The morning call., 1891-03-21
RELIGIONS REALM.
Missionary Notes = Items From
the Churches.

AT the First English Lutheran Church.
Geary street, between Cough and Octayia,
services eommemorating the Passion Of
Our Lord will be held. There will be
services including addresses and songs to-
morrow forenoon and evening, and also
each evening of the week.
The Young Peoples Association of the
Swedish Lutheran Church. 1888 Mission
street, have decided to paint and decorate
the church. The Passion Week is relig-
lously observed in the Lutheran Church
throughout the world as week of prayer
and humiliation. On Thursday before
Easter the Lords Supper will be celebrated
IN the evening at s o'clock in the Swedish
church. On Good Friday morning service
VIII be held at 1G:45 in the morning and in
the evening at 80 Passion Meditation"
Ihe programme for the latter occasion con-
slsts mainly of the Passion story according
to Matthew, alternating with hymns, songs
ana sacred compositions by Wennerberg,
Graun, etc., rendered by congregation, choir,
Sunday-scho0l, soloists and quartet, and
arranged so as to express the various i'm
pressions conveyed by the Bible text. The
idea was originally derived from Germany,
Wnere such service of reading and song is
called :" Passions Andacnt," but 1t may
be said that the whole constitutes kind Of
sacred concert.
The Christian Advocate thinks that the
distribution of tracts should be made part
OF regular church work.
lfoW Ahok, prosperous merchant OIL
Foo Chow. recently deceased, has given
$4,000 to found an AnglO-C Chinese college in
that city.
The DOshsha Collegiate. Scientific and
Theological School of Ki0to, Japan, has re-
ceived gift of 100000 from Hon. j. n.
Harris of New London, Conn.
MIR. NakaShima n membpr of the PrpsbV-
terrain Church, has been selected by the
Emperor Of Japan as Speaker of the House
OF Representatives. He is the first PreSi-
dent OF the first Japanese Parliament
Tie brotherhood on the Sea" is the
name of new society of two hundred Nor
weglan sea captains, who have pledged
themselves to have regular religious services
on board their ships, and to conduct every
lhlng there and on shore In the fear OF God.
There is now an evangelical church of
25O0 members in Persia, similar church IN
Egypt. a similar church in Syria, and an
other OF more than II 600 active members in
other parts Of Turkey.
Rev. Brother BettleliD. President of st.
Mary's College, Oakland, and Nisitor-Gen-
eral of the Christian Brothers schools on
the Pacific Coast. returned last Sunday from
trip TO the Northwest. He found all the
schools in charge of the Christian Brothers
in Oregon IN a flOurishing condition, and
VIII sloItlY eSlaDIlsn one Ill " AHA W ana,
Wash.
Rev. T. P. Torpe, pastor of the Cathedral,
Cleveland, Ohio, has been created a Pom
titical Master of Ceremonies with the title
of Very Rev. MonSignor. The new Mon
signOr is SO years old and native of Ire
land. He was ordained priest by Bishop
Rappe in 1861. He served with zeal and
fidelity several smaller missions, and tor
fifteen years has been pastor of the Cathe-
dral.
His Eminence Eizear Alexandra Cardinal
Taschereau. Archbishop of Quebec, cele-
brated his seventy-irst birthday few
weeks ago, having been born at Saint
Marie de la Beruce, Province of Quebec,
February IT, 1920 The Cardinal is still
active and vigorous, and attends to the de-
tails of the administration of his archdiocese
as closely as in the early years of his epiScO-
pacy. The Irish-Canadians have never for
gotten one heroic part OF the Cardinal, then
simple Pere Taschereau, IN company with
the late Monsignor CaZpau of Quebec, acted
in 1S47, when he fearlessly attended the
fever-stricken Irish immigrants who, in
that year, arrived in such numbers at
Quebec, and helped to care for the hundreds
OF orphan children who were left destitute.
The feast of Purim is at hand.
The Jewish Progress devotes several col
umns in this weeks issue TO a consideration
of the question, why do not the mass of
Jewish young men marry ?'' and attempts
to solve it by iDsinuatipg that Jewish maid
ems are brought up to be ornamental rather
than useful members of society.