The morning call., 1890-08-16
RELIGIONS REALM.
Congress of Catholics From All
Countries in Belgium.
Church Statistics Of the United states-Pres
byteTian Mission Work Abroad-B'nai
Firth Declarations

Lancashire is the most Catholic county in
England.
Cardinal Gibbons is devotng the entire
profits of the sale of his new book, "Our
Christian Heritage" to the addition now
being made to the Baltimore Cathedral
Bishop Wigger of Newark, N. j.. has
presented the Leo House Of New York City,
for Catholic German immigrants. the 5000
donated him on the anniversary of his sill
yer jubilee.
On Sunday last the Rev. Peter J. Prem
dergast, former pastor of st. Mary's, took
charge of the Church of the Epiphany, New
York, vacat ed by the Rev. Richard Lalor
Burtsell.
The Vincentian Fathers will open mis-
sion at st. Mary's Cathedral tomorrow
morning at 1880 o'clock. Solemn high
M ass will be celebrated, and after the Cos
pei the opening sermon of the mission will
be delivered, and all the regulations, order
OF masses, etc, explained
Rev. I. Mathew of Cork, Ireland, a rela-
ton of the celebrated Apostle of Temper
ance, Father Theobald Mathew, is in this
city and will give lecture at Irving Hall
on Friday evening, the 22d inst, the pro-
ceeds to 60 toward the Father Mathew
National Memorial Church. The subject Of
the Fathers remarks will be Mathew and
Parnell.'
Early in September congress of Catho-
lies from all parts of the world Will be held
at Liege, Belgium, for the purpose of con-
sidering the necessity of the Pope'S indie
pendence and the feasibility of urging upon
Christian governments the necessity of re-
storing those territorial rights of the Papa
cy whose usurpati0n none Of them have
recognized as lawful.
AMONG THE CHURCHES.
The Seattle Congregational Church has
has had gift of lots valued at S25, 600, also
some building material, for the erection of
church edifice to cost $4,000.
1t is estimated that there are over 8,OO0,- |
900 children in the Sunday-schools Of the
United States.
There are 459 Sunday-schools in Chicago,
with an attendance of 124. $50 scholars. The
MethodlStS lead with SO and q, 493 scholars.
The presbytery of Los Angeles will hold
its Semi-annual meeting in tho First Pres
byterian Church of San Diego (Dr.N oble' s., |
commencing at 1870 o'clock In the evening
of September 10TH
The ministers of this vicinity will meet
next Monday at the Emmanuel Baptist
Church study at 10 80 o'clock. A paper will |
be read by Rev. A. w. Runyan.
According to the action of the General
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, the lay members are next fall to
vote on the question whether women shall
be eligible as lay delegates to the electoral
and general conferences of the church.
The enthr0nement of Most Rev. DR.. Anton
Gruscha, the new Prince Archbishop of
Vienna, took place on July 9th with all
pomp. AT the morning services in the
cathedral the new prelate took the pre-
scrlbed oath In the presence of the Papal
Nuncio, NJ. Gallmberti. At noon Count
keilmansegg, the Governor of Lower
Austria, arrived in state coach drawn by
lOrSpS and pprformp1 the n n VEG
ture. Count keilmansegg is a Protestant,
and this Is the first occasion when prelale
in Vienna has received inyestiture at the
hands Of non-CathOllc
The reformed Episcopal diocese OF Ken
lucky reports gratifying increase in COM
munlcants and material affairs during the
past year.2 There areinow: Parishes, SO; Or
gained missions, II; unorgsnized missions,
IL: clergy, 43; lay readers, A; commune
cants, $3.50; value of church property, SS62,-
600; contributions. S195.000; churches, 30
chapels. II; parsonages, 9; Sunday-school
teachers, go and scholars, 1866.
In the Rhinebeck Reformed Church, Rev.
DR.. j. X. Berry pastor, a contribution of
S10S5 for the erection of an educational
building in Annoy China, was made by
few friends in response to appeals made by
Rev. i. w. Pitcher, missionary from China
The Presbyterian Foreign Mission work
is carried forward in Brazil, China, Mexico,
Greece, Italy, Japan, Africa, with the fol-
lowing results: Missionaries. male, 81;
missionaries. female, IL; stations, IS; out
stations, IS; communicates added during
the year. 800; total number of commune
cantS, 2072; native ministers ordained or
licensed, 10; other native helpers, 81 pupils
in Sabbath-schools, 1907; pupils in day
schools. o45; contributed by native churches,
S43l7
THE HEBREW FAITH.
An anonymous individual lately at
tempted to circulate in Athens, Greece, an
extract from an anti-Semitic work, which re-
produced the well-known calumnies against
the Jews. The attempt was met by gal
liant defense Of the Jews by the press, the
clergy and the theological faculty.
Three locomotives have been ordered from
America for the new railroad between Jaffa
and Jerusalem. Two of them bear the
names of these cities.
AT the convention of the Presidents of
the Bnai Birth Society in Atlantic City,
n. j., the following declarations were
unanimously agreed upon:
That special efforts be made 10 induce those
OF our CO relielonists who have lately lmmigrared
into the United states TO affiliate themselves
with US by the Institution OF new lodges or
otherwise; believing that our order, by making
them fully acquainted with the principles that
govern us, will thereby assist them in making
themselves better acquainted with the duties aud
rights OF American citizenship.
We believe that compulsory endowment Is at
the present time the most important factor In
retardlDg the growth OF the order, and earnestly