Events Of Advent Sunday

U has been the custom for i-.otae time p8Bt for the rector of St. Andrew's church to give on Advent Sunday a reTiew of the work done during the year past. This custom was well carried o at on Sunday last by the Rev. Mr. Tatlock. Hefirstspoke feelmgly of the members of his flock who 1.. i passed over to the othershore during Ibeyear, raentionini in particular the lateMi H. S.Fritz , O.H. Millen, Mrs. Jane P. Williams, John Freeman, Prof. EUicott Evans, Rebecca Henriquep, Urania Brown.Mrs. BeDjamin Taylor, Sarah L. Douglnss, nd Mrs. Emma M. Hatch. Therearenow in the church 881 baptized and 530 confirmed members. During the past year tbere were sixty-nine confirmations, thirtysixbaptisms.eiKht marriages, twenty-one burials, 150 day services, 152 other services, seventy public and eleven private telebrations of the Holy Euchariet. The nnmber of families and parts of families in the parieh is 351. The number of adherents, men, women and children, is 1 ,014. Add to this about 300 students, and the number of persors under the rare of the rector is 1,300. The receipts of the parish, from EaBter, 1890, to Easter, 1891, amounted $7,380.90. Of this amount f2,097.10 ame from pew rent?. The expenses of the ehurch proper amounted to $5,875.36. To this must be added $1,018.34, which was raised for outside missions and charities. The balance in the treasury on Easter, 1891, was f487.10. The receipts mentioned do not include a bequest of $500 from Miss Rebecca Henriques, which is to be a part of the en-lowment fund of the parish. The rector mentioned the new chancel window, and in the name of the donors, Mrs. M. C, H. Wells and her sons, formally presented it to the parish. He completed his sermón with a review of the work done by the variooa societies of the laity. RKLIGIOr.S MATTERS. A. C. Schumacher and Jonathan Hildner are the new ushers at the Bethlehem ehurch. At the Church of Christ on Saturday erening there will be a conversaron social. All are invitad. The fair at the African Methodist church, held on Thanksgiving day netted the society $117. The King's Danghters and Sons of the Baptist church will give an oyster tupper tomorrow evening, in the ehurch parlón. The Young Ladies' Society of the Zion church will celébrate its llrst annivereary on Sunday evening next Rev. H. P. Dannecher, of Fort TVayne, Ind., will deliver the address. Rev.J.M. Gelston, of the Presbyterian church, will preach next Sunday morning on the "Salvation of Infante," and in the evening, "The Love of God Rejected." The Teachers' Council of the Methodist Sunday school will meet tomorrow evening at the residence of Mrs. G. A. Douglass, corner of Washington and 1Mvition-sts. Jiev.Fr. Coyle, of Sandwich college, offi ciated in St. Thomas church Sunday in place of Fr. Kelly, who officiated in the Northfleld church. Fr. Goldriclc conducted services in Cleveland. Prof. Cari Belser will have charge of a bible class in the Sanday school to be organized at the Church of Christ nest Sanday. The class will take up the study of the Life and Times of St. Paul, and will make a thorough study of the . Epistles of Paul. The opening lectura of the Slocum course will be delivered tomorrow at 8 o'clock in Harria Hall. The general subject of the course is "The Chalcedonian Decree or, Ilistorical Christianity Misrepresented by Modern Theology, Confirmed by Modern Science and TJntouched by Modern Criticism." The subject to be treated tomorrow is "Memorial and Introductory, Religión and Philosophy. The Ethics of Religious Doubt." Dr. Fulton is the author of several books and the editor of the New York Churchman. A large audience, including fifty King's Daughters from different organization, in the city, aasembled in the Unitarian Church last Sunday morning to hear Rev. Mr. Sunderland's sermón on "The Door of New Opportunity Open to Educated Young Women." Miss Minnie Walton read a short paper giving an account of the history, aims and work of the order, which has now more than 140,000 memhers. Miss Annie Biggs read a poem. The church was beautifully decorated. ' On the wal!, n silver letters, was the motto of the order, "In His Name." A special service was held evening in St. Andrew's church on behalf uf the Brotherhood of St. Andrew. Rev. Henry Tatlock gave the raUon d'elre of the organization, Rev. lt. A. Holland sketched its history, II, J. Brown surveyed the field of work and G. H. Pond explained the methods of the brotherhood. On Monday Dight, at the annual meeting, the following oflleers were elected: Director, O. IlPond; secretary, M. Dukp; treasurer, G. H. Snow. The season of Advent (Lutin, the ápproach or coming) isnow upon u.=. The term bas been used in the Christian church for a long time, but exactly when it wasintroduced is notclear. In the Greek church the time of Advent e mprises forty days. But in the Homan, the EngKsh and the Episcopal churches of thin country, four weeks immediately before Christmas only are observed. The first notice of Advent as an appointment of the chnrch is found in the Synod of Lérida (524 A. D.,) at which marriages were interdicted from the beginning of Advent antil