Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-09-27
Religious.

Religious.
According to the Year Book of the
Trinity Church of New York, the total
amount of property held by the corpo-
ration is 81 100000: the annual revenue
is 100000.
The Rev. R. W Dale, one of the rep
resentatlve clergymen of England, has
sailed for the United States. with the ex-
| pectation of delivering the next course
OF lectures on preaching, in the New
Haven Divinity School, He is the first
lecturer in this course from abroad.
The Prussian Ministry of Education
Is preparing for submission to the Diet
an educational code designed to take
the place Of all existing laws and regu-
latlOns upon this subject 1t is supposed
that one object in view is to extend the
non-denOminational as distinguished
from the denominational system.
Besides the Protestant Episcopal Gen
eral Convention and the Congregational
Council, the General Council of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in North
America will meet this season. The
last-named will assemble in Philadel-
phia Broad and Arch streets) October
10; the Congregational Council will open
IN Detroit October II. As already an
nounced, the Episcopal Convention
opens in Boston October 8.
In direct contradiction of the MANY
reports of the failure of the Pope's
health, the Roman correspondent of the
| n1160f, TsYIIoJ l, - Al,
Holy Father continues to improve, and
he gives daily audiences, and every day
visits the gardens of the Vatican The
assertions of some Roman papers con
| corning his health are pure inventions. y
As late as August 90 the London Times
correspondent telegraphed from Rome:
4 have reason to believe there is no
immediate cause for alarm on account
of his health"
The Missouri Conference of the Afri-
can Methodist Episcopal Church at its
recent session adopted resolutions which
have no uncertain sound. One series
deprecated the disposition of the color
ed people to emigrate to Africa, and in
vlted the freedmen of the Southern
States to come to the Northwest. An
other, on the color line, pledged the
members to break it down. ITO do
this, it says, eve recommend that
wherever accommodations are denied
on account of color, all our people
strictly avoid such men and such places;
and we will regard them as separate for
white people only" There could be
nothing simpler or more satisfactory
than such a course
Mr.. Moody has, it is said, definitely
settled his plan for the season. He was
inclined to go to Boston, but want of en-
tire harmony among his friends as to
the expediency of another campaign
there has induced him to look elsewhere.
He will therefore devote himself to the
smaller cities and towns of New Eng
land. "The programme will be" says
the Boston correspondent of the Chris
| tan I1atelkgencer, to visit a number of
these for week or two each, in the
hope of stirring them up to become so
many centres of revival activity, and
thus accomplishing in the end a greater
aggregate of good" Mr.. Moody will
not labor out of New England all win
ter, probably.
DR.. S. Ireneus Prime describes cele-
bration of the mass in Geneva, which
he witnessed, by Father Hyacinthe
The description will astonish the Amer
leans who supposed that this distinguish
ed orator had thrown off the yoke of the
Roman Catholic faith "He stood be
hind a table on which four candles were
burning. Before him was placed cru
cifix about two feet high. A boy brought
in the censor and swung it with the
burning incense. Father Hyacinthe
consecrated the wafer and ate it, after
elevating it and adoring it in the pres
ence of the people. He did the same
with the cup, and having drunk it,
washed it thoroughly and rinsed it, that
no part of the divine essence might re-
main in the chalice. He said no one
word to guard the nearer against the
idolatry of the mass, and the whole per-
formance was as Romish or pagan as if
it had been done in Note Dame or St.
Peters," DR.. Prime expresses the opin-
ion that the Old Catholic movement in
Switzerland is not progressing, and most
likely "will fail. 1t may have failed
already, and its friends not be aware of
it."