The Red Cloud chief., 1889-08-02
SCHCOL AND CHURCH.

Rev. Augustus Totem. the only
colored Catholic priest in this coun-
try, is the pastor Of St Joseph's
Church, Quincy, Ill.
| Rev. Walter L. Huffman. Of Peru.
| Ind, has married over 1900 couples
and preached 1900 funeral services.
| His surpasses the record Of any other
clergyman in the State
Lord Carnarv0n is urging that tho
| Anglican churches ought to be open
on weekdays for private worship. and
| tho Archbishop of Canterbury and the
! other churchmen agree with him.
kentucky has six cOunties-Har-
Ian. Knott. Perry. Letcher. Bell and
L~cslie-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.
1t has eighteen societies and supports
522 missionaries, who look after their
210. 600 converts. Last year the total
receipts in money were over 500 600.
"A rector writes to the Guardian
that Q "celibate order among the
clergy is one of the imperative necessi-
ties of the time" the reason being
1.-THE impossibility of supporting a wife
and family upon the ordinary income
of q curate."
The brother who murmured in his
heart against God while the drought
lasted, but did not thank him for the
blessed rain when it came. Is very
much like the rest Of us-ready to as
cribe all troubles to Providence and all
blessings to chance. Christian Aduo-
cQ.s.
Bishop Vladimir, the new Russian
Bishop of California. Alaska and Aleu-
tian Islands, brought to this country q
full boy choir OF forty voices. Tho
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, a deacon of the
Scotch National church at Blooms
Bury, Eng. was recently fined five do!-
lars in a police court for assaulting tho
wife of Johnson. a village painter,
In the church. The evidence was that
he struck her with the pedestal of the
o1ertory box and pushed her so that
che became ill and had to leave the
church. Iae assault was the part of a
row between the church officials and
the pastor. Rev. j. Mackie.
Philadelphia has a new religious
sect whose title is ~fearfully and won
derfully constructed. It Is "The Ec-
clesia of Israel; the Cyipz Of Worship
ping Congregation OF Our Fathers
Kingdom on Earth" They have Q
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 il
in Heaven"
According to a London contempt
sary. among the offers recently re-
ceived for mission work was one from
"amarried man with a small family
Of fourteen" who was quite willing to
proceed to China and to leave his fam
lily behind him, for q large family he
found q ''great hindrance to grace"
Probably he is going a little too far to
find grace. If he would stay home and
look after his family perhaps he would
secure more Of the precious article
than by abandoning his family for .
foreign trip. This declaration recalls
the d~isinterested patriotism Of the late
Artemus Ward, who was willing to
sacrifice his wife's relations in the war.
-Christian at Work.