Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-09-12
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE.


CHURCHES HERE AND KIIsEwHERR
The Fifth Baptist church, Of South Wash
| revival.
Tomorrow the ordnance Of baptism will be-
administered by Rev. Robert Nourse, Of the
Tabernacle Congregational church, to one ofhia
| members.
The Maryland and District association o.
the Christian Disciples) church will meet al
| the Hagerstown (Md.) church on October 7th
and continue in session the following day.
| Rev. F. d. Power, of this city, Is the president
| Yale College has adopted the revised yer.
| sion of the Bible for chapel readings.
| The Lutheran Band of Home Missions calls
for $4,000 TO be raised In the next two years.
| The Baptists in Louisville, KY, have I'M
dertaken to raise $50 200 for church extension
| In that city.
| Efforts are being made to place missionaries
Of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Castle
i Garden, n. Y.
| The Methodist churches Of Atlanta have re.
! ported nearly 500 additions to their member
| ship during the present year.
| Rev. Walter II. Robertson, Of Gloucester, G.
| H., Va, has received a call to the church at
| Warrenton, Va, and will accept.
| Ten adults were added to the Presbyterian
/ church at Augusta, Va, recently. Dr.. II. NJ.
| White administered the communion.
| The Rev. F. j. Brooke, pastor Of the church
/ In ClarRSDurgh, west virginia, has been called
| to the Presby terrain church in WaynesborO Va.
The Roman Catholics claim 100, 900 adher.
ents among the negroes Of the South-two-thirds
of them in Maryland, Kentucky, and Louisiana.
| The Lexington (Va.) presbytery has received
| Rev; H. 81. HAYES, D. D., from the presbytery
| OF West Hanover, after the usual examination.
1t is claimed that within thirteen years
| 1000 Of King Humbert's soldiers have left the
| Roman and joined the "Evangelical Military
/ church."
The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mis-
sions has received bequest of $4,000 from
| Buffalo.
"A recently dedicated church in Iowa has
| several "babies' corners" little rooms divided
off by curtains. where babies can sleep while
| their mothers attend the service.
The American Baptist Home Mission so
| ciety employed last year 7O2 missionaries and
teachers, who labored in forty-six states and
| territories, and in Canada and Mexico.
A new steamer, costing over $50, 900, has
Just been constructed by the Church Mission
Niger river in Africa 1t is to replace one IRE
parably damaged.
THE Guild of the Iron Cross" is a society for
workingmen, organized IN connection with ST.
Clements Protestant Episcopal church, Phila-
delphia. All its members are pledged against
biaSphemy, intemperance and unch stity.
The old Scots Presbyterian church build
ing, Philadelphia, has been sold to bacon firm
The church has been revived in the southern
part of the city in the building formerly occu-
pied BY Faith Mission, and has now as pastor
Rev. j. G. Thompson.
The W. G. T. u. national convention will
be held October 3Oth, at Philadelphia This, it
is announced, will be meeting of great in
cause Is largely dependent on the efforts of
Christian women.
Father McElhone, spiritual director of the
Catholic inmates of the almshouse in Philadel-
pha, has been assigned by Archbishop Ryan to
make regular visits to the Eastern peniten-
tiary, to minister to the Catholic prisoners con-
fined in that Institution.
The Presbyterian church in Charleston,
West Va, connected with the Northern Assem-
bly,, retains the name the original organize
$4,000, Is free from debt, and its membership
is cordially united.
The interest in the Young Mems Christian
Association movement is extending throughout
the south, and in some of the cities steps are
being taken to increase its efficiency by en-
ploylng methods, comparatively new to the
south, which have proved successful elsewhere,
A revival which sis said to surpass any
similar manifestation ever seen in the south"
is reported from Atlanta, Ga. 1t began with
the late national convention held there by the
Young Mems Christian associations and is now
continued by Mr.. Moody. From 5000 to 1000
attend the meetings.
1t has been determined that Kalamazoo
college will go on. The trustees had con-
cluded to close 1t rather than go in debt. They
asked that 100000 be raised among the Bap-
fist brethren to increase the endowments and
pay the debts, and the amount has been sub
scribed.
DIR. D. II. Gregg, native of Boston, died
recently at Richmond, Va, and left the bulk of
bis fortune, amounting to from 500, 900 to
$15O,O0O, to st. Joseph's Female Orphan Cath
olic Institution, of Boston. The income is to
be devoted to the education of white girls,
without regard to religion or nationality.
The most effective missionary work in
Egypt has been done, it is stated, through the
agencies of (American) United Presbyterians.
In Cairo, the headquarters of their mission,
they own property valued at f25, 900. A
theological seminary trains native pastors,
who go out TO aid the ordained missionaries
who have the care of fifty-fve stations.
The American Missionary association
which has been engaged in educational and mis-
sionary work among the colored people Of the
south during and since the war, are confronted
with the fear of having to report heavy debt
at the annual meeting few weeks hence. The
secretaries OF the society have issued an urgent
appeal for the amount required, about $4,000,
before the end of September, in order to close
its financial year without debt.
Saturday Smiles.
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