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

reason to rejoice because they have no debt to
burden them. and have lately received % into
their membership.
REV. B. F. BEAZELL. of the Oakland M. E
Church, has written a number OF business men
in the two cities as to the special perls of young
men. Tomorrow evening he viii incorporate
the answers in an address.
on account of next Monday being the regu-
lar meeting day of the Alliance, no denomina-
tional meetings of the ministers will be held.
Ii is boped however, that many more will be in
attendance than last month.
THE special committee of the Presbyterian
General Assembly to memorabilia Congress on
the traffic in intoxicating drink met in Harris
burg on Thursday. Rev. DR.. Hays, of Allie
gheny City, is one of the committee.
On Sunday evening Rev. @. g. Westfall, Of
the Fourth NJ. P Church. showed his interest
in the subject OF revision by taking for his
theme, "Calvinism as Set Forth in the Confes-
sion OF Faith Of the Presbyterian Church"
THE Harrison street, MeKeesport NJ. E.
congregation. will open the lecture room of the
new church week from to morrow, when the
presiding elder, Rev. ]. w. Miles, will preach.
The audience room will not be completed till
June.
THE Presbytery of Charters has passed a
series Of resolutions couched In very strong
terms as to the efficiency and faithfHlness of
Rev. DR.. Speer, who has recently resigned the
pastoral charge of the U. P. Church at Canons-
burg.
SPECIAL meetings in the U. P. Church,
Verona, Pa, resulted in the addition of 40 to
the membership. One lady brought AZ to the
meetings. Rev. w. B. Barr and Rev. ]. NJ.
Witherspoon assisted the pastor Rev, W. s.
Nevin.
DURING Lent the Rev. W. G. Rodgers, on
Sunday evenings, will deliver course of SER
Church Doctrine as Contained in the Apostles
Creed" and on Friday evenings on "Episodes
in Church History"
GREATLY to the surprise of many the Allie
gheny Presbytery sanctioned the organization
of a new church for the Rev. DIR. HAYS. They
will meet in Cyclorama Hall. They are to be
self-sustaining, and not to locate within six
squares of the Bethel Church.
A CENTENNIAL commemoration Of the
death of Abee de rEpee, the first French in
structor of deaf mutes, will be held in st.
Andrews P. E. Church this evening A con-
cert exercise will be given by five of the pupils
of the Western Pennsylvania Institute.
Miss LIZZIE REED, who has been singing in
the choir of the shadYside Presbyterian
Church, to the great satisfaction of all who
heard her, has been secured as the soprano
singer for the Elmer street church, East End,
and has already entered upon her duties there.
REV. r. A. ELLIOTT, of the Ninth U. P.
Church, Pittsburg, preached his first anni-
versary sermon the 9th inst, when he showed
that 49 had been received into membership
during the year, and B had died. On Thursday
evening the congregation presented him
purse with over $500 in gold.
BETHANY Church Sunday School, Philadel-
phia, celebrated its thirty-second anniversary
on Thursday. Everyone connected Herewith
received some token from Mr., Wanamaker,
among which were checks, gold watches, rail
road shares, clocks tea sets, travelling bags,
etc. About 200 were present.
THE United Presbytertdn well says, in re-
ferring to a sermon recently preached here:
IAN ardent preacher shows how the the aff1Ic-
tions that have overtaken two imembers of
President Harrison's Cabinet are signs OF
Gods displeaSure because of the sins OF the ad-
minlstratIon. He failed to point out, however,
the connection between the diseases and fires
and the calamities that followed"
REV. GEORGE HODGES, began the series of
Friday evening Lenten lectures inst. Peters
Church last evening, taking for his theme
The Problem of Pain" He will be followed
on the 18th inst. by Rev DR.. White, on The
Sistine Madonna" March 2, Rev. DR.. Purves,
on Faith or Sight, Which?' March IA, "The
Good Soldier" by Rev. w. R. Grange; March
q. "Our Personal Equation" by Rev. DR..
MsrGR sf Ri9baI By By Kg9s
Yirginiai March Is. Thinking" by Rev. w.
r, Mackay.
A WEEK from next Monday will be Quiz
day at ths meeting Of the Pre- sbyterian Minis
terial Association, when the following ques-
tions are to be answered: First-Was the sacri-
fee of Christ in any sense a satisfaction to law,
or was it only surrender of divine love in recon-
CLING the sinner to God9 To be answered by
Rev. ]. F. Patterson. Second-Should ses-
sion in any case receive into the communion of
the church suspended members without re-
quiring said members. either by letter or in
person, to make some acknowledgment to the
session Of the church from which they have
been suspended? Rev. George w. Chalfant
Thirds the selection of pastor by commit
tee Presbyterian in theory and satisfactory In
practice? w. B. Negley, Esq. FOurth-What
are some of the best methods OF conducting
the Wednesday evening prayer meeting? Rev.
Newton Donaldson. Fifth-If either work must
be sighted. should it be pulpit preparation or
pastoral visitation? Rev. Matthew Rutherford.
are some of the arguments for
and against the use of the gown in the pulpit?
Rev. W. A. Jones. Seventh-Should Presby-
terians favor congregational repetition of the
Lords Prayer, the Apostles Greed, and respons-
i've reading from the Psalms. Rev. John s.
Plumer.