
collection to build house for the Young Mems
Christian association. and about $4,000 was
subscribed The intention is to raise the sub
scrfption 10 100000.
The Pennsylvania Bible society, which
celebrated a few days since its seventy-seventh
anniversary at Philadelphia takes pride in the
fact that ii is eight years Older than the Ameri-
can Bible society, with which it most efficiently
co-Opsrates.
1t has been decided to abolish the choral
service of st. James Episcopal church at Chi
cagO, ILL., This has been done TO meet some of
the views of the communicates of the church
who object to a surpliced choir.
When Rev. MIR. Rainsford, of Toronto, be-
came rector of ST. Georges church, Stuyvesant
square, New York, in 1883. he insisted that the
seats should be free. The plan has worked
We'll. and last year the receipts were S4S,00O.
The general assembly of the Reformed
Presbyterian church has been in session for the
past week at Morning Sun, Iowa, with about
300 in attendance. The next meeting of the
assembly will be held at Rochester, in June,
1856.