Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-26
Church Notes.

The National Bible Society received sl7o,OO(
last year.
THERE are 1895 Sunday schools in the Synod
Of Pennsylvania.
WOOSTER. O., o. P. Church has completed q
very fine parsonage.
The Baptists of Monongahely City are erect.
ing 81, 500 parsonage.
OVER 200 Baptist churches in New York
State are without pastors.
A NEW Baptist ch urch has been organized at
Verona 1t has 30 members.
ST. JAMES CHURCH, Williamsburg, held o
bazaar three days this week.
THE Reformed Church Synod held its meet
ing at Allentown this week.
THE Fruit and Flower Mission will hold q
grand entertainment early next month.
Rev. J. C. F ARREN, Tyrone, has gone to
Johnstown TO succeed the late Father DAWN.
REV. T. DEWITT TALMAGE will break the
ground for his new tabernacle on Monday next.
CHILDREN contributed s46,7O5 to the Lent
Missionary Fund of the P. E. Church this year.
THE pastors of the Reformed Churches held
a meeting at the Monongahela House on Tues
day.
POSTMASTER WANAMAKER will not give up
his Philadelphia Sunday-school class, as re-
ported.
ST. LKe's German r. G. Church, on the
Brighton road, was dedicated last Sunday
morning..
NEXT spring the congregation of S. Peter
and Paul German e. c. Church will erect new
$4,000 editice.
REV. g. F. STREET will deliver lecture on
Thursday evening next in the Mt. Washington
Baptist Church.
THE Inter-Seminary Mission Alliance at its
meeting last week voted to meet next year in
Allegheny City.
A RAG carpet and egg social was held at the
Fifth Avenue Nj. E. Church on Thursday and
Friday evenings.
REV. II. o. RosBoRoUeH, of smithheld, Pa.
is called to the pastorate Of the Montour Pres
byterian Church.
THE new Roman Catholic church at Dawson
was dedicated on Sunday last, Rt. Rev. Bishop
Phelan officiating
THE General Missionary Committee of the
M. E Church meets in Kansas City, NO., on the
18th of next month.
WARREN M. E. Church. Pittsburg, colored,
is sorely pressed on account of debt. They
need $1,000 at once.
THE Rev. A. Van Devyver was consecrated
as Bishop in St Peters R. C. Cathedral, Rich
mond, Va, on Sunday.
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terian Church. Oakdale, becomes pastor of the
First church, Canonsburg.
SURGEONS COLLEGE in London has sent
800 men into the ministry, of these $40 are now
actively engaged in the work.
THERE were, in 1881, Christian Endeavor
Societies with 6S members, now there are 1872
societies and 4S5 900 members.
A SABBATH school institute, in connection
with the Allegheny Presbytery, will be held in
Sewickley, on Thursday next.
THE Presbyterian Ministerial Association
will listen to a paper on Monday by Rev. John
Fox on Greed Subscription"
SEVENTH q. P. CHURCH chose Messrs. A. R.
Mcconnell, Robert Hutchison, R. c. Mulhattan
and Robert Wilkison as elders.
REV. JOHN w. HESS, who was in his second
year on the Centerville circuit, died on the 18th
ult. He was sick only one week.
REV. q. M. JUNKIN, who leaves the School
Street Presbyterian Church, will preach his
farewell sermon tomorrow morning.
THE Christian Endeavor Society Of the
Fourth Avenue Baptist Church, will hold its
first anniversary tomorrow evening.
GRACE REFORMED CHURCH, Rev. John II.
Prugh, pastor, received ID adults as new men,
bers on Sunday last, making 40 in all.
AT the Methodist ministers meeting on
Monday paper was read by Rev. c. E. FELTON,.
D. d. on THE Perils Of the Ministry"
THE ladies of St James Roman Catholic
Church, Williamsburg. held a bazaar on Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday evenings.
THE woman's Centenary Association of the
Universalist Church at their annual meeting
reported receipts OF Sc. 446 during the year.
REvs. MAXWELL AND BYLLEsBY have re-
turned from the Protestant Episcopal conven-
ton and will be in their pulpits tomorrow.
AT the Central Presbyterian Church on Sun.
day 10 were added to the membership: 80 to the
Southside church, making l3I since last Febru-
ary.
REV. ]. c. BOYD, d. D., of Mt Lebanon, has
been sent to visit the Associate Reformed
Synod Of the South, by the q. P. General As
semply.
REV. Mr. WEST. assistant pastor Fourth
Avenue Baptist Church, will preach In the
Nixon Street Church. Allegheny, tomorrow
morning.
THE United Brethren at their last Confer
ence voted to admit women to the ranks of the
ministry. Miss Alva Button was appointed to
q circuit.
THE annual meeting of the Women's socie-
ties of the United Presbyterian Association