Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-21
Church NnIes.

SEyIcKIEY Baptist Church ladies held a
bazaar on Tuesday evening.
THE Peru, Ind, Presbyterian church has
lately received z into Its membership.
BLA1RsvuLE PREsBYTERY is not anxious
for a revision of the confession of faith.
Now is the time for an increase in Sunday
school attendance, Christmas being so near.
THE annual entertainment for the benefit Of
the Q. I. Orphans Home netted about So, 600.
THE Rt Rev. Cortland Whitehead gave a
reception to visiting Bishops on Saturday
evenin
THE REV SAM JONES is conducting re-
wfvaI meetings at Nicksburg, Miss, with abun-
danJ success.
IN the past three years the Congregational
churches have increased by 10l. its members by
5000, and l02 ministers.
THE s'Wnling Workers" of the Fourth
Avenue Baptist Church held their second free
entertainment last night.
PROF. H. T. McCLELLAND. of the Western
Theological Seminary. gave talk last evening
OF his recent tour in Europe.
THE Western Theological Seminary has re-
ceived 5000 for scholarships from the estate Of
the late Mrs. A. G. Moorhead.
THE Fifth q. P. Church ladies have been
very buslly employed this week, having had a
DdZaaT anu 6dCA 6NOulnEs
THE Feast of Hnolzaha will bo celebrated
tomorrow afternoon at the synagogue, corner
Fourth avenue and Grant street.
GERONIMO, who was a bloodthirsty Apache
CHER, is said to have embraced Christianity and
taken up work in Sunday school.
REV. I. V. MILLIGAN takes charge Of the
new Presbyterian organization at Jeanette.
He comes from East Liverpool. o.
EPISCOPAL services will be held at the M. z.
Church. Braddock, tomorrow afternoon, when
the Rt Rev. c. Whitehead will preach.
REV. D. L. KENNEDY is Chairman of a CON-
mittee to try TO secure the endowment of the
Swift Memorial Institute in Tennessee.
TIE Heart and Hand Society of the Third
Presbyterian Church gave a very pleasant mu-
sical entertainment on Thursday evening.
REV. FATHER WALL will oficiate at the
dedication of the st. James r. c. Church, Will
kinsburg. which will take place tomorrow.
6. l. McHESRY, Treasurer of Allegheny
Theological Seminary, has recently received a
check for s., 500 for the Cooper Professorship.
Rr REV. BISHOP PHELAN will OficiaJe at
the dedication Of the new r, C. Church. Char
tiers. tomorrow at 1880 Rev. F. l. Tobin will
preach.
AVERY pleasant entertainment was given at
the Third Presbyterian Church on Thursday
increased thereby.
EPIscoPALIANs at the West End are plan
ming TO erect church and to obtain the sery-
ices of rector. They now meet IN the Elev-
enth q. z. Church.
SEVEN hundred and twenty-nine members
have Withdrawn from Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn 1.-THE late Henry Ward Beecher's),
during the past year.
THERE has been remarkable revival in the
penitentiary, Kingston, Canada, nearly 100 of
the leading burglars, forgers, counterfeiters
etc, being converted
THE Close of Solomon's Reign" being the
Sunday school subject for tomorrow" will be
explained to-day by Rev. w. ]. Reed, D. D., in
the Y. NJ. Z. A. rooms.
BISHOP LEONARD says that in Virginia City,
New, the most common coins put in the con-
triburion plates are those bearing the inserip-
tion, ''Good for one drink"
THE Inspiration of the Scriptures" is to be
the subject for discussion on Monday at the
Presbyterian Ministerial Association, 70 be
opened by Rev. S. p. Jennings.
REV. D. r DAVIS will read paper at the
Baptist Ministers Conference on Monday
morning on some Encouraging Features in
the Welsh Churches of America"
REV. R A. ELLIOTT will read the paper at
the Ministerial Association On Monday, when
his topic will be: Identify the adversaries of
ChriBtans nAneQ II Epheslank VI, L."
THE First Cumberland Presbyterian Church
held bazaar and entertainment in their lecture
room, corner Wylie avenue and Congress
street, on Thursday and Friday evenings.
The Good VIII Mission Band of the First
German Church (Presbyterian). Allegheny,
held its annual meeting on Friday evening"
Thirty little girls took part in the exercises.
The Israelites began on Wednesday the OBJ
sorTance of the feast of Hnokaha. All deyout
Hebrews Lit candle in their homes, today
two viii be burning. increasing by one till the
eighth day.
REV. R. CATLET, Of Yorkshire. England