Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-10-17
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE.

Rev. Mr.. Reed, of Asbury M. E. church,
tcolored), has had quite a revival this week the
being "a. i'1"' e'eA's
The revival meeting at Fourth Street NJ. E.
church, Rev. NJ. F. B. Rice, pastor, are increas-
ported.
- AtFletcher M. E. church. 4th and New
iork avenue the revival meeting there this
week nave been we'll attended Mrs. McKen-
S 4ss,a Rely has led the meetings. Revs H. R.
during the week a. S'oAA PAeoo"e~
KEY. Dr.. Huntley has received several
urgent calls to large churches in New York, Ne
ulasha anu other conferences, but he does not
h hes,i transfer. DR.. j. P. Newman, who has
not ,ser OF as pastor at Metropolitan. will
o' io-on'eF This conference next spring.
- Rev. c. NJ. Haddaway, of the Baltimore NJ.
z. conference, with his wife, the daughter of
VI. .. "A. ID. Mckim, left on Wednesday for
c ya pal az Neb He was appointed to the
confere o the church there by the Nebraska
- Rev. Giles B. Cooke has resigned the rec
Oorsnlp OF ST Stephens church, Petersburg, Va.
heV. John Cavnaugh, of the Free Metho-
oist church, now stationed at Liberty Falls, is
visiting relatives here
The Rev. DR.. Highland has been called to
counties, Md,
The Rev. Richard Louis Knox, formerly
catholic priest, has been received into the min
Louis.
- Mr.. Moody will hold meetings in New York
this month, the new church structure in Broome
work.
Rev. L. w. Rose, rector of st. James
church, Boydton, Va, has under consideration.
Oxford. n. C.
The vestry of Trinity church, Portsmouth,
va, has accepted the resignation of the rector,
Kew; Charles H. Holt, and he has taken rec
torship in New York.
- Rev. ]. E. Hammond, of Lovely Mount,
Montgomery county, Va, will probably be
called to the rectorship of All Saints church,
Calvert county, Md.
Bishop Taylor, the missionary bishop Of
the NJ. E. church, will return to this country in
November, for the purpose of securing rein
forcements for his corps of assistants in Africa.
Rev. DR.. John Leyburn has resigned the
passionate of the Associate Reform Presbyter-
lam church, Baltimore, and the congregation
has elected him pastor emeritus ut salary OF
$4,000.
The new building of the Young Mems
Christian Association, Brooklyn, N. Y, which,
with the ground cost upwards of $500, 900, is
the gilt OF the reSiduary legateeS of the late
Frederick Marquand.
The first Baptist church of Atlanta, Ga,
has decided the elegant manse, recently pur-
j.. Is.
condition that he remains with the church
during life.
A council has advised the Baptist church
in Hillsvillo, Pa, to withdraw the hand of
fellowship from their pastor. Rev. !. r.
Strayer, for teaching that Regeneration fol-
lows baptism
Rev. John C. Hobson takes charge of st.
Johns Episcopal church, Petersburg, vacated
by the resignation of Rev. Mr.. Spencer, who is
devoting his time to teaching the colored stu
dents OF the Divinity school, Petersburg.
- The new Episcopal church in Woodville,
Prince George county, Nd. will have a memo
rial window over the altar to the memory of the
late Rev. Dr. Marbury, paid for by individual
SUBSCRIPTIONS, procured MOSTLY by Mrs. Chas. H.
Mcpherson.
The Delaware (O) Gazette's (of October
13th), reference to Rev. Nathan Sites, D. D.,
will be of interest to the many friends of DIR.
Sites, whose wife and children were for three
years residents of this city in the family of Mrs.
came home Il little more than year ago as a
delegate to the general conference Of the NJ. E.
church. He now returns to his field of labor in
Foo Chow. China, leaving his family behind.
A few years ago, DR.. H. ]. Churchman, of
Augusta county, devised twelve or fifteen thou
| sand dollars to the educational society of the
Episcopal diocese of Virginia. The circuit court
set aside the bequest by reason of apparent in
appeals, and the decision of the circuit court re-
versed; and the society hopes to obtain the be-
quest when Is 10 ala young men TO study for
the ministry.
- The tenth church congress in the United
States is to be held in New Haven from October
20 to 23. The inaugural address will be deliv-
cred by the bishop of Connecticut. The topics
for discussion are christian Doctrine of the
Ethics Of the Tariff Question, y .1Estheticisiin
in Worship" Free CHURCHES, . "Deaconnesses
Bible study in the Christian Life There will
be twenty -four speakers on the different topics,
including bishops, clergy and lalty.
Mountain Making
HOW THE SURFACE OF SWITZERLAND CAME TO
BE so BADLY WRINKLED.
From the Cornhill Magazine
The inner hot nucleus Of the globe (Which is
not liquid, as the old-fashioned biologists did
vainly hold, but solid and rigid con-
tracts faster than the cooler outside
The cold upper shell, therefore, falls in
upon 1t more or less continually, and thus,
occupying less horizontal space must necessa-
rily cause great lateral pressure. Imagine for
moment Il solid weight of millions upon mil
lions and millions OF tons all falling In toward
common center, and all squeezing side
ways the parts about the crack at
which the crust of the earth is weakest.
The present structure h Of the Alps shows
exerted. The solid rocks which compose their
surface are twisted and contorted in the most
horizontal, being folded over and over each
other exactly as one might fold carpet in sew
eral layers. 1fol. Helm, OF Zurich, has shown
by careful measurements that the strata of
rock which now 30 to make up the northern
half of the central Alps alone once occupied
at present. The crushing and folding, due to
the lateral PRESSURE has been powerful enough
to wrinkle up the different layers and throw
them back upon one another like blanket
doubled over and over in huge folds that often
reach from base to summit of lofty noun
tains, and stretch over whole square miles of
the surface OF Switzerland. According to Prof
Helm the folding of the crust has been so enor-
nous that points orig inaly far apart have been
brought seventy-fOur miles nearer one another
than they were at the beginning of the move
ment of pressure. In fact, Switzerland must
have been originally quite a large country with
some natural professions to be regarded In the
light OF first-rate European power but its out
side has been folded over and over so often that
there Is now very little of it left upon the sur
face What 1T once possessed in area it has now
adays to take off in elevation only.
A Princes Repulses.
From the London truth.
Prince Alexander of Bulgaria has been for
| some time past in quest of royal wife, ana he
has encountered some notifying adventures
in his search. The imperial family of Russia
will lave nothing to say to him in this capacity
thinking, apparently, that the claims on their
consideration of the eldest son of the fayorite
| brother of the late Empress has been Tor ought
to have BEEN satisfied by his election to the
throne of Bulgaria "a coup which was notified to
the Prince when he was indulging with some
comrades in q carouse of lager beer ana Jisch-
congress at Darmstadt last year for the mar
riaoe Of Prince InuiS Rattanhoy,p frb;ol ,,,ou