The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-05-17
GENERAL CHURCH NOTES.
Practical Use of the BfbIe-Phnlips
Brooks Successor,


Brooks Successor,
The Catholics of Germany propose to
honor the memory of the late DIR. Wind
thorst by the erection in Berlin of q
splendid church, which will be called
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF ST. Louis
Ludwig being the name of the father of
the deceased chief of the Centre party.
The site has already been presented by
the burgomaster OF Berlin.
There are nine card inals' hats vacant
only few of which will be assigned in
the coming consistory, that il, there are
sixty-one cardinals now living, eight OF
eighty and upw ard, eighteen of seventy
and upward, twenty aged between sixty
and seventy, ten of fifty or more, aud
three of forty to fifty years of age Car
dinal dl Rende is the youngest OF the
Sacred College. and Cardinal Mertel the
oldest.
The province of Baltimore is to be di-
yided. a new Archepiscopal See being es-
tablished at Savanna, aud new Episco-
pal See erected at Atlanta.
There were great rejoicings IN Agra,
India, recently, when the arch bishop,
Most Rev. DR.. Jacopi, celebrated the
golden jubilee OF his missionary life in
India. Both the Catholics and non
Catholics of the archdiocese venerate Dr.
Jacopi as truly apostolic man, who has
never spared himself in facing the many
lI11lo VI AANittA1 tittSS10AdlJ ill.,
The American Institute of Christian
Philosophy will hold its fifteenth sum
mer school al Avon-by-the-Sea, August 4
to IL
Rev. DIR. McVickar. the rector of Holy
Trinity Church, Philadelphia. Is promin-
emily mentioned as the successor of Rev.
Phillips Brooks in Trinity Church. Bos-
DR.. McVickar would accept. Rev. Arthur
Brooks of this city and Rev. John Cotton
Brooks of Springfield, Mass, brothers OF
Phillips Brooks. and men of much ability,
are also frequently spoken OF as possible
successors in the Trinity rectorship.
An exchange says after the Rev. Henry
A. Powell had sent ia his resignation q
woman, @ member of the Lee Avenue
| Congregational Church, Brooklyn, went
TO him. the doctor says, and complained
that she could never care for any other
pastor. II can never have the same feel
ing toward any other minister she said,
land | am sure | could not love new
pastor" DR.. Powell endeavored TO show
her that it was her duty to love the COM
ing pastor, when she settled all argument
by saying mo, 1t Is impossible for me
TO care for another pastor. | am sure of
it. That's what told DR.. Eggleston when
he left us before you came"
The Philadelphia Times says If Beech
ers and Talmages and Surgeons and Col
lyers and Moodys were plentiful there
would be big churches in every city in q
little while For it costs less to build and
maintain one large ediflce than half a
dozen small ones with only the same ag-
gregate seating capacity.
The chair OF dogmatic theology of the
Union Theological Seminary, Of New
YORK, becomes vacant on May 10, and DIR.
Z Van Dyke has been named as most likely
TO fill the vacancy. DIR. Van Dyke was
installed minister of the church on Gin
ton street nearly forty years ago, having
been appointed on June 20, 1858.
The Rev. Thomas O'Gorgan. d. D., pro-
lessor of the Catholic University of
America, has consented to write history
of the Catholic Church OF the United
States. He does so by the special request
OF the American Historical Association.