The morning call., 1891-04-25
THE CHURCHES.
italian Protestants Erecting
House of Worship.
An Opinion That Deserves Attention" How
Shall the Masses Be ReachedP-A
Validating Clergyman.

The sem-annual meeting Of the Bishops
of the Methodist Episcopal Church will be
held at Greencastle, Ind, on May 18th.
Bishop Fowler will go East in few days in
order to attend.
The annual meeting of the Pacific Baptist
Theological Union for the election of Di-
roctors will be held at Twin Lakes, Santa
Cruz, Tuesday afternoon.
MesSrs. Crittenden and Carpenter. the lay
evangelists, have been holding revival meet
ings in Oakland for three weeks with most
satisfactory results.
The Christian Advocate thinks that when
ever rich downtown church which is
crowded by poor people sells out at large
profit and moves mile or two away thought
at its first convention in its new quarters to
discuss the question: How Shall the
Church Reach The Masses?'
Bishop Whitaker of the Protestant EpiS-
c0pal diocese laid the cornerstone of the
new church of LiEmmanuello Italian Mis-
sion in Philadelphia, Pa, on the 7th inst.
This is said to be the first church of the de
nomination built in the United States for
Italians. 1t Is to cost about $4,000.
Kew. Emory j. Haynes, Tor years one OF
the leading Baptist ciergymen Of Boston.
has formally changed his denomination TO
be admitted into the New England Confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
He was a Methodist before he joined the
Baptists in the first place.
Tie protest against the uncan onical prac-
tees of DR.. HeDeF Newton and DR.. Rains
ford has been signed by log clergymen and
30 laymen. Some of the most prominent
churchmen's names do not appear among
the signatures.
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
A pilgrimage to Rome of the Catholic
youth OF Spain is being organized for the
coming centenary OF st. Aloysius.
Bishop Heslin of Natchez, Miss. left last
week for a trip to Ireland. He will visit
Rome the latter part Of June.
Mrs. Celinda Whiteford of Washington.
ID. C., has given 100000 for the enlarge
ment of ST. Agnes Hospital in that city,
aud as much more as is necessary will fol-
low. She will also enfow twenty free beds.
The gift Is in memory OF her son.
Cardinal Melchers, formerly Archbishcf~
of Cologne, will celebrate the golden jubilee
of his priesthood on June 9th. His Emil
hence was born in 1918, ordained ia 1851,
and consecraied in 1858. In 1865 he WAS ap-
pointed Archbishop OF Cologne. and pro-
claimed Cardinal by the Pope in 1885,
The Marist community, located al Isabella
street, Boston Mass, has begun the work
Of building new and handsome church. II
will bear the name of Notre Dame des Vic
torres and will be Of the style of the French
Renaissance.
The attendance at ST. Pauls Sunday
school has increased by 800 children since
falner Connolly TOOK charge or the parish
few weeks ago. AS pastor of st. John's
he was noted as a Jealous and successful or
ganizer of Sunday-school classes and young
peoples sodalities. That he has lost none
of his earDestness Is manifested by the
many improvements he has already inaugu-
T ated i'll his new sphere Of usefulness.
HEBREW NOTES.
The Twentieth Century, an anti-Semitic
monthly published at Jena, has been sup
pressed by the authorities,
In commenting supon the New York Her
AIDS attempts to bolster up the claim of tho
Russian Government that its treatment Of
the Jews is merciful one, the Jewish
Progress says that the Herald is not sue
cess as an apologist for the Gar. ~
All OF the German-J ewish papers speak
in glowing terms of the late DIR. ,Vindtherst.
the Catholic champion in the Relchstag, to
whom they give credit for the social ana
political emancipation of their religionists
in tile empire.