Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-09-05
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE.

The bishop of Maryland. the RI. Rev. VIM.
Paret. ID. d., Ill. d.. will visit Silver Spring
parish Montgomery county, Nd, Rev. Mr..
Ayirett rector on Sunday and Monday. OctO-
Der 18th and 10th. and take the churches in
the following order: Grace church, Sunday
morning. ST. Marks. sunday afternoon; St.
Nary's with consecrationl, Monday morning;
5kJohn's. Monday evening
Archbishop Gibbons will preach at the late
mass at 1T. Aloysius' church tomorrow, and in
the afternoon will administer the sacrament OF
confirmation
MIR. Sankey's new home in Northfield is
about n mile and a half from Nr. Moodys.
Trinity Methodist Episcopal church, South,
1T Atlanta, Ca, has membership of / 400.
The Jerry McAuley memorial, In New York,
will be very appropriately drinking fountain.
The Saratoga Ministers association is try
ing to prevent Sunday evening concerts in Con-
gress Park.
The additions on confession of faith to the
two branches OF the Presbyterian church, north
and south. were, last year. 81 ,923.
The boys department is one of the most en-
coorasIng features of y. NJ. c. A. work, accord
ing to the Year Book" Tor 1SSo-S6.
- Mrs. Moses j. Taylor's gift will be expended
In the erection of an exceptionally beautiful
Presbyterian church for Elberon wOrshipers-
Rev. DIR. W. s. Langford, rector of st. John s
(Episcopal church, of Elizabeth. y. j., has re-
signed To- accept the office of general secretary
of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary So
sisty.
A protracted meeting was conducted at the
Sudley Southern Methodist church, in Prince
William county, Va, last week by the Rev j.
;. Porter, and twenty persons became mem-
bers of the church.
The indefitigable Methodist "church-ex-
tender" Chaplain c. C. McCabe, who set out to
raise one million dollars for mission work this
year now announces that he has $4,000 of
Ii, positively in sight"
The trustees of Union college have received
aletter from Rev. Joseph t. Duryea, formally
declining the offer of the presidency of that in
stitutiOn. DIR. Duryea gives as his reason that
he intends 10 remain in the ministry.
There has been rapid growth in the Re-
formed Episcopal church during the past eight
years. 1t has 10 bishops, 103 presbyters and
deacons, ,943 communicates, prosperous Sun
day-lchOoLs, and church property valued at
B1,O21 500.
Rev. Mr.. Howard, of Alabama, who is visit
Ing in Prince George county, Md, has been
occupying the pulpits of the Methodist churches
ct Cedarville and Horsehead, preaching upon
'-.siIIL and Its Works. He has several other
appointments in the county.
= Rev. III. n. Payne, of Boone, Iowa. has &C
copied the position of field secretary of the
freedmen's board of the Presby terian church.
His work embraces the supervision of the
churches and schools, and especially of the new
fields. and of the points where extension of the
work may be contemplated
From the minutes of the Southern Baptist
convention, it appears that the white Baptists
Of the south have $50 associations, IA ,1O2
churches, and 991 500 members. The colored
BaptstS have 1880 churches, with 81 ,0i3
members. Total in the south, SOS, 552- The
baptisms for the year were GA ,3O1 whites, and
3o,o;SS cOlOred.
The Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown recently
preached sermon in which he deprecated the
practice of iDdscriminate charity. He stated
that in Liverpool there were at least 10000
persons whom indiScriminate liberality encour-
aged in idleness and lying, supported in lazi-
ness, and plentifully supplied with strong
drink.
A camp-meeting is in progress. under the
auspices of the NJ. T.. Church South, Marlboro
circNit, at Centreville, Prince George county,
Md 1t is held in the grove OF Mrs. Rector Pum-
phrey, near the church, and will contain many
OF the features of "a regular camp. 1t is
beautiful road near the Marlboro pike, which
affords a pleasant drive from Washington city
rs well as from the surrounding county. 1t will
continue over two Sundays.