Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-01-08
Church Affairs.

According to announcement in the
last issue of the REGISTER, Rev. J. A.
B. Scherer. the missionary appointed
by the Board OF Missions of the Uni
ted Synod of the South to begin work
in Japan, spent Wednesday Deem
Der 3Oth, in Shepherdstown, and in
the evening made an address in ST.
Peters Lutheran Church, which, for
conciseness of statement, strong pre-
sentation of truth. forceful express
sion and impressive delivery, it i. sell
dom the privilege of this community
TO hear. The fair-sized audience pres
ent was deeply interested and pro-
foundly impressed with both tie mat
ter OF the address and the spirit Of
the missionary Rev. Sherer is a ma
tive of North Carolina, and while
young in years, has made a record in
home mission work at Pulaski, Va,
of which he may justly feel proud.
The board urgently called him TO the
foreign work and he cheerfully obeyed
their call and that OF the Master, much
TO the regret Of his devoted people.
He is a young man Of promise and OF
strong religious conviction, fully con-
secral ed TO the work before him.
After visiting as many OF the leading
churches in the South as possible in
the next two weeks he will go to San
Francisco, from which point he eI-
poets TO sail for japan. February 4th.
Our people who heard him and had
the privilege of meeting him person
ally, were strongly drawn towards
him, and the good wishes and prayers
of the churches will follow him and
find their substantial expression in
cheerfully supporting the work which
he represents abroad.
Rev. II. l.. Graham, son OF Rev. DIR.
Graham, the popular pastor of the
Kent Street Presbyterian Church OF
Winchester. who with his Young wife
recently went TO Japan as missiona-
ries. met with b serious loss on their
stormy passage across the Pacific
ocean. Their trunks containing their
clothing, books and other effects. had
been stored near thirty barrels OF Iu-
bricating oil, which burst during a
storm, running all their property. =
Gerardsto,cn Times.
Rev. DR.. julius E. Grammer. for 81
years rector of st. Peters Episcopal
Church in Baltimore, preached his
farewell sermon TO his congregation
last Sunday.
Rev. Dallas Tucker, rector of Zion
Church. Charlestown, is expected to
preach in Trinity Church, Shepherds
town, on Sunday next, January 10th,
morning and evening. and in the
Episcopal Chapel at Duffields at . p.
III.
The regular meeting of the st. An
drew's Brotherhood of Trinity Church,
Shepherdstown, will be held III the
chapel Cd the evening Of Tuesday
next, January 12th. The business
meeting will begin at 80 o'clock and
will be followed by a literary and so
cial entertainment at 8 o'clock.
There will be- communion service in
the Lutheran Church on Sunday at II
a. H., preparatory service Saturday
at .. As p. III.
Those who go 10 church to hear the
, music will not get into Heaven on the
same excuse.
Rev. r. J. Wilson has raised -, 900
toward the contemplated erection Of
a new Catholic Church ut Harper's
Ferry.
There will be services in the Re
( formed Church on Sunday III Shep-
herdstown at II II. III. and ut kear-
neysviIie at 3p. III.
There will be service i'll the NJ. r..
Church on Sunday in Shepherdstown
at / O'Clock and at Mt. Wesley at 3
o'clock