The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-26
AMONG THE CHURCHES.
Paragraphs Culled From a Week
Religious News.
Rededication Of Woodbridge Church-Irish
Prelates to Visit the Holy see-Rsntal
of Berlin synagcgues


June $32,745, most of which was contrib
uted by the Sabbath-schools on Children's
day.
The June receipts of the American Board
OF Missions for ten months of this year are
S490,627, against S3S6.507 for the same
months of last year. The donations are
1854, 42S, against S3o3. 65S, and the legacies
S156, 1913, against SS2,S 4S
The Lutheran Synod of Missouri last
week adopted resolutions opposing the
public-school system as now constituted.
The resolutions also approve the opposition
made against the Wiscon sin and Illinois
school laws.
The Rev. DR.. T. Dewitt Talmage Of
Brooklyn was present at the Chautauqua
Assembly grounds at Beatrice, Nebr., July
Sth. and addressed an audience, estimated
to number 10000 people, on 1.-The Power of
Testimony"
During the month of June and part of
this month the French Protestants of Low
ell, Mass, have had a discussion on the
relative merits of the Catholic and Prot
estant faiths.
Aside from the idolaters CT Siberia there
are 100000 subjects of Russia whose re-
lIgion is foreign, namely: 100000 Arme-
mans, 5-6,000,000 Lutherans, 9-10.000,000
Catholics, 3-4,000,000 Jews and about TO-,
0OO,000 Mohammedans. Buddhists abound
in Siberia and extend even to the borders
of the Volga.
Memorial services in honor of the late
General Clinton i. Fisk will be held under
the auspices OF W0men's Christian Temper
ance Union and other temperance Organi-
cations on Friday evening next, at Central
Methodist Church, between Sixth and
Seventh streets.
The Lafayette-avenue Presbyterian
Church and the Clinton avenue Congrega-
tional Church, Brooklyn, have a united SER
vice, and the Rev. DR.. Gregg, formerly of
this city, is among the preachers occupying
the pulpit.
The rededication of Woodbridge Presby-
terrain Church, corner of Twentieth and
Capp streets, after the recent extensive i'm
prOvements, will take place tomorrow.
The exercises Of the day will appropriately
commence with communion service at II
o'clock in the morning. The pastor, Rev,
Rev. ii. ii. Dobbins. The formal rededi
cation will take place at o'clock, when the
Rev. DIR. L. Chalmers Easton will preach.
There will also be an address by the pas
tor, and special effort will be made to
raise the debt on the improvements. A
choice programme OF special music has
been prepared.
CATHOLIC NOTES.
The Pope has permitted the Catholics of
Montenegro to use the Slayonic language In
the liturgy.
In the fall all the Irish prelates will visit
Rome on special business with the Holy
See.
The Catholics of Du Bots. Pa, will erect
handsome new church this summer at an
estimated cost of $4,000 The location has
already been decided upon and the work
Will begin shortly.
All the houses of the order of the Sisters
oil Charity In Australia are now under one
central control, the order in Hobart having
been analgamateu with the head house in
Sydney.
Dom Wyatt. now Abbot-General of the
French TrappiStS, was formerly dlstln-
guished officer of the POntificial Zouaves.
A cablegram from Rome announces that
Able Mesmer has started for Washington
to assume the place in the Catholic Uni
Versity in that city which he is to FILL
A movement has been set on foot by the
young men of Cork to carry out the project
OF "a shilling subscription" among the
citizens, so that every admirer of Father
Mathew will have an opportunity OF as
siSting in the completion of his memorial
church.
The United States have now more Catho-
lies of Irish birth and descent, in part or
in who lie, than Ireland herself. With their
fourteen archbshops, seventy-three bish-
ops and 1892 priests they have the greatest
body of English-speaklng Catholics IN the
world.
INtf. TtlIlGI L elGI lUI leu
years pastor of the Church of Our Lady
Queen of the Angels, of this city, has re-
ceiyed cablegram. July 9th, from Rome,
announcing that he has been appointed
Bishop Of Brownsville, Tex.
Four RedemptoriSt Fathers have gone to
Portland, Oregon. to start new founda-
ton. Their names are Father Lambert,
superior, from Boston; Father Cronin,
from St. Johns, New Brunswick; Fathers
Lindner and Siegel from st. Peters Parish,
Philadelphia. Two Brothers of the con-
gregatl0n accompanied them - Brothers
Albau and Adelbert.
The German Benedictine Fathers have
been reinstated in the possession of the
Abbey of knechstein, at the gates of Co
logne. The Benedictine Order is so popu-
lar in Germany that their return was hailed
by all with the greatest enthusiasm. 1t is
asserted that the Grand Duke of Baden in
tends to put the ancient Abbey of Gegen-
bach at the disposal of the Benedictlnes.
THE HEBREW FAITH.
The pastor at Versailles, who was on
terms of cordial friendship with the late NJ.
Charleville, rabbi at that town, has granted
species OF pension for lie to his daugh-
ter. In announcing this gift he declared
that he recompensed in her the virtues Of
her father.
The seat rental of the three chief syna-
gogues in Berlin for the financial year 1889
90 realized &C. 46l marks, the sale Of reserved
graves 80. 100 marks, and the communal as
sessmeDt $40, 900 marks.
The Archbishop of Grosswarden, Aus
tria-Hungary, having been officially greeted
by the rabbi at SZilagy-Somlyo on his visit
to that town, declared that his labors on So
cial questions would always be inspired by
the pureSt love of humanity, that love
which embraced all classes, races and relig.
ious creedS.
The appointment of Professor DR.. Julius
Bernstein as Rector Magnificus of the
University of Halle, has received the royal
assent. The only other jew that has held
such an Office is Professor DR.. Behrend,
who was some years ago rector Of the
Griefswalds University.
Herr Rickert has exposed in the Reich
stag the mendacous practice of the anti
Semitic leauerS. He demonstrated that they
put forward fictitious names to support the
allegation that the Jews had driven 400
small farmers to ruin through the usurious
character of their eXtortions.