Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-27
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

Tho Greek christians, of Chicago, are to
erect a church editice, the third in the coun-
try.
A Spanish priest recently inherited $3.50, 900
and gave 1t to the vatican in exchange for a
plenary indulgence.
An Auti-Sunday Travelling union has ex-
listed | in this country for about four years. 1t
has about G, 900 members.
Sir Andrew Barclay Walker, formerly
mayor of Liyerpool, has offered to give e25O, 900
coward building a cathedral III that city.
Every man of the Kansas City police force
is, it is said, a church member Two of the
officers are elders in the church, and a num-
Der of them are deacons.
The great missionary conference to be
held IN Exeter hall, London, June Q to 10,
will be q council second in Importance to
none since the day of Pentecost.
Bishop William c.. Doanc, of Albany, N.
Y, has been chosen as select preacher for
the commencement exercises of Cambridge
university, England, this June.
Mr.. Moody's schools at Mortified and
Mount Hcrmon lately received from the
christian women of Pittsburgh "a draft for
$4,000, and q New YORK friend sent IS, 900
more.
At Juju, Africa, the converts have erected
a house of worship for themselves, and the
two leading heather priests have thrown
aside their idols and left the idol house to
decay.
IN Cdbltlldl al YIN, "ulCH Is large
enough to take in $4,000 persons, will be com
pleted in 1899. 1t was begun in 1877 as a
Roman church, but has been protestant since
the
The English Church Missionary society has
just executed u provisional agreement for
the purchase of central premises in Rome, at
a cost of $4,000. a Lancashire lady has
promised to $4,000 of the amount.
Cardinal Gibbons aad thirteen archblshops
meet in Baltimore early in Juue to decide
what the attitude of the church shall be
toward the Knights of Labor, the American
Federation of Labor, and the Anti-Poverty
society.
Tn Rev. DIR. Leonard, lately of Brooklyn,
| and now rector of st. Johns church, Wash
ington, ID. c., who has been elected bishop of
southern Ohio, will be the youngest member
of the ~Episcopacy, being just forty years old.
The Young Peoples Society of Christian
| Endeayor, which has had such a phenome-
nal growth within the last SIX years, is
spreading rapidly into foreign missionary
lands. Societies have been organized in con-
nection with the stations in Japan, China,
India, Turkey and Africa.
The eighteenth annual meeting of the
WOman's Foreign Missionary society of the
Presbyterian church was held recently at
Asbury Park, N. j. The income for the year
amounts to Sl49,64), an increase of 10000.
The society supports 1875 missionaries. besides
| helpers and bible women ,
The largest Sabbath school in the world,
| it is SAID, is the one in connection with the
''North Side Central church," Chicago. 1t
has 5000 scholars, with an average attend
ance of 5000. In addition to the Sabbath
| school services conducted every week morn
ing, with a daily attendance of 500.
Chung Sing, a Chinaman, was recently re-
ceiyed into membership ia the Emmanuel
Baptist church, Chicago. He is the first
| C"hinaman who ever united with the Baptist
church IN Chicago. The Methodists number
several Mongolians among their numbers,
and one belongs TO the Presbyterian church.
The will of Mrs. James $. Waterman, of
Sycamore, H., endoWs n school in that city,
to be called Waterman hall. The sum real
lied will reach fully S20O,O00, and the institu-
ton is TO educate at small cost young women
in conformity To the practical teachings of
the Book of Common Prayer of the Protest
ant Episcopal church.
OF the l7,743 Fiiians inhabiting the Fiji
islands, more than nine-tenths attend church
with fair regularity; where fifty years since
there was not a single christian, to day there
is not a single avowed heather; all the Fiji
children are in the schools; the schools and
churches nave wholly displaced the heather
temples.
The address of the Methodist bishops, read
at the General conference, shows that in the
past four years 450, 900 souls nave been
brought into the church, and the member
ship increased from l, 100, 53i to 2,003, 935. Re
ceipts for missionary work last year, up
wards of 81 ,0O0, 900; appropriations for next
wear, 81, 10000. The church claims IL theo-
logical Summaries, 81 colleges and 100 semi
naries, with a property valuation Of SIS,
] 100000.