Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-19
RELIGIOUS NEWS.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO MIN.
listers AND LAYMEN.
The Great Work of the American
Bible Society-The "Con-
gregationaliss."


In accordance with plans which were
matured some months since. Rev. A. F.
Dunning, D. d., has been admitted as a
member of the firm of w. L. Greene &
Co., proprietors of the Coagregatioaalist.
He is now absent on tour west and to the
Pacific coast, in the interest OF the Con-
gregational Sunday-school and Publishing
Society, of which he has so long been Sec.
rotary, but he will complete the trip by
midsummer, and will terminate his con-
nection with that Society and join the
staff of the Coagregationalist September LIST,
to be associated with DIR. Dexter in its ed
itorship. DR.. Dunning was born in Brook
field, Conn.,, in 1874, and graduated at
Yale IN 1867, and at Andover in 1870, and
was the first pastor of the Highland
Church in Roxbury, now Boston High
lands, from September, 1870, to December,
! 1850. In January, 1881, he entered upon
his work as Secretary of the Congrega-
tlonal Sunday-school and Publishing So
ciety. For several years it had been felt
quite widely that this Society ought to be
lifted up into far more prominent posi-
ton as the leader in the denomination in
the various departments of Sunday school
work, and DIR. Dunning was selected, with
the conviction that he possessed to high
degree the qualities needed at the head of
this important work. The result showed
him to be rare man for the place, and he
has filled it with great and growing success
up TO the present time. In 1884 he was
elected as member of the International
Committee to select the Sunday-school les
sons, position which he still occupies.
In 1855 he was put upon the International
Normal Committee to arrange courses of
study for Sunday-school teachers. He is
the author of Bible Studies, issued in
1886, and he was the same year elected
Principal of the Chautauqua Normal
Union. In 1887 he received the degree of
ID. from Beloit College. He has been
Superintendent Of Instruction in the Ne
braska Assembly since 1885, aud Associate
Superintendent in the New England AS
sembly at birmingham since 1856, and
has also been an instructor in various other
similar Assemblies. He has for many
years been well known as contributor to
the columns of the religious press, includ-
ing the C6agregationaIist, the Stlnday-.School
Times, the Adrance and the Golden Rule.
He has been one of the writers for the
Monday Club Sermons" since 1876. and
has now for several years furnished the
Sunday-school explanation for the Conore-
gdt'ondt'St During the present year he
has become the leader of the fremont
Temple Bible Glass, succeeding to the posi-
ton so long held by DR.. Meredith. Thus
1t will be seen that for some time past DIR.
Dunning has been one of the foremost
leaders of thought in the denomination
which he represents.
The stated meeting OF the Board of
Managers of the American Bible So
ciety was held at the Bible House. on
Tuesday, May 2, 1889. The attention of
the Board was called to a copy of the
Aitken Bible, published in Philadelphia
IN 1852, the first complete Bible in English
printed on this side of the Atlantic, and.
indeed, the only edition of the authorized
version of the Scriptures which had been
printed In America at the time of the in
auguration of Washington. Among COM
munications presented to the Board from
foreign lands were letters from the
Evane elical Union of Chile, emphasizing
the desirableness of new Spanish version
of the Bible, and from Rev. John jameson,
of Madrid, announcing the organiza-
ton of a Spanish Revision Com.
mittee; from the Evangelical As.
ISOLATION of Geneva, with an account
OF recent Bible colportage in France; from
the Bible Society of France, with thanks
for aid IN its proposal to distribute the
Scriptures at the French Exposition OF
1889; and from DIR. Patterson, at Trinidad
on his way to the valley of the Orinoco
Grants OF books were made to the value OF
about S7,257. Funds were also granted to
the amount Of S14 400, including appro-
priations to the Evangelical Society OF
Geneva; to the Waldensian Committee of
CHARACTERIZATION; to the Russian Bible Soci-
ETY. for colportage In the Russian Empire;
and to the Society's Persia and Brazil
agencies. One auxiliary society was recog-
nized in each of the States of Florida, Ne.
braska and North Carolina. The cash re-
ceipts in April were S6S,997 A. The
issues from the Bible House during the
same month were 80, ISL volumes.
Miss Susan La Flesche, a sister of Bright
Eyes, has been for the last three years pur.
suing her medical education at the
Woman's Medical College in Philadelphia
supported there by the Connecticut Indian
Association. Miss La Flesche is a gradu-
ate of Hampton Institute, Virginia, where
she gained the highest honors Of her class
and her course as a medical student has
been marked by devotion to study, by in
tellectual ability and by the earnest
| ri IF a.
March 18th, with about thirty others. she
took her degree, becoming thus the first
Indian woman graduate of medical col
lege. After year of study and practice
as an inferno in the Woman's Hospital, she
expects to return to labor among her own
peple, the Omahas of Northeastern Ne
braska
The Grass Valley IGdinqs of the 18th
instant had the following: This morning
at 7 o'clock Miss Mary E. Murphy, Of
Watsonville, Santa Clara county, received
the black veil and pronounced her VOWS as
Sister of Mercy, becoming a member Of
the community of Mt. St. Mary's Convent
Grass Valley. More than two years age
this young lady entered the Convent here
During that time she has been preparing
for the solemn event of to-day. Miss
Murphy belongs to one of the well known
and highly respected pioneer families Of
California. Right Rev. Bishop Monogue
assisted by Rev. Fathers Dalton, MELON.
aid, Tanham and Gartlan, cfficiated. The
parents of the young lady, Mr. and Mrs.
John Murphy of Watsonville, witnessed
the solemn ceremony.
The death is announced of Bishop Hya-
cinth Ronay, of Pressburg. Forty years
ago he was friend and adherent of Kos
suth. He took part in the Hungarian
revolutionary movement, and was ap-
pointed Commissioner in the Revolutionary
Government. On being driven into exile.
Bishop Ronay went to London, where he
lived for seventeen years, returning to his
native country on the proclamation of an
amnesty by the Austrian Emperor in 1866.
He was subsequently appointed teacher of
Hungarian history to the late Crown
Prince Rudolph and the Princess Marie
Valerie.
An effort is being made, in response to A
resolution from the Pekin Missionary
| Association, to send out competent in
structor to initiate charitable work at
| Pekin, among Chinese deaf-mutes. DR.. T.
Gallaudet, of No. West Eighth street,
New York city, who is so well-known in
Europe and America for his labor among
| deaf-mutes, has very kindly given his as
| r