, 1875-02-14
RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.

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| The Michigan Avenue Baptist Church received
eighteen new members last Sunday.
| Seven persons received the hand Of fellowship
| in the Western Avenue Baptist Church last Sab
bath.
4 great revival is in progress in the Reunion
Presby yterian Church. About 200 inquirA1a are
reported.
The Presbyterian Church at Homewood, Ill.,,
received three members on profession Of faith
last Sunday.
Fifteen additions were made to the member
ship OF the Wabash Avenue Methodist Church
last Sunday.
The Adm Street II. E. Church, the Rev. J. +.
G. McEown. pastor, received seven new meul-
bers last Sunday.
There is a prospect Of revival in tho Sab
bath-aclool connected with the Union Park Con-
gregationa1 Church
Four persons were baptized in the Indiana Az
enue Chapel last Sunday, and aome twenty-five
received to full membership.
4 revival at the Railroad Mission has resulted
in the gathering in Of eighteen new members to
the First Presbyterian Church.
Last Sabbath the Reunion Presbyterian
Church. the Rev. Mr. Walker, PASTOR recalyed
81 new members. a deep religious interest is re-
ported in the church.
The Univezsa1ists interested in the Murray
Chapel enterprise have been obliged to abandon
it. The few persons who identified themselves
With the work were uuablo to meet the expenses
and pay the interest on the indebtedness, and
the property hns been abandoned to tho mort
gage-holder.
Mrs. L. J. Jutkins and Mrs. Emily Hunting
ton Miller have commenced series OF meetings
for reviving au interest IN the WoInan's Foreign
Missionary Society connected With the Methodist
Ehnrch hp
in Grace aad Trinity Methodist Churches and
other meetings arc to ba held in the future.
Trinity H. E. Church, Of this CITY, which is
pronounced by good judges to be- tho best house
OF worship the denomination has in the West, is
to be dedicated March IA, aud the next Sunday
after Dr.. Tiffany, OF Washington, is expected to
take pastoral charge. An orgau-couceEt will be
given on tho evening OF March g. under the di-
1ection Of Louis Falk. The public will then
have an opportunity, for the first time, Of hear
ing the very fine instrument which has been
placed In the church.
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN CHICAGO.
Tho Western Catholic gives u review Of the
condition OF tha Catholic schools in Chicago, aid
in the course Of an editorial on the Catholic
schools OF Chicago, says:
In the city there are 099 children attending Catho-
Ho schools 5ls boys snd $3.50 175 boys and
$40 girls are taught BY ay teachers $3.50 girls attend
the Sisters Of Charity 1:65o girls and 100 boys are
boys by The Sisters of Notro Dae ay0 girls by the
Ladies' OF the Sacred Heart IT'S girls and 80 boys by
the Saters Of St. Joseph 600 girls and 120 boys by the
Sisters OF Marcy 800 boys by the Chr:a1an Brothers
ind $50 boys instructed by the Brothers Of Mercy
go girls BY the Sisters q ST. Danedct 20 boys and
80 girls by the Dominican 5isers and ITO boys by the
Sisters Of Charity. Thus Il, ,099 children receive
good religious and secular instruction from ten re1g
ious orders and largo number Of lay teachers. In the
portion Of the Diocese outside the city, 1910 children
attend Catholic schoo1s conducted BY religious and
lay teachers. milking toul Of children attending tbs
Catholics schools Of the Diocese Of Chicago, 70 618
For the number Of schools which have Hxde no re-
turns. more than o,000 can be allowed, which in all
would giro us about q, 900 children attending the
Catholic schools Of the Diocese.
THE CHURCH IN GENERAL
The Jesuit Fathers in Jersey City, N. J., are
about to erect a seminary in that city
The Buffalo Young Mems Christian Assoc:a-
ton will erect q building costing 100000 this
summer.
4 Catholic association for the sanctihcation OF
Sunday has been formed in Paris. It is needed
in that city.
It is said that the Young Men's Christian As
sociation Of Jauesviile, Wis.,, supports the only
daily prayer-meetinR in the State.
correspondent Of the Loudon Times says
the American Woman's Mission in India is re-
ceiving great praise for its labors in miserable
Hludoo households '"f@
Il there much reason for surprise that the
Southern people cannot be made 10 work harrno-
niouslg together in political matters 80 long Us
they cannot agree religioualy ? The Methodist
Churches North aud South have made an effort
to unite, and a.! hare bean defeated by the South