The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-26
TEXTS.

In Boston there are thirty one Roman
Catholic parocial schools, with IA, 81
pupils.
The national convention of Catholi
young mems societies will open in Brook
| Ign on June %.
A Roman Catholic paper of New Yorl
says that five-eighths of the army of tn,
United States are Catholics.
Three church members at Scranton
Neb., fell from a scaffolding IN the new
| Congregational church and badly broke
their bones
The Rev. l. I. Walford, NJ A, lat,
fellow of Kings College, Cambridge
England. and for five years assistant
| master al Elton, has just been ordained
priest by DR.. Knight, Roman Catholi.
bishop of Shrewsbury.
The Rev Josiah Henson, the original
Uncle Tom, from whom Mrs Stowe
sketched the principal character of heI
great work, died at Dresden, Ont, last
week and was in his ninety fourth year
Mr.. Moody intends remaining at hls
home in Mortified, Mass, and Mr
Sankey at his in New Castle, Pa. until
October, when they will return to London
to resume their evangelis;ic labors.
The principal changes made by the
Revision committee in the Protestant
Episcopal book of prayer affect the
person who may conduct. the services
rather than The worshlpping congrega-
ton.
FouI Brooklyn churches will have to be
levelled to the ground if the proposed
Flatbush avenue extension is made Two
are Roman Catholic, one is Baptist and
the other is Methodist. Neither of them
is very new or very handsome
In the New England Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church there is only
one minister who receives as high a salary
as 80, 600. There are five who receive
over Isl, 900 each. The average salary is
about $500
The ministers of Chicago discussed
the moral quality of the daily newspa
pers of that wicked city. They came to
the conclusion that the quality was by no
means as moral as it ought to be, but
that it tended largely to immortality.
Ihereupon they appointed a committee
to reason with the newspaper men and
ask them to be more moral.
Connecticut Baptists have bought
thirty acres of land at Crescent beach.
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watering place there. A
tabernacle is to be erected in time for The
opening of the summer season. 1t ia I'M
ferstood that the name of the camn
meeting will not be used in connection
with this enterprise, as it is thought to
nave degrading sound and a cheapen-
ing effect.
A sixteen thousand dollar pastoral
'alary ought to be enough to keep the
wolf from the door The old Snuth
hurch. Boston. is talking to the Rev. |
Dr. Zoe, of New York, about becoming
is pastor. One of the inducements il |
ixteen thousand dollars a year. There |
re many clergymen who would be glad |
take the position for less money. saw |
$4,000 or Whereabouts. But for some |
eason or other they are not the men old
outh wants No formal call has as vet |
cen made To DIR. Coe
This statement is made by those who
lain to know that the Rev. DIR. Crosby I
elleves that the Jewish ark of the cove
ant containing the original tablets of
Tone on which the ten Commandments were
'ritten will some of these days be found
| the excavations under Jerusalem It is
nown that there are immense vaults be-
Nv the city. and il rs supposed by many
rcha biologists that much of the stone used
building the temple was taken from
lem AS yet no explorations have been
lade with the liberal aid of the electric
ght. When the subterranean caverns
lall be illuminated by electricity, the
lristian public may prepare for astound-
g discoveries.