The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-04-25

We had the pleasure few days ago OF In
spectng the handsome new residence of Col. 0
P. Macgill, on Green Spring avenue, near Brook
andville. 1t is beautifully situated, the view
from it being of the most extensive and attrac
tive character. The house was planned by thu
Col. himself, and is in all respects model of ar
chitectural skill For the size of it we do no
know of country house that is so we'll arranged
and has so many attractions. Although Col. Mac
gill makes no pretensions to being an architect
yet he succeeded wonderfully well and has res
idence of which he may justly feel proud.
Woodbury. and Vicinity.-Another church
is being added to the ten in this very fourishine
and moral town. The corner stone of Trinity Re
formed Church was laid with appropriate ceremo
MES on last Sabbath afternoon. congregation
assembled in Benson's Hail. the place of worship
at $3.50 o'clock, and sermon was preached by
Rev M. L. Fieror, of st. Paul's Reformed Church
Baltimore. At its close all repaired to the place
of the erection of the chapel on Sycamore street
near the Falls road, where the usual ceremonies
we're conducted by the pastor, Rev. r. r. DIETRICH
There were also present Rev. G. Clever and Rev
DR.. Staley, of the Third Reformed Church, Balti-
more, and Rev. Thomas Myers, of Grace M. E.
Church, Woodberry, all of whom took part in the
ceremonies. There were deposited in the stone
the church form and hymnal, the Heidelberg cate
chism and church constitation the Reformed Mes
senger, the Christian World, Reformed Church
Almanac for 1885, history of the congregation,
with the names of pastor, consistory and members
of the church and Sunday school, and o copy OF
the Baltimore american and Sun. The church is
2Sx50 it., of frame, with only an audience room
for all purposes, to cost SO 900. The consistory
of Baltimore gave the lot costing 81, 100, and the
members of Baltimore contribute to the building.
collection was taken up to furnish the house,
which is expected to be completed in June and
dedicated free of debt.
A word of explanation of this denomination may
be in place. The reformed Churches" was a
term employed in a conventional sense, not to
designate all the churches of the Reformation, but
those in which the Calvinistic doctrines and still
more the Calvinistic poity prevail, i'll contradic-
ton to the Lutheran. The Reformed Churches
are very generally known on the continent OF
Europe as the "Calvinistic Churches" whilst the
name protestant Church" is in some countries
almost equivalent to that of Lutheran. One chief
distinction of the Reformed Churches is their doc
trine ofthe Sacrament ofthe Lords Supper, charac-
terzed by the utter rejection not only OF transub
sanitation, but of consubstantiation (; and it was
on this point mainly that the controversy between
the Lutherans and the Reformed was long carried
on. Pascasius Radbert, a monk, and afterward
abbot of Corbey in Picardy, introduced transub-
sanitation in the 1lth century, in the dark ages,
and after a controversy of one hundred and fifty
years, at celebrated council of the Lateran, and
at the instigation of Pope Innocent the III, one
of the most arrogant and presumptuous of the
pontifs, this doctrine was explicitly adopted in
the 18th century. Luther, in the 10th century,
introduced consubstantiation. Zwingli OF the
Reformed Church, confuted him.
Our community, with its eleven churches, Is be-
coming yet more o moral and religious people
There is no town in our State, of their means,
wherethe people live and dress better. They spend
too much in this way. Some are too careless in
paying their debts. They will get credit but Jor-
get to meet obligations. There is great love Of
music among them. Many families have their
parlor organ. We have a music store. and also u
resident agent for the sale of musical instruments
in the employ of Sanders Stayman, of Balti-
more. No where Sabbath schools more at
tended and better managed.
1t is feared that the cotton mills will not run on
full time and thus lessen the resources of the peo-
pie. OCCASIONAL.