The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-09-27
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Mrs. Bishop Warren gives $780,.
900 to endow a theological school in
connection with Denver University.
Rev. Augustus Totten, the only
colorcd Catholic priest in this coun-
try, is the pastor Of st. Joseph's
Church, Quincy, Ill.
Rev. Walter /. Huffman, OF Peru,
Ind, has married over 1.2OO couples
and preached 1,300 funeral services.
His surpasscs the record OF any other
clergyman in the State.
Lord Carnarvon is urging that tho
Anglican churches ought to be open
on weekdays for private worship. and
the Archbishop of Canterbury and the
other churchmen agree with him.
kentucky has six counties-Har-
Ian. Knott. Perry, Letcher, Bell and
Leslie-that have never had a church
within their borders during the sixty
or seventy years Of their existence as
counties.
Germany is doing considerable
foreign missionary work nowadays.
| II has eighteen societies and supports
/, 522 missionaries, who look after their
| 2l0,O0 converts. Last year the total
| receipts in money were over 100000.
A rector writes to the Guardian
| that a "celibate order among the
| clergy is one of the imperative necessi-
| ties OF the time" the reason being
"the impossibility Of supporting wife
and family upon the ordinary income
of curate."
Bishop Vladimir, the new Russian
Bishop of California, Alaska and Aleu-
tian Islands, brought to this country a
| full boy choir Of forty voices. The
new Bishop is transferred TO the United
States from Japan. and his special
| work will be TO improve the now
| wretched condition of the Creoles and
Indians in Alaska.
John Carswell. deacon of the
Scotch National church at Blooms
bury. Eng, was recently fined five dol
lars in police court for assaulting tho
/ wife of johnson. village painter,
in the church. The evidence was that
he struck her with the pedestal OF the
offertory box and pushed her so that
she became i'll and had to leave the
church. The assault was the part OF a
row between the church officials and
the pastor, Rev. J. Mackie.
Philadelphia has new religious
sect whose title is fearfully and won-
derfully constructed. It is 1.-The Ec-
clesia of Israel; the Cyipz of Worship
ping Congregation of Our Fathers
Kingdom on Earth" They have re-
vised the opening sentences of the
Lords Prayer SO that they read: "Our
Father who art in Heaven. hallowed
be Thy name. Thy hand of power our
soul do fear; Thine ear Of love our
prayers do hear; Thy voice of light
illumines our feet; unto Thy house our
steps we bend. eternity with Thee to
spend; Thy kingdom has come; now
let Thy will be done on earth as it is
in Heaven"
According to London contempo-
rary, among the offers recently re-
ceived for mission work was one from
"amarried man with small family
OF fourteen who was quite willing to
proceed to China and to leave his FAM
lily behind him, for large family he
found a ''great hindrance to grace. !"
Probably he is going a little too far to
find grace. II he would stay home and
look after his family perhaps he would
secure more Of the precious article
than by abandoning his family for a
foreign trip. This declaration recalls
the disinterested patriotism Of the late
Artemus Ward. who was willing to
sacrifice his wife's relations in the war.
- Christian at Work.