The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-05-18
CHURCH NOTES.

The Methodist have 33s Sunday schools
in Germany and Switzerland and 1G,476
scholars.
There are in Germany 1870 Sunday
schools. with $500 officers and teachers,
and 10000 scholars.
A body of Little Sisters of the Poor have
gone from Marseilles to Naples to found the
first house Of their congregation in Italy.
The wife of Pere Hyacinthe is translat-
ing the work Of THE Union of Churches, -
which was written by DR.. Dollinger, the
old Catholic leader.
The vestry of st. Georges, Honover
Square, London, has resolved, by vote Of
80 to 30, not to allow a statute of Byron to
be placed III ST. Jamess street
The DesMoines Presbytery has exorted
the church sessions by faithful and judi
cious exercise of dicipline' to restrain their
members from participatingin the sins of
the theatre, card playing and the promiscu-
Gus social dance.
No complete translation of the Bible is
believed to exist in the language Of the Zu
lus. In 1864 the famous DR.. Colenso, bish-
Of Natal translated the book of Genesis, in
1850 portions of the pslams, and in 1866 the
new testament.
Father Hyacinthe's services are we'll at
tended and he has secured the assistance Of
a young French priest, who is helping to
prepare a large class of young people for
their first communion. The Catholic bish-
op of Switzerland Bishop Hcr2og, offers to
ordain such candidates for the MINISTRY as
Mr. Tyson may recommend.
The Irish Catholics OF Boston are arrang-
ing to buy large tract of land in Waupaca
county, Wis, divide It into small farms and
aid staunch Catholics to settle thereon. In
this way the colonists can keep up their
own churches and schools, and win back
the young people, who from lack of regular
religious instruction have become imbued
with Protestant ideas,
A missionary in Nebraska has organized
in six years 144 new Sunday schools, with
1902 teachers and scholars, besides aiding
3O6 other schools. This has incurred the
making of 1865 addresses, the visiting OF
3,l7, families, and the distribution of ,02s
Bibles and Testamcnts. He has travelled
1914 miles, and reports that marvellous
changes have taken place in the state.
The Brooklyn Sunday school union, the
anniversary of which takes place on May
92d, contains l3l schools, with 1926
scholars Among the denominations the
Methodists lead in the number of schools,
having 81; the Presbytcrans are next with
%, and then comes the Congregationalsts
with II, the Baptists with II, the Episcopa-
lians with II, the Reformed Church with
10, the l.utheuns with 3, and several other
denominations with = total Of H.
There are off the coast of Kerry, little
islands called the Baskets, inhabited by u
u very poor and primitive population, whose
nearest church is on the shore of the main
land. On stormy days they cannot cross to
"hcar mass but they kneel by their rocky
coast bare-headed in the open air. The
progress of the ceremony is made known to
them by the waving of flags and their
prayers accompany those OF the priest.
Queen Annie was in the hahi, of hearing
the church service read in the department
next her bedroom, and her maids dressed
her while il was going on, the door beng
left omen that she might catch the words
At n certain stage of the toilet, however,
lady of the bcdchamber used indiscreetly
to close the door for short time, and on
this one sturdy chaplain stopped reading,
the queen sent word he might go on, but
he declined, he said, "to whistle the word
of God through keyhole."
Why Will. YOU allow a cold to adj
vonce In your system and thus encourage