Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-03-27
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

DIR. Van Bokkelen, of Trinity church, Buff
falo, will retire from the rectorship at Easter.
The Episcopal Sunday schools in Utah con
tain over five hundred children of Mormon
parentage.
The Presbyterian church at Watkins, n. Y.
has received sixty-eight new members since
the beginning of the year.
- AT recent meeting of the parish guild q
81. johns church, Wytheville, Va. the entire
Indebtedness OF the parish was liquidated.
- The Congregational church recently organ
lied at Rockaway Beach, L. l., has been recog
nized by council of sister churches.
- Evangelist James, of the Baptist church
closed a meeting at GAINESVILLE, No.. recently
which resulted in about 100 conversions.
The Presbyterian church at Annapolis has
formed among the young people an association
for intellectual and spiritual Improvement.
- The Rev. c. Nj. Deitz has baptized 100 per-
sons in the Baptist church at Reading, Pa, this
winter.
There has been Bible society organized at
Cumberland, Nd, with Judge Gordon as presi-
dent, known as the Bible society of Allegheny
county.
- The late Mary w. johnson, of Philadelphia,
a member of the Society of Friends, bequeathed
S157, 900, in various sums to about forty reli-
gious and charitable institutions.
- Rev. William Elliot Griffis, of the Reformed
church of Schenectady, n. Y, has received a call
from the Shewmut Congregational church OF
Boston.
The Disciples church, at Bowling Green,
Caroline county, Va, was burned Sunday, the
14th inst. The roof caught fire at the morning
services. The congregation escaped in hurry.
Five hundred and thirty new names have
been added tn the converts roll of Bethany
Presbyterian church, Philadelphia, during the
last three months.
The revival in ST. James-street Methodist
church, Montreal, is described as truly remark
able. On a recent sunday two hundred persons
were received on probation.
The Pilgrim Congregational church, st.
Louis, of which the late DR.. Goodell was pastor,
gives 5000 to endow a professorship In
Drury college, as memorial.
Gen. Buckner's staff in the confederate
army is well represented among the bishops of
the Episcopal church, those of Kentucky,
Michigan and Texas having served as staff OFF,
GERS to that general
st. Andrews Episcopal church. at Meriden,
Conn.,, inherits $4,000 from the estate of
Edwin +. Curtis, upon the condition that the
church building shall never be moved further
west than 1T now stands.
"A "Florida Chautauqua' was opened at De
Funiak Springs, February %, and will con-
tinue till March %. Rev. Alfred A. Wright
Bishop Mailaleu, Prof. Harper and Prot. La
HUE are among the instructors.
The clergymen of the Methodist Episcopal
churches of New York will hold meetings to
secure signatures to petition asking the legis-
prohibition to popular vote.
Rev. DIR. stephen III. Tying, jr., recently
preached at st. AIMS Episcopal church, New
York, his first sermon since his retirement
from active work i'll the ministry five years
ago.
The East Pennsylvania Conference of the
Evangelical Association, at their recent meet
ing at Reading, decided to erect monument
over the grave OF Jacob Albright, the founder
OF their church.
The Womans Christian Temperance Union
request that ministers throughout the Union
preach on April on Sabbath observance, and
that the subject at the prayer meetings that
week be the Sanctification of the Lords day
among proiessed Christians and the proper
recognition of the day by government.
The salvation temple. Toronto, the new
headquarters of the Salvation Army in Canada
is one of the most perfectly equipped places for
religious meetings and worship in Canada The
auditorium will seat 1900 people. and there is
not bad seat in the house. 1t Is arranged in
accordance with the plans of Gen. Booth, and
Will be ready Tor occupancy in short time.
- The cOlored Methodists of the south have
been increasing their contributions in a ratio
even greater than that OF their white brethren.
Within the past ten years table comprising
sixteen negro conferences, with membership,
according to the latest statistics of about
100000, shows that the amount contributed
for the support OF Methodist Episcopal missions
was SS6,115.