Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-14
RELIGIOUS IETELLIGEECE.

IL ls proposed to erect memorial
church to Daniel O'Connell in Cahirciveen,
Kerry, the native parish of the Liberator
Cardinal McCabe indorses the movement.
The total membership of the Wesleyan
Methodists of Great Britain is officially
given as 393, 754 The Church has On its
roll |, $40 preachers.
The Young Mems Christian Association
Of Colorado recently held session in Den
yer, at which it was stated that the Asso.
citation was in a very fourishing condition
throughout the State.
Bishop Stevens, of Pennsylvania, who is
in Switzerland, recently oonsecrated All
Saints Church, Vevay. The church is to
be served by an English chaplain, and is to
be in union with the English Church.
The Northern Ohio Methodist Episcopal
Conference, which has recently been in
session, unanimously adopted report in
favor OF stringent prohibisory law for the
State, and "hailed with Joy the passage
OF the Smith Sunday law
The twentieth annual session of the
Christian Church of New York was re-
| Gently held in Syracuse. The Fundamental
principle of this Society is that /" the Bib
is our only rule of faith and practice, and
to make it practical we should refuse all
human creeds, and make the Bible itself
essentially our guide in the reception of
members and the organization Of churches."
The annual Conference of clergy and
laity of the diocese Of Carlisle, England,
has just closed its session. The interest
ing feature was a long discussion in regard
70 the Salvation Army. The Bishop of
Carlisle paid high tribute to the earnest
ness and piety of General" ard Mrs.
Booth, but condemned some f the meth.
DDS OF their work as being vulgar and If.
reverent.
The Salvation Army has invaded Spain,
and naughty CASTLE is expec ed to succumh
to the Establishments of the Hsllelujih
Lasses presiding ores tae tremendous
50 free and easy" a detachment Of the
army recently appeared in the streets of
Madrid with clarinness ana tamborines
and delivered keli-fice addresses in the En-
glish tongue. The people looked on in
stolid wonder, supposiBg them to be a
troop of maniacs.
A convention Of the colored clergymen
of Maryland, irrespective of denomination,
was held recently in Baltimore. The OBJ
ject OF the gathering, which was large,
was to carefully consider the present Con-
dition of the colored race in Maryland, re-
ligiously, morally, educationally and
| financially, and devise ways and means to
better the present status of the race along
every line of duty, through all the avenues
of life.
The London Globe says: The Ere nch
clerical journals announce that the Arch
bishop of Avignon and the Bishops of
Nantes and Vannes have declared them
selves in favor of the projected "populsr
| pilgrimage of penitence to the Holy Land.
| The pilgrimage, which. in view Of the
special facilities that will be organized, is
expected to be on a considerable scale, is
to take place in the month of April next. !"
Il the excursion tickets are put low enough
this projected pilgrimage of peniterce J"
will certainly be popular" though in
that case it would not be clear what ''pen-
iteuce" would be involved in the trip.
A commission, consisting of the Roman
Catholic Bishop of Clifton, the Very Rev.
Canon Bewick Vicar. Capitular of Hex
ham,, and the Very r " Monsiguor Gadd
(the Secretary to the Bishop Of Salforj), and
appointed by the Roman Catholic B shops at
their recent meeting in London, is now
meeting periodically al the Archbishop's
house, Westminster, for the consideration
OF new calendar of saints and new Eng
lish martyroloey, one of the objects being
to reinstate in the 1--we and veneration of
English Catholics the good old Saxon
saints, to whom so many of tbs fanes of
| England were in Catholic times dedicated
Various manuscripts were read and consid-
cred at the first meeting Of the Commits
sioa held a few days since, some of them
having been written by members of the
| Commission themselves. Resolutions as to
| the future action of the Commission were
agreed to, and the results of their labors
are awaited with interest by English Roman
! Catholics