The morning call., 1891-01-31
RELIGIOUS NOES.
Items From the Churches at
Home and Abroad.

Thirty-fve Swedish missionaries sailed for
the Orient on Thursday last.
A congregational church of thirteen mem
bers was organized last Sunday at Port
Costa.
The PreSbytery of San Francisco has in
vited tie General Assembly to meet in San
Francisco in 1892 In so doing it has acted
not only for itself, but for the Presbyterian
churches upon the Pacific Coast.
There viii be an important meeting to-
morrow evening at Calvary Presbyterian
Church. Powell street, corner OF Geary, in
the interest Of the prosecuted Jews in Rus
sia. Rev. Dr.. EastOn will ADDRESS the meet
ing on 'lsraePs Wrongs; the Intolerance
OF Russia Protest and Demand" All
who have sympathy with the oppressed
should be present. IsraeliteS are cordially
invited.
The Young Peoples Presbyterian Society
Will hold their annual meeting in Calvary
Church on Friday evening" the 20tn proX.
y By concerted movement nearly all the
ministers in Oakland reached sermons
against the saloon last Sabbath. This was
GOne with the hope of influencing voters a
the coming election t. choose a Mayor and
CuuuCiimen Who will favor Submitting the
question OF saloons or 10 saioOus in that
city to popular vote.
Rev. William II. Alger of Boston has
been sent to this city by the American Uni
tartan Society for the purpose of inau-
guTauug popular series Of sermons in the
Mission. The reverend gentleman is one of
the best known pulpit orators in the deuom-
inatiOn. He first came into note on the
death of The great champion of Unitarian
ism, Rev. Theodore Parker, whose cOngre-
cation he took spiritual charge OF for six
vars. Subsequently lie received a call to
New York, where he gained such a diStin
guished reputation that, III the course of a
lew years. he was called upon 10 accept sew
eral other important charges. Mr. Alger is
more widely known to Il large class of
thinkers through his books, the best known
being his "Genius Of Solitude" and his
work on The Doctrine of Future Life"
which have been translated into several Of
the modern languages. Mission Opera Hall,
on Mission street. near Eighteenth, has been
rented for the purpose of the meetings and
MI. Alger will deliver the first of his ser
mons tO-moTrOw evening. His ject for
this first meeting is, "a Cheerful Religion"
The census announcement that there are
40 religious bodies in the United States, ex-
elusive Of many Independent congregations,
VIII be received with surprise by most
people, whose knowledge Of the sectS does
not embrace more than a dUZen or fifteen at
the most In the list as disclosed by the
preliminary bulletin issued by the Census
Bureau from Washington. are the General
SiX-Princii lie Baptists, the Schwenkfeldians,
the Tbe0sOphical Society, tho Life and Adj
vent Union, and others which TO a majority
Of people viii DE entirely new.
ROMAN CATHOLIC.
The German authorities in East Africa
are giving every facility for the extension of
the Catholic missions. In the kilimanjaro
territory Mgr. de Courmont, Ncar-ApOs-
UOiic Of North Zanzibar, has founded a mis-
sion station for the Fathers of the Holy
Ghost at Matchame. The place is situated
on tine slope OF the great mountain about
1900 feet above the level of the sea, in a
lovely country with a temperate climate.
Ia ten more years the restored Catholic
Church in England will keep its first golden
jubilee, says the London Tablet. In the
year 1915 1t kept its first silver jubilee, and
in the address laid before Plus IL it was
shown that the number of priests and
churches had doubled, and that colleges and
schools and cunyentS were threefold and
fourfold as compared to their numbers be-
fore 1850. What will be shown in the golden
jubilee may be cOnjectured from one exam
pie. The old Loudon Vicariate contained
eight counties, the Isle of Wight and the
Channel Islands. The number of priests
was about 1S7. The Nicariate is now divided
into three dioceses of Westminster, South
wark and Portsmouth, and the number of
priests i, already 702.
The following interesting narrative of the
manner in which Father Craft, the Indian
missionary, was wounded at the battle of
Wounded Knee appeared recently in the
Washington Star: His wound was made
by a long, broad-bladed knife, which en-
tered under his right shoulder-blade near
the spine and passed through his lungs to
tie upper part of his breast. He did not
see his assallant, but a soldier who did,
says the Indian was running wildly along,
and, not recognizing the priest, plunged the
knife into him. At this time a badly
frightened Indian was hanging to his cas-
sock aud praying the priest to save his life.
Alter he was stabbed be went among the
wounded to alleviate their sufferingS. A
young soldier stepped up to him and said :
- Father, am dying. Please hear my con-
fession." Bending down the priest listened
Ia The soldier, and as he gave him absolu-
g: Il n the boys head fell on the priests
breast. Both fell; one was dead, tie other
bad tainted.
There is now Father Damien in Japan,
says the London Daily News. He is French
priest named IesteVuide. who first became
Interested in the epers through the case of
poor Japanese woman whom be tended
when she was abandoned by her husband,
ana was left, blind and miserable, in spe-
cies Of hut above the wheel of an old rice
nil. Touched by the wretchedness of this
woman, Father IesteVuide hired a house
near The village Of GOtemba, some distance
from Yokohama, al the foot of the Full
yama Mountain, and converted it into
leper hospital. Since then he has estab-
lished regular leper settlement on land
between the mountains Of HakOne aud Fuii-
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uate OF Cambridge University, to whom the
devoted missionary Is personally known,
sends lisan account Of the humble settle
ment, and desires us TO state for the benefit
Of those who are interested in work of this
character that the founder of this settlement
is the Rev. G. Tesleyuide, French Church,
\ Yokohama, Japan.
THE HEBREW FAITH.
The annual session of the District Grand
=: Lodge, No. g. |. o. o. b., monopolized the
attention of Jewish residents during the
past week. A resume of the proceedings
appeared from day 10 day in The CALL.
RABBI VoOrsanger has done effective work
during the week in bringing The attention of
the churches to bear upon the barbarous
treatment of the Jews in Russia.
AT the regular meeting of Banner Benefit
Society the following officers were installed
by j.. AarowilZ. p. p: Louis Berger,
j. p; Mrs. NJ. Barasb, r.; Mrs. Fanny
Harris. V. P; A. W. Mathews. s.. S.
Harris, t.; NJ. Cohn, p; Mrs. 5. Samuels,
NJ; Mrs. A. Ewing, s.; Z. Gosal, G.
In order to be good sten0grapher or a
good typewriter girl must Know how to
spell correctly, must know how to punctu-
ate letter and must be able 20 correct un-
grammatical manuscript, and, above all, she
must have common sense. Unless she have
these qualifications she need not apply for Il
position.