Omaha daily bee., 1885-11-14
RELIGIOUS.

The Fourth PreSUy ,orian church, New
J Ork, has had but seven pastors IN ID years.
There Is u great revival at the Catholic
churcn IN Kalamazoo, under tAe leadership of
nv f1Itn l.Jrl5J priests.
Materc and Parker, the cvaugelists, are
following up in king-t III, n. Y, the WORK
begun there by Moody three weeks ago.
st. Peters cathedral at Moscow has ave cu-
pOJls, to UverlLy Mhica 500 pounds o. gold
were used. Tue lllarble floors cost D l,1OU,OUJ.
The late Miss Mary G. Perkins, of Boston.
a nun-CdtnolIc, bcHutathed 5000 10 lie con
y,nt of NOure Dame, Eggleston Square, Bur-
ton.
Five hundred more Mormons are on their
way - tlis Cpun,ry, making auouC l,5JJ WAC
nave come since tue opening OF the present
year.
W. c. Bryant has been expelled from the
Ithaca Masonic lodge III North Star, Miclll-
gan, because he proclaimed himself an APP
poNtlc.
The church extension board of the Metro-
dist church announces that no turlhcr nrIp
viii De given to CnurCnes TO be bum without
aTciitect.rLl plans.
Among the persons whom Archbishop
Gross has confirmed in Oregon are thirIt-
clgnt Indians and, twenty-suvcn converts
from lrotesJantiShS
A movements on foot in England to pro
moe Tie interchange OF pulpiis btJwern
cIerSymen OF The establishments and non
cOnIUfmiNt ministers.
The general missionary committee of the
Methodist church, now in session in New
\ ORR, a~ppIOprIalel Sl9,G.5 to maintain the
mission ut BuenDS NreS.
A canvass of all,ttle colleges of the country
shows that of laVlRStudcnIs, s,Ujl are Cnurcn
members. In lS+5 only ave students of Yae
college were church members.
In Canada Sunday is observed more strict
~ tIan IN any other part of tne word, uhlcSS
ltbe Scotland or the north OF Ire.and. There
are no Sunday streCtCarS nor Sunday papers,
even in 30 .arge ii city us Toronto.
Iae CHRISTIAN Observer, Of Louisville, KY,
charges the Sortiern Presbyterian board OF
speeches. a dOI,n cases Of Sucn allie, ed trans
terS vi churches by the use of money. ..
An alleged miraculous appearance of the
Madonna IN IA mountain village near Pa
cenZl. Italy, has led 10 Il remarkable outbreak
oil religious haiiuclnatiOn. Thousands OF IL
norant persons are tiocking there and in
dulsIng IN the most cXtraya CANT demonStra-
lions.
In Philadelphia there are eighty Episcopal
churches, or one Tor every l2,UOJ people. IN
ten years one new parish has been organized
and two or three uIOrganized have bu,n
founded and one or TWO have died out, and
meanwhile the population has increased by
$500.
A strange scene was recently witnessed in
Westminster Abbey. A crowd of DOth sexes
numbering more than 800 persons, made Il
pilgrimage to the tomb of Edward the Con
lessor, and there en- .aged Tor some time in
prayer. Edward died in 1865. He was the
last but one OF the Saxon kings OF En-
gland.
Religious ceremonies at Mecca this year
have been on "A scale OF unusual ma5ni..c nee.
Ine silk covering for TIE kaaDa, VIII ca the
sultan sent this year, has been valued ut S1J,-
600, and that sen by the khediye for the same
purpose nj $4,000 Both are black moiTe,
richly emorOidernd in god, and SO large that
each OF them covers entirely the whole kaaba.
Moody found the nrst place where he
seemed to make no impression whatever in
New York city on the east sid1. The OPEN
ing OF the new BrpOMG street tabernacle was
reserved FOR his coming in the hope that a
revival begun under MoOdy's Leadership
could be carried on 10 advantl q. But nlIcr
six days without a conversion Nae undertake
ing was abandoned.
Grace church, San Francisco, has one of
the most costly Episcopal church buildings
on tine Pacinc coast. 1t is OF pure gothic
architecture, and C Isl consid trably over Sl0J,-
90. IL was so Uurdened by debt that for
some time there was a prospect that this
beautiful building would be bought by t Il
Chinese for a joSs-hou>e, but lately the deOt
has been paid and the heather routed.