Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-05-06
Church Notes.

Church Notes.
Rev Dr. Joseph A. Seiss, pastor of
the Lutheran Church of the Holy
Communion in Philadelphia, cele-
brated the fiftieth anniversary Of his
ministry on Tuesday. Interesting ser
vices were held in his church during
the day and at night. DIR. Morris, OF
Baltimore, made an address, in which
he stated that the first years salary
paid to DR.. Seiss was SO and pair OF
home-knit socks. The venerable cler-
gyman received on Tuesday, among
other presents, purse Of $1,000. DIR.
Seiss was once pastor Of the Lutheran
Church in Shepherdstown.
Rev. Richard T. Davis, ID. D., rector
of st. James Episcopal Church, Lees
burg, Va, died Tuesday morning of
heart failure, in the sIXty-third year
of his age. He was one OF the most
learned and prominent ministers IN
the church in Virginia. He was at
one time rector of the Martinsburg
Episcopal Church. He was an al
ways -at-the-front chaplain Of the
Sixth Virginia Confederate Cavalry,
and since 1868 had been rector of the
church at Leesburg.
Rev. DIR. William Z. Evans, pastor
of the CRANKY Street Methodist
Church, at Norfolk, Va, one of the
wealthiest churches in the Virginia
Conference, has resigned his pastorate
with view to becoming clergyman
in the Protestant Episcopal Church.
He will apply for orders in the Epis-
copal Church, in the diocese of Ala
bama. DIR. Evans's salary was $4,000
year.
There will be service in the III. b.
Church South on Sunday in Shop
herdstown at II q. IN, and s p. H.,
and at Marvin Chapel at 3 p. III. The
first quarterly meeting for Shepherds
town Circuit, NJ. f. Church South,
will be held at Unionville on May l4th
and 18th. Quarterly Conference i'm
mediately after preaching on Satur-
day. Rev. d. Bush, Presiding Elder
will be present both days.
Bishop Peterkin will visit Trinity
Episcopal Church in Shepherdstown
on Monday, May ed, when he will
hold confirmation services.
Holy communion services will be
held in the Lutheran Church at I'm
ionville on Sunday morning at 1870
o'clock; preparatory services half an
hour earlier. Services in Shepherds
town at 7.30 p. III.
There will be service in the Re
formed Church on Sunday at II a.
III. and s p. III.
Services will be held in the Presby-
terrain church Sunday, if Providence
permits, in Shepherdstown at 1890 a.
m. and at Kearneysville at p. III.
The Lutheran Sunday School last
Sunday evening held missionary
entertainment at which was rendered
the cantata Into all the world
very prettily. During the month OF
April the school raised about sixty
dollars for the missionary cause.
The next annual session OF the Re
formed Chassis will be held in the kear-
nevsville church, of which Rev. Geo.
&. Everhart is pastor, on Thursday,
May 18th.
The semi-annual meeting Of Poto-
mac Conference, Virginia Synod, OF
the Lutheran Church, will be held at
Middleway, this county, next Tues
day, May 10th.
There will be service in the Episco-
pal Chapel at Duflields Sunday after
noon at O'Clock.
ST. Andrews Brotherhood will meet
in the Episcopal Chapel next Tuesday
evening at $50 o'clock.
The Episcopal Chapel Of the Good
Shepherd at Dutfields will be dedica-
ted by Bishop Peterkin on Tuesday
May 31st.
Painful Accident