The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-05-11
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

Diego recently.
The Catholic Church of Phenix, A. T..
has received a very fine organ.
An effort is being made to establish
Baptist Church at Dillon, NJ I.
A Methodist Episcopal Church is to be
built at Sun River, NJ. T., this summer.
Two churches are being simultaneously
erected in Anaheim; Spanish and Ger
man Church.
Rev. Dr. NJ. NJ. Gibson of San Francisco
organized United Presbyterian Church at
Los Angeles on Thursday.
The annual Episcopal Conference for Ore
gon viii take place in Salem from the 7th to
the 10th of June next.
A minister is on the way out from New
York to take charge OF the Presbyterian
Church at Boise City, I. T.
At Corralitos the Trustees have decided
to proceed at once to fit up the hall which
has been donated for church purposes.
Edward kimball. the church-debt ex-
tinguisher, attended the session of the State
Sunday School Association at Los Angeles,
The Tacoma w. T., Ledger says that
St. Luke's Episcopal Church will be, when
completed. the handsomest building of the
kind on Puget Sound.
The Unitarians of San Diego are building
a new church. The congregation is mere
handful ofpeople, yet they are erecting
house OF worship.
The corner stone for the new Episcopal
Church at Los Angeles, is to be laid about
the middle of next month. The contract
has been let for the building.
Among the graduates of the Presbyterian
Theological Seminary of the Pacific on last
Thursday evening was Thomas B. Stewart
of the United Presby terian Church.
A movement has been organized for the
establishment of Methodist female college
in Danville, Va.
Mrs. Beecher Stowe is building a church
near Jacksonville, Fla. 'ta church with
bell in it" to remind her of .'Auld Lang
Syne."
Archbishop Feehan is expected to go to
Rome within short time to arrange the
preliminaries for the establishment of
Catholic university in the large and flourish
ing archdiocese of Chicago.
The Theological Faculty of Yale College
has voted to use the revised version of the
New Testament at morning prayers, and
other devotional exercises, believing it bet
ter than any other English version.
Rev. Mr.. Prout, editor of the Virginia
City, NJ. t, religious paper, says: edit
ing this paper is like trying to swing very
large cat in very small garret without
hurting the garret."
The General Assembly of the United
Presbyterian Church of North America will
hold its twenty-tifth annual session in Pitts
bug, Pa, commencing the second We'd
1esday in May.
The Congregational Church, Society of Los
Angeles have ordered a pipe organ to be
built for their new church. at a cost of 81
500, the machinery to be in place during the
month of July next.
On the morning of the Rev. Father
Clearys departure for ireland on six
months leave of absence, he was presented
with purse of $500 on behalf of his admir-
ing friends in Petaluma.
Rev. G. D. Barrows has been invited to
deliver the annual address before the 'ChIis-
tian Fraternity" at Dartmouth College, his
Alma Mater, on Sabbath evening, June
oath. He has accepted the invitation.
A friend visiting st. Louis has received
for the Los Angeles church fine Bible do
mated by DR.. Posts Sunday school, and
beautiful communion set, including table
linen of the finest kind from some unknown
donor.
Rev and Mrs. Richard Wylie have re-
turned to their home in Napa, after their
two years sojourn abroad, in the enjoyment
of excellent health. Mr.. Wylie resumes
Immediately the charge of the Presbyterian
Church in that city.
DIR. Marvin of the First Congregational
Church of Portland, Or, viii deliver the
Baccalaureate sermon, and DR.. Nesbit, of
the Baptist Church of Salem, Or, the COM
mencement address at the Commencement
of the Willamette University.
Statesman
William Brown, who was Ruling Elder
in the United Presbyterian Church since
the organization of that body twenty five
years ago by the union of the Associate
and Associate Reformed Churches, was
buried from the United Presbyterian
Church in San Francisco last Tuesday.
The United Presbyterian Presbytery of
San Francisco, at it's recent session, granted
the petition for the organization Of the Sec
ond Church of that city, to be situated at
the Mission. Steps have been taken for the
erection of chapel. It is understood that
Rev. T. B. Stewart will be called to the
pastorage of the new church, and that he
will accept.
Father G. S. Collins, O. s. D., died at
st. Thomas Church, GAINESVILLE, Ohio, aged
thirty. He was a member of the Dominican
Order for thirteen years. and was ordained
by Bishop Corrigan, at Newark N J.y in
1875.
The membership of the Catholic Church
at Roanoke, Va, has increased within few
months from so to LIS. The congregation
propose the immediate erection of a church,
h,,ilt nf stana with SEATING oopani%xy Of