Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-07

great gifts as a singer, having been at one
time the leading baritone in the choir
| of the Melbourne Exhibition. Great
crowds are attracted to his meetings, and
there is never service held without con-
versions.
At the General Synod of the Reformed
Church in America, held at Catskill, n
Y, the question of organic union with the
German Reformed Church was postponed
for final action until next year. The
| Committee on the State of Religion re-
| ported that there were $40 churches and
| sol ministers, with total membership OF
SS,S12. During the year there have been
$3.50 acceSSions, and the church has con-
tributed for all purposes 81, 25S,0 3S, and for
benevolent purposes alone S2S2,057.
Among the ecclesiastical students at
tending the Grand Seminary, Montreal.
who recently received Orders, we notice
the following from this coast: r. Hogan,
Archdiocese of Oregon, deacon; Charles j.
! O'Rielly, same Archdiocese subdeacon:
Gabriel Schmalholz, same Archdiocese.
tonsure. ?. J. Dubbel of the Diocese of
Nesqualy received minor Orders. p. A.
| Gillerton, Diocese of Santa Fe, subdeacon.
A Presbyterian Church in South Aus
tralia, that of Milicent, has distinguished
itself by adopting new method of pay
| ing its debts. Having got the loan from
| q friend of sixty acres of good land, the
Minister, Rev. T. Cunningham, and some
twenty of his flock plowed and sowed the
| land, and the crop, which found a pur-
chaser as it stood, realized S775, sufficient
to meet the bank overdraft
The Coming International Convention
of Christian Endeavor Societies. in Phila-
delphia, July 9th, 10th and 11th, prom
isees to be very important and inspiring
gathering. The probability is that, from
the number who have already signifed
their intention of going, between six and
seven thousand young people will assemble
| from all parts of the United States and
| Canada.
The American Baptist Education So
ciety has become an incorporated body
Governor Hill, of New York, having
| signed the charter granted by the Legisla-
ture before its adjournment. 1t is said to
be more liberal in its provisions than any
single charter ever granted by New York
to any religious denomination. The head
quarters of the Society are fixed in that
State.
Rev. J. VIII Jackson, of the Central
Missouri Conference, preached the Bacca-
laureate sermon to the graduating class Of
Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, State
institution. This is the first time 4 col
ored man has been honored with a call to
perform that service.
Rev. f. B. Cherington, d. D., for two
years past professor of historical theology
in Maclay College of Theology, has been
elected Dean of the College of Liberal
Arts in the University of Southern Cali
fornia at Los Angeles, Cal.
The Rev. DR.. B. w. Bashford of the
Delaware Avenue Methodist Episcopal
Church, of Buffalo, was unanimously
elected President of the Ohio Wesleyan
University at Delaware, Ohio.
Two hundred and twenty Protestants
are said to have been received into the
Catholic Church by the Josephite Fathers
of Maryland and Virginia within the past
year.
The thirty-fourth General Assembly of
the German Catholics of North America
will take place on the 1st, ID, Sd and 4th
of September next at Cleveland, Ohio.
A colony of Sisters of Notre Dame will
locate in Kansas City, Mo-, this month
Ground has been donated for convent
and grand institution is contemplated.
The Cincinnati Bethel Union carries on
the largest Sabbath-school in the United
States, having an average annual enroll
ment of 5000.
The Archbishop of Dublin has contrib
uted 81, 900 towards the cost of the new
wing of St. Joseph's Asylum, in that city.
The Boston Globe has figured out that
there are 225,590 church-goers in that city,
Ice, 800 of whom are Catholics.