The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-08-09
AMONG THE CHURCHES.
The Southern California Convo-
cation Postponed.
windthcrst's Wedding Golden Jubilee Offer.
ing-Expenses Of the I. o. B. B-The
Indian School at Banning.

Eight friends in Britain, four of whom
are Scotchmen, have furnished rooms in
the mems department OF Mr.. Moody's Bible
Institute at Chicago.
A. a. Stage, the great Yale baseball
player, has for the present discontinued his
studies for the ministry and been engaged
as an athletic expert by Young Mems
Christian Association.
The church at Hightstown. N. j., has
been among the first Of Baptist churches in
these latter days to appoint deaconesses.
The Canadian NJ. e. Conference has sane
toned the establishment of a sisterhood for
| church work and evangeliZation.
The Episcopal Church Congress will be
held in Philadelphia, Pa, November 18th,
instead of November 4th, as first fixed.
The church at Sing Sing, Rev. e. A.
| F6ote pastor, will observe its centennial
| anniversary November 18th. An effort is to
| be made in connection with this event to
| pay off balance of $4,000 of Indebtedness
| on the property.
| 1t is reported that new church is shortly
to be built in Los Angeles by wealthy
| churchwoman of that city, and that the
Rev. II. o. Judd will be the rector.
| The meeting Of the Southern California
| Convocation has been postponed until Octo-
| Der, and Bishop Nichols will not go south
| quite as soon as he at first intended.
Professor John d. Davis, Pho, Profess
| sor of Hebrew in Princeton Theological
| Seminary, but whose specially is Asssyri-
| ology, and who has made some notable
| original Investigations in his department,
will address the Presbyterian Ministers
| Association at Calvary Church, next Mon
| day morning at 1880 o'clock, on "The
| Babylonian Story of the Creation" All
who are interested are cordially invited to
| attend.
CATHOLIC NOTES.
A subscription has been opened in Italy
| to erect monument to the great Capuchin
missionary, Cardinal MaSsaia.
| Vice-General Gilbert of Cardinal Man.
| ning's diocese of Westminster, London,
| announced recently that in that diocese
alone the conversions amounted to upward
| of 1900 annually.
Fifty-twO young ladies took the white
veil at the Notre Dame Sisterhood in Mil
waukee last week.
The Sisters of st. Joseph are to take
| charge of the Indian school at Banning
| Station, for which the Government has
| granted liberal appropriation.
A new Catholic church is to be built at
| Canyon City, Colo.
| The Illustrated American praises the
needlework of the nuns of st. Louis Mo-,
which has, it says, no rival outside of Mex
| leo.
| A meeting of Catholic women was held
on Sunday, July Goth, in Rochester, n. Y,
to consider the ACCESSIBILITY of establishing
a Rochester branch of the Ladies' Catholic
| Benevolent Association. 1t is probable a
branch will be instituted in that city.
| The Total Abstinence Association has
| taken very successfully in Castlecomer,
| County Kilkenny, upward of 1900 of the
| parlshioners having been enrolled MEM
| bers On recent Sunday there was pnb
| lie procession through the streets of Castle
conner of all the members, accompanied by
| the two bands of the town.
| The Franciscan Fathers. who have been
| seventeen years established in Detroit,
Mich, are about to leave that city. They
| went to fill temporary need, bnt have re-
manned until now in charge of st. Mary's
| and the Sacred Heart parishes. The calls
| for the Fathers elsewhere have forced them
to withdraw, Detroit's need Of priests not
| being very great. Bishop Foley laments
| their departure.
THE HEBREW FAITH.
| The l. o. b. Il. will have to pay nearly
| $1,000 year for the next five years for the
| privilege of having an official organ and
| Executive Committee. This money is to be
| divided among few men who know Tor
| what the Constitution Grand Lodge exists.
| The new temple for the Sephardim Com
4 munity in Bucharest will be consecrated for
| the coming New Year festival. 1t promises
/ 10 90 ornament 50 the public uu;.dihBo u
| the city.
| There are in Prussia about 1000 magis-
| trates, of whom at least 200 are Jews.
| Dr. Kayserling, rabbi of the Jewish CON-
| munity at Buda Pesth, has been elected a
| member of the Royal Hungarian Academy
| of Sciences. This is the first occasion that
! a rabbi has been admitted into that body
| Mr.. Leonard LewisOhn of New York.
| who is at present in Hamburg. has given
| 100000 marks in memory Of his father, Herr
Samuel Lewisohn, for the erection of free
| dwellings for the poor.
The Chinese Govern nent has in its serv-
| ice an Austrian Jew, Herr Sigmund Rosen-
baum. This gentleman is Collector of Gus
toms at Annoy, and is the author Of the
| Chinese English index to DR.. +. Porter
/, Smiths ''Materia Medica of China" Herr
| Rosenbaum is about to visit his native
| country after an absence of twenty-thrce