The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-25
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

THE Presbyterian Board of Foreign
Missions received twenty-five thousand
dollars from the estate of the late Edwin
]. Peck, of indianapolis.
The Episcopal Bishop of Long Island
has Just admitted five deaconesses, max
ing the whole number seventeen In the
bonds of his jurisdiction.
Mr.. MOODY condemns church fairs in|
Ia most emphatic manner. He has not
always been of that opinion, but his
eyes have been opened on the subject.
He considers it far better to ask person
directly for money than to entice him to
church fair and charge him an exhOr-
bitant price for what he gets, as is the
general custom.
THE son of a Roman Prince, nephew
of a cardinal (Patrici), who holds the
next highest position to the Pope in the
Roman Catholic Church, Is now and has
been for thirty-fve years pioneer priest
in Washington Territory, United States.
He is Father Gazzoli, of the Ceur
d'Alene Mission, and the Oldest white
settler in that region.
NEXT May will be celebrated through
out the Catholic communion the fiftieth
anniversary of the conservation as
Bishop of Plus TX. 1t is proposed to
signalize the event all over the world,
by addresses with signatures of priests
and people attached, and by an Offering
of money to aid him in the expenses
necessary to the care of all the churches
TIE Brooklyn Theater, lately burned,
with such terrible destruction of life,
was erected on the site which was Occu-
pied for fifty years by st. Johns Church,
the second Oldest one in Brooklyn. 1t
is suggested that it would be well to re-
claim the ground for Monumental
Church. The Monumental Church in
Richmond, Virginia, marks the locality
of a similar occurrence in that city.
THERE are $40 converts and mOnas.
teries in Russia, the revenues of which
amount altogether to FL ,30O,00 The
cost of maintaining each monk or nun
during one year is about E22. In Ser.
via there are fOrty-One converts. The
Bishops have been forbidden to ordain
any more monks, and the Legislature is
considering proposition to turn the
converts into schools of architecture and
forestry.
THE st. Johns Episcopal Church, in
Chicago, is likely to be sold at auction
to satisfy claim of the Berkshire Life
Insurance Company, who loaned $50, 900,
which was used in the erection of a
building. Many of the members have
left the church on account of its fnan-
cial difficulties. and those remaining
have become discouraged. The interest
upon the indebtedness has been accumu-
lating for two years.
AT recent meeting of the Boston
Committee of Fifty, charged with the
preparations for the meetings of Messrs.
Moody and Sankey, the enlargement of
the platform of the Tabernacle to accom-
mOdate more singers was discussed. The
Building Committee reported that the
edifice would be ready for occupancy by
January IA. A committee was appointed
to provide homes for the Evangelists and
their families while in Boston.
The Methodist Recorder sums up its
views on cremation as follows: If people
were little more concerned about that
other burning-over beyond-where the
fire is not quenched, where lie is repre-
sented as forever consuming but never
consumed-it might be more profitable
than to raise such an uprOar about the
flames that lick up the mere dust of NOR.
tality.
THE Presbyterian Board of Foreign
Missions makes a statement of its present
financial condition, to which the thought
full consideration of the churches is
called. The liabilities of the Board for
the present year have been $61l ,002 ii.
To meet this sum they will need $437,-
6S7. "A, or nearly $40, 900 per month until
the close Of the financial year, which
takes place April 80.