The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-12
RELIGIONS REALM.
Brief Notes OF a Weeks Work
in the Churches.
St. Mays Hospital to Be Enlarged-Japan
Mission statisties-The B'nai Birth
Grand Lodge

The Sisters of Mercy in charge of st.
Mary's Hospital have found it necessary to
add large wing to their already extensive
structure. The addition is to be on the
right of the main building.
A convent and parochial school are to
erected at Clare, Iowa. Father Darcy is
pastor of the church there. Recently new
affairs of stained wood have been placed in
the church:
Rev. Father Doogan, o. p. of st. DOM
inic's Church, will leave for Europe on the
18th inst
Very Rev. Father Granger of the Uni
yersity of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind,
celebrated his seventy third birthday last
Thursday week.
The German Catholic Congress. after
having its place of business changed from
Munich to Cologne, has finally decided
upon Coblentz.
The Very Rev. DR.. Walsh. O. S. A, of SIS.
Augustine and Johns, Dublin. Assistant
General Of the Augustinian Order, has left
Rome for the United States. During his
stay in America Dr. Walsh's place of resi-
dence will be st. Augustine's House, Phil
adelphia. The journey now undertaken by
the venerated Irish Augustinian Father is
on business connected with the high office
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such distinguished member.
The Catholic Bishops of England have
unanimously decided to place themselves at
the head Of the temperance movement
among the people with system and perse-
Verance.
The first Catholic Church in Germany to
be lighted electrically is the grand old
cathedral at Strasbourg. Arc lights have
been used outside with fine effect, and it is
stated that many of the noble lines of the
architecture are accentuated by night as
they never have been by day.
During his recent visit to PendletOn, Ore
gon. Archbishop Gross was the recipient of
a handsome crayOn portrait of himself, 1t
being the birthday gift Of the Sisters OF
st. Francis of that place. The picture is
an excellent one and most skillfully exc
euted.
AMONG THE CHURCHES.
Bishop Nichols successor, at st. James
Church. Philadelphia, is to be the Rev. Jo-
seph n. Blanchard, OF ST. johns Church,
Detroit
The Rev. j. B. Dales has just celebrated
the completion of his fifteth year as pastor
of the Second United Presby terrain Church
at Philadelphia, Pa.
The Congregationalist reports over $4,000
additions to the churches since January.
Miss Mary Coddington of New York City
has given the City Mission $4,000 for the
building and endowment OF boys club
uOuSb lOI TIE pour DOyS OF TIE Guy.
The addition of q to the Ottawa Congre
gational Church, Illlnois-the Rev. ". f.
Day. pastoral the last communion, makes
II which have been added to its member
ship within two months, all but II of the
number on confession.
The Rev. Drs. Lyman Abbott, Phillips
Brooks, William Lawrence, Henry Van
Dyke and Brooke Herford have been ap-
pointed preachers at Harvard for the COM
ing year.
According to the latest statistical exhibits
of the missions in Japan, there are now 274
churches in the empire, of which number
| 1913 are self-supporting. The total MEM
| bership Is 81, 4S1, the accesSions for the year
being 5542. The contributions reached
| $40 662 The wh3le number Of missionaries
in the field, including women, is ST.
| Rev. Thomas Charles Edwards, DID,,
| principal of the University College of
| Wales and one Of the leading diVines of
that country, is expected to arrive in this
| city to-day, in which case he viii preach at
the Welsh Church in Oakland tomorrow
Church Of this city in Cambrian Hall on
Mission street, between Seventh and
| Eighth.
THE HEBREW FAITH.
The Grand Lodge of the B'nai Birth of
| this district will reconvene Sunday next at
| 10 o'clock in the morning to discuss the en-
| dowmeut question only.
! On his own initiative the Sultan has de-
termined to found an asylum for meritor-
GUS Turkish subjects without distinction of
creed. The building is to contain church,
| a mosque and asynagogue.
In house of Golgeu stone was dis
covered which bears the inscription that it
was used in 1872 in the erection of a house
in the former Jewish quarter Of that city.
Herr Jacob Armstedt, a Riga merchant,
has presented the Town Council with sum
of $780, Geo rubles to be expended in the cree
ton of a home for the poor, without distinc-
ton of creed or nationality.
Baroness Vita, Baroness Leone. and two
other daughters of the late n. B. Open
heimer have given donations in memoriam,
amounting TO 100000 francs, to Jewish
charities in Paris.
For the first time since its foundation, a
Jew, Professor Julius Bernstein, has been
elected by the Senate rector magnificus OF
the Halle University. This election in a
university where. up to within short time
ago. no Jew was permitted to exercise the
vocation of teacher, is significant sign OF
the liberal spirit now prevailing in Switzer-