Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-05-30
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
CHURCHES HERE AND ELsEwHEB

Rev. DIR. Huntiey has organized in his con
| grcgation at the Metropolitan NJ. f. church q
class In the study OF high grade Of catechism
and much interest Is taken In it.
Most of the churches of the District have
| returned to the summer arrangement for the
evening services; the hour for beginning being
eight o'clock. In some churches during the
months of July and August services will be held
late in the afternoons.
Rev. W. Mex Hammock of Badensburg
circuit, NJ. Z. church, has moved his family &c
Bowie.
AT Gorsuch chapel. Rev. DIR. E. ID. Owen
has held revival meetings during the past week
and several have Joined the church.
Tho vestry Of the Episcopal church a,
Macon, Ca has called the Rev. George Dame
OF Prince George county, Nd, as its rector.
About 1000 conversions have been re-
ported In Knoxville, Tenn as the result OF the
recent labors of the evangelist, Rev. Sam. Jones
- Rev. j. X. Mofiett, of Orange county, Va
has accepted call to the pastorate of the
Beuah and Shiloh Baptist churches in King
William county. Va.
The Rev. Thomas Harrison closed the
special services at Trinity church, Chicago, and
is now at Louisville, KY, to assist several
Methodist churches there.
- Bishop Coke, of western New York, an.
nounces that the diocesan council has fixed
81 900 as the lowest salary which should be
offered a minister.
deliver the Baccaaureate sermon at the COM
mencement OF Washington and Lee university,
Virginia, in July next.
Won Schleumbach, the great German re-
vivaist now visiting friends i'm the SOUTH is
urged to remain in this country, where nearly
one-nlnth OF the Inhabitants speak the German
language.
- Misses Jennie Smith and Adelaide Sher-
man. railroad evangelists, connected with the
Womans Christian Temperance Union are
working among the railroad employees residing
In Atlanta.
There are 155 more Protestant foreign mis-
sionaries than there Were seveR years ago. and
it is estimated the whole number now i'm SER
vice is ,, 100. The contributions to carry on
their work last year aggregated S9,203.231.
The Woman's Union Missionary Society of
America for Heather Lands, OF the Reformed
Episcopal church of Philadelphia, Pa, supports
the Doremus home at Calcutta which is doing
excellent work. 1t di.bursed in 1854 nearly
$4,000.
A number OF the clergymen Of the State
Congregational association, OF New jersey,
Gently visited the Belleville avenue skating
rink at Newark, and spent some time i'm watch
ing ana discussing the features OF ring manage
ment
- In the Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian
and other churches the sunday schools ac'
lively engaged i'm preparing for the children s
day services onthe Sc cond Sunday in June.
The Methodist Protesta nts had their services
on the 18th OF May.
The McAll mission has established more
than score of auNiiiaries in the United States
during the last two years, and about $4,000
annually is contributed here toward the sup
port of ninety-four unsectarian. but thoroug bly,
evangelical mission stations in France.
1t is understood that the approaching con-
vention of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of
Ohio will elect assistant bishop. Report
says that the choice will fall unanimously upon
a successful eastern rector a "Neo- Evangelical"
Minnesota will also probably elect an assistant,
and possibly southern Ohio.
WOmen's slippers.
THE EVIL EFFECTS FROM TOO THoUGHTLEss
USE OF THESE COMFORTABLE COVERINGS.
From the Toronto Mail
A gentleman who had travelled q great deal
and spent some years i'm England was speaking
OF English women, and expatiated, as usual on
their good health, as compared with American
women, and the long walks they took and fin
ished with the remark: "But the English ladies
never wear their thick shoes in the house; they
always change and put on slippers" This idea
seems TO prevail to a great extent among Ameri-
can women Also that il Is the proper thing to
wear slippers In the house. This may be a good
plan for those who live in houses kept al a sum-
mer heat at all times and never GO out except
when attfred for visiting, shopping or some
thing OF the kind II is also relief 10 the
weary housekeeper who has been Oh her feet all
Gay to sit down in the evening with her slip
pers on.
morning, when one is liable to be called on to
step out doors at any moment while the grass is
wet with dew, Is productive of wet feet, which
in its turn Is one of the most fruitful causes of
colds and all the evils that follow in their train
In the fall and winter months, too, the floors
are cold in the morning and a good thick-soled
shoe is much more comfortable than low-cut
slipper, even though the latter may appear a
little more like house dress. The fact that they
can be SO much more easily and quickly put on
than shoe may perhaps, be one reason for pre-
ferring them, but that shd dld not be considered
for q moment
We are not speaking OF the wear of slippers
during the hot and sultry months of summer
but the common practice among women OF
wearing them exclusively around the house.
Men are fond Of donning the dressing gown and
slippers in the evening after the chores are
done, but they do not wear them around their
work. Although they may be a rest and
change then, something that will support the
ankles Is very useful and essential. 1t Is great
Inconvenience, too, to be Obliged To change ones
shoes TO 60 out on an errand or to step out
doors. Women would often be more willing to
take walks were IL not for the trouble OF getting
ready. Not to dispense with slippers altogether,
for, as we have said they are often jeefui We
think the general health OF women would be i'm
proved by wearing high shoes more aud slip
pers less.
Within the past week on the farm Of q Day
brook, H., farmer, q number of apparentfv
hao ffxyuo Lob fall -