The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-03
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The amount needed for completing the
Catholic college in Washington, 81 900 900,
has been pledged.
The Reverend john W. II. Weibel has
been placed by Bishop Porter in charge
of the work at Carmel, Lake MahOpac,
and Kent Cliffs, N. Y.
Official diplomas and indulgence crosses
were given to seventy candidates in Phil
adelphia by Father Campbell S. j., pro-
vincial of the HeV York and Maryland
province.
The bishop of London has dedicated
fine new sea-going steamboat for the use
of the Thames Church mission, The boat
is steel built, and will ply between London
and Gravesend.
Roman Catholicism, the Christian World
says, is spreading in Scotland New
churches are rising in all parts If the
land, and those already in ext Fence
gather large congregations.
Archbishop Corrigan blessed TIN new
Church of the Immaculate Conce btion,
One Hundred and Fiftieth street and Ehird
avenue, New York, last Sunday. T3e rec
tor is the Reverend Joseph Leiffrit;I @. S.
S. R.
The Reverend Ralph W. Keny,l has
been elected rector of the Church of the
Holy SepuIchre, New York, N. Y, in sue
cession to the Reverend j. futile Smith,
d. D., and his address Is 1916 Madison
avenue.
Jesuits are always interesting. Late
statistics credit them with 1877 mission
aries in all parts of the GGrld. North and
South America appear favorite fields with
them since there are 1,130 on these two
continents.
In London, Eng, there has been insti-
tuted a Methodist sisterhood. No vows
are imposed, the only request made of
those who join being that they give three
months notice of any intention to with
draw, so that the work may not suffer.
The Cistercian monastery known DIS the
Castle of Olivia, in Prussia, founded in
ITO and suppressed by the Prussian gov.
eminent in 1851, has been presented by
that government 20 the Protestant Order
of Deaconesses from Dantzic. '>,
The oldest church building in the state
of Ohio is the house of the Congregational
church at Marietta. One of the Oldest
churches in the southwestern part of the
state is the church at Paddy's Run, which
was organized in the year III whioh the
state was admitted to the union.
Tomorrow is to be celebI ted in ljew
York city as the close of the pope's
Jubilee year by services in " Hches
and institutions under Oathu .rol.
All attending mass on that day oeen
accorded" "a plenary indulgence, able
to souls in purgatory in the usl Nwm,
by the pope.
Mr.. G. 7. Studd, the famous athlete, who
he's been for some time engaged jn mis-
sion work in connection with the China
Inland mission, has latteIjy allied himself
with General Booth, of the Salvation Army.
The general has made extensive plans for
aggressive work in China, and in Mr..
Studd he has found an able officer.
Doctor Murray Mitchell, who is In the
jubilee year of his ministry, and who spent
large part of his life as missionary in
India, has just been indicted in to the Free
church station at Nice. The ordinary
questions put TO ministers at ordination
were omitted, Doctn,o Murray being merely
asked whether, + v1dhered to the answers
given to the questions put to him whom
he was indicted at BrOug Ferry twenty
five years ago.
The Bishop of Wakefield speaking at
Halifax, at meeting promoted by the
Church of England Working Mems Soci-
ETY., condemned the principle of seeking
to make the Church of England polit-
ical party. He was informed that there
were parishes where every churchman was
conservative and every dissenter lib
eral That line of demarcation he wished
to obliterats. The church must be set
above party, whether of politics or ecclesi-
astical differences.
A presentment has been made to the
Bishop of London by the church gardens
OF st. Ethelburga's, Bishopsgate street.
according to their statement, the late
bishop of London directed the incum-
bent, Mr.. Rcdwell, to discontinue "the use
OF the vestments, day-lighted candles,
waters, solitary communion, watering the
sacramental wine, and the burning of in
cense," and thereupon these practices
were discontinued. The curate has, how
ever, reintroducsd some "illegal practices
to wit; vestments, lights, incense, wa
tered wine, wall pictures and solitary (so-
called) communion" Tie churcbwardens
have in vain, they say, repeatedly request
ed the curate to ''desist from these illegali-
ties"
The Marquis of Salisbury has contrivsd
to make himself very unpopular with the
Wesleyan Methodists. Some time ago he
very persistently refused a site at Hatfield
for Wesleyan chapel. 1t is now stated
that he has taken steps to rid the place of
a Wesleyan meeting house, which has ex-
listed in the village for the last fifty years.
The Reverend Arthur E. Gregory, who is
superintendent of the ST. Adams circuit
and 500 of Doctor Gregory, the Wesleyan
connexional editor, has received a final
notice to quit the premises. He has been
distinctly told that he would not "be al
lowed to have possession of the premises
an hour longer" -.
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