The morning call., 1890-11-15
RELIGIOUS NEWS.
Interesting Items From the
World at Large.

Great progress in the conversion of In
dams is reported by the Catholic missionaries
who are preaching in Sitting Bulls camp.
The franciscan Friars who were expelled
from Canada by the English. hundred
years ago, have returned to the scene of
their former labors in the diocese of Ottawa.
a bust OF Rev. Father Mahony, better
known under his nom de plume. Prout, was
recently unveiled in the City of Cork.
The Sisters OF Charity are to be reinstated
IN the French hospitals from which they
were expelled several years ago.
Out OF population of 10000 in Woon-
socket, r. l., 1884 are Roman Catholics, ac-
cordmg to census taken by the Fathers Of
the Church of the Precious Blood.
Pere Doyere Of the African Missions has
received the decoration of the Legion of
Honor for his services in negotiating the
treaty with Dah0mey.
The procession Of the Vow of Louis XIII,
which commentaries the conservation of
France to the Blessed Virgin, is still held
every year on the feast of the Assumption
in France. On that day the florists shop
windows are profusely adorned with rare
wild flowers, which are purchased for dis
trlbution among those who bear the name of
Mary. This practice recalls another not
less Deautlful-that of showering white
blossoms from the dome of ST. Mary's Ma.
Jor, Rome, on the feast Of Our Lady of tine
Snow.
According to the census returns in Prus-
sla there were, in 1871, :, 4S5, S22 children at
tending Protestant schools in that country,
as against 1,275,S1S Catholics, or twenty
Protestants 10 ten Catholics. Fifteen years
afterward, in 1885, the proportions were
l,99l 800 to 1,S72, 276, OF thirty to nineteen,
and at present the Professionals are TO the
Catholics probably as thirty to twenty-four.
The Catholic Home Almanac and tho
Catholic Family Annual for 1891 appear this
month in a highly attractive form and re-
pitte with interesting matter. The SECOND
Masonry" by Henry f. Brownson, comes
with them from the publishers of "a No
yena in Honor of St Francis of Assist" by
Rev. Clementinus Deymann, o. S. F. For
sale by A. Waldteufel, San Francisco.
AMONG THE CHURCHES.
The Moravian Sunday-schOol of Bethle-
hem, Pa, recently gave $1,000 to erect a new
theological seminary at that place-the re-
suit OF SIX months effort on the part of the
school.
Episcopal services in the Armenian Ian
guage are now held in the chantry of Grace
CHURCH, New York, on Sunday afternoons.
Mr.. Herant Mesrob kiretchjian, acting as
lay reader, leads the services.
The Chicago Presbytery has petitioned the
Board OF Education to make an order re-
curing the reading OF appropriate extracts
from the Bible each day in all the depart
ments of the public schools of Chicago.
Lee zee, Loo Sing and Chu Chow, three
Cinnamon, were baptized recently in the
Emmanuel Baptist Church, Albany, n. Y,
by the Rev. Henry NJ. King. This is the
hrSt instance of the admission of Cinnamon
to The Christian church in that city.
Ihe Presbyterian Board OF Church Erec-
ton makes special appeal for funds. The
Itn- ,.l- h.
pected advance in church building, and the
board Is threatened with serious emDarass-
ment through the great Increase of the de-
mandS for aid.
A beautiful Gothic church, costing about
5000, Is about 10 be built for the French
Professionals of Marlboro, Mass. The church
is to be 32x49 feet with classroom and gal
lery, and Will seat about $50 persons. The
whole work is under the auspices of the
Massachusetts Home Missionary Society.
Philadelphia, and not Brooklyn, says the
New York Critic, is the City of Churches"
New York and Brooklyn together have only
go churches for a population of 2,419,0 900
people. Philadelphia has $40 churches. be-
sides 81 UNCONVENTIONAL and IL undenomi-
national missions, for population of
1,050.000.
The Charleston Is. c. Presbytery has re-
fused to admit to its membership Professor
James Woodrow, on the ground that he
still maintains his 'doctrinal errors" on
the subject Of evolution, and that he has an
imadverted ON the Charleston Presbytery in
print. An appeal 10 the State Synod will
be taken by DR.. Woodrow.
The Rev. David Gregg, DID,, pastor of the
Park-street Church. Boston, has received
call to the past0rate Of the Lafayette-ayenue
Presbyterian Church, in Brooklyn, which
for so many years has been the charge of
the Rey Theodore Cuyler. ID.
Nearly double the number of new societies
Of ri. 70 h.rr fnr
every week than were reported IA year ago
at this time says the New York Witness
The advance movement Is apparent in every
evangelical denomination and in nearly
every State and province. The FLOATING
Society of Christian Endeavor'' is doing
good work among the sailors. Many have
signed the Endeavor pledge, slightly modi-
fed to meet the needs of the sailors, and the
good effects Of it are already seen on several
OF the revenue cutters and other vessels.
The Sabbath-school of a small home
mission church in Lansing Presbytery,
Michigan, has resolved to give to the Boards
of Missions during this month one penny
per member each day toward removing their
debts and it has also resolved to earnestly
invite all the Presbyterian Sunday-schools
10 join in similar effort Estimating the
number of members In Presbyterian Sun
day-schools at S37, OOO, united movement in
this direction would lift the entire indebted
ness of the Home and Foreign boards before
December 1st next
THE HEBREW FAITH.
The title OF Professor has been bestowed
on DR.. Max Fraenkel, Librarian of the Mu-
scum of Arts in Berlin.
The editor of the anti-Semitic "Deutsch-
Socialen Blaetter" has been fined 100 marks
at Lelpslc for libeling Jew. Every lawyer
in Leipsic refused to act as counsel for the
defendent
The legacy of million and half marks,
which the late DIR. Ephraim of Berlin be-
queathed to the Jewish community in that
city. has been made over to the executive.
This body has decided to app0rtion the be-
quest among number of Jewish and
Christian phllanthropic institutions.
Cardinal Manning, the Catholic Arch
bishop OF Westminster England address,
ing delegation of prominent Jews who
presented him a congratulatory address on
the occasion of his jubilee, said: For nearly
forty years London has been my home. and
in that time all the forms of suffering, pow
erty and VICE have come before me. | can
therefore bear witness to the charity and
generosity of my Jewish fellow-country-
men. l have found them forward in all
good works. In the care Of your children,
your sick, your poor, you give us a noble
example OF generosity and efficiency. There
are, l believe, only three indestructible ele-
ments In the history Of mantle people and
the. faith Of Israel, the Catholic Church,
which sprung from it, and the world, which
has prosecuted both. The world is perpet-
ually recruited from both sides by those
who are unworthy the name they bear. AS
the world grows in mass it grows in malice
and II our forecasts are true, | might even
say-foI as much as what has been foretold
is certain-the warfare of the world against
all who believe in God will grow and spread
in power for its final conflict and its final
destruction.
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