Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-04-03
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE.

On last Sabbath twenty-eight united with
the New York Avenue Presbyterian church,
twenty-one on profession Of their faith.
The Reformed tDutch) board Of foreign mis-.
sions owes S3s, 500.
The German ministers Of Cincinnati are
holding meetings to sustain the Sunday laws.
The Church Of England has nine mission
stations along the Panama canal
The Presbyterian church gave over $780,
600 to foreign missions in January.
- Rev. j. Addison Whitaker has been elected
pastor OF the Frostburg (Md.) Presbyterian
the recent annual Sunday school festi-
val In Lucknow, India, 1000 children marched
In the possession.
Christ Protestant Episcopal church, of Bed
iord avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y, has decided to
Keep Its doors open all day.
1t has been decided to hold the American
May 25, %, and ~.
- The three evangelists who are laboring in
Rochester, N. Y.-Messrs Morton Pratt and
Davldson-are meeting with great success.
Dean Carmichal, Of Montreal, Canada, off,
ciated at the Episcopal church of the Ascension
Baltimore, last Sunday.
-Ex-Chief Justice Cochrane of Georgia, has
left the Episcopal church for immersion into
the Baptist faith.
DIR. James Eells, president of Lane Theo-
logical seminary, Walnut Hill, Ohio, died sud-
natl.
The receipts OF the American Bible society
for February were $35 ,46433. The total issues
from the Bible house during the same month
were 81, 446 volumes.
- The general conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church, south, will assemble in Rich
mond, Va. in May next. The last time it met
in Virginia was in 1867.
There are Ill Young Mems Christia n asso-
Citations in New York state with membership
OF 81 800; Twenty-six associations have been
organized in this state within a year.
- The Baptist Home Mission Monthly sends
out a ringing call for 100000 required before
April Is to enable that society to close its year
tree from debt.
Rev. E. P. Hammond, the well-known
American evangelist, has been laboring during
February with great success at Chaplain, Eng
land. The opening meeting was attended by
about 800 boys and girls.
Two Texas evangelists, Major Penn and
Mr.. G. r. Cairns, are reported doing good
work in Scotland. On the pressing invitation
of friends they went over there in November
They are now in Nottingham, and their services
have resulted in the conversion o many.
- DR.. Hartzell, well-known in connection
with the educational interests of Methodism in
the south, has undertaken to raise $4,000 of
the S1O0, 1000 needed tor the new Methodist col
lege in New Orleans. Bishop Mallalieu has prom
ised to raise the remaining $4,000.
One of the most remarkable religious re-
vivals seen in the lower section of New Jersey
for years is now the sensation in Cape May
county. The meetings are held at the court
house, and people drive from fifteen to twenty
miles to attend them. Rev. William Mitchell,
who is known as 1.-The young Moody of South
jersey" is conducting the meeting.
- Steamboat Frank, the Modoc Indian who
was captured at the time of the Modoc war, and
who is still prisoner of the United States is
attending, by permission of the government,
the Oak Grove seminary in Maine. He now
calls himself Frank Modoc, and is studying for
the ministry. He is making good progress in
his studies, and is apparently devout Chris
tian.
The st. Petersburg correspondent of the New
York Herald says a Russian squadron, bearing
a number OF Russian grand dukes, is coming to
the United States, with view to cementing
no Old ri ,dcni.,