Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-16
PULPIT AND PEW.
HANDSOME AND COSTLY UPTOWN
CHURCHES IN NEW YORK,
Harlem a Rival of Brooklyn-The Ameri-
can Bible SoCiety-GeneraI
Church News.


posing flats came the desire for churches.
and to-day there are forty-fve churches in
which regular services are held, and a
score of new ones are being built between
One Hundredth street and Harlem river.
while in the annexed districts the spires
can be seen toward every point of She
heavens. The greatest of all Harlems re-
hgious ediiceS will, of course, be the Epis-
copal Cathedral, the site and plans Of
which have been discussed on every hand
for the past two wears. Next to that will
stand the new st. LuSe's Church, Rev. DR..
Tuttle, rector, which is TO be built on
Convent avenue and One Hundred and
Forty-hrst streets, the site of old
Hamilton Grange. The ancient home
of Alexander Hamilton, built over one
hundred years ago and situated but A few
rods away, will also pass into the posses
sion Of the parish, rs Amos Cutting is
having it fixed up at an expense Of $1,000
and will give it to St. Luke's. The
church when completed will have cost
S250,000. A handsome church is the
Holy Trinity, on Lexington avenue and
One Hundred and Iwenty-third streets, of
which Rev |. \. Sanger is rector. Con-
nected with this church is 4 handsome
chapel and parish house, making
property valued altogether at 100000.
There are five other Episcopal Churches
in the upper end of the city The most
imposing of the Presbyterian Churches
is at the corner of One Hundred and
Twenty-ffth streets Rev. J. :. Ramsey
is the pastor. Besides this there are
FIVE others of the same faith. all pros
porous and well filled. The Metho-
dist denomination have seven houses of
worship besides mission. st. James. at
the corner of Madison avenue and l26th
street, of which Rev. DR. O. IL. Tiffany is
pastor; Trinity, East llSth street, Rev.
Merritt Hubbard, pastor, and West Har-
lem, Seventh avenue and l29th street,
Rev. DIR. +. 5. Osborne, pastor, are all i'm
posing and costly structures The
Mount Morris Church, on the corner of
Fifth avenue and l26th street, is the lead
ing Baptist Church of Harlem, and the
pastor, Rev. w. c. Biting, is one of the
most popular preachers. There are four
other churches of the same denomination.
Rev. DIR. s. 5. Virgin is in charge of the
only Congregational flock in Harlem.
They worship in 4 solid and substantial
structure ut the corner of Madison avenue
and l2lst street. Three Lutheran
Churches and two Dutch Reformed. two
United Presbyterian, one Unitarian, and
one Universalist add to the religious edi-
fees. There are three synagogues, the
most prominent of which is Temple Israel.
at the corner of Fifth avenue and l25th
street, of which Rev. NJ II. Harris is
rabbi. In Harlem and the annexed dis
triCt there are upward of twenty Catholic
churches. All Saints, on 10th street,
near Madison avenue, of which Rev. J. J.
Power Is in charge, is a handsome Gothic
structure which cost Sl50,000 Mount
Carmel, on 1l5th street, has the largest
in Harlem. Rev. Michael
Carmody, the pastor, recently opened a
mission for the 1000 Italians working on
the railroad of the annexed district, much
to the delight of the workmen, most of
whom are deyout Catholics.
Rev. DIR. Hunt, Corresponding Secretary
Of the American Bible Society, addressed
the last Monday Club in San Francisco.
He spoke of the growing work of the So.
ciety in foreign lands. Many of those
foremost in the organization of the mis-
sionary work were among the organizers of
the Bible Society. Formerly the mission
aries were almost the only agents of the
Bible Society. Now the Society has four
agents in South America, one in Cuba one
in every State in Mexico, one in Constanti-
nople and one in Russia. The Russian
Bible Society is aided by our Society 4
portion of this aid is to send a colporteur
into Siberia. There is also an agent in
China, Rev. Mr.. Gulick, and one in Japan,
ii. Loomis. The Society now expends
about $lS0,000 yearly in the foreign work.
For Its expenses, the Society receives less
from legaCies than formerly-about $780,
600 per annum. There was a surplus a few
years ago of something over half million
dollars. Over 100000 of this has been
used In a fourth general canvass of this
whole country. The amount now remain
ing, the Society thinks it wise to keep in
hand to meet obligations, especially in the
foreign fields. 1t is understood that the
rents of the Bible Home in New York
city pay fhe running expenses of the So
ciety, and that all the money received
from contributions goes to circulate the
scriptures.
At a recent meeting in Boston Mrs. VI.
a. Ehlers, Superintendent of the Baptist
Southern Missions, made this statement:
"The masses of the colored people of the
South to-day are morally wretched. A
large proportion of the pastors of our
Baptist churches of the South are i'm
moral men. Many of them are drunk the
whole year through; many of them are of
abandoned character, and not worthy to
be intrusted with the teaching of any one,
much less to be pastors of churches and
leaders of the people"
The Churchman, speaking of the death of
Damien, the leper priest, says that outside
Of the walls of Jerusalem is a leper hos
pital tended by deaconesses from the Ger
man religious houses Year after year
-hese.her women, without pretentious-
ness, without any trumpeting of their
work, almost unknown to the world, have
waited upon lepers, while themselves
literally dying by inches. Their courage
has only come to light by the chance
notice of travellers"
The statement was made in Simpson
Memorial Church, San Francisco, last Sun
day morning, by the pastor, DIR. Izer, that
s., 900, which includes the cost of the
oipe-organ, street improvements and extra
current expenses, had been paid during
he past week, and that the church stood
rec from debt. This makes $4,000 raised
or debt and current expenses during the
wo years of the present paStorate. Simp-
on church is one of the most beautiful in
San Francisco.
The Italian religious world has been
much stirred within two years past by the
ldvent of a remarkable preacher belonging
o the Franciscan order in the Roman
Catholic body. This is Agostino da Mon
efeltro. His ministrations both at Flor
.nce last year and at Rome this year,
nave been crowded with hearers. He pro-
,laims for the most part the great relig-
Gus and social truths of simple and COM
non Christianity.
The Chautauqua Assembly of 1889 be-
sins July 1st, at Pacific Grove. and will
continue until July 14th. July 7th Bishop
John H. Vincent, D. D., Ii. D., will
preach, and dedicate the new church and
Assembly Hall. Sunday, July 14th, Bishop
b. W. Warren, D. D., Ii. D., will preach,
The whole time will be filled up with lee
ures, etc, and will no doubt be very
profitable.
Rev. w. F. Nelson, of Arroyo Grande,
$ oil on a six weeks vacation to visit
riends in Wisconsin. He expects to meet