The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-19
RELIGIOUS NEWS.
ST. Luke's Mission Extends Call to
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Rev ~. L. Sncad.
Rev. w. T. Snead. of Aspen, Cal, has
accepted a call 10 ST. Luke's Mission,
and he will take charge of the work
the third Sunday i'll June. He is a
young man of about twenty-eight years
OF age and has an interesting family.
Mr.. Snead is also reported to be great
Church worker. This is the first time
that ST. Iuke's Mission has had a reg
ular pastor, ana NIr. Snead viii doubt
less infuse new life IN the Liission-
Rev. Hugh Martin, The former city
missionary of the Episcopal Church,
conducted the services there in con2ec-
ton with his other work.
DR.. Hawthorne will discuss two VERY!
interesting subjects on tomorrow from
his Grove-Avenue pulpit. In the morn
ing his theme will be Faiths Triumph
Over Fear and at night The Folly OF
Anxious Forethought." DR.. Hawthorne
says that his evening sermon will be
one of the most interesting subjects that
he ever discussed.
The Bible Reader and Sunday Magazine
has been sold to Mr.. Rufus c. Williams.
Of the Williams Printing and Publishing
Company. The cont act was signed yeSter-
day morning, and the agreement will go
into effect June LIST. Miss Maude Palmer
will be retained as editor OF the paper. The
same.
There will be an interesting service
in Old Market Hall tomorrow afternoon
at 4 O'clock conducted by Rev. George II.
Wiley, assisted by the League of Trinity
Church.
The afternoon service has been inter
rupted for two weeks by the night meet
ings of Mr.. Butts, but Will now again go
on as usual.
as ~
good singing.
Services will be conducted at the Sol
dierS' Home Chapel three times to-mor-
row. AT II o'clock by a student from
Richmond College; at 4 o'clock in the
afternoon by DR.. ]. P. Smith, and at s
o'clock in the evening by a minister from
the Union Theological Seminary. There
viii be appropriate music at each SER
vice.
revival service will begin Monday
evening at s o'clock, and will be con-
Quoted by Rev. w. P. Constable next
week in the chapel. Other ministers
will assist Mr.. Constable in these SER
vices. The public is cordially invited 10
attend.
The annual service of the Ladies
Foreign Missionary Union of East Han
over Presbytery will be held tomorrow
evening at Grace-Street Presbyterian
Church. Rev. Jere Witherspoon, D. D.,
pastor Of that church, has been invited
to preach the sermon to the ladies, and
has accepted. Mrs. j. P. Smith is the
president of the union. The exercises
Will be of a most Interesting nature, and
a large congregation is expected.
Rev. DR.. S. a. Steel, pastor of Centen-
airy Methodist church, is visiting in Lex
ington, n. C.
The arrangements for the great mass
Ia of ~
Observance League are progressing rapid
~, and the success of the enterprise is
assured. The meeting will be held in the
Academy of Music tomorrow afternoon
at O'Clock. The programme is about
completed and will meet the approval Of
all who attend.
DIR. Hawthorne has accepted an invita-
ton from some of the leading citizens of
Raleigh, n. c., to deliver his lecture there
on ''The Worlds Great orators" in the
latter part of the present month. About
the same time he will deliver the Com
mencement sermon al Wake Forest Col
lege.
The Board of Managers of the Baptist
Young Peoples Union of Virginia held ar
interesting meeting Thursday night a the
Young Mems Christian Association. There
was a large attendance. including eight
out-of-town members
other plans adopted looking to the fur
therance of the work of the organization in
Virginia
The Board accented the invitation Of
the Court-Street Church, Portsmouth, anc
decided to hold the next State Convention
there This Will be in June OF next year.
Some of the religious newspapers of the
South are claiming that while the great
| conference at Montgomery on the negro
| problem was a success in respect to its
| display of magnificent oratory and the
| enthusiastic responses OF the multitude 10
| such public speakers as Bourke Cochran
/ John Temple Graves and John Roach
| Stratton, it was practically a failure. be
/ cause none of the discussions suggested
any solution of the problem. They think
| that the question cannot be successfully
! handled by the present craftsmanship OF
| the country and that there Is nothing tc
do but patiently wait until God shall raise
| up men equal to the task
/ Rev Dr. Kerr left for Baltimore OF
Thursday to deliver an address for DR.
| Guthrie's church
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