Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-04
IN RELIGIONS REALM.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO MINIS
TIERS AND LAYMEN.
Sandwich Island Lepers-M Ministers Vaca-
tions-Catholic Poles in the
United States.

The rumor that Cardinal Newman is
losing his sight is not true.
The Pope gave long audience on the
9Th nit. to Bishop McQuaid, of Rochester,
n. y.
Bishop j. NJ Walden has sailed for
South America, and viii make thorough
exploration of our work there.
Bishop Andrews is on his way to Japan.
His address is Toxic, Japan, care of Rev.
Julius Soper.
His eminence Cardinal Simeoni ceIe-
brated the golden jubilee of his priesthood
on Trinity Sunday,
DIR. and Mrs, Maclay will go up to Port
land, and will be at the Oregon and Puget
Sound Conferences.
The Pope has sent the decoration PRO
ecclesie ct Pontifce" TO the Princess Glenn
intine. the mother of Princess Ferdinand
of Belgium.
There are 100000 Catholic Poles in the
United States. Detroit, Mich, has Pol
ish Seminary for the education of eccleSi-
astical students
The Montana Constitutional Conyen-
ton had a hot debate over the phrase
grateful to Almighty God" but they left
it in the Constitution.
Rev. J. A. Van Anda, of Dixon, has
gone East on visit to his aged father and
mother. He left Monday last, and will be
gone four weeks. His official Board give
him leave of absence.
Rev. W S. Matthews, D. D., late Dean
of the School of Arts in the University Of
Southern California, declined the Vice
Presidency Of the Institution, and will
enter the pastorate.
The ChristjdR Adpocate (Methodist) says:
" That the Reformed Episcopal Church is
vastly more like what the Church of Eng
land was fifty or sixty years ago than the
Protestant Episcopal Church now is, there
can be no doubt"
The CtriStian at WorE says: "The fact
is, the pendulum swung so far at the Re
formation that Professionalism has given
no rightful place, it has awarded no dis
tinctive honor, to her who was the mother
OF our Lord, and who was declared by in
spiration of God to be blessed among
women By and by, perhaps, we shall
get rid of some very foolish prejudices,
and then Protestants will not regard the
mother OF our Lord with less favor than
they do the mother of their own children"
The Watchman Baptist says: Doubt
less, under the stress of life in our cities
and larger villages, such as is now realized
more than was formerly true, there exists
demand for the change which stands
connected with q vacation, longer or
shorter. lfin former times there was too
little of this, it may admit Of question
whether in these times in which we live
the strong tendency does not lie quite to-
wards coUnter-extreme, bringing with it
fallacious ideas Of the true ends of any
properly passed vacation"
The Christian Idcocafe (Methodist) says:
GAS to the length of vacations, the ten
dency is to make them too loug for the
good of churches or for the highest good
of ministers, morally, spiritually or phys
ically. 1t is well for every church to offer
its minister few weeks vacation. 1t
will make him better and do them no
harm; but let the Sabbath services, the
prayer-meetings, and the Sabbath schools
be maintained, and let arrangements be
made by the church, with the co-opera-
ton of the pastor, to secure pastoral work.
Then there will be no occasion to criticise
adversely the pastors when they go ont, as
our Lord did, into desert place to rest
awhile"
The Examine. Baptist says: eve have
heard pastor pm the eve of their we'll
earned vacation, speak and pray as if their
entire flock were about to scatter abroad
for the summer, and on their return, re-
freshed in body and brain, congratulate
Ia brat ha Ae
vigor they had all garnered up for the fall
and winter work, apparently forgetting
that some ninety odd per cent. of their
hearers had been kept home and at work
by imperious necessity through all the
heated term. Pure thoughtlessness, of
course; but such thoughtlessness surely is
not wise. Those who must stay at home
while more favored mortals are enjoying
vacation rest should receive the most
thoughtful consideration"
Concerning the Sandwich Island lepers
the Independent now says: at is true that
the Catholic leperS were neglected, relig-
iously, until Father Damien so nobly vol
unteered to take up this work; but the
larger body of Protestant lepers were not
and never have been neglected. At pres
ent the pastor of the Protestant church is
not Ieper, but has joined the colony with
his wife, who has contracted the disease.
The physical wants of all have been well
provided for by the devoted superintend-
ents appointed by the Government. In all
this we do not mean to depreciate in the
least the excellent work of Father Damien,
but only to show that his work was not
made necessary by any failure of the Prot
nStnnts of the Hnrniinn IclnnIrV