Omaha daily bee., 1874-06-22
RELIGIOUS.

In England there are 800 differ
ent religious sects.
A fine new Episcopal Mission
church was dedicated in Baltimore
on Sunday last.
A Unitarian Church is soon to be
organized at Greeley, Colorado.
Rev, Mr. Myrick, pastor.
Rev. Bishop Merrill will preside
over the Pacific Conference of the
Methodist Church during the nsu-
ing year.
1t is proposed by the Lutherans to
erect a monument to Luther, on the
Centennial grounds, and the help
of Germans and Scandinavians is
asked for this purpose.
The Catholic Church at Port
Madison, Iowa, has just received a
$4,000 organ for its new 5000 0
church, or rather cathedral, which
is the largest and finest i'm the
State.
The First Congregational Church
of Lexington, Massachusetts, is
still using a Bible which was pre-
sented to the parish by John Han
cock in 1898. They were never
hard OH Bibles in Massachusetts,.
The Methodist Church South de-
clines the offer of union by the
Methodist Church North. 1t thinks
each church can do Its work and
fulfill its mission most effectively
by maintaining an independent or
g%anization.
The PrOtestants and Catholics
have engaged i'm a heated discussion
i'm Canada on the subject of public
education, the latter desiring separ-
ate schools. In st. John, n. B., an
election has just been held at which
the separate school project was sig
nally defeated.
The Oldest Catholic priest i'm
North America, is now stationed at
st. Johns Church, Frederick, Md,
Rev. John McElroy, S. ]. He was
ordained by Archbishop Carroll, 60
years ago, and has consequently
spent over half q century i'm the
ministry. He is now 9S years of
age.
Bishop Welles, of Wisconsin, is a
native of Waterloo, New York, stud
led at Hobart College, Geneva, was a
tutor two years at DevereuX College,
Suspension Bridge, was ordained i'm
1856, and leaving college proceeded
to Red Wing parish, Minnesota,
when it had only two members. 1t
is now II of the strongest In the
diocese.
According to a Catholic paper the
procession in honor of the liquefac-
ton of the blood of st. Januarius
took place this year in Naples with
great pOmp. Indeed, nothing like
it has been since 1853, The blood
was hard when taken from the
cathedral, but liquefied when ex-
posed upon the altar Of the church
of st. Chaira. The return of the
procession to the cathedral, which
took place at night, was Illuminated
by electric light, and produced a
very striking effect. a tremendous
crowd lined the streets, and the
manifestations of faith and religious
fervor were so remarkable that even
the Liberal papers report upon them
with surprise, and, Of course, indig-
nation.
Young clergymen may get a hint
from reading, just before going to
bed, the following extract from
n of Henry Ward Beecher's SER
mons: al sleep Saturday nights
for Sunday. My best sermons are
always slept up. l lie i'm the morn
ing in that dreamy state when my
body seems to be asleep and my
mind wide awake, and l fashion my
sermons. If you could hear one of
them you would never want to hear
them as here delivered; they are so
much larger and more symmetrical,
and l often spring from my bed say
ing, God help me, l will have a
sermon tO-day!' but the moment
that wantto imprison my thoughts
into words, they are gone, And so
say have an experience of the
higher life, mOmentary though it
he, a faint and feeble analogue of
the disclosures that are yet to come
in the other life.u
The Rev. George G. Belts, former
ly of Omaha and now oftba Droto,t
ant Episcopal Church, in Kansas,
Is IN a newspaper controversy with
the Rev. DIR. Holland. of the same
Church, i'm st. Louis. 1t
that Mr.. Belts was invited by DIR.
Holland to preach In the church of
the latter, and that he did preach,
and discussed "Ritualism," con-
tending that those who denounced
it We're cOnfOunding doctrine with
ritual, to the sad neglect of the for
mer. To this sermon DIR. Holland
made a public reply. Mr.. Belts re-
spends, and among other things, i'm
reference to the alleged "Romaniz-
ing tendency" says:
Now we are not easily fright
ened. Let it be noted that, not
witllstanding all this clamor and
confusion, the Protestant Episcopal
Church does actually recognize the
Roman Catholic Church as a lawful
branch of the Church of Christ,
while, on the contrary, she utterly
repudiates the pretensions of the
se,ts to any sIlch honor