The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-25

the Bishopric of Maine, to which he
was recently elected by the authori-
ties of the Protestant Episcopal
Church. He is profound scholar,
and one of the most impressive speak
ers in the American pulpit.
San Francisco has a cathedral in
the course of erection. II is 135 feet
in length by 63 in breadth, with about
one thousand sittings.
Rev. DIR. F. j. Clere, Of Carlisle,
Penn, has been called to Calvary
Church, Philadelphia, with a special
view to his conducting the services
with the deaf mutes.
Jay Cooke has contributed $25, 900
for the endowment of an additional
theological professorship at Kenyon
College, and has nominated Rev. DR..
Bronson, rector of the Episcopal
Church in Sandusky, Ohio, to fill the
chair.
The Bishop of London lately con-
secrated the Church of st. Michael,
Shoreditch, when the clergy attended
in stoles of various colors, and the
Bishop directed them to remove
those ribbons"
Among the regular attendants at
the Business Mems Prayer Meeting
in Cincinnati, every morning, at the
First Presbyterian Church, is Hon.
Judge Storer, prominent member of
the Episcopal Church. He mingles
freely in all the exercises of the meet
ing, recognizing the Christianity OF
every man who evidences his faith by
his life. Such an example goes far to
commend the denomination to which
he belongs. *.
Rev. Mr.. Barten, pastor of an
Episcopal Church in Norfolk, spends
day in each week with JEFF. Davis.
Rev. VIM. H. Milburn, the blind
preacher, who is supplying an Epis-
copal pulpit in Chicago, is attracting
large audiences by his rare eloquence.
JEws.-The magnificent Temple
facing the Catholic Cathedral, in Gin
cinnati, was dedicated yesterday after
noon. Great preparations were made
for the occasion. The ceremonies
were to be extraordinary, and very
imposing. ato els
The Jewish Synagogue just com
pleted at Berlin, but not yet conse-
Grated, is one of the most gorgeous
buildings in Europe. The entire cost
of the structure is estimated at $780,
900 in gold. 1t is surmounted by a
huge dome of the Oriental type, which
can be seen, from every housetop
in Berlin. Besides this, there is
minor dome, and both are richly
gilded. The interior is broken up
into the great central hall of worship,
not far from hundred feet in length,
and provided with thousand chairs
for the worshipers. These are of oak,
and richly carved and polished. To
occupy one of these chairs costs about
$500 annually. t
CATHOLIC CHURCH.-The disgrace
full scene which attend the tuner
ais and wakes of many Catholic
citizens, have stirred up the zeal
of the Reverend Archbishop Pur-
cell, of Cincinnati. On last Sunday
morning, during the course of his re-
marks at the Cathedral, the Arch
bishop alluded to these unseemly pro-
ceedings with great earnestness. The
Telegraph winds up brief article on
the subject thus:
7" Now that the desolating plague is
lowering over us, it is time for earn
est and unceasing prayer, and not for
exhibitions of disorderly and intern
perate action. And, above all, the
solemn place of death should be the
last place to engage in worldly strife
and contentious. For the sake of
civilization, and all thatreligion holds
dear, let us have no more of the abb
horrent scenes referred to above"
THE PoPE's TEMPORAL REIGN.-A
French Roman Catholic journal, LIE
Monde, gives expression to its fore
bodings for the temporal power of
the Pope in the following strain:
If Austria succumbs there will be
no State depending upon the Vicar of
Jesus Christ. All will have abjured
the official character of the Catholic
faith There will be numerically
Catholic people; the Protestants will
dare to call themselves a Protestant
N ation. Ennland and Drurcin- rr;ll