Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1890 — RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE: [ARTICLE]

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE:

It is proposed to hold in Philadalphia at an early date a social reunion of Methodist preachers’ sons. The Rev. Dr. J. B. Dales has just celebrated the completion of his fiftieth year as pastor of the Second United Presbyterian Church at Philadelphia, Pa. Dwight L. Moody announces that gifts amounting to SIIO,OOO have been received by his Mount Hermon and Northfield Seminary schools, SIO,OOO to com® from O. H. Greenleaf, of Springefild, Mass.; $50,000 promised by Frederick Billings, of Woodstock. Vt., and $50,000 willed by the late D. M. Weston. The closing consecration meeting in connection with the recent international Christian Endeavor convention at St. Louis will never be forgotten by those present. Nearly seven thousand people were present. The utmost solemnity prevailed, and the spirit of eager desire for better service on the part of the throngs of young people could be (pit. Many State delegations unitedly pledged themselves to ChristV work. : —— The Rev. B. Fay Mills began a ser’*B of union revival meetings in Springfield, Ili., June 16. Fifteen> churches united in the movement, including the Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Congregationalists, Baptists, Disciples and the Church of God. Mr. Mills always makes it a condition when he •receives a call to work ?n a small tow* or city, that all the evangelical denominations shall unite in the services. AH his time is now engaged for more thamayear- inadvanee.— JT