The New York herald., 1879-08-10
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UNCONVENTIONAL NOTES
ROMAN CATHOLIC.

girls.
The Belgian bishops reported to have taken
very strong step in reference to the educational
law Of the Belgian Chambers. They said to have
issued collective pastoral letter condemning that
law unreservedly and advising all Catholic parents
against sending their children to the schools estab
lished under its sanction.
Father Bodfsh, of the Cathedral. Boston has gone
West to visit the Catholic colonies the
Minnesota
number of the parishioners of St. Mary's Church,
Lynn, residing in Swampscott and West Lynn. who
had petitioned Archbishop Williams. of Boston. to
form parish in their midst. have rested in the
matter for the present by instruction of His Grace
DIR. Horatio R. Storer. of Newport r. l.. formerly
Of Boston, recently baptized into the Catholic
Church by the Rev. Father Clinton. DR.. Storer is
physician OF distinguished standing in New England
Father Fulton. S. j.. President Of Boston College,
is giving retreats in Key West. Fla.
Father 'Regan, of the Boston Cathedral, is spend
ing his vacation at Brockton. Mass; he is in excel
lent spirits and expects return his duties ut
the Cathedral in September. much improved in
health
Father Metcalf. chancellor of the Archdiocese of
Boston, is taking charge of the parish Of Vicar Gem
eral ODonnel. OF Nashua, N H.. during that gentle
mans trip to California, whittier he has gone to re-
Father welch. S. j.. formerly OF Boston College,
but now attached to Georgetown ID. C) College, is
u
a retreat at Troy n. Y. beginning August 1G
The Rev. Father Corcoran, q brother of the Rev.
William j. Corcoran. OF st. Vincents Church. South
Boston having been recently ordained. is stationed
ut the Cathedral, Boston.
The Right Rev. Lawrence s. Mcmahon. d. d.
Bishop elect OF Hartford. will be consecrated in that
city to-day the Feast of ST. Lawrence. the bulls for
his conservation having been received by the Most
Reverend Archbishop OF Boston.
Very Rev Father Dennis arrived here from Rome
last week. Father Dennis Is Consultor General Of
the passionist Order the second highest which he
nttotv Ha 70 Cul ain aud tat
tiate the establishment q another monastery of the
Order that State He is the guest of the Ohevaier
Murphy, of Bonanza fame. while in this country.
PRESBYTERIAN.
The venerable William $. Plummer, d. D.. of
North Carolina. entered his seventy eighth year on
July 26 He is still vigorous, and articles from his
pen frequently appear in the religious papers. In
his younger years he was prolific writer. He is
the author of twenty-nine volumes and ninety-one
tracts which have been published by New York,
Philadelphia and Richmond Va.) houses.
The Rev. Nj. Brown was ordained last Friday week,
and installed pastor of the Presby Church at
Greenlawn. in the town OF Oyster Bay. L. I.
The venerable Enoch Pond. d. D.. senior professor
in the theological Seminary at Bangor Me-, COM
pleted his eighty-eighth year on Tuesday Of last
week. He has been connected with the seminary
its reorganization nearly fifty ago. during
which time about five hundred young men have
been prepared for the ministry under his instruction
He has prepared TOR the press between ntty ana sixty
newspaper articles. He has been correspondent Of
the New York Observer for long period, and readers
know from his recent writings that he still holds u
The Westminster Church. on warburton avenue,
Yonkers n. ", organized twenty-one years ago. re-
curing increased recommendations. has secured a
lot on Warburton avenue and is erecting Q new edi
flee nearly opposite the present church ediice. Its
length will be 10S feet. The audience will be
62 by 81 feet in size and will accommodate between
five hundred and six hundred persons. The Sunday
eleven rooms. all easily thrown into one. The esti-
mated cost of the building is about 100000.
church at Columbus. Ind. During the eight and
one-half years in which he has been pastor about
two hundred have been received into the church
church edihcs has been erectS4 and nearly com.
pleted at cost of s250OO. which there is debt
Rev. G. w. Musgraye. d. d.. president the Pres
byterian Alliance and Presbyterian Hospital. Phila
delphla, who has already presented Musgrave Chapel
of the First Church, bethlehem, Pa. with nearly
900 in money. has purchased and presented the
church two lots adjoining their chapel. valued at
S1,4O0.
The Rev. A. &. Rogers. of Harlem. sailed for Eu-
rope last week to be absent about weeks His father
turn the society of which he pastor will begin the
erection of new church building.
The Rev. +. @. Sweetser. pastor of the Beecker
Street Church. is spending his vacation at Lake Mo-
honk The Rev. j. NJ. Pullman. Of the Church of
Our Saviour this city. is spending his vacation be-
tween Eastern Massachusetts, and the White Noun
tans.
The Rev. DIR. Cone. of St. Lawrence University. is
taking his vacation at Amherst, Mass. The Rev. A.
F. Rein, Of West Scituate Mass. and the Rev. J. NJ
of Sherman. N. Y, resting during the
dog days at Canton. MY. The Rev. L. A. Lee of
The Rev. NJ. II. harris. of Vermont. accepts q call
to the church in Worcester. and begins his labors
there in September. The Rev. b. T. Russ has been
invited to the pasorate of the church at Winter Hi
Mass. The Rev. L. i. Green has been
called to labor with the church at Churchvile West
ern New York. He Is u recent graduate of Canton
Universalist ministers in New Hampshire include
circuits in their parishes and out here and there
preach their view of the gospel plan of salvation
result stated to be that all the State there
are great numbers of people who have either de-
tach he'd themselves the orthodox churches or
were connected with them, and who gladly
cept the enlarged views Of divine grace. Now and
again the ministers exchange with each other ut
those mission points, and great good is accom-
plished
the church in North Cambridge. Mass. with the
rent month The Rev. Dr. Miner, of Boston, is TAX
ing his vacation at MARROW. N. II.
METHODIST.
Simpson College, at Indianola, Iowa, is about to
close. and probably one or more of the other col
leges under the patronage of the in that
State will do the to insure the establishment OF
first class institution at Desloines, is proposed
and In process Of accomplishment
missionary among the Seneca Indians in North
ern New York writes to the Christian Advocate Of this
city to say that there still pagans In the tribe
who burn the white dog as sacrifice every year.
He gives conversation held with OF those
pagans which. with very slight notifications, reads
would say. The Indian acknowledged
himself sinner, but denied that he had thing to
took place hundreds of years ago the missionaries
told him, and, when pressed for immediate action
toward Christianity this pagan coolly answered that
he would think IL
Fourteen months ago Youngst own. East Ohio Con-
ference, had but one Methodist Episcopal church.
AS local convenience and religious necessity
ond church was organized and Rev. q. +. Oliverre-
ceived as his first appointment in the Conference
the charge of establishing the now society and OF
building new church. That has been dons and
paid for. and revival followed which added ninety
converts to tho society. which now numbers 100
members and probatoners.
The Northwestern Branch of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary society has been nine years in existence.
dur ing which IL has sent lady
to foreign lands and contributed for their work an
aggregate OF $447,S62 co.
EPIsCoPAIIAN.
Visits to fifteen churches in the east end of London
show great discrepancy between church
sittngs and worshippers Is in New York.
On certain Sabbath last month heads counted,
and 905 persons were found In churches that could
accomm modate H. ,47S
After years incubation the Book Of
Common Prayer" the ecclesiastical authorities Of
England have amended the rubrics and some Of
the prayers as to allow tho Athanasian creed to
'mean what the Bible means.'' but what the latter