The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-11-01
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

j. and went on /: "As was saying, o Lord"
e An Episcopal clergyman in New York has
= refused to permit foolish wedding party t.
h rehearse their ceremony in his church.
d The medallion Of John Wesley, which is t.
t. be rlaced in Westminster Abbey, is nearly
t. completed. A bas-relief under the profile
o represents him preaching at his fathers grave.
o In accordance with dying wish of the late
bishop Whitehouse, OF Illinois, his church in
Chicago has been made free for all time t.
come by the payment OF its entire debt A
generous member has contributed the means
Pho Mono comes Of long-lived family. His
Q great-grandfather attained the age OF q years
his grandfather 80, his father SO, and his
e mother 50. He also had three brothers who
e reached respectively the ages of 76, SO and 80.
9 The Unita Cdttol;c0 publishes statistics
s showing that the Ro nan Catholics III Eng
. land increased from 10000 in 1865 to J, $780,
600 in 1S45. They now have 1898 priests.
l 1853 churches Sc monasteries, 2S6 converts
} and 1860 schools
The first annual meeting of the Italian
Methodist Mission was held in Bologna Sept
TO- Bishop Harris presided. The headquar>
tiers of the Mission were removed from Bolog-9
M to Rome. Some 600 members and proba-
TONERS were reported, who are under the care
of IS ministers
At Salisbury Point, Mass, there are three
churches, the minister Of each rejoicing in
IuO ubIIlc VI OuO A.NCS LII TIC upper
part of the town, one in the lower, and the
third at the mills; SO the people have dubbed
their spiritual guides as Upright" Clown
right" and -" Millright"
| NJ. Guizot has lett a will. in which he makes
profession of his faith. He says that he dies
in the bosom of the Christian Reformed
Church of France that he has inquired, and
even doubted, but that he has returned to the
| convictions in which he was Graded and
hat he believes in God, and bows before the
| mysteries of the Bible and the Gospel
Dispatches from Italy state that the Gov
eminent does not intend, as reported to sup
press the Catholic Societies ON account of the
recent troubles. The statutes of the Societies
are to be examined in order to ascertain
whether any Of them deal with politics. Il
is also announced that the sentence of six
days imprisonment passed upon the Bishop
of Mantua for insulting the King has been
enforced.
1t will be remembered that the Bishop of
Lincoln recently denied the right of WESLEYAN
ministers to be recognized by the title of Rev.
erend by the Church of England. The Queen,
the head Of the church, recently settled the
question adversely to the Bishops views bv
addressing the President of the Wesleyan
Conference, DR.. Punshon, as Reverend in let
ter in reply to the address of the Conference.
Father Hyacinthe has been utterly cast out
by the Old Catholics Of Geneva. The deli
cacy OF his doctrine is not relished by the
sturdy Consistory of the city, and it has re-
fused him permission to deliver weekday lee
lures in the Madeline Church. Hyacinthe has
himself between Catholicism and
Professionalism, and be has, consequently.
been reduced to nothing in much quicker
time than he supposed possible.
The Government, alarmed by the outbreak
of the plague among the Mohammdan pill
gtims to Mecca, has issued circular, dated
Sept. II, calling the attention Of all foreign
re representatives. in Egypt to the action which
it has taken. The epidemic is reported to be
worst in Bengazi, and the Hedjaz, Arabia
Neither travellers nor merchandise will be ad-
mitted into Egypt from Bengazi, end quar-
antine of IA days will be imposed on all
arrivals from the Hedjaz-
cynic shrewdly remarks that wealthy
,lergymen do not, to any great extent 20
orth to bear the tidings of salvation to the
leathen. Perhaps there is certain wise
economy regulating this thing, based upon the
lurtured laborer in the vineyard is temptar
ION to the anlhropophagous savage that q
DOOR, hog-and-hominy fed clergyman is in less
LANCER of offering. -Broohlyn Argus
The Roman correspondent OF the Catholic
Standard sends the following under date Rome,
oct. g. $50: when the Holy Father heard
+ the abjuration of Professionalism by the
G"SCA NAotnCA VI DbNdELt, uc cVlueQCeu the &
reatest emotion. Bursting into tears and Il
levating his eyes to heaven, he exclaimed,
ly Goo T! Thy poor Vicar is unworthy of such
onsoiaton' You have this information from
ne who was himself an eye witness of this
ouching scene at the Vatican"
The Episcopal General Convention in New
ORR has been aroused to the necessity of re-
ressing Ritualistic practices. Resolutions
boxing to the prep ration of remedial canons
haap r,rO6uoe6 onI u,;,1,,
lent favor to show that the spirit of reform is
broad in the Church No legislation will E
Top the advance OF Ritualisln. The Conyen- y
on. of course, understands that The most
rat canons and rubrics can do is to drive =
itualists from the Church. This, also, the
understands. -
+ the English Church s. uld be disestab-
shed, it seems not unlikely that - work
ill be done within the church Itself A
rong feeling has been created by the recent
;tlon OF the Parliament During the course
sermon preached recently at Southamp.
N, Archdeacon Denson attributed MANY of
he troubles which now beset the church to
'nnectlon with the State; thus making reli-
Gus life secular thing, and corruptine the
lurchs saeraments by law. People we're
)w for political reasons, being no lnded on
attack those who lad revived the RELIGIONS
e OF the church.
Dr. Won Gerlach has been sentenced toa
ne of 200 thalers OR six weeks imprisonment,
writing pamphlet against the new civil
afraSe act, which comes into force in Ger
any this month. During his long public
reer OF sixty years, DR.. Won Geriach has
yer swerved from his conservative princi-
es. In 1912 Frederick William nv of
'ussla made him member Of the Council of
ate with special reference to the work to be-
me IN connection with the marriage law.
is well known as an opponent Of the re-
nj ecclesiastical policy of the Prussian Gov
ament' and, although Protestant, has con-
anfly objected in the Diet to the measures
alnst the Ultramontanes.
Inc London Missionary Society recently
dicated the South Missionary Church Of
'das> scar. 1t is erected near pYecipice >.