The Churches

- The Eev. B. B. Pope, of the M. E. Church, will preach his auuual miasiouary sermón next Sunday iorenoon, at the usual hour of public service. - A lawn festival was held on Wednesday evening at the residence of D. S. Wood, on Main street, for the benefit of the organ fund of the Congregational Church. - The Bev. John A. Wilson haa been pastor of St. Luke's Church, Ypsilanti, for thirty consecutive years, and probablr no other minister in the State can show Buch a record. - Eev. Mr. Boyden, of the Baptist Church at Ypsilanti, has declined an offer of the financial agency of Kalamazoo College, also the district agency for foreign missions for this State and Indiana, preferring to remain with his congregation. - Eer. Mr. Neuman, late of Freedom, successor to Eev. Mr. Eeuter as pastor of the Germán Lutheran Church of this city, has moved into the residence of his predecesor. On the evening of the 4th in8t. his oongregation gave him a welcome viait and a supper, and on the evening of the 5th he was serenaded by the choir. Ue preached his first sermon on Sunday.