The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-03-10
ITEMS OF RELIGIOUS INTEREST

NSOh "Ao AAsSi $500 "a oA
antique gospei staho, Wnicn oates
pack 10 the Tune OF Jonathan Ed.
WARDS. me oesk IL now stored WIFI
Con ..s;o,, - 1900 a., 1caa =.
% -, - $1,000. - ~srn,o,.
Nas. TN. h,-can.anniai os Ior,,h :
Edwarsa. h,rth VS.. oh.arvad ! Pau
vears ayo M Trowhr,dya than .aid
failed in his expedition against For,
Niagara, the Indians of New York
and Western assachusetts became
the frontier towns Of which stock
bridge, the home of Edwards. was
one. DR.. Bethany, the then pastor a,
TO his home for safety and rest, which
he did, and preached there several
times The pulpit is famous for hav.
Samuel Hopkins, Lyman Beecher, Ash.
ael Backus and Herman Humphrey
The antique is widely known in West.
ern Connecticut as the 'Bellamy pull
meeting house in Bethlehem in 1885
1t represents the entire pastorate OF
DIR. Bellamy, which continued for
nearly ffty years. 1t might therefore
stand as a type of reform in the pres
ent-day fashion of short-term clerical
ministrations
F,vapue,,st .Ri,,v.. snnday has tus,
c,osa6 q ~raa. ser,aa of uaa,,rrs n
six weeks and kss4 convert. ara "a.
nortad
o a,
ine oapNss naVc IA su-
Ininis'ers' i'"V' cnoFc1ies anu A"A'fo'
neHaoeFs'
IT wInreo =. Sren,en wan pc tns
Nouei fouhuation iectoFer al kaarVarc
An employment bureau TOT ministers
~ 10 DC est1oAsne0 py he Ok ioui'
FresoyterS' presbyterian u q. A.
Nssroes OF fhiihoelpnaa contributed
sIoo'oeo Tor the essso.ishment or
osanch aoohg MEMS Cnrist1n Asso-
c'auoh.
F1ttn Avenue frespyterian church
New YORK City. last year raised fol
al purposes $5s7.e4T, which was anou
sso.ooo less tnan the year before.
inc totai aooltions 10 iorty Meth
oaist churcncs IN chicago from tns
chapman Alexander meeting were
ga 1niry-Mx cnurches report nc
increase OF attendance at sunday ser
vices
Dixon Will be called TO the Passionate
,, OF Spurseons iaoernaeie In London
ms minisrations during his supply
TOT the monIn OF January were very
accepeaois ana grew ferge conxrega-
IONS Az the end OF the month the
cnurch unanimously voted to request
ne consented TO do
inc Governor or the Seminole ma.
tlons John I. Brown. Is q Baptis
preacher. He ives In his own splen,
qua nome near sasaka, Oklahoma, and
| ne mas been the pastor OF the Spring
has eighty members II was founde
BY Rev. John Jumper. the famous
Seminole preacher.
!
Rev. George La Paine. rector oil
St Mary's church. Dorchester, Mass
| has been called 10 St Paurs Protes-
. Conn. TO succeed Dr. J. De wotft
Perry. Jr. recently elected bishop o.
| Rhode Island.
On May 81, It is hoped. every room
| OF every commercial hotel in Boston
win have a Bible. an a result az ths
campaign Of the Gideons the Chris.
| tion ~ America An aarI,a. 60 e.,
the compIetion Of the work has hssr
| found innosaIhIs cw.r. e. ~ 80.
thai the demand has 10, -
car p,h,a Snc,a,,, a.. raa,,h go.
in ~. aa,jvsr;ssS 49,. a.. s..a'
go pth9a 80 s,o i've noa
r,. ro,,. 80 C...,
Row., Ca.So,,o .snra,, OF sne
hsrs t,stv aah.rs NJ. Nv ne-
,,r,s ~. - SsI,.r ion ~.
corrr,.,a n,,rrha- ~ 'eow ns
Tn,,,tasn ,nam,ha - SevsnIs'
- a.. .'on .aen ~ are AooV" seven
| r,
No. nf,s.,n1 S,a.n.. bapt~.
vAar s1a rai.s,amsrsa. s s Iass
- a,-ons - o. 49, se.ssae1 .. ,Ana
g., ,ns So,,tn ir,s Aons hssroes
49, ns. L as Aoo'snefs on -FOUR
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