Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-09-12
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very nearly completed.
Bishop Nichols will lay the corner
stone Of the Church Of the Advent
San Francisco.
The colored Baplisis Of Sacra-
men,o are holding regular Sunday
services, twice each month, under
the leadership Of Rev. Joseph Whit
lock. They hope to organize a
church soon. Their Sunday school
numbers about fifty members.
Rev. ID. C. Ellis has received a
call tn the pastorate Of the Baptist
church OF Pendleton. or. He has
for some years past been settled at
Adams. Umatilla county.
The cornerstone Of the new 81.
Fraucis de Sales church, Oakland,
will be laid September 18th By Arch
bishop Riordsn.
David Jacks, who is one Of the
warnest friends of Presbyterian
Home Missions on the coast, has
Offered to place an evangelist in thu
field who shall act as pastor Of all
vacant mission churches in the San
Fruncisco Presbytery. He will see
thAt he receives $1,000 salary and his
expenses.
Rev. l. Mclean, pastor of the
Preshyterians at Bandon, Or, has
projected the first and only churcb
building 10 all that region. and the
demand is great for others. The
field is ia Coos county, south Of
Cos bay. On a recent Sunday
Pastor Mclean travelled sixty miles
aud preached four times to people
otherwise destitute of the gospel.
Rev. Horatio Stebbin, the pastor
Of the First Unitarian Church, leaves
this evening for Saratoga. While
there he viii represent the Pacific
Uni,arian Conference at the national
meeting Of Unitarian societies. His
pulpit will be supplied by Rev. MA.
II ,slSell Of San Jose, Rev. Thomas
Van Ness aud Rev. Charles w.
Wendte of Oakland.
The returns of the recent most
successful Catholic fair at Menlo
Park are reported as $4,000. The
ladies who managed it are given
great credit.
Rev. J. X. Mclean, Of the First
Congregational church, Oakland,
and Pastor Oakley, Of Plymouth.
avenue church have resumed their
pulpit duties.
The Olivet Congregational Young
Peoples socitey, of San Francisco,
has doubled its membership since
the coming Of the new pastor, Rev.
fl. IL. Cole.
Rev. A. A. Watson, pastor of the
Baptist church, Blaine, Washington,
is visiting friends in California and
soliciting aid for his financially de
pressed congregation.
An ecclesiastical retreat for the
priests of the diocese Of Sacrelneuto
has been appointed by Bishop Mon
togue to commence on Monday even
ing, sept. 2lst, at the st. Vincent
retreat grounds, Grass Valley. All
the priests of the diocese are expected
to be present and report.
Rev. Father Lally, OF st. Peters
church, Dixon, who has for some
time been l..id aside from the par
ochical duties with disorder of the
throat, has nearly regained his
health aud will shortly resume
preaching Successful efforts are
being made TO liquidate the debt on
st, Peters,
Work has begun In improving and
enlarging the Catholic church at
Gllroy. The addition will be 22x4O
feet, and will be on the rear Of the
present building, which will be
generally renovated aud painted.
The plans for new church build
Ina for Calvary Baptist Church,
East Portland, Or, are still in the
hands of the architect, but will soon
be ready.
Rev. Father James Flood of Sa-
cred Heart parish, of San Francisco,
has had plans drawn for new
church edltlce, priests residence
and school. The buildings will be
of stone and finely finished. The
new church will be on Fell street,
southeast corner of Fillmore, while
the parochial residence aud school
will extend along Fell street $50
street. The church will be sixty Ave
wide by 1875 feet deep, with sauot-
uAry thirty feet deep aud thirty
Ave feet wide. The style adopted Is
the Romano que. Brown aud
white sandstone win be used in al
ternate layers. The cost will be
about 100000.
Floor plans for the new building
of the san Francisco Young Mems
Christian Association, corner Of Ellis
and Mason streets, San Francisco,
have been adopted by the building
committee. The old Norfolk stables
on the lot will be torn down I'M
mediately to make way for the ex-
cavatlon. A vigorous canvass is be
lng made to add $4,000 10 the build
ing funds.
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