The morning call., 1891-08-21
THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.
Interesting Notes Concerning
Various Denominations.

|. Rev Augustus Legge, the new Bishop of
Lchfed, England, is a brother of the Earl of
Dartmouth, and was born in 1885, He took
his degree at Oxford in 1861, with hOnors in
law and history, and in 1865 he was ordained
a priest. He is Vicar of st. Mary's at
Lewisham, rural dean of Greenwich and
honorary chaplain to the Bishop of Rochester.
There are 10000 Congregational church.
members on the Coast
The American Baptist Mission on the
Congo has founded new station on the
Pool.
At its recent annual meeting in Boston,
the American Peace Society appointed Rev
Bishop o. p. Fitzgerald to represent
America in the Worlds Peace Congress to
be held in Rome in November next.
The English Wesleyan Conference has
taken action in favor of purity in the lives
of public men. They want no more such
scandals.
Rev. a. P. Graves, DID,. has just closed
twenty-siX years of work in the evangelistic
| field. He is about to leave California.
where lie has made his home for the past
five years, to take up his residence in New
York City.
Mr.. Spurgeon in the Sword and Trowel.
| in speaking of Z" faith-cure." says: elf
health can be restored by faith alone with
out means, why is anybody i'll? Our won-
| der is that anybody has the influenza and
still more that anybody dies. Health with
| out medicine naturally leads on to nourish-
/ ment without food and decency without
| clothes. This is silly, but it is also mis-
cEievous. To expect more than God has
| promised is to secure disappointment and to
create unbelief."
| There is to be another Presbyterian theo-
logical seminary. 1t is to be located at
Omaha, and is intended for the Central
| West. II is expected that the seminary will
| be opened in September next. Twenty-Five
acres of ground in Seymour Park have been
| offered as site.
CATHOLIC NOTES.
At the monastery La Grande Chartreuse. in
| France, the death by accident of a veneer
| able monk, Don Jean Louis, has disclosed
| the identity of a Russian General, Nicolai
once the most powerful man, next TO the
| Gar, in Russia. For thr:y-twO years he
was thought to be dead, having quilted the
world for the cell of monk.
Right Rev. L. Merchant, Bishop-eect of
| the Indian Territory, will be cOnsecrated at
the cathedral at Natchez September Sth.
The venerable Father Edward Sorin. Cen
| eral of the congregation of the Holy Cross
| and founder of the university of Notre
| Dame, Indiana, who has been 10 France for
| his health, was passenger on the Etruria,
| and was met at the pier in New York by
delegation OF professors and students from
| the university.
The Catholic Truth Society of ST. Louis
| has purchased 5000 copies of the Pope's
" EncyclicaI on Labor" for free distrbu-
| tion among the workingmen.
! Professor O'Gorman of the Washington
| University has had an audience with the
Pope His Holiness made many inquiries
| about the university and its courses of study
and about Archbishop Ireland and Bishop
| keane, rector Of the university.
| A most interesting feature of the Worlds
| Columbian Exposition at Chicago will be all
exact reproduction of the Convent of La
| Rabida. at Palos, Spain, where Columbus
| was encouraged for his yenturesome voyage
and Hospitality entertained, and where, in
the little chapel of the convent, he attended
mass on tile morning that he sailed to dis
| cover new world.
According to an Irish paper mass was re-
| Gently celebrated among the ruins of old
| TimoeaGue Abbey for the first time in go
| years.
| THE HEBREW FAITH.
A circular has been issued by the Depart
! ment Of Police in Russia to the effect that
no one of Jewish origin, even if his father
was converted, can henceforth serve in any
| police establishment in any capacity.
Professor Dir. b. J. Stokvis is to be Rec
| tor Magnlfcus OF the University of Amster-
| dam, Holland, for the ensuing academical
year.
| IL is a rare thing for burglars to break
| into synagogue. but the sacrilegious feat
repeated three times III succession was I'M
| heard OF up to a few weeks ago, when the
| temple Ahawath Chesed of New York was
for the third time burglarized. The thieves
| did not find much booty in coin, but in raj
| ment they were gorgeously rewarded, hav-
| ing secured two costly new dress suits be-
longing to the President and Trustee of
the congregation.
The Congregation Beth Israel is waiting
for the holidays to be over before the conse-
. Grafton Of its new cemetery in San MaIeo
| County. The tract recently purchased for
| it is thirty-fve and one-third acres in extent
and adjons the Emanuel Cemetery.
Baron de Hirseh. who gives so much aid
| 10 the prosecuted Jews, says he wants to get
| 100000 of them on farms in the Argentine
| There is a settlement of them there already.
| In a recent interview at London he thus re-
| ferred TO America: -" do not want them
tn go to America. There are too many there
already | am willing to spend S35, 900, Co.,
Many wealthy people are willing to assist
me. | anu interested in America and am
| going over there next year."