Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-10

bers Of the Eastern Presbyterian Church,
| Washington. He was recently at Pasadena
| Cal
AN entertainment and social was given by
the Young Peonle's Society of the Second NJ
P. Church on Monday evening. May s
CARDINAL GIBBONS unites with the prom.
| inent ministers of the Protestant denomina-
| tiops in denouncng poolrooms as having a
| pernicious influence upon the morals of young
men.
REV, DR.. g. p. HAYS, with his party of a.
most of them ministers, was recently in Cairo
Egypt. Rev. DR.. ]. w. Sproull, of the First
| Reformed Church. Allegheny, is among the
number.
THE Presbytery of New Brunswick will or
dain as missionaries Mr.. w. Jessup. who goes
TO SYRIA NJ L. Bannerman to Western Africa.
James l. Doughty to Japan, Frank L Fraser
to China.
MRS. THEvING, wife of Rev. DR.. Theving, of
Brooklyn, is in Canton studying the Chinese
language, so as to be better able to labor among
this people in the cities OF New York and
Brooklyn.
THE Young Peoples Convention Of the
CHARTERS Presbytery will meet in CHARTERS
Church, Canonsburg, on Tuesday and Wednes-
day next Each congregation is entitled to five
delegates.
MT. WASHINGTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
has received $50 persons since Rev. E. s. Far
became A
new church is greatly needed, S6.O00 having
been raised toward its erection.
THE one hundred and second General Assem-
bly, of the Presbyterian Church in the United
States will convene on Thursday next in Sara
topa N, Y, when Rev. W. C. Roberts D. D.,
LII. D., will preach the opening sermon.
REV. DR. E S. MCKITRIcK has recently COM
pleted Is years as pastor of the Third U. P.
Church Allegheny. During this time there
have been 65l added to the church and SlO3 SAL
have been contributed. The Sunday school
now numbers HI
THE report of the Book Agent Of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, South, shows that a
business amounting TO S3S4040 was done last
year, an increase of SS3. 1886 over the preceding
year. thereby helping materially the amount
appropriated for their superanuated ministers.
The U. P. Church has 81 schools in the Egypt
ian Mission, with los teachers and l24 scholars
OF this number l,3l4 were Protestants, 3.6Ol
Copts, Sl1 Moslems, 81 Roman Catholics, SO
Greeks and l09 Hebrews The expenses last
$s,S6a ~
THE American Sunday School Union en-
ploys 90 missionaries, who organized during the
past year L6S5 new schools, with $4,000 chill
dren. Aid was given by this society to $500
other schools. Rev. J. H. Mccullough has re-
Gently visited Pittsburg In the interest OF this
union.
d.
Gordon is pastor, East End, has unanimously
chosen for name The Church of the Cove
nant." 1t has been known somewhat as the
Elmer Street" Church, but this name is now
dropped and the new one will be at once
adopted.
The Presbyterian Church in the United
States has over 500 missionaries in the foreign
field, over 800 churches ], 200 native workers,
e, 900 communicants, $50 Sunday schools with
N h
fishing houses, hospitals and medical dispensar-
les in connection with this denomination in
foreign lands.
THE societies of the NJ e. Church ask for
the following amounts for the current year:
society, s.. .2OO, COO; Church E1ten-
sion S253. 600; Freeman's Aid, $3.50, 900; Sunday
School Union, $4,000; Tract Society," $50, 600;
Board of Education. $4,000; Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society, S22S $50; Woman's Home
Missionary Society, SS6, 900; Pennsylvania Bible
Society, 600; making the total asked for. out
side of the regular church expenses, 81 297, 600
THE Bible schools of the First Presbyterian
Church, Arch street, Allegheny, Rev. David S |
pastor, will celebrate their sixty-fifth
Sabbath afternoon at o'clock. |
There will be four brief addresses. First, THE |
Seed" Rev. David s. Kennedy; Sec |
md Hstss, The Mieb s9Te bs ney W. n Law
Rose. Superintendent Sabbath school of the /
Third Presbyterian Church, Pittsburg and |
fourth, The Harvest"
THE closing exercises for this term of the |
Western Theological Seminary have been held |
Turing this week. Rev. S. F. Scovel delivered |
he Missionary Address on Sunday evening |
It the First Church. On Wednesday evening |
Hon. w. II. West delivered an address on 'sThe |
Duty of Patriotism to the Church, and the Re- |
.iprocal Duty of the Christian Citizen to the |
Although totally blind he has few |
sSSFs SR fRs RlAsfeFm. On ThgFgday evening /
he graduating addresses were delivered.