The morning call., 1890-10-04
THE CHURCHES.
Religious Happenings of Interest
in All Lands.
Bazaars in Aid of St. Teresa's and the Italian
Chureh-Sunday Evening S rmcns.
Hebrews Honored

Rev. George E. Freeman is home from
quite an extended trip East.
DR.. Ialmage has completed the manu-
script for his Life of Christ which is en-
titled " From Manager to Throne"
Rev. A. M. Petty returns to California
from Salt Lake, and is at Orange, Cal.
Mrs. Frances Brownell Holland of Hart
ford, Conn, has beQueathed 100000 to the
proposed new Protestant Episcopal Cathe-
dral in New York.
Twenty thousand pounds was contributed
in England last year TO sustain missionary
operations on the North Sea among English
deep-sea fishermen. Ten fully equipped
eyangeGzing vessels, three of which are
hospital ships. are employed in the work.
The new house of the church in Rockville,
Conn.,, was dedicated September 18th. The
building is of stone, will seat about 1900 and
cost 100000.
The Women's Home Missionary organiza-
lions of the country, by invitation of the
American Missionary Association, will hold
a mass-meeting in Northampton. Mass. in
connection with the annual gathering OF
that association Tuesday. October LIST.
The statistics for the diocese of Maine for
the year 1SS9-90 are as follows: Families,
1914; communicates, 3013; baptisms-adult,
63; infants, 23S; total of offerings, S62, 500 81.
The value of church property in the diocese
is 1888, $50, with seating capacity for 9371
persons.
The First CONGREGATIONAL Church. Sioux
City, Rev. w. Darling pastor, dedicated Its
new building September It'll The church is
built of OHIO stone, has massive tower
and viii seat about 800 people The cost
was about $4,000. Every fifth seat in the
edifce is to be reserved for strangers.
Eha c{n rf ha hal
teriau Church, East Orange, was laid Sep
TENDER 17th. The editce VIII be built OF
brown stone, in the Gothic style of architec-
ture. The estimated cost is $4,000.
series Of Sunday-evening sermons coy
ering the revolt of the ten tribes under the
successor Of King solomon ard the restora-
ton OF the eXiles and the rebuilding OF
Jerusalem under Nehemiah (9I5 Il. G. to 435
u. c. Will be preached by the rector at
Trinity Church, beginning tomorrow and
continuing until February l, 1891.
CATHOLIC NOTES.
Rev. Peter Verdaguer of Los Angeles,
Cal, who has been elected to the Vicariate
of Brownsville, Tex, will be consecrated in
Barcelona, Spain.
The Visitation Nuns have refused 500, 900
for their property on Connecticut avenue,
Washington, ID. g.
The Portuguese Catholics of Oakland will
give fair in Cavalry Hall for the establish
ment of their proposed church. which will be
located near Castro and Sixth streets.
Rev. +. V. Baursad, S. j., for the past
three years substitute for the Secretary Of
the English speaking provinces OF the So
ciety of Jesus at FlesOle. Italy, has returned
and has just been appointed project OF
schools at Georgetown University.
Rev. 2. Yorke, formerly of St. Mary's
Cathedral, who has been studying theology
at the Catholic University. Washington. ID.
c., is visiting his relatives at Victoria, b. G.
The Sisters Of st. Joseph, OF Nazareth
Convent of Rochester, n. Y. have sold
thirty = three acres of their property for
100000 The remaining forty acres the
Sisters will retain, and, in time, will build a
large IN other-house and novitiate thereon.
The Sisters of Peace will open new hos
pital at Fairhaven, Wash. Two of the Sis
tiers have arrived and have arranged for
plans for the institution, which are now
ready. Work will commence On the hos
pital shortly. When completed, eight more
Sisters of the order are expected to make up
the full hospital corps
On September 18th two churches were
dedicated to the service of God, and one
college was formally opened in the Catholic
colony Of San Antonio, Florida. This gives
the colonists of the Catholic colony Of San
Antonio four Catholic churches, one college
and one convent.
On next Sunday the feast of st. Francis
will be celebrated at st. Francis Church.
Vallejo street. There will be solemn high
mass at the usual hour and the panegyrie
of the saint will be preached by the Rev.
Father Placdus of the Franciscan order.
The music will be Beethoven's Grand Mass
in G., under the direction Of Mrs. A.
Stewart, organist of the church. In the
evening there will be solemn procession of
the rosary and benediction of the blessed
sacrament.
A bazaar in aid of st. Teresa's Catholic
Church, Potrero opened last evening in the
Potrer0 Opera House. All the booths in the
~ ~ IA hqTaar ia a ara han
somely decorated. and we're well patronized.
The fair will continue till October 18TH
A fair in aid of the Italian Church of
SITS. Pietro and Paulo, on Dupont and Fill
bert streets, was opened on the evening of
the 29ih ult, and will be closed on the 18th
inst.
THE HEBREW FAITH.
The population of Russia is 1S5,o00,0 900
and the number of Jews in the empire is
100000; but 80 Per cent of the students in
the classical schools are Jews OF the 1869
students in the University of Berlin 1902 are
jews. In lower Austria, out of 2l40 lawyers
1924 are Jews. Every tenth educated man
III Germany Is a jew.
The German Emperor has conferred the
Order of the Iron Cross on Regierungsrath
Wilhelm Naschauer, President of the Fruit
and Flower Exchange in Vienna. Herr
Moritz Leinkauf, the principal Secretary,
who Is also Jew, has received the Francis
joseph Order.
The consulting engineer of the Worlds
Fair Directory is an Israelite. His name is
Abraham Gottlieb, and he is native OF Be-
hernia.
The new convalescent home which was
opened last week at Warsaw, Russia, is the
gift of Herr Heinrich Levy and his wife,
who spent on it 10000 rubles, and who
stipulated that One-half Of the number of
beds should be devoted to Jews and the
other half to Christians.
Mgr. GregolIe, Greek, Archbishop of
Varna, has paid visit to the school in that
town of the Alliance lsraelite The pres
ence of a number of Christian children on
the school benches appeared to make a deep
impression on the Archbishop. who requested
the head master to express to the Central
Committee 10 Paris his cordial thanks for
the spirit of tolerance which prevails in its
educational establishments
An arstocratic Partisan club "blackballed'
Baron HiIsch, the wealthy and charitable
Hebrew, whose munifcence has made him
famous. The Baron quietly bought the
clubs lease and furniture, and caused
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