The morning call., 1890-11-22
AMONG THE CHURCHES.
Summary Of Interesting Religi.
GUS Events.

Rev. W. N. Steele of Homer, Oregon. will
ILL.,
There are now 275 white ribbon women
studying the Bible and New Testament
Greek under the direction OF Dean Alfred
A. Wright.
Among other subjects discussed by the
Georgia United Conference was the need of
ministerial training-school for the South.
The receipts of the Presbyterian Board OF
Foreign Missions are more than $4,000 be-
hind those of last year, and the debt has al
ready reached the sum of S50.500.
Major Whittle. the evangelist, will soon
commence series of gospel meetings in
Wooster, Ohio. by invitation of the pastors
OF the evangelical churches of that city.
There are eleven Congregational churches
in Denver, Colo. Villa Park, the youngest,
dedicated new house of worship Novem-
Der I'd.
The lay vote in the Methodist churches
on the question of the admission Of women
TO the general conference, is pretty decld-
edly against the women in the East but in
their favor in the West.
The cornerstone of the new Congrega-
tlonal church in Dudley, Mass, was laid on
October 10th. The church is to cost about
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niah Conant.
The house of worship of the Second Con-
gregational church of Spokane, rapidly near
ing completion, will be dedicated next
month. Rev. William Davies, one of the
Yale Washington Band, is the pastor.
There are now in this centennial year OF
New England Methodism 10000 commune
Giants IN New England. 100000 worth of
church property and 100000 OF educational
property.
There are now $40 Christian Endeavor
societies and twenty-three unions in the
State, with an aggregate membership OF
23.0o0 and 1000 members outside OF the
unions, making total membership of 1000.
The year ending October 81, 1890, has been
the most prosperous in the history OF the
Board Of NJ. d. Church Extension. The re-
celpts have been about 100000, making
total for the twenty-five years of its exist
ence of S4,017,977. During the year 573
churches were aided and in the past twenty
five years 1899. Appropriations amounting
TO S3OO, GOO were made for next year.
CATHOLIC NOTES.
Rev. Father Williams, o. p, who has re-
Gently been engaged in missionary work In
connection with the Indian school at Ban
Mug, is at present in Los Angeles.
Not only at Ottawa but also at Montreal are
the Franciscans restored to Canada, and
they are opening houses of their order in
both cities.
Bishop Keane, rector of the Catholic Uni
yerslty In Washington, will be in Denver
next week, and while there will deliver two
lectures, one On christian Patriotism" and
the other on 1.-The American CT the Future"
There are 1850 Catholic Indians in the do
cese OF Bishop Brondel, Helena, Mont All
the Flatheads are Catholics. The missions
in Bishop Martyrs diocese are also flourish
ing. The Bishop himself speaks several In
dian languages.
st. Paurs Cathedral, Pttsbure, will be
a NJ.
cember. Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop
Ryan, Of Philadelphia, viii attend, besides
many Bishops and priests.
Sister Maria Caprini arrived lately in
Naples from the Soudan, where she had
been detained prisoner since the year 1882:
The story of her imprisonment by the Mahdi
is one OF thrilling interest.
The sum Of $4,000 has been raised for the
new church i'll st. James Parish, Salem,
Mass, by the people of that parish. 1t is
confidently expected that by next May II e
fund shall have reached $50, co., when wolk
on the church will begin, and the balance
collected later.
Right Rev. DIR. Donnelly, auxiliary Bishop
of Dublin, has just returned from Austria
and America, through which countries he
made a prolonged tour. He says he co! =
siders the progress of the Catholic Church
more marked in Australia than in the Tn to
States. DR.. Donnelly is quite celebrated III
Dublin for his deep knowledge Of music and
his love of the divine art.
Right Rev. Bishop Mora confirmed large
class of children at San Bernardino last
Sunday.
THE HEBREW FAITH.
A scheme for dealing with the whole
question of the Jews of Russia is in course
of elabsration by the Government.
Baron Gustaye de Rothschild has given
100000 francs TO the AustrO-Hungarian So
ciety of Beneyolence.
The Caroliniani, new fiesrital erected at
Frankfort in memory of Baron Charles de
Rothschild, father Of Lady Rothschild, was
opened last week.
The authorities at Billngep. Germany.
where Stoecker was announced to speak,
ordered him not to touch on the Jewish
question, says the Hebrew, in the first place
because the relations there between Jews
and Christians are Of the most amicable
character, and secondly because disturb
ances at the meeting " ere aDprahended