The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-09-26
TIE CONGREGATIONAL cHUkcH.
IL Growth In This state shown 1t the
Recent Annual Meeting.

| on September Is, 10 and % As Colfax is
| In the extreme eastern section of the state,
| not on the main lines Of travel and the
| times furnished little money, the attend
| ance was not as large as usual. Still,
about sixty-tiye ministers, delegates, COR
/ responding membess and visitors from
1 abroad were present. Only ten OF these,
however. were from west of the Cas-
cades. Rev. G. III. Lee. of Seattle, was
| chosen moderator; +. j. Somerindyke,
OF Waila Walla. clerk. and Rev. 4. P.
| Mcdonald, OF Pullman, assistant clerk.
| On Tuesday evening Hon. ]. A. Perkins,
| of Coifax, welcomed the association in a
very happy manner. referring very feel
| ingly 10 two OF the pioneers of Congrega-
| tionalisn, Dr.. q. II. Atkinson and Father
| e. Eells. who were present at the last
association. held a. Colfax eight years ago,
and who bad died since that time.
The report on Sunday schools gave the
| following items: There are ei6 Sabbath
schools under Congregational auspices, of
which li2 are connected with churches
and l34 are missionary. These have a
membership of 1900 an increase of 10
per cent. over last year. OF i39 reporting,
ia use the international series of lessons
and 10 the Congregational lesson helps
and papers. One hundred and twenty-five
observed children's day. an increase of
twenty-seyen over last year, their contri-
| bGtions being S50S9I Fifty-iive schools
report $3.50 volumes in their libraries.
Forty-one new schools have been organ
| lied during the year, with 1000
| pupils, and sixteen schools reorganized.
The report of the churches gives eight new
ones, Bangor and Happy Valley. on Hood
canal; Clayton and Hillysrd. near Spo-
kane; Leavenworth. in the 0kanogan
region; Marysvilie, in the Seattle associa-
ton; Pine Hill. near Port Angeles, and
Sunnyside, in the Yakima country.
No deaths have occurred among the
ministers, but seven have left the state:
NJ. Willett. of Spokane; L. o. Baird, of
Pullman; +. L. Johnston, of Uniontown;
| S. b. L. Penrose. of Dayton; T. III. Hen
derson, of Port Townsend: K. A. Rowley,
Sunday school missionary, and Z. Z.
Smiley. of Vancouver, while ID. IL. Ford
ney has taken Presbyterian church. In
their places have come A. Z. Mcdonald to
Pullman, w. G. Fowler to Genesee. ID. +.
| Taylor to Chewelah and Springdale, J. NJ.
Lewis to Deer Park and Clayton, DR.. +.
| b. Cherrington TO Spokane, H. AlIig to
| Vancouver and I. w. Butler to Everett.
Among the changes noted in the
state are the foliowing: g. II.
Lee has taken the Brooklyn
| church in connection with the Taylor
street. of Seattle; J. T. Nichols has gone
from Pataka to Fremont; ]. E. Wolfe
from Brooklyn to Roy; T. G. Lewis, from
Lowell to Ritzville; G. Lindsay, from
| Coupeville to Aberdeen: j. ID. Jones,
! from RitzviIle to Medical Lake,
| and c. L. Newberry has taken
| the church at Coupeville in connection
with his work as principal of the academy
there. There have been two ordinations,
w. e. Young and Jonas Bushell.
| The number of church members Janu-
nary 1. 1884. was l. $50. net gain of 65i;
| the additions having been Liza. the re-
| movals 524 for 1898. The benevolent con-
| tributions for the same period were
| 81, 26o loss of 81. 3Ss; the amount raised
for home expenditures. 1881. loss of
| $l4.9O1; and the membership of the Y. P.
| S. c. T.. 1871, gain of 1888.
The German church at Endicott has
dedicated a church building; the churches
at Tekoa. Colville, Kaiama, Pine Hill,
| Sultan City, Edgewater, and the Akin
| those at Medical Lake and Leavenworth
are building parsonages; those at Ritz
| vile and Sprague have repaired their par
sonages; those at Hiilyard. Lake Park,
and the Pilgrim, of Spokane. have secured
church lots; and that at Port An
| geles has obtained q bell. The fol-
lowing have had revivals, which
have added from eight to seventy to
their membership: Walla Walla, snohom-
ish. Pullman, Genesee, Cheney, Houchton
and Kirkland. Taylor and Plymouth, of
Seattle; Edmunds. Alderton, Trent and
Pleasant Prairie. Chewelah. Tekoa, Endi-
colt and st. John, and First. of Tacoma.
The following also report additions of
from ten to twenty-fve: Kaiama, Edge
water. Everett. Brooklyn, Pine Hill, sko-
komish. Roy, Atkinson, of Tacoma; Aber-
deem and Colfax-about 800 in these
churches. While many churches reported
trials of various kinds, yet on the whole
| in answer to the question as to the condi-
ton Of the church during the year, only
four or five reported in a minor key.
As to new methods of WORK, boys brig
AIDES. kings daughters. young mems clubs
and prayer circle before church were re-
ported.
~
| passed: With reference to a Whit
man monument: temperance; re-
GREETING the opening OF the Inter
state fair at Tacoma on Sunday;
Christian comfy In church and Sabbath
school work; a memorial in regard to
unity. from New Jersey; the unifying Of
our educational work in our academies
and colleges in this state; with reference
10 President J. +. Eaton. the retiring
| president of Whitman college. and Rev
| r. A. Rowley, late Sunday school mis-
sionary, who are just leaving the state; in
regard to Sabbath school work: expenses
of delegates TO the national council, and
| of thanks 10 railroads and the people OF
| Colfax.
DR.. L. H. Hailock was recommended as
a corporate member of the American
board OF commissioners for foreign mis-
sions from this state. and Elienseurg was
| selected as the place of meeting next year
The women held their missionary meet
| ing on Wednesday afternoon. al which
| they elected officers both FOR their foreign
| and home societies. They reported thirty
six auxiliaries, seventeen juvenile socie-
ties, and about 81, loo raised during the
| year. very pleasant feature OF the meet
| ings has been the singing of several solo.
| By Mrs. L. II. Hiliock, of Spokane.
New Superintendent of Coast survey.
WasHISGroS CITY, Sept 25.-The presi-
| dent appointed Gen. William Ward Duff
| field, OF Detroit, superintendent of the
| coast reodetic survey today TO succeed