Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-13
RELIGIOUS

Manchester, England, is to have
a s ZOO, 900 cathedral to vie with
that of Canterbury or York.
Indications are that if driven to
the step the extreme Ritualists of
England will form q Free church.
Bishop Whelan, Of Wheeling, w.
Va, lies dangerously i'll at Stagne's
Hospital, in Baltimore, and his
death may occur at any moment.
The American pilgrims to Rome
are said to have been almost stupi-
fed with establishment at the
grandeur of the Papal Court.
There are $40 places of worship in
New York City, with q seating ca
pacity of 1OS, 500 persons, and the
aggregate valuation of these church
es is $40, OOO, 600.
Rev. E. P. Hammond, the evan
gel.st, after spending the winter and
spring in revivals in the West, Is
now resting at his home in Vernon.
Connecticut.
The women preachers i'm the Uni
ted States now number thirty-eight.
They are distributed mainly among
the Methodists and Universalists,
with a sprinkIing of Quakeresses.
Philadelphia can now boast of
having fifty Baptist churches, the
last II having been organized q
few days ago. 1t is said that no
other city in the world can boast of
so many.
Bendigo, formerly a noted pugil-
list, is now a Methodist preacher,
devoting his time to religious work
among the poorer classes of Great
Britain. He is preaching this sum-
mer in the towns in the middle of
England.
The colored people of Baltimore
adapt themselves with great ease to
the formula and doctrines of the
Protestant Episcopal Church. At
present they have five churches in
a flourishipg condition in that city.
The tendency toward the "free-
seat" system is apparently more
marked in the Episcopal than any
other. The acts Incorporating the
proposed Episcopal cathedral Of AL
bany and New York provide that
their seats shall always be tree.
Henry Ward Beecher's church,
in Brooklyn, presents the following
statistical report for 1873: Number
of members received into the church
during the year, 2O5 ; dismissed, 80;
average yearly admission for rs
years, 1856; whole number received
since its organization, 3,547.
They have in New York city five
classes of Bishops, each of whom ex-
ercises authority as such-Roman
Catholic, Protestant Episcopal, Re-
formed Episcopal, Methodist Epis-
copal, and Moravian-while Boston
has an additional variety, In a
Syrian Bishop, whose orders are not
denied by students in canon law,
and who is said to offer to bestow
the regular succession upon the Con-
gregatiOnal preachers Of Massachu-
sets.
10 Smith, son of tho founder of
the Mormon Church, and the leader
of the faction of that organization
that has rebelled against the au-
thority of Brigham Young, now liv-
ing with his followers at Plano, ILL.,
nOis, is going to move his quarters
to NauvoO, ILL.,, from whence the
old MOrmOns fled to Missouri and
thence to Utah. This sect Is said to
be a very decent and respectable
set of people, and most of the citi-
zens of NauvOo will welcome them.
Smiths followers have practically
abandoned the doctrine of polyga-
my and are intensely hostile to
Brigham Young. Smith will pub
lish a paper in the interest Of his
sect. NauvOO, which once had q
population of 10000, now musters
only 1000.
The oppressed tObaccO-chewers of
Wooster, Ohio, can't have peace,
even in church. A preacher there
has now began a wal on them.
"Sunday week he discussed on the
'hOggishness' of chewing in church,
and after painting the offense in ali
Its enormity, proving conclusively
that every man who chewed the
weed in church was a hog, a villain,
a rascal, and a knave, he paused in
his sermon, looked his hearers
steadfastly in the face, and said
'Now I want no more such
dirty practices here. If any man
chews tobacco in the house of the
Lord next Sunday 1 shall call him
by name in open church,"
The Catholic authoritie at Rome
have ordered the convoking of a
National Synod in Ireland. to he
held at some convenient time short
ly, probably in the fall. 1t is now
twenty-fOur years since such q coun-
Gil was held in Ireland, since
which the Keele case has come to
the surface, by which it has been
shown that statutes that were
deemed obsolete may be used to the
of the Church. The religious
houses are also threatened with Wis.,
~itation, and the penal laws imposed
in the Emancipation act are liable
to be put in operation. Contested
elections and goddess" schools are
also to be considered. And the
time is propitious.
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.