The morning call., 1891-12-27
THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.
Brief News Notes of Religious
Work Mt Home and Abroad.

OF Archdeacon William Day Reeve, the
new Bishop of the Mackenzie River do
cese, it is said that he has made a journey
of 300 or 400 miles in canoe to neighboring
stations every summer; has walked on
snow-shoes for days during the winter,
drawing his provisions on a sled in Indian
fashion; has adopted the coarse food of the
natives and acclimatized himself to their in
hospitable region.
The Interior says of the preparations now
making az Portland, Oregon, for the next
Presbyterian General Assembly, which Is
to meet there next year: The First Presby-
terrain Church Of Portland, Oregon, Is pre-
pairing to make the next assembly men,
orable in the history of the church as one
unegualed in the perfection of arrangement
and entertainment. Strong committees
have already been appointed, to each one
of which is assigned a department. These
are: Hospitality, information, finance,
preparation Of assembly rooms, missions
aud pulpits, press and printing, banquet
excursions, music, railroads and trans
portation. Portland can take care of two
or three thousand strangers without diff
Guilty.
The biggest Bible, in point of dimensions.
is one the pages of which are two feet in
length and nearly as much in width. 1t is
200 years old, belongs to a German lady re-
siding in Manchester, England. The work
contains many primitive illustrations, and
is an heirloom which has descended to its
present pOsseSsor by succession Of family
wills. The biggest Bible in point of bulk
belongs to Mr.. John Bell of Manchester. he
having added pictures and photographs to
it until it has now 10000 illustrations and
consists OF ninety volumes.
Center College, Danvlle, ky., recently
received a cheek for S25, 0G0 from Thomas
H. Swope of Kansas City, a graduate in the
class OF 1913.
Charles II. Spurgeou. the noted preacher
of the London Tabernacle, who has been
seriously ill for several months aud who
left for Mentone, Italy, In October, for the
purpose of recruiting his health, has writ
ten letter to friend describing his pres
ent condition, in which he says: My
progress toward recovery is painfully slow.
| am tossed up and down on the waves of
disease. | am so weak sometimes that am
utterly Frustrated. My symptoms are the
same as when | was at home. 1 shall re-
cover. however, for this is the tenor of the
prayers which God has so far answered, but
there are no signs of rapid progress"
A most interesting part OF the mission
work of New York is the lady visitor to the
law courts. She spends her entire time in
visiting the courts during trials 10 lend
kindly hand to women and girls who, de-
servedly or innocentiy, have gotten into
difficulty with the crimina! law. She visits
daily the six police courts of the city, and
the Judges have come to know her and to
welcome her presence, as enabling them to
temper justice with mercy. Last month she
rescued thirty-four girls and women from
prison, saving the State the cost of their
maintenance; but, better far, finding for the
most of them respectable employment, and
enabling them TO return 10 the paths Of rec
titude and usefulness.
Over one hundred missionaries of the
Evangelical Churches sailed from New York
this wear for foreign fields.
The Rev. Dr. William A. Bartlett, pastor
of the New York avenue Presbyterian
Church in Washington, ID. c., has been in
vited by the Rev. Father Mackin. pastor of
st. PauPs Chapel, to sit in the Board of
Directors of the house of Good Shepherd.
The institution is owned ard controlled by
Roman Catholics, and the invitation is
striking indication Of the increasing popu-
larity of the idea of Christian unity that
characterizes the religious world in this
closing decade of the nineteenth century.
General Armstrong, head of the Indian
school at Hampton, Va, while speaking, on
Thanksgiving day, at Stoneham. near Bos-
ton, in behalf of the school, was suddenly
stricken with paralysis, from which there
is but faint hope of his recovery.
Catholic Notes.
Mrs. Matthew H. Carpenter, widow of
the late United States Senator Carpenter,
and an Episcopalian. has joined the Catholic
church and is now regular communicate
at ST. Johns Cathedral of Milwaukee, Wis.
1t is reported that Father Oechtering,
pastor of st. Mary's Church, Fort Wayne,
Ind, is to be promoted to the Bishopric of
La Crosse, Wis, made vacant by the death
of Bishop Flasch.
st. Joseph's Church, Harvard, H., the
cornerstone OF which was laid last June,
was dedicated on December 10th. Arch
bishop Feehan of Chicago presided over the
ceremonies, assisted by Very Rev. Deans
of Joliet and Rev. Father McGinty of James
vile.
The new church for colored Catholics in
Philadelphia will be dedicated by Arch
bishop Ryan on Sunday, January Sd, and
on January 9TH the National Convention of
the Colored Catholics of the United States
will open at the church with solemn high
mass by Rev. Father Fulton, the first col
ored priest in this country,
The committee having in charge the pro-
posed Catholic Congress OF 1898 submitted
their report to the Cardinal and Arch
bishops while assembled at ST. Louis re-
Gently, who have approved their sugges-