Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-01-02
RELIGIOUS NOTES.


Rev. w. l. Mckinney, Of the Dunbartoi
| street M. e. church, II seriously Ill at hi
| mothers residence in East Washington.
Watch night service was held by the indie
pendent Methodist church in their large room
| on street, between I'D and Sd northwest, op
| forty and fifty persons were present. The ex
ercises were under the charge OF Rev. Jacot
| Wilson, the pastor, assisted by Rev. VIM
| Babbitt.
| Another German Presbyterian church !.
about to be organized in New York city.
The Lee-Street, Baltimore, Baptist church
has renewed its call to Rev. c. Durham, o
North Carolina, TO become their pastor.
Daring the past year there were 1,4OC
patients treated in the Presbyterian hospital Of
New York.
Rev. DR.. R. r. Booth has been put at the
head of the effort to build Presbyterian house
in New York.
Rev. DIR. Joseph Ford Sutton has been
called to the Murray Hill presbyterian church
New York city, TO succeed DR.. Burchard, and
installed.
- The Memorial chapel, which has hitherto
belonged to tho Madison-Square church, New
York, is about to be organized into an indie
pendent church.
- The contributions of the domestic commit.
tee OF the tEpiscopaD board Of missions have
increased In fifty years from about 5000 to
- The Church Of England has nine preaching
stations along the line of canal work on the
isthmus of Panama, where among the Is, 600
laborers there are a large number OF English.
men.
Rev. DR.. David Malin, of Philadelphia, a
prominent Presbyterian minister, died lately,
aged 70. He was secretary of the American
board of foreign missions and prominently
identified with the American Tract society.
Rev. g. B. Taylor, DID,, the well-known
missionary of the Southern Baptist board in
Rome, Italy, Is at home In Virginia seeking
rest, and is acting as chaplain of the University
Ut Virginia.
A union meeting Of the Woman's foreign
missionary societies Of all the denominations
represented In Baltimore will be held in the
parlor of the Young Mems Christian associa-
ton in that city next Saturday.
- The entire adult population Of Ste. Marthe
village. in Canada, which has a total popula-
ton Of 2, 1000, are said to have voluntarily as.
sembled in church on a recent Sunday, and
pledged themselves to abstain from alcoholic
beverages for one year.
The Presbyterians of Paris have Just bought
for $50, 900 the church in which the American
Episcopaltans have hitherto worshiped. Their
congregation is made up OF English, Scotch,
Irish and American Presby terians.
The Methodists have an itinerant preacher
in the west who travelled 400 miles last year,
from station to station, going 2,211 miles on
foot. He preached once or twice every day
and three times on Sunday, and his salary was
500.
= The building fund commission of the Epis-
copal church has been in existence about five
years. The fund now amounts to $50, 979.77.
This money is loaned to a large number of do
ceses and missionary Jurisdictions, chiefly in
the west, and is paid back in yearly instalments
with Interest added.
At q recent crowded Sabbath meeting in
the opera house of Denver, Col, which was
called secular rather than religious move.
1nent, it was resolved, as "every man needs for
his highest physical, intellectual and moral de-
Velopment' a day of rest, to request the mer-
chants of Denver to close their places of bust
ness one day in seven.
Under the million dollar contribution pro-
posed to be raised by the Methodist churches
for missionary purposes by Chaplain c. c. Nc
Cabe, the apportionment to the districts Of the
Baltimore conference is as follows: Collection
at last session Of conference. 1850: million
dollar apportionment, S13,275. East Balti-
more district, collection last conference, So 431
miiion-dollar apportionment, S9,S05. West
Baltimore, last conference, $3.50; milIion-dol-
lar apportionmeut, $S,672. Washington dis
trict, last conference, SIS 391: milion-dollar APP
portionment S7.259. Cumberland district,
collection last conference, 81 1856; million-dol-
lar apportionment, S2,S5O. Altogether, up to
the last reports, all the million dollars has been
raised except about S125,O0O,