Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-28

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at is dark, >, said Baby Nell,
..i, ihe sun has gone awa!;
Said little sister May:
'tHe never lets ii be all dark,
'Cept tor little while;
80 we can't see Him SMILE"
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Church Notes.
FREEDOM Methodist Episcopal Church has
been renovated and resested at cost Of 81, 200.
ALLEGHENY Seminary, o. p. Church, has So
students already enrolled for this year.
THE new Methodist Episcopal Church at
Evans City will be ready for dedication after
Conference.
BY the death Of Mrs. Ellen M. Clifford, who
died in New Haven recently, Yale College will
receive Sl25.UO0.
REV. W. r MACKEY returned on Thursday
from East Hampton, LongIsland, and will off,
cIate on Sunday.
REV. DIR. AND MRS. ANDREW WATSON. of
Cairo, Egypt, made a hurried visit to these
cities this week.
AT the:West Virginia Conference OF the M.
E. Church held last week, 200 additions were
reported 10 the churches.
REV. DR.. ROBINSON was made pastor emeri-
tus of the Providence church, of which he has
been pastor for over IL years.
GOSPEL temperance meeting will be held in
Wilson's building corner Frankstown avenue
and Station street, East End, tomorrow att p M.
MINISTERS meeting were late commencing
on Monday morning, because the ministers
could not cross the streets for Barnum's circus.
A GOOD Scotch Presbyterian minister re-
Gently prayed; "God bless the poor and bless
the rich who after their funerals will be poor"
FROM Tampa Bay to Puget Sound there is a
network of juvenile societies in connection
with the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union.
PROF. H. T. McCLELLAND will give "Some
Impressions of British Preachers" on Monday
morning at the Presbyterian Ministerial Asso-
citation.
A SABBATH school convention of Beaver
Valley Presbytery will be held in Mountville
U. P. Church, beginning Tuesday, October 8,
at7P.M.
SMITHFIELD Street NJ E. Church had q very
large audience on Sunday evening to hear the
pastor, Rev. C. Z. Locke, preach on 'Immor-
tality.'
REV. WILLIAM ]. REID, D. D., will resume
teaching the Sunday School lessons in the
Young Mems Christian Association rooms on
Saturday next.
SYNOD of Pittsburg will hold its twentieth
annual meeting at Indiana, Pa, October Is.
The opening sermon will be preached by Rev.
A. r. Anderson, d. d.
CHICAGO Baptists are trying to raise S350, 900
so as to secure Mr. Rockafeller's GIFT of 81 5O0,-
CO., 1t is hoped if they get this university it
will not be mortgaged-
THE Rev. William C. Rogers, NJ. A, of Cam
bridge, England, has arrived at Trinity Hall,
Washington, Pa, and entered upon his duties
as Professor of classics.
QUITE a breeze was started in the West vir-
ginia Conference as to opening campmeeting
grounds on the sabbath. 1t was decided to
allow no excursions.
THE Rev. Robert Grange and wife, of Shady
side. have been visiting Trinity Hall, Washing
ton. this week, where they have entered their
son. Augustus, as cadet.
FIRST Synod of the West, at its meeting at
New Brighton, passed resolution urging upon
all its congregations to hold special evangelistic
services during the fall or winter.
THE young people of the Point Breeze Pres
byterian Church have subscribed money
enough so that free course of lectures will be
given in that church the coming winter.
MRS. MALCOLM HAY, widow of the late First
Assistant Postmaster General of the United
States was also at Trinity Hall this week, and
has left her son there to pursue his studies.
Two Presbyterian missionaries have lately
died of yellow fever in South America, Miss
Addie e. Ramsey, who went from H1llsboro,
o., and Prof. w. w. Findley, from Salem, o.
REV. W. J. HOLLAND. D. D., pastor of the
Bellefeld Presbyterian Church, who has been
appointed Naturalist of the Government ex.
pedition, will leave on his mission about Octo-
Der L
WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SIENNA RY was
opened for the year lSS990 on Wednesday last.
Prof. McClelandt took for his theme, at the
opening address. "a Good Minister of Jesus
Christ"
PREsBYTERY of Maryland voted to grant
qualified letter of dismissal to Rev. Mr.. Eels,
Jr., who leaves the Presbyterian body because
he cannot conscientiously subscribe to its
tenets.
Miss FRANCES WILLARD in urging women
to read the daily papers says: Gossip is moth
ing but small news-the nickels, pennies aud
dimes-while the newspapers deal in dollars
and V's and KS"
THE Baptist ministers on Monday morning
will listen to a paper, by Rev. E. D. Hammond,
on Difficulties Connected With the Observance
Of the Christian Sabbath" He leaves for
Brooklyn the same evening.
The resignation of Rev. NJ. L. Lewis as
pastor of the Fairview Presbyterian Church
las been accepted so that he may accept a
''call" TO the church at Canonsburg, where be
will be installed October 81.
REV. c. S. MCCLELLAND of Inverness, o.,
has accepted call to the Minersville Presby-
terian Church. The installation services will
be held on Tuesday next at 7:SO P. NJ. Rev. G.
Heron will preach the sermon.
THE new United Presbyterian chapel, Fed.
eral street extension, will be opened on Sunday
morning at 1910 with a sermon by Rev. 7. A.
ha hold Q.1
Rev. ]. NJ. Fulton will preach at 7:SO P. ID.
TARENTUM United Presbyterian Church will
hold church social on Thursday next, it being
the fourth anniversary of Rev. D. R. MacDon.
AIDS pastorate. The congregation have already
remembered him very kindly with presents.
HARVEST FEAST will be celebrated to-
morrow in Trinity Lutheran Church, Alle-
gheny A children's service will be held at 2:S0
p. NJ, when Rev. ID. s. Kennedy OF the First
Presbyterian Church, will speak on missions"
Ri. REV. CoRTLAEDT WHITEHEAD, Rev.
s. Maxwell, d. D., Rev. Marison Byllesby and
the other delegates to the convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Church to meet in New
York City on Wednesday, will leave on Mon
day.
EMANCIPATION of Labor, Labor Troubles
and Their Remedy" will be the subject of the
lecture to be delivered on Monday evening. by
Rev. J. o. S. Huntington. Of New York City. in
Odd Fellows hall, at o'clock. Admission is
free.
ABRAScH of the Brotherhood of st. An.