Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-22
Church Notes

EPISCOPAL services will be held in the Elev.
enth Q. p. Church tomorrow at $3.50.
REPORT has it that the Methodists Will es-
tabish a National University in Washington
DC
THE Shadyside Presbyterians held a "Festi
val Of Days" at their new chapel yesterday
afternoon.
A HOME for Incorporate men is now under
contemplation in this city by the Moorhead W.
e. 7. Q.
REV. DIR. STEPHENS editor of the Methodist
Recorder, preached at Washington, Pa, on
Sunday last.
THE Rt Rev. Cortlandt Whitehead con-
frmed 81 at Calvary Church, East End, on Sun
day morning.
REV. JAMES BRANDON, of Greensburg, is
called to the pastorate Of the New Bedford U.
?. congregation.
REV. J. A. BoYDEN, WiIkesbarre, is called
TO be pastor of Grace Memorial Presbyterian
Church, this city.
THE First Congregational Church. Allegheny,
held a very enjoyable Martha Washington tea
party" last evening.
REV. l. MCCLURE, of Calvary Church, off,
ciated for Rev. R. Mech, at Christ Church,
Allegheny, on Sunday last.
HARRIsvILLE, o., U. z. Church calls Mr.
James A Alexander to be pastor. At present
he Is studying at the Allegheny Seminary.
REV. r NJ. THOMPSON, of Freeport Pa,
will be installed pastor of the Sharpsburg
Presbyterian Church on Wednesday next.
On Tuesday Rev. DR.. Irwin of Ebenezer, Pa,
spoke TO the students of the Western Theo-
logical Seminary on THE Young Preacher"
LENT began on Wednesday and will be made
helpful if we heed the admonition to abstain
from feshly lusts which war against the soul"
THE Rev. j. p. Hawkes. resigns the rector
ship of Emmanuel P. E. Church, CORY, Pa, to
become assistant at St. Mary's, Philadelphia.
LAST week the Methodists dedicated their
new building in New York City for the Book
Concern and its benevolent societies. 1t cost
Sl.0O0OOl
REV. DR.. WOODBURY., of the Sandusky
Street Baptist Church, Allegheny, on Sunday
evening last preached to the Women's Indian
Association.
Hon. W. II. WEST, of Bellefontaine, O., will
deliver the address at the close of the present
term to the students of the Western Theolog-
icsl Seminary
REvC.A. BRITT, pastor of Lawrenceville Eng
lish Lutheran Church. will address the American
Mechanics on Life With Purpose" to-mor-
row evening.
REV. A. NJ. HILLS, pastor of the First Con-
gregational Church, Allegheny City, is at
Cory, Pa. having been preaching there each
evening for two weeks.
THIRTY-FTvE members have recently been
received into the Second NJ. P. Church, this
city: 81 have also been welcomed into the
Washington, Pa, church.
AT the Y. NJ. C. A. rooms at noon to-day
''1he Temptation Of Jesus'' will be explained
by Rev. DR.. Reid, that being the subject for to-
morrow in the Sunday schools.
REV. Mr.. MCJUNKIN, who was to have read
the paper at the Presbyterian Ministerial Asso-
citation on Monday, not being present, merely
an informal meeting was held.
REV. MACKAY SMITH. of New York City,
Will preach in Calvary Church tomorrow morn
ing and before the Laymen's Missionary
League in Trinity Church in the evening.
THE REV. OLIVER BURGESS and wife, of
Cleveland. o., will celebrate the ifty-second an
niversary of their marriage on Friday next
They are well known to Methodists in this
vicinity,
DIR. TALMAGE and his people quietly laid
the under cornerstone Of their new tabernacle
on Monday. The real cornerstone laying will
take place when the blocks from Sinai and CAL
vary arrive.
THE Central Presbyterian Church of this
city, with its pastor, Rev. A A. Mealy, have