Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-23
Church Notes.

THANKSGIVING Day next Thursday.
Mr. MOODY began special meetings in James
town last week.
THE new o. P. Church Of Murray, Ind, will
be dedicated tomorrow.
AT Fayetteville, N. c., over 1000 have been
added to the churches recently.
KrTTANNING Presbytery will meet at
Apollo, on Tuesday, December g. at 10 o'clock
THE REV. ]. g. PATTERSON, D. D., has re-
signed the pastorate Of the Park Church,
Erie, Pa.
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY has lately re-
ceived a gift of 100000 from Mrs. Catherine
Donovan
MoNoNeAHELA PREsBYTERY will hold
Sabbath school convention at Mansfield, Pa,
December 10.
THE First English Lutheran Church, Brad
dock, held a four nights festival in the Opera
House this week.
ST. ANDREWS CHURCH SEWING SOCIETY
served dinners on Thursday and Friday, which
were literally patronized.
THE Chestnut Street Presbyterian Church,
Erie, called as their pastor, Rev. G. v. Reichel,
but he declined to accepts il.
ONE of the Bishops of the Irish R. c. Church
has issued a pastoral denying absolution TO
anyone engaged In boycotting.
THE Young People of Mercer Presbytery
Pa, next Friday and Saturday.
GAINESVILLE U. P. Church recently received
IA persons to its membership; East Palestine
also added II, and Union added 2
The Presbytery of Pittsburg will hold its next
regular meeting in the Southside Church on
Tuesday, December 8 at 1880 o'clock.
EPIscoPALIAN services will be held in the
Eleventh u. P. Church, West End tomorrow
at $3.50 P. NJ, when Rev. Mr.. Brown will preach.
Rev. DIR. TOWNSEND, pastor of the Unitarian
Church, this city, preached the annual sermon
before the New York conference on Tuesday
last.
AT the United Brethren Church, North
Braddock, there will be revival meetings begun
on Monday evening next, conducted by Rev.
Shoup.
OL1vEr o. P. Church is seeking pastor, but
are not so particular that they get ''promis-
ing fresh from the-seminary- -thousand-dollar-
youpg-man.
A CONVENTION Of the Young People of
Beaver Valley Presbytery will be held in the
Second U. P. Church, New Castle, December 3,
at 10 o'clock.
On Tuesday evening, at the Eighth Presby
terian Church, Rev. E. r. Donehoo will deliver
lecture on THE Rhine, the Alps and the
Italian Lakes"
THE congregation recently organized as the
Thirty-third Street U. P. Church. are to erect
an edifice to cost $1,000 between Ridge and
Hancock street6.
ELMER Street Presbyterian Church, Pitts.
burg, having renewed their call to Rev. S. r.
Gordon, Parnassus, he has accepted and be-
gan his work there.
THE First Second, Third and Fifth U. P
Churches will hold union service on Thanks
giving Day in the Third Church, when Rev. j.
w. Harsha will preach.
On Sunday morning at the Second Presby-
terian Church, w. McCreery, E. T. GRAY II.
W. Watts, W. R. Ziegler and R. D. Mckee
were installed as elders.
Mr.. ERASMUS WILSON. the "Quiet OBJ
server" of the Commercial Gazette, will speak
in the Wylie Avenue U. P Church, corner De-
villiers street, tomorrow at 7:3O P. M.
AT noon to-day at the rooms of the Y. NJ. G.
A. Rev. ]. W. Reid. D. D., will ex plain the
Sunday school lesson for tomorrow, the SUBJ
1ect being 'Solomon's Wise Choice"
ON Friday, November l, the new U. P.
Church of Antrim, O., was dedicated. This is
the fourth edifice they have built since organi-
zation, but they have only had three pastors.
UNION Thanksgiving services will be held in
ths M. E. Church, Bellevue, on Thursday at
Mt 1880. The sermon will be preached by Rev.
Newton Donaldson, pastor of the Presbyterian
Church.
THE 'sunshine Band" of Stephens Church.
Sewickley. held bazaar on Tuesday, the pro-
caeds going to the treasury Of the "Shut in
ociety," which helps those who are invalids
and in need.
NOTWITHSTANDING some of the absurdities
of the alien labor law, Rev. H. c. Ross, of
Canada. has accepted the call Of the First
Presbyterian Church, Erie, and will be installed
December 5.
THE Ladies Missionary Society, of the
Ce ntral R, P. Church, Allegheny. have issued
invitations for a conversational party, at the
home of their pastor, North avenue, on Tues
day evening.
TEE Rev. F. A. Kerns, pastor OF the Bruin
PRESBYTERIAN Church, was recently presented
with a handsome cart by the gentlemen of his
CONGREGATION; the ladies sending a costlylounge
and other articles.
AT Rockford, ILL.,, Mr.. Moody received q
cheek for $500 from a man who had been q
smuSreler. Mr.. Moody had told him he could
NOT he a Christian till ne had made restitution
to th,s Government.
AcHAIR, called the Woolsey ProfessorshIp
Of Biblical Literature, has been founded at
Yale University to promote the study of the
Bible. Prof. W. r. harper, Phi. D., has been
electe as the professor.
THE Fourth Q. P. Church. Allegheny. has q
fruit send flower mission, which shows In its
animal report a large amount of work per-
formed in the past year in hospitals. private in
stttutions, as well as homes.
TIE Ministerial Association Of the q. P.
Church sagrsed with otAsR dsnoninatiQnS to