Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-07-23
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

The Hebrews in New York city have
doubled in number sirce lSS0
Cardinal Gibbons spends his vacation in
the mountains of North Carolina
Talent is trust Let no man covet it I'M
less he have grace to use TT L. Cuyler
Not mnistering unto. but to minister" is
the motto of the Society of Christian En-
deavor tins coming Year
The Roman Catholics of Philadelphia mum
Der $4,000 The parochial schools are at
tended by 10000 children.
The Rev Edward Judson is now in Nova
Scotia, receiving contributions for the Adon-
IRAN Judson Memorial church.
The total expense of the Methodist Episco-
pal general conference Of ISIS according to
official statement OF Treasurer J. NJ Philips,
was over SGl 600
y German photographed publication has
eatalogued Rider Haggard's King Solo
mons Mines under Tile head of Cd Tesla
ment literature
The American Bible society reports the re-
ceipt Of 81, $40 A during June and the issu-
ing of n, 434 copies. Since April 1, 262 6i2
copies have been issued
The state Baptist convention of Louis
lana, after long debate, by vote of forty
four for to .ortytwo against admission, re-
jected female delegates.
The prosecution of the bishop of Lincoln
for ritualstic practices at the instance of the
Church association is not expected to come
Off until the end of the year
The Reformed Presbyterian Church synod
at its recent session, directed the local ses-
slons to prosecute, according to church disci-
pline, members who advertise in Sunday
newspapers.
Grover Cleveland is the son of Presby-
terrain minister; Allen G. Thurman is the
son of the Rev. Pleasant Thurman; Levi P.
Morton Is the son of Congregational min
ister, John A. Brooks is minister
The National Conference of Charities and
Correction, in session at Buffalo recently,
elected Bishop Gillespie, of Grand Rapids.
Mich, as president for the coming year. San
Diego, Cal, Is the meeting place in 1889
Presbyterianism in New England has stead
lily increased during the last five years. Since
lsS3 the number of churches has increased
from eighteen to thirty -one and the member
ship from 2,S15 to Ass. A church has
recently been established in Newport, R. l.
DR. Barry, bishop of Sydney, New South
Wales is to be transferred to the see Of
Derby The arrangements. if carried out.
will, it is claimed, give great oifense to the
colony, where the feeling prevails that what
Australia needs is the graves of some of her
bishops.
A London bookseller recently received the
following order from n steward, who had been
intrusted with the task Of filling I'D his
masters library shelves: Sin the first place.
| want SIX feet of theology, the same quantity
Of metaphysics, and near a yard of old civil
law in folio"
The Rev, C S Nutter. of Haverhill, Mass,
has had a reprint of the Methodist Discipline
for l7Ss made 1t is believed to contain the
Discipline Of l7S7 No historian Of the Dis
cipline, and no historian of our own church
since jesse Lee, ever saw the Discipline Of
1851 and 11SS until now" saws The Christian
Advocate
The pope has decided that all his Jubilee
presents which are of a sacred nature are to
form Leonine museum which he intends to
establish in the Basilica of St John de Lat
eran. The royal presents and all the secular
objects are TO he permanently placed in one
of the halls of the Vatican, and will be left
as heirlooms of the papacy.
A correspondent of The Evangelist. de-
scribing the recent Worlds Missionary con-
ference held in London. says that to him one
of its most remarkable features was the ex
elusive use OF English. German missionaries
from Africa French, Swedish, Swiss. Dutch
and Danish representatives, every one of
them spoke in English and ito ediication.n