Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-21
Church Notes,

BUENA VISTA Street Methodist Episcopal
Church now has 33s members.
THERE are six pastoral chargeS vacant in
the Presbytery Of Westminster.
The food relief fund for the Johnstown
Baptist Church amounts to sS,6l6 0S.
UNION services led by Major Cole, will be
continued next week on the Southside.
THE cornerstone of the new Reformed
Church will be laid at Butler tomorrow after
noon.
THE Rev. W. Mackay, rector of st. Peters
Church, will resume his duties on the 2stn
instant.
EVANGELICAL Christianity has experienced
a severe loss in the death of DR.. Christlieb, of
Germany.
WEST VIRGINIA Conference Of the NJ. E.
Church has been in session at Point Pleasant
the past week.
new church at q cost of S27, 900. The organ will
be 1000 extra.
UNITED PREsBYTERIANs of Mt. Oliver are
outlay of $1,000.
PITTSBURG PREsBYTERY will hold an ad-
journed meeting in the First Church on Mon
day at II o'clock.
NOT less than $50 Congregationalists were
lost in the food at Johnstown, thereby weaken
ing their church seriously.
A PORTION of the library Of the late Rev. A.
P Diller. who was drowned in the Johnstown
food, has been recovered.
A MEETING was held on Thursday afternoon
in the parlors oil the First Presbyterian Church
to form a Presbyterian union.
PREPARATORY services were held last even.
ing at the Trinity Reformed Church, Wilkins
burg, by Rev. ]. s. Freeman, pastor.
On November 7, at Evanston, ILL.,, the home
of Miss Frances E. Willard, the W. c. T. u.
will celebrate their fifteenth anniversary.
THE Catholic Congress convenes in Balti-
more November II at the Academy of Music
Many priests from these cities will be present.
AT Franklin M. E. Church, pastor, Rev. A.
]. Merchant, there have been 302 accessions to
the church, and ST. 800 laid out in repairs to the
building.
Mr.. SMYTHE, of Weldin & Co., has presented
several very useful volumes to the Episcopal
Church Library. They are on theology and
literature.
SERVICES were conducted at the Jail on Sun
day last by Rev. H. c. Mcfarland. Interest
was added to this service by the singing of 20
young ladies.
REV. A M. HILLS, pastor of the First Con-
gregational Church, Allegheny, preached at
the Welsh Church, Homestead, on Sunday
afternoon last.
AT the meeting of the United Presbyterian
Synod, held in New Brighton, warm discus
sion took place as to heretical teachings in the
Allegheny Seminary.
REV. F. W. LOCKWOOD has accepted call
to the pastorate of the Titusville Baptis.
Church. He recently graduated from Rochester
Theological Seminary.
AT the preachers meeting of the Methodist
ovoM
F. Beazell, of Oakland will read . paper on
"The Itinerants' Club"
APARcEL is to be sent to Miss Carter mis-
sionary to Toxic, for the Bible readers class.
All articles to he sent before October to Mrs.
F. r. Brunot, Verona, Pa.
BETHEL CHURCH, Allegheny, Presbyterian,
has been completely renovated and now pre-.
sents a very attractive appearance. Rev. w.
n. Donaldson is the pastor.
DIR, W. NJ. ROBINSON having resigned the
pastorate of Providence Church, Mr.. W. A.
Kinter was ordained and installed on Thurs.
day evening as his successor.
REV. Il. II. TUCKER, D. D., one Of the ablest
men in the Baptist denomination, was killed on
Saturday last by falling out OF the window in
his own house, at Atlanta, GA.
BELLEVUE campmeeting closed on Sunday
last. The interest increased largely this year.
L. de
pastors helped in the meetings.
THE Brotherhood of st. Andrew will hold its
fourth annual convention at Cleveland from
the 26th to the 9th inst. 1t is hoped all that
can will attend from these cities.
REV. R. B. EWING, D. D., of ohe Sixth U. P.
Church, who was given three months rest by
his congregation, has just returned, but his
church is still undergoing repairs.
AN invitation was extended to the Inter.
national Sunday School Convention to meet in
this city in 1890. by the Sunday School Super
intendents' Association of the two cities.
Hon. E. s. MORROW and John y. Lambie.
ESQ.,, will deliver addresses at the praise ser.
vice to be held in the Wylie Avenue United
Presbyterian Church tomorrow evening.
Ri, REV. CoRTLANDT WHITEHEAD, Bishop
of this diocese, will preach at Temperanceville
at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The services
are held in the United Presbyterian Church.
AT the Protestant Episcopal Church, Hazel.
fern will be inducted as rector. Ri. Rev. Cort-
landt Whitehead will celebrate the Office Of in
stitutiOn.
LAST week the Sixth Avenue U. P. Church.
McKeesport, voted to increase the salary of
their pastor, Rev. A. ]. Young. This is the
second time in three years that this charge has
done the same.
MISS CAMPBELL, who was with the Mildmay
Mission. London, England, and recently with
the China Inland Mission. will speak on home
mission work at Bethany, lib Center avenue, on
Sunday at 2:30 P. M.
A MISSION was started on Sunday afternoon