The morning call., 1890-08-30
AMONG THE CHURCHES.
Liberal Gift to the Baptist Edu-
cation Society.
Golden Jubilee Of the Advent Of the Order
ef Metre Dame in America-A Russian
Concession to the Jews.
Rev. W. E. Adams has removed to Oak

land.
The American Baptist Home Mission So
clety has agreed to sustain another laborer
among the Chinese on the Coast.
The books Of the American Baptist Pub
lication Society are soon to be put OH the
market in San Francisco.
A new house of worship, to cost about
$4,000, will soon be built in Fairfield,
Conn.,, to replace the house recently
burned.
Rev. D. w. Couch of Brooklyn preached
at the recent dedication Of new Methodist
Church at Stony Point, N. Y, and $4,000
was raised to open the edifce free of debt
Rev. DIR. t. de Witt Talmage preached
August 18th at the American Farmers En-
campment, Mount Gretna, Pa, to a congre-
CATION of over 5000 people.
The quarterly meeting of the Woman's
Baitist Homo and Foreign Mission Circles
OF Santa Clara County will be held at the
Los Gatos Baptist Church Wednesday, Sep
TENDER Sd, commencing at 10 o'clock in the
morning.
movement has been made for the Con-
gregatlonal Methodist Churches of North
Carolina to become Congregational. as have
their sister churches in Florida and Georgia.
action.
The Rev. DR.. r. S. Siorrs of Brooklyn is
to deliver the Grafton at the quarter-centen-
NAL observance of the founding Of the town
of S0utbold, L. l.. on August 9th. DR..
9torrs great-grandfatller. the Rev. DR.:
John Storrs, was pastor at Southold
about the time of the Revolution.
Mr. John d. Rockefeller has lust made a
second gift of 100000 to the Baptist Educa-
ton Society, bringing his three gifts through
this society upl0 $4,000; and lie has prom
ise1 $4,000 to Morgan Park Baptist lheo.
logical Seminary in Chicago, on condition that
$4,000 more be secured in a limited tine.
Rev. Elizabeth ComStock the Quaker
preacher, now aged and iutirm, living at
Union Springs, n. Y. has in her lifetime Wis
tied 122, 900 prisoners, 1876 600 sick and wounded
soldiers, $1,000 inmates Of poor-houses and
aims houses, on bo,h sides of the water. For
Thirty years she toiled ON this field. and during
the last ten years of her active life was one of
the most beloved members of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.
CATHOLIC NOTES.
Tho portuouese C..bolio conoreoat;on of
oakIond haye n",chased q iot for cbnrch
nnrnosas nn S;Yth street neor Rrnsb
The De Sales Reading Circle of ST.
Francis de Sales Church. Oakland. is in a
pros porous condition. The society meets
every Friday evening There are seventy.
five names on tha rnIi
The numher of commandments in tha
Catholic Churches of Minneapolis is "a. Gpo0
" The Sistaps Of Sotre Dame of This cam.
trv will celaHrate the cniTen iuhiiea If thair
coyninn ~ Amerira in Nnvemher Of .his
wear
pa,, u Jowis of tho Conuob;r Ordor IN
Eranna has moda ann,;cotion for narn;s
s;am 70 atierd an tba ienars in tha Est
indies dies 1r,s, c,r,s.i.n pro,,,or. ,,ro ,oon
boiding 1hair ,decanniaI nhantar q, tba
0'Rrian JnSritnte Marine CIontarf nndar
tba nras ;dancr ne ,ha Gauerai ns Tho nrder
w 'n1 Irajond Rrother W.ywnil " -e
The Ranedictine A hhev in Westmoreland
County. Pa. has among its novices several
young colored men. One Of them, Brother
Alfred, represented the Institution at the
late colored congress in Cincinnati.
The receipts from the first half of the
series of the Passion Play at Oberammer-
gau amount to 100000 marks, covering the
entire cost of The production, with a fair
profit. The second series will thus be clear
profit. 1t is an unprecedented season.
Doubtless the money will be devoted to
pious purposes.
William O'Brien and John Dillon pur-
pose visiting the United States in the COM
inp fall. and r. p. Gill. M. p. is TO 90 with
them.
Catholic parochial school building,
casting So. coo, has lust been completed Mt
Lincoln. Nebr. John Fitzge, aid. President
o. he Irish National League, contributed
4 .sAa .s.vard its erection. and his brother
5000.
According 10 a London Times telegram from
Zanlji3Ar the French bishop. Mgr Leyinhac.
has returned there after al uuprecetlentedly
short Journey of forty-six DAYS from the south
end Of Lake Victoria. On his way he met
Emin Pasha, who was himself ullwen, and one
or more OF his officers were fqand dangerously
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