Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-21
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE.

CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE
The collectors of funds to rebuild st. Dom
mics Catholic church are meeting with muci
success. One OF them has been agreeably sur
prised by the liberaiity shown by Protestant
and non-church goers.
The congregation Of Grace NJ E church las
evening gave formal welcome to their pastor
Rev. II. ): France, who has been returned ant
enters on his third year. Mr. r. Galleher made
the welcome address, and the evening wa!
given TO music, Rotations, &c.
- The members of the Second Baptist church
corner of Virginia avenue and 4th street south
east, rev T. Hez SVEN, pastor, gave poun
On Thursday, and received quite supply o
groceries.
Rev. DR.. ]. H. Mac ErRey, of Philadelphia
who has recently been visiting Washington
was last week immersed by Rev. Mr.. Power
and received into the Vermont avenue Christian
church.
During the past month the interior of Ham
line church has been frescoed and the exterior
painted and penciled, by Messrs. E. Carstins
and Howard Markward, respectively. The
cnurch Will be re-Opened tomorrow morning
when Rev. DR.. Kelley will preach.
The appointment of Rev. Nick. Reilly as
presiding elder Of the Washington district OF
the NJ. L; churches is very acceptable to the
membership and also to the non-political tenn
perance people. DIR. Riley has been fully as
work, but in the last campaign took the ground
that a third party would not aid the cause.
The Methodist Protestant of Baltimore, OF
which Rev. Dr. E. j. Drinkhouse is editor, says:
at appears that Miss Cleveland, sister of the
President of the United States, Is an active
member of the w. C.. Il. T., and just before the
nominating convention she Joined the women
of the society In prayer for divine guidance
She little thought then that it would fall to her
lot to act as mistress of the White House"
- In the Sunday school of Faith Presbyterian
church. Baltimore Md, there are ,254 scholars
and seventy-two teachers.
Rev. b. C. Hammond, appointed a post
chaplain by President Arthur just before the
close of his term, is a member of the upper
Iowa NJ. E. conference.
The Rev. DR.. r. c. Matlack, of Philadel-
phia, has been elected president of Griswold
college, Davenport, Iowa, an Episcopal institu-
ton which has been much enlarged.
- DIR. A. G. Lawson has received from the
presidents of Baptist theological seminaries
the names of thirty students inclined to devote
themselves 10 the foreign M visionary work.
Rev. DIR. Talmage, of the Brooklyn Taber-
nacle, received 1875 persons into his church
March 1st most OF them on profession of faith.
This makes the present membership 1896.
In Rabun county, Ga, Baptist minister
1O1 years old and blind, is unable to go to
church and preach, and his congregation 60
70 his home every Sunday, where he holds SER
vices regularly.
The Presbyterian foreign mission board
tsouth) advocate cooperation and Christian
union by combining the missionaries of differ
emit denominations in one ecclesiastical Organi-
zation.
The late Bishop Wiley, of the NJ. E. church,
bequeathed his library to the Ohio Wesleyan
university in memory OF his son, who was a
member of the senior class of the university
when he died.
The Jacob Tome Scientific building, built
at Dickinson college, Carlisle, Pa, is now
completed. 1t has cost about $27 900, and is
the gift of the Hon. Jacob Tome, of Port De-
ment
The requests of Jethro ]. Mccullough, of
Delaware, made about seven years ago, have
become available by the recent death of his
widow. Wesleyan Female college and the
Home for Aged Women, Of Wilmington, will
receive 81, 900 each.
The number of Methodist churches in the
United States is now 10 O65, an increase of 324
bers in full connection, counting the 1S2, 900
on probation, is 1,6O4 400, an increase of 1892
during the last year.
Rev. Edward H. Robbins gave notice to the
Presbyterian church in Media, Pa, that he
would resign the pastoral charge of the church
at the next meeting Of the Presbytery of
Chester. He proposes to accept an invitation
TO ministerial labor in Baltimore.
The trustees of Manchester college have re.
Gently elected Rev. William r. Kirkwood, D D.,
science and cOgnate branches, and Rev
Nathaniel S. McFetridge, DID,, of Germantown,
Pa, TO the chair Of Greek and higher English.
The seceders from the Madison-avenue
Congregational church, New York, propose it
Is said, to found, not q new Congregational
church, but a new sect, with the Rev Mr. Light
bourne as their leader. The name proposed for
the new organization Is the "Evangelical I'm
eectarian society,""
The bishop-elect for Episcopal missions ON
the west coast of Africa, Rev. Mr.. Ferguson,
will be consecrated this spring. The Episcopal
robes which belonged to the late martyred
bishop of Polynesia, Patteson, have been sent
TO New York as a present from his family to
Mr. Ferguson, who will be the first cOlOred
bishop under the jurisdiction of the American
church.
The First Presbyterian church Of Baltimore
has recently placed q white shaft of marble,
surmounted by an urn, to the memory of their
late pastor, Rev. j. c. Backus, D. D., at the left
Of the pulpit On the right of the pulpit is q
memorial of the same kind to DR.. Neyins, the
predecessor of DIR. Backus, and on the wall are
tablets TO the memory of Drs. Inglis and ALI
son, the earliest of the pastors. This church,
though more than one hundred and twenty
years old, has had only five pastors.
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