The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-08-02
RELIGIONS REALM.
Notes of Church Doings and
Progress in All Places.
Catholic Society Hall for Portland and Col
lege in San Antonio, Tex.-Christian
Endeavor Convention.

The Little Sisters of the Poor are now
caring for S. aged and INDECENT people in
st. Louis, Mo-
The Catholic societies of Portland, Ore
gon, have commenced the building of hall,
which will cost, when completed. about
$4,000.
1t is reported Rev. P. F. Carr, who re-
Gently resigned the editorship of the Colo
RADIO Catholic, will enter the Society Of
Jesus.
The first pilgrimage of English Catholics
to Canterbury since the Reformation, took
place on Monday, July 18th, the Feast of the
Translation of the Relics of ST. Thomas.
The annual meeting of the Archbishops
OF the United States was held in Boston at
st. Johns Seminary, Brighton, on Wednes-
DAY, July 23d. Cardinal Gibbons presided.
Cardinal Lavigerie, Archbishop OF AL
gers, announces to the Vatican that bis
missionaries have converted King Mwanga
OF Uganda, to Catholicity. He will be bap-
tlZed soon. the Pope becoming his sponsor.
The oldest Sister of Mercy In America is
Mother Seton of the New York Convent OF
Mercy, who is over 80. Her father died in
1900. Her mother, convert, founded the
Order Of the Sisters of Charity at Emmits-
burg.
The new st. Adalbert's Polish Church.
Plttsburg, Pa, will be dedicated about Sep
TENDER 1st, or as soon as Bishop Phelan re-
turns from Rome. 1t is a large building,
and will cost, when completed between
SIS, 1000 and 100000.
A writer in Les Missions Catalogues
gives these figures in regard to CathOlicity
in the Scandinavian countries: Denmark,
81 missionaries, 3700 Catholics; Sweden, 9
missionaries, 100 Catholics; Norway, II
missionaries, 1910 Catholics. Total 70 mis-
Sionarles, and $3.50 Catholics.
The Catholic clergy have purchased twen-
ty acres of land in the suburbs of San An
tonic, Tex, and will build thereon a col
lege costing 100000 Work will begin i'm
mediately, and it is to be finished in about
years time.
On next Monday the franciscan Fathers
will celebrate high mass at 9 o'clock in st.
Dominic's Church, Steiner and Bush Streets
in honor of the feast of st. Dominic. On
the following Sunday the soemnily of the
feast viii be observed in the usual manner
by the Dominican Fathers, and a panegyric
will be preached by Rev. Father Rooney,
y. T., at the high mass.
AMONG THE CHURCHES.
1t is likely that the Protestant Episcopal
Church will place a missionary at some
point in Alaska hitherto unreached by mis-
Sionary efforts.
AS prelude to the 250th anniversary ex-
erclses at Haverhili, Mass, religious SER
vices were held in the Academy of Music.
Twelve hundred people were present
The Rev. DIR. H. c. Mabie of Minneapolis
has resolved to accept the Western Secre-
taryship Of the American Baptist Foreign
Missionary Society. His headquarters will
be in Chicago.
Rev. Loyal l.. Writ has organized Sab
bath-school at Glen Ellen, Sonoma County.
DR.. William Henry Roberts, Stated Clerk
OF the Presbyterian General Assembly, re-
ports the total membership of the Presby-
terrain Church (northern) ut II, 233. This
indicates a net increase of l7,4S4.
There is strong probability that Pro-
lessor W. r. Harper of Yale will become
the head of the new Baptist University in
Chicago, founded mainly through the
munifcence of Mr.. John D. Rockefeller.
The position will be offered him.
The British and Foreign Bible Society
has, during eighty-one years of its history,
issued from its London Depository alone
29000000 complete COPIES OF Gods word,
32000,000 TestamentS, and nearly 1900 coo
portions OF the Bible; total of 73,000,000
or nearly 100000 year, or enough to fur
nsh every twentieth inhabitant of the
globe.
On July 70, 1890, Jesse Lee preached the
first Methodist sermon ever delivered in
Boston under tree on the co mmon. The
anniversary was observed on the 18th inst.
The fifteenth quarterly convention of the
Golden Gate Union of Young Peoples
in the Howard-street Presbyterian Church,
between Twenty-frst and Twenty7seeond
streets, on Thursday evening of next week.
August 18th, beginning with praise service.
to be followed by paper, Zone Thing" by
Mrs. James Woodwork. and another,
with Thy Might" by Miss Lillian La
mont, general discussion to follow the
papers. The closing address, Not in
Vain." will be by Rev. John Hammond,
ID.
THE HEBREW FAITH.
The cornerstone of the new synagogue
at Fegersheiln, Alsace- Lorraine, has been
laid.
The Comite de Renaissance in Paris ex-
pended during its last financial year 2S7, $50
francs In tue relief of distress among the
poorer class of Jews in that city, who, as
the report states, are constantly increasing
owing to the vigorous measures taken in
certain countries against the Jews
Herr Won Gossler, Prussian Minister of
Public Instruction, has paid visit to the
Jewish School in Hechingen. The incident
is noteworthy, inasmuch as it was the first
time that the Minister of Education in
Prussia had inspected Jewish school.
DR.. L. Brieger. private decent at the
University of Berlin, has been made extra
ordinary professor in the medical faculty
of the same institution.
The editor of journal published at Lille
has lately been twice found guilty of libel
ing Jews.
Emigration from Southern Russia in the
direction of Palestine is largely on the in
crease. From Alderman (Bessarabia) three
delegates. who are competent agriculturists,
have been sent to the Holy Land, and if
their report be favorable several hundred
families will each contribute 500 roubles
toward the purchase of land and the acquis-
itlon OF agricultural implements.