The morning call., 1891-01-10
RELIGIONS REALM.
Notes From Far and Near of
Spiritual Work.


Midnight masses were celebrated in most
of the Catholic churches of London on
Christmas eve, for the first time since 1865.
The recent Congress of Ulm was attended
by eighteen thousand Catholic men. the
largest number that has ever been present
at Catholic congress in Germany.
Al a recent sale of autographs at the
Hotel Drouot. Paris, which realized 6SS7
francs letter by st. Vincent de Paul was
sold for 100 francs, and one by Pope Clement
VIII for 226 francs.
Sister Agatha Russell of the Visitation
Monastery. st. Paul, Mimi, recently celp-
DRAFTED the golden jubil ee or fftieth ami
versary Of her religious profession. Bishop
Stanley celebrated the mass and Arch
bishop Ireland preached. Sister Agatha
was one OF the founders of the Visitation
Order in the West.
Rev. John Ali Saab, q missionary from
the Province of Lebanon, a Maronite father
OF the Syriac Rite, is now in Los Angeles
Ills parish Is in Dana, III the Holy Land. nm
der the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch. and
Is ABOUT 10 miles from Jerusalem. He was
also stationed at Bethlehem and Nazareth.
A movement is on foot in Germany for
the purpose of presenting to Herr Wind
thorst, the veteran leader OF the Center
party in the Reichstag, the sum of 10000
MARKS toward completing the Catholic Ma
rlenkirche In WindthOrstS parish in Han
over City
A lecture in New York's METROPOLITAN
Opera House yielded as much as $1,000.
Archbishop Ryan lectured there recently for
the benefit of the colored orphans in charge
OF Father Burke of st. Benedict the Moor's
Inc Catholics Of Denver, Colo, have sub
scrlbed $4,000 to the Catholic University.
and another $4,000 is promised.
AMONG THE CHURCHES.
About $500 has already been received in
answer to the appeal Tor the erection of a
city of Rome
relieved CT his pastoral duties, DR.. Theo-
dore l.. Cuyler devoteS himself almost en-
urely 10 literary WORK in his Brooklyn home
a new book by him. especially Tor minis
tiers, VIII soon be published.
y recent count shows that the Christian
Endeavor movement begins the new wear
1891, with over l.. 600 societies, and at least
10000 members.
The Catholic magistrates Of Client, Bel
gum, have recognized the Salvation Army
as sect, and have fined a number Of per
sons who were brought before them charged
with having created disturbance at the
meetings held BY the army.
Iwenty-lour persons il all have been bap-
tied into the First Baptist Church of this
CITY from the Bethesda Mission.
Eyangelists Crittenton and Carpenter of
the New York Florence Mission are holding
meetings at Woodland which are taking
hold Of :he town as no previous work has
ever done.
Rev. ). NJ, Cooley, formerly editor of the
Pacific Methodist, has been appointed to tie
presidency II the Pacific Grove Academy,
Arkansas.
In connection with the Cumberland Pres
bylerlan Church at Fort Worth, Tex. is
maintained Bethel" Rooms are kept
open night and day with plenty of good
reading matter and Sunday-schOOl, made
up of waits and others gathered from the
street, numbers from eighty to 100.
y \. NJ {. \, building TO cost 100000
VIII be erected at once in Tacoma, Wash.
Half of the money was subscribed by one
man.
THE HEBREW FAITH.
The Jewish society for attending the sick
and for Durying the dead celebrated on the
first day OF the Chanukah the one hundred
and eighty year of It's existence.
Baron de Hirsch has given donation of
10000 HORNS To the funds OF the Relief Com
mittee at Hamburg, which is charged with
the repatriatiOn OF Russian Jews who emil
grated to England or America.
The recent Jewish charity ball at Men,
| phis, Tenn, netted 5000, which Will be di-
! Vided between the New Orleans and Cleye-
| land orphan asylums.
The editor of the anti-Semlte Deutsch-
| Soz.alen Batter has been fined 100 marks at
! Lelpsic for hbeliug a jew. Every lawyer
! IN Lelpsc refused 10 act as counsel for The
defendant.
Noel Temple Moore. British Consul in
Jerusalem, las been promoted to Consul
! General for IripOli. Mr. Moore has been
/ IN the Holy City thirty years, and both
! privately and ottiri ally I've has rendered many
| useful services TO the Jewish community.
| 1t IS by no means new thing for the
| prelates OF the church to stand forth as the
| protectors of the Jewish race, says the New
! OTk Freeman's journal. At Il time when
my were hunted and prosecuted in all