Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-16
Church Notes.

CnurCu NOteHs
THE Union Baptist Church haslately received
30 members.
THE eighth annual Baptist Congress met this
week in Toronto, Canada
TRINITY CHURCH. New York City, has not
been closed day in 20 years.
REV. w. 2. BLACKBURN, of the Pittsburg
Conference, died on Sunday.
THE jamestown Ministerial Association will
meet on Monday next at Watts Flats.
TWELVE missionaries will be sent to China
and Japan by the Baptists of Chicago.
a PRESIDING elders convention will be held
at Des Moines, Iowa, December 6 to q
VERY interesting revival services are being
held in the Butler Street NJ. E Church.
IN 1884 the first missionary arrived in Corea.
Now there are over 100 Christians there.
THE membership of the North Ohio NJ. E.
Conference increased over 600 last year.
THE fall Conferences of the NJ E. Church
reported an increase of S4S $50 over last year.
THE first Y. NJ. C. A was started in London
in 1874, now there are over 900 associations.
IN the Chicago district $3.50 900 was expended
last year in improving the Methodist churches.
THE centennial of the Methodist Book Con-
cern" will be celebrated on Sunday Decem-
Der s.
THE Church of the Disciples of Johnstown,
was completely gutted By fire on Sunday
night
The "wiIling Workers" of the Fourth Ave-
nue. Baptist Church gave an entertainment last
night
REV. JOHN H. PRUGH has as guest at his
home in Oakland the Rev. n. Oshikawa, Of
Japan.
A NEW Cumberland Presbyterian Church
will be erected on Shady avenue, to cost
$4,000.
REV. w. B. BARR is at East Palestine, o.
assisting in special meetings at the U. P.
Church.
WHEELING q. P. Church received ten to Its
membership on Sunday last and Greensburg
twenty.
THE Third United Presbyterian Church held
a very pleasant social and supper on Thursday
evening.
THE American Board received during the
past year SS94, ,e98 in donations, and Sl53653 in
Iegacies.
IT is proposed by Archdeacon Farrar TO es-
tablish an order of monks in the Church of
England.
THE Allentown United Presbyterian congre-
cation will erect a church on Lillian street at a
cost of 5000.
THE HEmeetlng Of the Second National Sabbath
Association will be held in New York City De-
cember 10 and II.
REV. JOHN HALL, D. D., and George W.
Cable will lecture before the divinity students
at Yale this winter.
THE Young People" of Mercer Prssbytery
will hold a convention at New Wilmington
November % and so.
REV. R. NJ. DAVIS, pastor of the PresbY-
terian churches of Rich Hill and Leesburg
died on Sunday last.
The Macdonald W. c. T. q. gave a very en-
joyable evening in the Sixth U. P. Church, in
Allegheny, on Monday
THE Second Presbyterian Church, Ale
gheny, which has been closed for repairs will
be reopened tomorrow.
THE new st. Alphonsus R. c. Church at
Wexford, was dedicated by Rt Rev. Bishop
Phelan November g.
ITALIAN Catholics held a meeting in St
Paurs Cathedral on Sunday evening, and elect
ed permanent officers.
THE new Q. P. Church at Homestead was
dedicated on Sunday last; all but $65 of the in
debtedness was raised
THE young people of Christ Church outdid
themselves in musical and literary entertain
ment on Monday evening"
THE Forty-third Street Presbyterian Church
is to be heightened 80 feet. This with other i'm
proVements will cost S6,OOO
A CONVENTION Of Young People" of the
Beaver Valley Presbytery will be held at New
Castle December 2 at 1880 A. N.
A MAN being asked under whose preaching
he was converted, replied: mo ones; it was
under my aunt's practicing."
ALLEGHENY Presbytery will hold RE
ligious Convention" in the First Presbyterian
Church, Allegheny, December 2
The week Of prayer for young men has beeu
observed by the Y. M. c. A, different ministers
leading the noon meeting each day.
EPIsCoPALIAN services will be held in the
Eleventh u p Church, West End, tomorrow
at $3.50. Rev. Mr.. Brown will preach.
REV. J. MAHAw, Free-Wnl Baptist minis
ter. fell with the harness on last Saturday,
dying while preaching in schoolhouse.
In the late famine iu Shautung Province,
China. English Baptist and American Presby.
terian missionaries relieved go, 900 people.
NEW ENGLAND churches are earnestly pre-
paring for the meeting OF the Evangelical Al
lance that convenes in Boston, December 4
Rev. E. P. CowAN. D. D., pastor of the
Third Presbyterian Church, has been on q visit
TO Tennessee, Mrs. Cowan accompanying him
REV. c. NJ. JUNKIN, Allegheny City, took
Miss Ella NJ. Jolley, on October 81, to be part
ner in the joys and sorrows of minister's life
BIZ the falling of part of the roof of the new
NE. Church at Braddock the sides were
crushed in, thus delaying the completion Of the
work.
THx new 81 Martin German r. o. Church,