Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-14
IN RELIGIONS REALM.
Matters of Interest to Ministers and La
men of All Denominations.

Matters of Interest to Ministers and Lay
men of All Denominations.
| The income of the Free Church of Scot
land this year is e63S, 939, being an in
crease Of G46000 as compared with last
year.
The Rev. f. Colin, S. j.. who spent the
last year at Stonyhurst Observatory, has
Just been appointed Director of the French
Government Observatory at Antannana-
rive.
Rev. George A. Smith, one of the Oldest
ministers of the Episcopal Church of Vir-
ginia, and formerly editor of the Soutie77,
Churchmdn, died at Alexandria, aged So
years.
Rev. Peter Farrell, pastor of St. .Jo-
seph's Church, New York City, whose par
ish extends from One Hundred and Sew
entieth street to Fordham, intends build
ing new church, to cost over 100000.
Rev. II. LOOMS, of Yokohama, in a let
ter of June 5th to the Occident. says of the
conditions named for union of the Kumi-ai
| Churches: These condions were rejected
| by the Presbyterians, and thus the matter
rests for the present"
A cablegram from Rome states that
number of Bishops have petitioned the
! Vatican to Canonize Christopher Columbus
on the recurrence of the fourth centenary
of the discovery of America, which will
occur October II, 1892
A recent dispatch from Baltimore an
nounces the reception of a beautiful pre-
sent from the Holy Father by Cardinal
Gibbons. 1t is a large golden richIy-chased
and leweled ostensorium, and it was sent
as a souvenir of the golden jubile of Pope
Leo NH.
The congregation of st. GabriePs
Church, Prairie du Chen, Wis, 4O7 fami-
lies, numbers nearly 5000 members The
last report showed the remarkable flor
these modern days. record of an average
of over seven members in the families of
this congregation.
The Examiner (Bap.) says: "The Sun
day-school is no substitute for the church
"a useful supplement we all concede it to
be, most useful and deserving of fullest de-
velopment and support, but not a substi-
tute. If for any reason the children can
not attend both the morning service and
the Sunday-school, by all means take them
to the former. By all means, we say. and
we mean that precisely. 1t is of greater
Importance that they get correct religious
habits and right religious impressions lust
at the time when habits are so easily
fixed for life, and when impressions
once made are most inGelible. 1t is A
great thing that parent has done for his
child when he has helped him form a
habit of church-gong. The chances are
that it will stick by him through
life; and the chances are still stronger
that if the habit is not formed in child
hood, it never will be formed"
The farmer folks of Western Onondaga,
\. Y, have found that minister can be
something besides minister and lose none
of his dignity. The Rev. J. O. S. Hunt
lngton, of New York city, son of Bishop
Huntington, of Syracuse, became reduced
IN health from overwork at the Five Points.
and resolved to try the benefits of country
AIR. Unknown as clergyman or priest of
the Episcopal Church, Father Huntington
applied for work near the village of Me-
ridlan, and was hired by farmer. He
worked IN the fields with the other men
and gained strength, but he did not forget
his calling In the evening he usually
walked to the village and went about
among the men, talking with them on re-
llglous subjects. Instead of being ridi-
culed, his earnestness and bearing attracted
the villagers, and he preached two Sun
days to them in the open air Only a few
days ago was his identity made known by
a friend of his school days who happened
to be IN the village, and since then ne has
drawn still larger audiences. This kind
of an outing might not satisfy some of our
ministers who are suffering for a trip to
Europe, but it shows what can be done by
an ardently religious man who is not care
full to let his left hand know what his
right hand is doing.