The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-15
AMONG THE CHURCHES.
Brief Notes About Various Reli-
giOus Denominations.

on Pennsylvania avenue, East Santa Cruz.
1t will be large enough to seat 225 people
and will cost about $780,
TIE Baptist church now has in the United
States 3,164, 227 members, with 347S0
churches and %, 703 ministers.
Presbyterian church has just been organ
gained at Chino.
Edgewater Congregational Church of
Seattle celebrated its second anniversary
May 1st with music and reports from all de-
partments of church work, as well as
social and lunch. The reports show good
progress made since the organiza ton two
years ago. The membership increased from
six to thirty eight, with two letters granted,
and the Sunday-school increased from thir-
teen to $50, with an average attendance OF
ninety-siX.
The Rev. w. Fl. Ramsey of England has
received a call to the rectorship of Trinity
Church, Santa Barbara, which. with the
Bishops full concurrence, he will accept so
soon as he shall have resided the canOnlcal
time in this country, having charge OF the
parish however, in the meantime.
ST. Augustine's Church. Brooklyn, New
York, alter struggling existence of many
years as a coOred mission, is now an in
dependent parish. with colOred rector and
vestry.
Ex-Governor Evans of Colorado has given
500, coo to the Denver University.
The Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian
churches Of st. Helena are preparing for
grand floral festival to last three days.
Rev. DIR. Gray, formerly of Vallejo, has
donated his library, bookcases, paintings
and the furniture of his study to The Pacific
Theological Seminary of Oakland.
At recent meeting of the Ministers
Association In Petaluma, representing SIX
of the city churches, it was reported that
81, h.u ,T.d III pis nh
during the last year upon profession OF
faith only seven members, and that in these
six churches there are but ten unmarried
young men who are active members.
In heather countries, says the Missionary
Review, ProteStants occupy 500 separate
mission fields, containing 10000 mission sta
TONS supplied by 10000 missionaries. In
these 10000 mission stations there are 500,-
600 Sunday-SchoOl schOlars-an average of
% to each station. In the 10000 Protestant
mission stations there are 1,000,000 of native
communicates, or an average Of 80 to each
station. There are also 100000 Of adher-
entS, who are friends OF the evangelical
faith and hearers Of the gospel preached
from the bible-an average VI 100 10 each
station.
CATHOLIC NEWS.
The convent of the Sisters of Mercy at
SnOhOmish was opened recently.
The Pope has erected in Japan the Vicar
ate-ApoSt0lic of Hakodate, and has named
as Vicar-A pOstOlic, with episcopal character,
Father Alexander Berl,oz, priest of the
Seminary of Foreign Missions of Paris.
Father BerlIOZ was born In September II,
1852, in the Diocese of Cambria, France.
He departed in December, 1875, for the
missions of the far East He stopped for
some time in Hong-KOng, and in 1879 wSS
sent as a missionary to Japan.
Bishop O'Farren of Trenton administered
the sacrament of confrmat IN to about 200
persons in the Church of the Immaculate
Conception, Camden, \. j., on April Goth. On
the afternoon Of the same day the Bishop
confirmed a class of 200 In ST. Mary's
Church, Gloucester City, n. j.
A full-length portrait in oil of the Most
Rev. p. J. Ryan, ID, Archbishop OF Phil
adelphia, was recently placed on the walls
of Bishops Memorial Hall, NOtre Dame,
Ind.
Rev. Father Kane Of Valley Falls, R. l.,
will celebrate his silver jubilee May Goth.
The Very Rev. Frederick a. OBEien, rec
tor of st. Augustine'S Church, Kalamazoo,
Mich, and one of the rural deans OF the do
ceSe Of Detroit. Mich, has been appointed
by President Harrison one of the visitors at
the West Point Military Academy. 1t is the
first time in the history of the academy at
West Point that Catholic priest has been
thus honored.
On Sunday last Archbishop Riordan adj
ministeTed the sacrament of confirmation TO
about 100 children and a few adults OF ST.
Mary's parish, Stockton.
St AIMS Church, Lodi, was dedicated by
Archbishop Rl0Tdan last Sunday.
The Pope has established the bishOpric of
Zanzibar and will shortly appoint a bishop.
Eighty-seven thousand three hundred and
seVenty-tive OF total Indian population of
277,000 are Catholics. For the Catholic In
danS there are 104 churches, 81 priests and IS
schools, which have an attendance of 1885,
Maf laro rf lefG tar ne ag.h in ha
schools. The number Of baptisms in 1890
was 1907 children and 245 adults.
Mrs Celinda Whiteford OF Washington
has given 100000 for the enlargement of
st. Agnes Hospital in that city, and as
much more as is necessary will follow. She
will also endOw twenty free beds. The gift
is in memory Of her son.
THE HEBREW FAITH.
Pitlsburg, Pa. has completed the building
of the John Giusky Orphanage and Home,
which will he pride to the Jewish CON-
munity. The ladies have organized to take
charge of the home, and donations are freely
made for its support
Another graduate of the Hebrew Union
College, Rabbi Gutmacher Of Fort Wayne,
Ind, has been unanimously elected rabbi of
the old Lloyd-street Congregation Of Balti-
more. This is the pulpit which has been
filled in times past by such ministers as Refs,
Hochheimer. and Bethlehem.
DIT JtUu SiuON, TUG jewish MEMBER oil
the English Parliament, thinks that the Rus
sian Jews should not be sent TO South Amer
lea, but to English colonies. He Is also au-
thority for the statement that the Roths-
ohilds will withdraw from the Russian loan.
The Hebrew says: The nature of the
work done by the Trustees of the Baron de
Hirsch fund in New York is shown by their
evening schools for Russian and Roumanian
girls. All Of these pupils are employed in
shops during the day, and quite a number
are so eager to learn English that they come
direct from their work to the class-rooms
without going to their homes for even bite
of supper.
The Home for Aged Jews recently incor-
pOrated i'll Chicago promises to be a grand
success. The initial donation of $4,000
given by Mr.. Abraham Simmer has been
increased until the total donations now
amount to upward of $4,000.
The st. Petersburg NoYosti, the only Rus
sian paper that defends the Jews, has re-
ceived the second warning" from he Min
istry of the Interior.
A Jewish movement has been started by
students of the College of the City of New
York. They wish TO form a society to
spread and further the idea Of the settlement
Of Palestine by prosecuted Russian Jews,
who should become established there as
farmers.