Omaha daily bee., 1886-07-10
RELIGIOUS.

The compulsory prayer system has been re
pealcd at Harvard.
Since the lst of January Archbishop Cor
rigan has administered the the sacrament of
continuation to ~ persons.
The Baptist of the north in the United
States, after a stirring discussion, have re-
solved not to abandon their mission OH the
Congo river.
After five years of deadlock with England
over the appointment of the Protestant
bishop of Jerusalem, Prussia has decided to
found an independent bishopric there.
Rev. DIR. Kinloch Nelson, the new bishop
P. E.) Of Easton, Nd, isa great'grandson of
Governor Nelson, of reva!u ionory fame. He
fought through the late war in the rebel army,
A Roman Catholic church is to be built at
Jerusalem, in which masses will be said
daily for the dead and dying throughout
Christendom. 1t is to be called the Chapel
of the Dead"
The Mennonites of Germany have united,
founded congregation in Berlin, and pro.
pose to establish professOrShip in connec-
ton with the Berlin university, and to fur
niSh the funds for it,
The one. .hundredth general assembly of the
Presbyterian church is to be held III Phila-
delphia in lSSS. 1t has been decided to raise
church enterprises.
The children of the Southern Methodist
Episcopal church contributed during the cen
tennial year $4,000, to be invested, and the
Sunday schools in the frontier work.
In France all religious instruction has been
abolished i'll the public schools. In the place
of religion there have been introduced the
atrical representations, at least in the city of
Paris, for which both participation and at
tendance are obligatory
A missionary of the American Sunday.
school union in northwestern Dakota has
planted forty-nine Sunday-schOOlS during the
past twenty-five months, and the schools are
tiOuriShing. Ten churches have already grown
out or ten of these schools and seven minis
tiers have been called to preach to them.
The Rev. Alfred A Curtis, secretary of the
archdiocese Of Baltimore, has been appointed
bishop OF Wilmington,t to succeed Bishop
Becker, who was transferred to the see OF
Savannah. The appointment was decided
upon by the pope at secret consistory held
III Rome on Monday. He was born in SOM
erset county, Md, in 1881.
At a convention of twenty-one mission
in the northwest, at st, Paula soul stir
ring meeting for conference and advice-it
was found that during the year then re-
ported there had been 9Sl professed conver-
braska, Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin, Minnesota
average forty-siX TO eaq Oh missionary.
The Friends have always taken deep inter
est IN Madagascar. On the island they have
l33 native teachers and IA congregations.
They have $50 children in schools at the cap
ital, and 1900 in schools in the country.
They have printed from 100000 to 800, GOO
works in the native language. During the
last year they have expended $4,000 for mis-
sion purposes in Madagascar alone.
OF the 40S senators, members and territorial
delegates who compose congress, 72 are
Methodists, 63 BaptiSts, II EpiscOpalians, 81
Presbyterians, 36 Catholics, Ii unitarans, s
LutheranS, 10 Christians (Campbellites), and
2Quakcrs, making total of 2S3 who are ac-
lively connected with some church OrganiZa-
ton. This leaves l25 who either never be-
lon, I'd to any church or have drifted out of
such associations.