Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-08

| deaVor of the f1rsb COngreBAhOn@A NHuAcns
| Allegheny had very enJoyaDle entertainment
| on Thursday evening.
BUrLER Presbytery will meet in Butler on
| Tuesday the 18th inst, to take action on the
| cali of Rev J. A. Reed from the Charles street
| Church, New York City.
THE congregation of the First U. T. Church,
East Liverpool O.. recently voted to build
| chapel in the northern part OF tnat town 1or
| their mission Sunday school.
| "sALAR1ED Sunday School Superintendent
will be discussed at the Presbyterian Ministe-
rial Association on Monday. Rev. W. E. Dom
aldson will open the discussion.
REV. W. H. PEARcE, pastor Of Butler Street
| Nj. L. Church, being about to 90 abroad Tor a
| tour of some months, was given godspeed by
his people on Thursday evening.
RI. REV. JAMES o'CoNNoR, not expecting
to live. has sent for Sister Katharine, better
known as Miss Drexel, to confer with ner as TO
| missionary work he had planned.
AT the opening exercises of the Carnegie Ii
| brary Rt Rev. Bishop Whitehead will offer
| the opening prayer, and Rt- Rev. Bishop Phe-
| Ian will pronounce the benedlction.
REV. E. R. DoNEHoo has given notice that
he will move to reopen the subject of the re-
| vision of the confession at the ne xt meeting
of the Pittsburg Presbytery In AprlL.
REV. H. C. FERGUSON, pastor of the Ems
worth Presbyterian Church, has been called to
Canton, o. A meeting of the PresDytery will
| be called to sever his present relation.
J REV. D. R. MACDoNALD, pastor of the q. P.
! Church, Tarentum, has beeu elected to the
presidency Of the Freedmen's College, Norfolk,
Va. He was very successful pastor.
THE wives OF the Methodist ministers in the
Nebraska Conference have formeda Ladies'
Itinerant Association" the object of which is
TO counsel on the duties devolving on them.
Rev. c. c. HAYS, Bridgeport, O., has resigned
his pastorate to spend five months in foreign
| travel. He will join the Kansas City tourists
| under the conduct Of Rev. DR.. Hays, OF that
| city.
THE rumor is in the air that the Central
Church, Allegheny, will recall the Rev. W. II.
Gill, from Philadelphia to be pastor. If they
do, it is hoped it will calm the now troubled
waters.
PARK Presbyterian Church, Erie, Pa, has
called Rev. William Slemmer, of Mercer, to
| become its pastor. He was formerly reporter
! for the Chicago Net0s, then a lawyer. The sal
| ary Is 81 800.
THE 'Creation Of Continents, Growth Of
Worlds and Gravitation" was the subject OF
lecture delivered by Rev. w. Covert, Of Ston-
| ersviIle Pa, in the Sandusky Street Baptlst
Church, on Tuesday evening.
REV. J. P. SANKEY, DID,, of Yonkers, NY,
has been interviewed by the reporters on the
preparation OF sermons, in which he thoroughly
| convinced them tnat there is far more work
| than play in honest preparation.
On Sunday morning Rev. DR.. Cuyler, Brook
lyn, N Y, surprised his church by announcing
he would resign on the thirtieth anniversary of
| his pastorate He has been one of the most
| successful pastors, and prolific writer.
REV. Mr.. GLASS, of Brookville has been
called to the pastorate of the Mcclure Avenue
| Presbyterian Church, to succeed the late Rev.
| DR.. Burchard. Salary, 81 500 and manse. 1t is
taken for granted he will accept the call.
REV. L H. KELLOGG. D. D., of Toronto,
Canada, but formerly professor in the West
ern Theological Seminary. was called to Sc
wickley on account of the death Of his son
there. He was very promising young man.
THE movement of having deaconesses in the
NJ. E Church is glowing rapidly. At the Pitts
burg district meeting last week of the Woman's
Home Missionary Society action was taken
looking to the founding of Home in this city.
