Omaha daily bee., 1874-05-11
RELIGIOUS.

Chicago claims to be the battle
ground of latter-day ecclesiastic
opinions and religious controversy.
Mrs. Mary c. Lathrop is another
rising star In the Methodist Episco-
pal Church. She recently preached
to a large audience in Baltimore,
Md.
The Rev. John Carey, one of the
Oldest ministers of Irish Wesleyan
ism, died recently. He was ninety
years of age, and had spent sixty
four in the ministry.
indianapolis boasts of a versatile
divinity student who breaches in
English, prays in Armenian, sings
in Turkish, and holds his tongue in
eleven other languages.
Archbishop Manning will proceed
to Rome in June next, on the Occa-
sion of his being raised to the dig
nifty Of a Cardinal.
Miss Mary z. Pinkerton left her
home near Grinnell, Iowa, Friday,
the 18th ult., to join the Zulin Mis-
sion i'm South Africa. She will have
charge of the girls school in UNI
Zumbi.
The government of Guatemala
has issued a decree prohibiting
priests and clergymen from wearing
the usual distinctive of long robes,
&C., except when they are engaged
in the performance of their sacred
duties, under fine of from SO to
$50.
The Methodist Episcopal Mission
airy Society has purchased what was
once the cloisters of the great San
Francisco Convent i'm the City of
Mexico, These c~loisters, standing
on the site and possibly forming
part of the ancient Montezuma Pal
ace, have been converted into the
beautiful Church of the Holy Trini-
ty. The cost was SIC,
During Mrs. Van Colts ministry
In Ames Methodist Episcopal
church, New Orleans, lately, the
trustees refused to permit colored
people to the body of the house.
The galleries were open TO them,
but the invidious distinction has
worked trouble in the host.
The Vicar of Richmond, England,
created some excitement i'm his par
ish by building a high wall i'm the
c~hurchyard so as to separate the
EJECT dead from the nonconfOrmist
dead. lie friends of the latter raj
lied and tore down the wall, and
a ecclesiastical court has prohibited
him from rebuilding it. A common
footpath now, as heretofore, divides
the "dissenting" dead from the "es-
tablished" dead.
A sensational ripple has passed
over a Baptist church in Boston,
where, on a recent Sunday morning,
while the services were going on, a
lady left her pew and walked up to
the platform. The minister, sup
posing she had something to COM
municate, advanced to meet her.
She assembled the steps, and, with
an air worthy of a bishop, laid her
hands on the head of the astonished
minister and retired.
The weather i'm the Holy Lard
has this spring been Unprecedented
ly severe, the various roads to Jeru-
salem being blocked with snow.
Notwithstanding this, a vast num-
Der of Greek and Armenian pill
grims, besides many English and
American tourists, are now in Jeru-
salem. 1t is said a famine threat
ems the residents of the Holy City,
and Sir Moses Montefiore, of Lon
don, has been appealed TO foraid.
The Cologne Cathedral, upon
which Germany is lavishing so
much of her wealth, is TO have the
greatest bell in the world, the EN-
peror William Bell" 1t weighs
sixty thousand pounds, is eighteen
feet high, and fourteen wide. The
first molding of the bell proved a
failure, and considerable difficulty
has Yet to be overcome in transport.
ing the immense mass from Frank
enthal, where it was cast, to the
top of the tower of the cathedral.
A newspaper of st. Petersburg,
the Grashdauin, reports the growth
~ ON tntnra-f in pr,tnyfn ntsCn, !
among the upper classes of Russian
society. 1t says that Lord Rad
stock, who seems to be the apostle
of the movement, is daily invited TO
religious conferences, and that his
addresses in the American church
are listened to by crowds of ladies.
The Grashdauin expresses fear lest
the orthodoxy of the ladies and
their children-who will be the /
aristocracy of the country-shall be
contaminated.
Mgr. Jacobini, the new Nuncio of
the Pope to the Court of Austria,
has arrived i'm Vienna. He belongs
to a very poor and obscure family,
his father having been a butcher
and the reverse of prosperous i'm his
business. The humble origin is
made the subject of much comment
in aristocratic circles in Austria.
''The Pope" say the Viennese, "has
quit with the kings. His Holiness
sends us a Jacobin, and to be sure
that he is a thorough one chooses a
butchers son." They forget Car
dinal Wolsey, who was ''born of a
butcher, but by bishops bred"