Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-01-30
RELIGIOUS NOTES.



Bishop Turner, OF the African Methodist
Episcopal church, has ordained to deacon's
orders mulatto girl
- Bishop Paret (P. E.) has inhibited extern
pore prayers at the West Calvary Mission,
Baltimore.
One year ago, the 25th inst, the rooms of the
Central Union mission, located at 900 Penna.
avenue were opened TO the public for the first
time. Since then gospel services have been
held every night in the week, and since March
%, 1885, daily MONDAY prayer meetings and
Sunday afternoon meetings. The entire ex-
pense of the mission has been 81 1854, or less
than 81 per meeting.
The First German Congregational church
was recently organized in st. Louis, Mo.
The "May anniversaries OF the Baptist
church will be held this year at Asbury park.
The dedicatory exercises of the Texas Wes-
leyan college, at Fort Worth, took place ON the
18th.
There are 1900 more Congregational
churches in the country now than there were
in 1860.
1t is understood that Rev. Dr. Mcfarland
will accept the call lately extended by the First
Presbyterian church, StauntOn, Va.
The presbytery of St. Paul has deposed
from the ministry, and communicated from
the church, Rev. Charles Mclean.
-Ot the AZ, 900 new members of the Presby-
terrain church last year, about 21 900 came
from the Sunday schools.
- Arrangements have been perfected by the
Evangelistic Alliance in Cincinnati, Ohio, TOR
taking a religious census in that city.
The Western Theological Seminary ALLIE
ghany. Pa, has seventy-five students, the
largest attendance for many years.
The board of missions of the Cumberland
Presbyterian church has accepted the services of
Rev. A. H. Whatley, and appointed him mis-
siOnary to Mexico.
The New York City Mission society Epis-
copaD expended last year S3O,4O4.51 at st.
Barnabas' Home, Mulberry street, and is now in
debt.
The Young Mems Christian Association of
New Haven, Conn.,, it is said, propose to pur-
chase the old Third church, and alter 1t to suit
their purposes.
The new secretary of the presbyterian board
Westminster church, in Elizabeth, will enter
upon his new duties February 1.
Rev. DIR. W. z. Harrison, the book editor Of
the Southern Methodist church, estimates the
increase in membership of that church during
the past year at 900.
The transfer of the bequest of $40 900 in C.
& P. r. r. stock from the executors of Rev.
Charles C. Beatty, D. D., to the presbytery of
Steubenville, Ohio, was recently made. The in
terest OF this fund is 10 be used in evangelistic
work within the bounds of the preSbytery.
- The Methodist Episcopal church at
Alexandria, John Edwards. pastor, has been en-
larged and beautfied at an expense of Sc, 500.
The main audience room Will seat about 700
PERSONS, ana Is llSnIeu WITH three reueClOrS
hung ten feet from the ceiling.
Bishop Foss will sail from New York Feb
ruary Sd with his wife and children en- route to
the Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, German, Swiss
and Danish Methodist conferences. He will
also attend the British and Irish Wesleyan con-
ferences as fraternai delegate, and return in
August.
-Messrs. Moody and Sankey are under ap-
pointment to hold a series of meetings at Mon
treal. From Canada they will go to Cleveland,
LOT 1t,6 nrNI frly,
south to Louisville. They will visit New
Orleans, Atlanta, and other southern cities as
time may suffice.
According to Sadlier's almanac for the year
the Roman Catholic church in the United
States has IL archbishops, 81 bishops, 1926
priests, 1921 ecclesiastical students, 6,775
churches, OF chapels, 1873 stations, SO do
cesar seminaries and houses of study for
paroehial schools ATTENDED by 49,, $40 pupils)
and 449 charitable institutions.
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Prof Dana on Evolution.
HE ACCEPTS THE THEORY, BUT CANNOT SAY
WHETHER IT IS DUE To DIVINE POWER
In the second lecture of his series on evolu-
ton, before the young men of Yale college last
Saturday, Prof I'D. Dana, the geologist, spoke
upon Evolution Fact in Organic as well as in
Inorganic Nature" Among other things he
said:
1--WE may suppose that there was only a
Ii I
creations especially at the creation of species.
This belief is in no way atheistical. 1t is i'm
possible to ascertain surely how much OF the
creation was due to Divine power, and it is
reasonable and right to use all our means to
find out as much as possible. There is no dis
tinct declaration in the Bible of the creation of
the species except that OF man. The develop
ment theory may, therefore, be based on the
Bible. There Is no reason to believe that the all
powerful God would not come to the aid of
nature in evolution which il would not be able
to accomplish itself. There is higher nature
within man which is An acknowledgment OF an
infinite being. If God exists, he must be a God
of active power and infinite love. Evolution
must have been the work OF an infinite God,
and whether it took place without Divine
assistance is matter worthy of much
thought. A system of progress of the highest
from the lower looks very much like develop
ment or evolution, the only question being
whether it required Divine interposition TO
create each separate species, as is held by some
who do not hold this view from religious mo-
1ives"
Prof Dana concluded by saying that there
was an article on evolution in the December
number of the Nineteenth Century, by Mr.. Glad
stone, which held nearly the same views as his