Omaha daily bee., 1890-03-30

Baptist mission among the Teugus in India,
| in which 900 converts have been gathered
| in twelve years, still continues, and IL
! spreading into the interior of the country.
| In the Nalguuda district fttytwo were re-
| Gently baptlsed IN one week.
The presiding bishop of the house of bish.
| ops of the Protestant Episcopal church has
| assigned to the bishop of Albany the fun
| Episcopal charge of the foreign churches
| anG congregations on the continent of Eu-
rope and the Clergymen otliclating therein,
| Tor the three years next ensuing.
Many EpiscopaIans are very much worked
UP over the fact that Phillips Brooks took
part IN the installation of William Abbott as
pastor Of Plymouth church, says the New
York Tribune. They fear that in some way
or another the doctrine of the apostolic sue
cession will get lost
Or. Francis f. Brown of Boston has de-
vised plan by which six deaf persons who
formerly heard nothing OF the sermon now
hardly miss n word of II when they attend
church. A large sound-recever stands near
the preacher, and branch speaking tubes run
by way of the floor from il TO each of thd
deaf persons.
In the Trinity building New York, archi-
tects are at work daily making drawings
and preparing plans for the Episcopal
cathedral, using the four prize plans as "A
basis of the work. Tho plans alone cost some
S35 600. They all contemplate the use OF the
finest granite, such IA is put into government
buildings nj Washington.
Bishop Leonard has accepted the offer of
Trinity church, Cleveland, 10 make that
church his cathedral. The present rector,
the Rev. Y. u. Morgan, will bo tho dean,
ana the venerable DR.. Bolles, the senior
canon. 1t ls expected that Trinity cathedral
will soon have new aud handsome edliice.
In Rome there are scvera Thousand priests
why make their living solely by reading mass
Especially i'll the 823 churches of the Eterna
City an almost endless number of masses
are ordered from all the ends of the globe.
There sular pay for each mass has been goo
francs Now the general vicar OF Rome has
ordered that the priest reading the mass
snal receive only l20 francs, and must
hand over the rest TO the treasury OF tho
church.
The American Baptist year book for 1890
gives largo figures for the regular Baptlsts
in tho United States They have 2l,lT5 or
dained minister's, 335SS churches and
3,O10OiT members. These figures include
white and colored and northern and southern
Baptists, The number of baptisms last year
was l445f5 They have lIO'6 Sunday
their church property is S53 5GS, SOP, and tho
aggregate Of their contributions last year was
1885, 81.
1t IS said that the rectOrs of two churches
in the Protestant Episcopal diocese OF Mary
land VINO use a very advanced ceremonial,
have for some time been placing what re-
mains of the COnseCrated bread aud anu WINE
after the communion service IN "A miniature
tabernacle on tho altar and burning Il taper
in front of it, Bishop Paret has, IN conse~
quence, ISSUED a circular l"ttcr, 1t Is stated,
which says the church law Is explicit thaJ
whatever romans Of the consecraLed mater"
ia must Immediately after the bene fiction
be revcrontly consumed by the minister ana
other communicates.
Constantinople in the course of time has
become "A religious and eCclesiastlcal center
of considerable Importance for Christianity
Recently it mas become the scat Of a Roman
Catholic arch hbishop. Tue other church dig
nitares residing in the Turkish metropolis
are the patriarch Of the Greek Orthodox
church (Dionyslus W, tho Armenian Or
thodox patriarch, the Armenian Catholic
patriarch and the bulgarian cXarch. The
number of Christian churches IN CONSTANT
nople is 40. OF these - are Roman Cath,
Ole, Greek Catholic, ~ Armenian Gath
Ole. | Bulgarian Catholic, 80 Greek OrthO 3.
dox, 80 Armenian Orthonox, II Protestant,
Ia the suburOs Eedlkuleh and san 5tephanO,
in the very heart of the Turkish districts,
Roman Catholic schools and churches have
recently been established by tho Domluican
monks,