THE book prepared by Rev. Dr.. Beale, of
Johnstown, Pa, giving account of the flood and
facts connected herewith, is now completed,
and will be found very interesting. DIR. Benja-
min Lee has given material help in its prepar-
alton.
On Sunday morning the services in the
Beaver Presbyterian church were brought to a
close without the usual benediction. The
plaster had been softened during a recent
storm, causing it to fall injuring several Of the
hearers.
MRS NICHoI, widow of the late Rev. A. M.
Nichol with whom she was missionary to.
Egypt delivered lecture in the First U. P
| Church, Allegheny, on W ednesday evening.
She will lecture in many of the churches in this
| vicinity.
AT noon to-day at the chapel of the rooms of
the Young Mems Christian Association "The
Childhood and Youth of jesus Will be ex-
planned by Rev. DR.. Reid, that being the sub
| ject OF the lesson for the Sunday schools to-
morrow.
THE popular Rev. John McNeiIl of London,
| in speaking of preaching in the open air re-
Gently, said: 81 never feel myself so near Jesus
Christ as when stand in the open air. seem
to have got rid of 10 centuries and to be stand
ing close by the side Of my Lord and Master"
REV. DIR. ]. .W.WTTHERsPooN, pastor of the
Fifth U. P. Church, Allegheny, welcomed % to
the membership of his church on Sunday last;
Rev. Gibson, of Connellsville, II; Ellsworth Q.
P, Church recently received 8, Allentown 8,
Scottdale Is, Struthers, o., 10, and Columbus 9.
REV. ]. A. HovIs, of the North Dakota Con-
ference of the M. E. Church, spent some days
| in this city seeking aid for the ministers and
| Deople who are in such need in his State. He
| was formerly of the Erie Conference. The
| crops there have been almost total failures for
| two seasons.
REV. s. R. FRAZIER, pastor Of the First U.
P. Church, Youngstown, o., has lost his reason,
through a severe attack of the prevailing dis
ease. He is one of the best known ministers of
| that part of the State. He was private secre-
| tary to the Hon. John A. Bingham, Minister to
| Japan, also his son-in-law.
REV. DIR. DINsMoRE, who was well known in
this vicinity, died January q at the home of his
sister in Washington, Pa. He was graduate
| from Washington College, and spent two years
| in study at the Western Theological Seminary.
He recently gave IS 600 to Washington and JEFF
| ferson College to found four scholarships.
THE Rev. A T. Maxwell. pastor of the NJ e.
Church at Confluence, reports an addition of
40 members; Third Church, McKeesport, "a;
BridgeviIle l3 Salesville, o., 5; East Spring
field 81 New Cumberland g. DeersYille q
making 45 since November 10, 1889; Bristolville
A. Troy "a, Salem, Pa. 10; Emlenton 2S. Yo-
liant Is. Nazareth g. Beverly, W. Va, 56; Eliza
beth II, Mountain Cove "a.
SOMEONE has lately written to church
paper in view of the work demanded of q
pastor that the charge in the ordination ought
to be changed to read: "Take thou authority to
canvass for our church papers and periodicals;
TO raise the full amounts apportioned for the
general benevolences; to present such matters
TO the congregations as the various Secretaries
NAV arrange and to report TO the annual Con-
ference, that brethren may know how faith
fully this work has been DONE" Is there not
current of truth flowing through this riVulet of
wit a?
THE Second Coming of Our Lord; Bible
Intimations Concerning It." was the subject of
the paper read before the Ministerial Associa-
tion on Monday by Rev. W. II. Mcmillan. He
divided his subject into: l. The Scriptures
teach that the ordinances of grace will termi-
nate at the coming of Christ; 2 The Scriptures
teach that Christ is already enthroned as King
and not that He will begin to reign at the time
of His coming; g. The Scriptures teach that all
the dead, righteous and wicked, will be raised
together at the time OF His second coming; 4
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