The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-01-11

will be under the supervision of three
priests and two laymen, appointed by
the Archbishop.
Rev. Albert S. Hunt, an unmarried
Methodist minister, at Brooklyn, New
York, received for Christmas pres
ent from his parishers an India rub
Der model of young lady stuffed with
$500 in greenbacks.
The Boston Young Women's Chris
tan Association has bought large
home, consisting of two four-story
houses, and offering accommodations
for seventy women dodgers. The soci-
ETY. is doing a noble work in an ener-
getic spirit.
The first Roman Church, exclusive
ly for colored people, will soon be
dedicated at Charleston, s. 9.
The wood of the new Plymouth
Church pulpit was brought m-the
Holy Land by the Quaker City. The
old mahogany desk which has borne
the repeated blows for years, did its
duty Sunday for the last time. The
new pulpit is light carved structure,
and bears on the front an inscription
in Hebrew, and the words, " Mount
of Olives, 1868.
The Bethel Sunday school, on the
public landing in Cincinnati, under
the direction of Rev. Mr.. Frankland,
has $500 scholars, and is said to be
the largest Sunday school in the
world. When it is known that the
majority of the scholars attending
there are from the lowest classes Of
the population, and as they do not, as
a general thing, get any moral instruc-
ton at home, the amount of good done
by this school is incalculable.
THE MORNING STAR. The thou
sands of Sabbath School children who
contributed to the building Of the new
missionary packet the Morning Star"
will be glad to hear from her. We
learn from the Missionary Herald
that her first missionary work after
to carry supplies to native missionaries,
&c, to the Marquesas Islands. Mr..
COxon, of HilO, who went in her, writes
that she is one of the neatest and most
beautiful vessels afoat, and every way
superior to the old Morning Star"
She is remarkably seaworthy, and
will sail as fast as thirteen knots an
hour. The organ placed in her cabin
is a great treasure. The Morning
Star" touched at Hilo, where there are
hundreds of juvenile stockholders,
who mustered with songs aud banners
and marched down to the shore,
whence they put off in a fotilla of
boats to the vessel. They were per-
fectly delighted with her. They ran
all over the vessel like squirrels, fit
ting over the decks, through the cabin.
steerage, and all parts Of her, in jubi-
liant ecstacy.
PROBABLY it is not generally known
to Protestant readers that there is a
large settlement of the Cistercian
Monks at New Melloray, Iowa. Their
labors have been so successful that
they are about to erect an immense
cloister. costing between $4,000 and
$4,000. This monastery will cover
nearly three acres of ground. The
details of its plan are copied from the
order of architecture used by the Cis-
tercians in the eleventh century, en-
bracing much of the Gothic style. 1t
will DE a noble pile. As a monas-
terry, it will be by far the largest
Of any order of monks In
America. There are few in Catholic
Europe which are of larger dimen-
sions Duplicates of the plans were
sent to France, to the General Chap
ter Of the Cistercian Order, last Sep
TENDER. for approval. They were
adopted without any alteration, and
the head of the order wrote to the
Abbot of New Mellary. that it would
be the most perfect institution of the
Cistercian Order in the world. The
main buildings will be four in num-
Der, and will be erected In the form
of square, surrounding a court one
hundred feet long by the same in
width. They will be of stone. each
superstructure being thirty-two feet
high, resting on easements tWelvc
feet deep. The projectors hope that
every building will be finished by the
1st of June, 1870.
The Methodist book concern at
New York have issued during the
year just closed, .fve Mullins, fUe han
dred and serenity Thousand and sirty-
three copies of our various Church
periodicals. The following are the
exact figures, as presented with the
returns of each paper: Christian
AdUOcate, 1,270463 copies; Quarter
ly ReUielc, 1860; Sunday School
Journal, 259 500; Sunday School Ad
UOcdte, 3, 1896, 800; Good NeUs, $50, 600