Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-15
Church NOtes.


CRAwFoRDsvILLEP Presbytery, SO for revision
60 against.
PREsBYTERY of Washington City, for revis.
ion %, against IA
SURGEONS Treasury of David" is being
printed in Arabic.
a NEW editice will be built for the Reformed
Church at Braddock.
ATLANTIC Presbytery, South Carolina, unan-
imous against revision.
REV. J. L. MCCUTcHEoN has resigned the
Presidency of BroaduS College, w. Va.
THE Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of
the NJ. f Church has over 10000 members.
AT the Ohio Wesleyan University Us have
professed conversion, 81 of whom were students.
AT Dunbar NJ. E. Church recently the pastor
baptized an infant a girl of Il years and man
of So
THE Coraopolis NJ. E Church was destroyed
by fire on the 4th inst They will rebuild at
once.
MoNoNGAHELA Presbytery next Tuesday
at 10 A. N. in the Seventh Church, Forty-fourth
street.
REV. ]. A. THAYER, of Maysville, KY, be-
comes the pastor of the Christian Church, New
Castle, Pa.
IT is proposed to erect Deaconesses' Home
in Washington, d. c., as memorial to the late
Mrs. Hayes.
A JUDICIAL decision holds that the churches
of the United Brethren cannot be claimed by
the seceders.
THE General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church of ireland will celebrate its jubilee be-
ginning July L.
REV. DIR. MCCLURE celebrated the fortiett
anniversary of his pastorate at Wheeling, w.
Va, on Sunday last.
THE city of London has l,O16 churches and
Church Of England.
THE Baptist Sunday schools held their
quarterly convention in the Mt. Washington
Church on Thursday.
SHOULD the Ryan bill pass the Ohio House
as it has the Senate, saloons may be opened on
Sunday from 2 to l2P.M
REV. n. s. HoEY, who for years was pastor
of the Mt. Washington Presbyterian Church
died on Wednesday night.
REV. A. MACARTHUR will read paper on
Robert Murray McCheyne" to the Baptist
Conference on Monday morning.
PITTsBURG district of the Y. NJ. c. A will
hold its fifteenth annual convention in Union
town next Friday and Saturday.
EMORY NJ. E. Church people spent a very
pleasant evening together on Thursday as
guests Of the Ladies' Aid Society.
THE Methodist Book Concern declares divi-
dend of 100000, which will be divided for the
DeEent OF sUperannuated ministers.
JOSEPH Cook and Unitarianism" will be
treated of by the Rev. Dr. Townsend, of the
Unitarian Church, tomorrow morning.
THE SewIckley NJ. E Church has placed a
new piano in their chapel for the Y p s. C. E
and the ladies have paid s., 900 on the debt.
THE First Presbyterian Church. Youngstown
voted to adopt the free pew system, but only by
a vote Of Ito to 10L Scarcely a characteristic
vote.
REV. DIR. JEFFERs. of Lincoln University.
who is called to the First Presbyterian Church
Oil City, will not begin his duties there till
June.
The Rev. A. R. Seaman, of the NJ P.
Church, delivers lecture on Funny Things
About Preachers" He will not lack material
surely.
THE Preacher Out of the PuIpit'' is the
subject upon which Rev. ]. NJ. Mercer will ad-
dress the Presbyterian ministers on Monday
morning.
THE Swedish Evangelical Church, McKees.
port, calls to be pastor Mr.. n. j. Forsburg, a
student from Augustana Theological Seminary
Rock Island, III.
THE Rev. A. Cravens lost his home by fire on
Friday last at Breckinridge, Mo. He is the
father of the wife of Rev. F. R. Farrand, of the
Southside Church
CLEARFIELD Presbyterian Church now has
fine pipe organ. increased the pastors
salary, and made the parsonage more comfort
able by steam heat.
TOMORROW will be busy day with Bishop
Whitehead, as in the morning he will be at St
Peters; afternoon, st. Andrews; evening. St
James; all in this city.
THE Ladies' Missionary Society of West.
moreland Presbytery held their annual meet
ing in McKeesport on Thursday. The reports
were very encouraging.
THE Rev. d. W. Temple will preach in the
Reformed Presbyterian Church tomorrow at
10:30 and o'clock. He will also preach in
Faith Chapel in the evening.
THE Hon. Thomas Beaver adds to his mag.
nincent gift of SIZE, 900 Methodist Church a
library of 600 volumes for the use of the con-
gregation and $4,000 parsonage.
REV. J. c. kIsTLER read a paper on THE
Meaning OF the Fullness of Time" before the
Y. Z. ministers on Monday morning Rev. DR..
Reid will be the speaker next Monday.
The Central Church, Allegheny has called
Mr. 8: b. Mccormick as pastor. Parnassus
Church called him at the same time 1t is
thought he will heed the Central's call,
THE First Presbyterian Church, Allegheny,
received Y on Sunday last. IT is contemplated
TO change the form Of the building SO as to en-
large the capacity. as more room is needed.
A CONGRESS of Brahmln priests has been
called for the purpose of Incorporating the
Bible among the books of India and recognizing
Christ as the incarnation OF Brahm, the Su-
preme deity.
THE Rev. DR.. Woodburn, pastor of the San
dusky Street Baptist Church, has just COM
pleted his twentieth year as pastor there. He