The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-04
CHURCH NEWS NOTES.

The festival of the Epiphany will be esle-
brated on Wednesday at St. Marks.
Five persons united with Edgewater Congre-
gationai church on confession yesterday.
Bible meetings will be held every afternoon
this week at the First Presbyterian church.
The vestry of ST. Marks Episcopal church will
meet n the rectory this afternoon at o'clock.
Plymouth Congregational church paid out
81, 2S2 II for current expenses during the year
1891.
Special meetings will be held every night this
week except Saturday, at the Frat Methodist
Episcopal church.
meeting of the trustees of the First Metho-
dist Episcopal church will be held tomorrow
evening at o'clock.
George Robert Cain, the singing evangelist,
began the week of special services at the First
Baptist church yesterday morning.
meeting OF the Sunday school board Of the
First Methodist Episcopal church will be held
on Wednesday evening at the church.
Rev. Levi Gilbert addressed the Young Mems
Christian Association yesterday afternoon upon
the subject of the Degradation of Man"
The services at the First Methodist Episcopal
church next Sunday will be for the reception of
new members who have been on probation for
six months or more.
Fitty-three persons have been gathered into
the Plymouth Congregational church in the last
two months, forty in the two months proceed
ing and los in all since September l, 1891.
Rev. d. D. Proper, superintendent of Baptist
missions in Washington and British Columbia,
began q series OF special meetings in the Baptist
church at Ballard yesterday. His first subject
was: prevailing Prayer"
Rev. Father Louis Brosseau, vicar general OF
Oregon of the Catholic church, ofsiciated yester-
day morning at the morning services OF the
of Our lady Good Holm. South
Fourth and Washington streets.
The woman's Foreign Missionary Society of
the First Methodist Episcopal church will meet
at the church on Wednesday afternoon at 2S0
o'clock, and the Ladies' Aid Society of the
same church will meet this afternoon at the
same hour.
Rev. Thomas Baldwin preached yesterday,
morning and evening, at the First Presbyterian
church, in place of the pastor, who is laid up
with the grip Mr.. Baldwin will assist in the
week of prayer meetings at the church every
night this week.
The young people of Edgewater Congrega-
tionsl church watched the old year out and
the new year in" at the parsonage. Miss Agnes
Goddard recited "The Death of the Old Year
from Tennyson just as the old year was depart
ing. An enjoyable evening was spent by all.
All of the guilds of st. Marks church viii
meet this week. The Womau's Guild and st.
Agnews will meet on Wednesday afternoon, the
Altar Circle and the Woman's Auxiliary will
NEE. Friday afternoon and the Brotherhood of
st. Andrew will come together Friday evening.
An interesting watch meeting was held at the
First Christian church on Thursday night at
which there was good attendance. The ses-
sion began at O'Clock and was divided into a
teachers meeting, prayer service, an hour to
eating lunch, the organization of a reading cir
Gle, to choir practice and social entertainment
and a prayer service at the moment of the ar
rival of the new year.