Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-02-13
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
CHURCHES HERE AND K1sKwHERR.

RELIGIOUS NOTES.
CHURCHES HERE AND KIsEwHERK
The Madison Avenue church, Baltimore,
has, through its official board expressed pref
erence tor Rev. Dr.. Huntley as their next pastor.
The Methodist preachers meeting Of the
District has requested that Bishop Ninde open
the annual conference at the Metropolitan In
March BY administering the Lords supper.
the FOUNDRY N. E. church Of this city has
recently enlarged the parsonage at cost Of
$1,000. About 500 have been raised for q
neW carpet, and new hymnals costing nearly
5000 have been put In the pews.
One Of the most successful reyfyals known
In the history OF the Fourth Baptist church is
IN progress IN the lecture room, and the trustees
ma rave o e completes to postpone the concert
The celebration of the thirty-third anniver-
sary Of the Young Mems Christian association
ococ Sccn n RI, s nay eyening February H. at
G G, The address will be delivered by Rev:
f. w. Gunsaulus, pastor of Brown Memorial
presbyterian church, of Baltimore.
The Episcopal Sunday schools in Utah con-
tain over 900 children of Mormon parentage.
The NJ. E. Ladies' Union Aid society gets
10000 from bequest by Miss Fields, Of
The Virginia conference Of the NJ e. church
by Bishop Ninde
The pew rents in Tabernacle Baptist church,
$4,000 this year.
The Rev. Thomas Harrison, formerly known
Springfield, III.
The religious movement in the Presbyte-
RAN and Reformed Dutch churches of New
York city continues with undated interest.
The colored school recently burned out at
Quitman, Ga, is to be reopened by the Ameri-
can Missionary association at Townsville,
twenty-five miles distant
u Rev. E. p. Hammond is now holding evan
gelistic meetings In London. During three
weeks services held in DR.. Sinclair Patterson's
church, 500 professed conversion.
The managers Of the Presbyterian orphan
age, Philadelphia, have made an appeal to the
churches for more funds in order to complete
Inc building now In course Of erection.
- The revival at Harper's Ferry under Rev.
w. G. Griffith continues and $50 conversions
are reported. Miss Jennie Smith, Miss Ada
sherman and Mrs. Martin have been assisting
Rev. VIII. Aitken, who recently conducted
evangelical services in the Episcopal churches
Of New York, has been holding similar series
OF meetings in Nashville, Tenn, assisted by
Rev. Thomas Douglas, of Brooklyn, who
recently returned from a two-years' tour in
Great Britain, has been called unanimously to
the pulpit OF the Congregational church at
Gilead, Conn.,, but declines.
The Rev. John T. Vine, the English evan
gelist, who has been conducting services in
various parts of the United States, has been
engaged for Trinity Baptist church, New York,
tor the next three or four weeks.
The General Baptist association of Penn
sylvania for state mission work has employed
ffty-five missionaries this year. This is the
largest number that the association has ever
had in its employ.
Rev. Charles r. Hale. D. D., who has lately
been acting as assistant minister of st. Paul's
Episcopal church, Baltimore, has removed to
the diocese OF Iowa, where he has become the
dean.
Rev. Henry B. Hudson, well known
throughout the country as an evangelist, has
been installed as pastor Of the Lewis Avenue
been in charge of this church for just one year.
"A meeting in the interest of Sunday rest,
held at Chickering hall, New York. on January
Oath, was addressed by Bishop Doane, Col. w.
c. P. Breckenridge, of Arkansas, and Chief p.
M. Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers.
Rev. John Dennis, connected with the
Methodist Episcopal church of Canada, and re-
siding at Toronto, was received recently into
.he reformed Episcopal church, and has &C
Philadelphia.
- The officers of Spring Garden Presbyterian
church, Philadelphia, have not yet received
any reply from the Rev. David Wills, jr., of
Ringoes, N. j., to the call extended him last
week. They feel certain, however, that Mr..
Wills will accept
DR. T. Edwin Brown, Of the first Baptist
church, Providence, R l., has given seven stir
ring discourses on the great social and political
questions of our time. DR.. Brown is a native of
Washington and graduate Of Columbian col
lege.
The congregation of the Madison Avenue
COy,Op fioy o1cf No YOrk havQ cd
to withdraw their church property from sale
and to devote 1t to evangelical uses, provided
an organization can be formed which will as
sumo the mortgage Of 100000 and carry on
the work.
AT st. Boniface's Catholic church, corner of
Norris and Hancock streets, a mission of the
Redenlptorist Fathers was begun last week,
which is conducted by Revs. Joseph Schwarz,
Victor Hoelscher, Aug. Stuhl and Alexander
klauder, c. SIS. X.
Messrs Moody and Sankey, who have been
in Chicago, ILL.,, and Knoxville, Tenn. will hold
meetings February and March at Nashville,
Memphis, New Orleans and Galveston, Hous-
ton, Fort Worth, Dallas, and San Antonio,
Texas.
All the theatrical managers Of Cincinnati,
with one exception, have signed an agreement
not to give any theatrical performances in their
respective places of amusement on Sundays
whenever the Law and Order League shall sue
coed in closing the Sunday concert saloons.
Inc b3ptlSC mlQlSVcrS Oh CulcaSO, WHOSE
advice in the matter had been solicited, have
adopted resolution pronouncing it imprao-
ticable to raise $500, 900 to pay an insurance
company for the property of the University of
Chicago, and recommending that steps be taken
toward q new building.
The handsome new building of the first Uni
tartan church, Philadelphia, Rev. Joseph May,
pastor, dedicated on Tuesday evening, is cruel
form, with shallow transepts. of dimensions
sufficient to give seating capacity of over 700.
A chapel, with a seating capacity Of $50, con-
meets with the church. The building is entirely
free from debt.
Love i'm the Salvation Army.
MARRIED MAN ELOPEs WITH SISTER.
Williamsport, Pa, is excited over the elope-
ment Of Jerome H Smole, Of No. a. Railroad
avenue, Of that city, with q Miss Mckee, who
OBLIGATED with the Salvation Army. Miss Nc
Kee is described as q good-lOOking, buxom
young woman, and it has been whispered
among the gOssips that she is more fond Of the
attention of men than devoted to her prayers.
Latterly she has not been in good standing in
the army, of which she has been q bright and
shining light. Jerome H. Smole, her COM
to- faI.