, 1874-07-12


o has begun the erection Of . Uing b the Jesu
g College, which will cost about 81, 0oQ It is
. be completed as early in the fail as possible.
The Catholics of Non York are about to ere
magnificent chu:ch, which Ia to be paid for
. fast as the work proceeds
= The Liberal Christian enss not less than 80
Catholic priests haro left the Roman Church i
this country for various rcasons, and aro no
/ engaged in secular pursuits.
The Union Catholic Library Association has
= picnic at Tracy Grove, Thursday, July l6. Train
.. leave the Chicago, Rock Island j. Pacific Rail
, | road Depot at 9 q. IN. and at noon, stopping d
Twenty-second and Thlrty-t1s streets.
Tho Church of the Annuncia:ion Catholic
has ordered plans for tue house Of worship il
the vicinity OF tho Moth Branch Rolling ALls
It will cost about 100000. Work upon tue build
ing Is shortly to commence.
4 correspondent Of the Boston Tilot writos
concerning the degradation Of Catholic churches
OF the richest churches in tho world in respect tt
marble statues. mosacs, aud paintings. has be-
| como museum. In paru1ia. one church il
trrnca ia:o picture gallery, the altar torp up,
and pictures from converts, and Hounsteries,
and churches hung around tho walls another,
in the city. is used hayloft. In Foliguo.
tho grasll old Church Of the Doninicsns, with
its Gothic wheel windows, IL turned into stable
Tor cavalry horses"
CONGREGATIONAL
| The Waukegan Congregational Church re-
ccivcd ssi1le members last Sunday.
The Con5regationa[ists ut Miller, Neb, dedi-
! Gated new house Of vorship j &c Is.
The Congregational Church at Ovid, Mich,
| has almost doubled its membership within year.
Tho Congregational Church at Brainard
1iinn., received twenty-five persons to member
ship June %.
The Dowucr's Grovo Congregational Church
| are building house OF Uorshns to be completed
| this summer.
The First Congregational Church received
| fourteen members las. Sunday, AMI the Union
Park Church five.
At haywood. Congregational chapel was
dedicated last Sunday. The lev. J. E. Roy de-
uycred the ec1mou.
At Park Ridge, tho Consresationaliats are
building substantial house Of Worship, which
will shortly be completed.
The Rev. Homer J. Parker, late Of Vermont
vile, M,eh., has accepted call to the Consrega-
tional Church at POINTING, 1ich.
The Congregational Church at Olnev ILL.,, or
ganized one yeAs ago. las secured I subscription
OF $4,000 for house Of worship.
Ihe Vine Street Congregational CL:.rci of
Minneapolis, now the Second Church. occupied
tile basement Of the new eoiice Juno "a.
Tho Union Park Congregational Church re-
ceiyel eight members Inst Sunday, and the
LeaSltt Street Church exactly tho same number
The Rev. J. E. Toy preached the dedication
sermon of tho new FRS: Congregational Church
building at A1uneapolis June %, on which occa-
zion the people raised $1,000 to clear of tho in
deb.edneas Of the society.
At Faribault, Mnn., the two Congregational
churches, which have for some time dragged out
= sickly existence. consolidated July l. The
- 1cy al oh 43rnf,r E,prn
signed, so as to leave the consolidated or;aniza-
tion at liberty to choose mac.
EPISCOPAL.
Tho Bishop Of New York Zone Of the five |
dioceses iuso which tho State OF New York .1s |
divided) confirmed 1880 within the past two i
months.
Tho House Of Bishops was convened last week |
by the 1t. Hev. T. g. Smith D. D., presiding
bishop. Bishop Cummins was doposed by the |
House Of Bishops.
Tha Bishop ct Texas proposes bishop for
tho colored population OF Texas alone, wllo ehalI
benz tho same relations to the diocese in all |
respects that ho himself bears.
Ohio has been divided into two Episcopal dio-
ceses, instead OF tive, rs Bishop Bodell advised.
Bishop Bodell will be Bishop OF the Northern
Diocese, residing at Cleveland
At Christ Cathedral, Reading. Diocese of Cen
tral Pennsylvania, with tho Eckort memorial
chime 10000 changes or transpostions can bo |
INNA!AN-s |
ten bells can be 1uns 3,C2s, $50 changes trans
positions.
The Chief Justice OF the patton has received
from his Alma Mater Kenyon College, the de-
gree Of LID, and has bevu elected to repro
sent the Diocese Of Ohio at the next General
Convention. Tha Bishop Of Ohlo in his late
address, exposed the absurdity OF Dr.. Cummins'
attempting to carry away Eith him ana to con-
tinuo 70 exercise tho Episcopal oaice aal de-
ciarcd his every Episcopal ac: since his secession
mi md II r. i}4i k11f r,
lultlo.
The Episcopal Registc. .ays: "1t can never be
forgotten that the reformation of the Church in
England WAS national-not one man nor q party
going out to found u church upon their private
opinions. Thus different from attempts to found
sect or party It had authority. It acted
ccitima.elv. There vas no grand revolution
md no disorganizetion. The clergy continued to
discharge their offices. Tho Episcopal power
ras duly exercised and transmitted; the
riue which had beea held by the church catho1-
c was renounccd. How different this from
me man Of his own fancy declaring doctrines
nd decreelng ceremonies"
REFORMED EPISCOPAL.
A Reformed Episcopal church hns recently
'een organized in Jefferson City, No, with fiat
eilng prospects OF success. ,
Tho new Church has Just received two valu-
ble accessons, the Rev. James II. McMechen, | !
{ Wheeling, VI Va, for nearly forty years =
4 esteemed Episcopal rector Of the Diocese of ,
'lrgiuia, and tue Rev. r. S. Perkins, OF Bristol I
a., formerly rector Of st. James Church in that .
i:y.
Although the now Church has surely and I
teadily increased in power and members since 5
y Inauguration, it's more rapid advancement | !;
as been somewhat checked BY two CAUSES: the / =
adovy hope entertained by many low church =
lcn TIA. the General Convention in October a
lay take stops to revi.e tho prayer-book. and y
.gsiatc against ritua11zns, and also by the con-
nued il-leaith OF Bishop Cu.nnains, whose ply
can forbids active work for several months to r
3me.
MISCELLANEOUS. :
There are scid to be ut present th;rty-eisht
omen preachers. =
Marecs, Bishop Of Nicomedia, has just been e
ectcd the Armenian Patriarch at Constantine 8,
10. q
The Free Church OF Scotland has raised $685.
IL aract;oa h,iEra i1al