Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-28
RELIGIOUS NOTES.


Rev. Or. W. Y. Tudor formerly of this city
and BOW Of -. Louis. las the largest prayer
IN citing in that city. three hundred usually
beIug present. and often more.
The Washington preachers meeting has re-
Gently discussed the ply seal value of prayer.
ODco the members stated that i'm forty years
there had been out one expulsion OF a member
f0r dancing.
- The revival meetings at the Mount Vernon
Place church. in which Rev. Dr. Lcftwich, of
Nashville, Tenn assisted Rev Dr. Cox, the pas
Tor have closed, and thus far as the result 81
have united with the church.
Sain. Jane, Parish, Capitol Hill, is in q
very fouri>hing condition. 1t is less than a
year since they moved into their new church,
yet they have already built a large guild room
and a ropDy stone porch. y Surpllced choir
has recently been introduced. kIduy gifts have
been received. embracing Il iii ny desk, altar
and pulpit vestiHeuts i'll red ana green Tor their
appropriate seasons: a richly cIS Droldered pail,
the wori, Of tie sisterh"od, f john baptist,
finest OF their kind ia the city. There i dairy
celebration OF the eucharist, and morning and
evening prayer. The congregations have grown
large ana attentive.
- The Free giQus<fssociation is moving
again for the taxation OF church property in
Massachusetts.
The new Methodist Protestant church, at
Belair, Hartford county Md, will be dedicated
on March i t.
- The Rev. T. A. :. Adams has been elected
to the presidency of Centenary college of the NJ.
l. church south.
The meetings conducted by Mr.. Moody in
Richmond have been followed by revivals in
nearly al The churches.
-Frauce, Murphy, the Gospel temperance
evangelist, has accepted the call to the Tenn
perauce church at Pittsburg, Pa.
In the west number OF the Catholic priests,
1t IS stated, have refused the communion to
those who frequent the skating Kinks.
- Rev. ]. II. Boldrid-e, of the Louisville, KY,
Baptist seminary. has accepted Il call to Burke
willie and sandy river churches in Virginia.
The Catholic convent in Baltimore, Md, for
colOred women has nj present thirty-twO pro-
fessional nuns, TWO nOViceS and one postulant.
- Henry -Earley, the wei known English
evangelist, Is holding meetings in Louisville,
Ky, twi'e day under the auspices OF the three
northern Prc>bN terrain churches.
- Bishop Parker viii preside at the approach
Ing session Of the Baltimore annual conference
of the southern Methodist church. He expects
to spend the sunday before the session begins at
Salem. Va, tine seat Of the conference.
Rev. J. IL. NJ Pollard, the Episcopal mis-
sionarE IT Norfolk, Va, reports thai the Church
of the Holy Iuuacents organized the
thlTd sunday in January, lcSi. with eight
co;nlnu"icdntS. ana il now has twenty. The
siHtay cun4sregat ions average between seventy
a. and one hundred and the sunday school
about sixty.
- Corsicaaa. Texas. which has population
of6-@00 ard 13 churches. recently was claimed
as the 'CLurChic-t' town in the country,
Princeton. ky.. with 1.6rD population does
better with I0churche>. Gurneishboring town
of rails Church, Va. with half tie population
of the kentucky town, las II churches. and is
d' uhjieSs TIA" banner town. The village OF
TraFPe. il Talbot county. Md, with a poPula-
uuu OF 500, hs,s churches, one of them seating
400.
Tire Chicago T5messays that '.in one Episco-
T1l church in Milwaukee there is an aggregate
ccnifrl Oi between 10000. 900 and S25.OOG,-
COO and in another @iD0o1OO and men
mons other CONGREGATIONS OF various names
which represent more tn.tn hundred millions.
The Church Press of New NC.S says: This
wealth.. q 'eriy directed and not given over TO
qUdTt1tje cNGir- ana other p-3etS de {;re, could
sGrCS be So dedicated 10 Gods service ~
sV3Hgclil- The whole diocese"
Kew. r. u. Power writing to the Christian
Ererr eefisf "a, To the Garfield Memorial church
ana the effects Of HE change in The adminisira-
tiun uEgL il. says 80 1T Ut least the prospect
i've ct.sIGe has had 20 disastrous effect upon
our prosperity here. Since the occupation of
our new house Of worship the congregations have
doubled. and % persons have been added 10
tne membership. Two united with us yeSter-
day and three ON the sunday previous. Our
finances have greatly improved. The church
debt S6.1tr1. has been provided for without
morl"s,g". iCg mOncv being borrowed readily on
a note. a. mich payment OF the interest and a
paTt OF the principal VIII be made every three
months