The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-02
GENERAL CHURCH NOTES.

Convention of the Apostoiate of the
Press Methodist CIergymen..
Bishop Brooks of Massachusetts will re-
tain as his residence the rectory Of Trim
ity Church, Boston. The house occupied
by the late Bishop Paddock has been
sold. In becoming a Bishop, Dr.. Brooks
exchanges a salary OF $4,000 for $4,000.
the salary allowed a Bishop.
The Rev. A. G. Davis, a travelling Ad-
vent evangelist. on Sunday baptized three
women and one man through a hole cut
in the ice In the Merrimac River, at
Haverhill, Mass, and before u stlyerlng
crowd of 1000 persons.
The following notice is posted up on
the door of Il fashionable place OF worship
in London:-"You are requested to kneel
at the more solemn parts of the service.
'Kneelers' are hung on the irons down
each side OF the church,"
L%lanllyfni, Wales. has a Baptist minis
| ter VINO is bordering or ninety years of
age. Yet. on a recent Sunday. this
veteran preached Mt the Baptist chapel,
| Abergeles. aud on the following eni
he delivered his popular lecture on
Christmas Evans"
Some montns ago Cardinal Lavigerie
sent to His Holiness Pope Leo XIII. sew
/ eral African gaZelles and deer. great
| beauties, which are kept in a portion OF
the Vatican gardens that has been fenced
off for the purpose. Az seven o'clock
the Pope took a walk in his gardens and
| invariably paid a visit to his pets. A
| servant followed with u basket contain
ing feed aud His Holiness fed the ami
mails out of his own hands. They have
| learned to know their master. lick his
hands. and, when satisfied, lie down at
his feet.
This story of Rev. LYNN Beecher,
| father of Henry Ward Beecher. was told
originally by his ON. The elder i5eecher
had been preaching one Sunday at Litch-
field, and rs he got into the carriage to
70 home he remarked that he had never
preached such a poor sermon before.
why, fatner," said Henry, II never
heard you preach louder" That's it,"
responded the old man; when l have
nothing to say always boiler"
Tie Pope expressed his desire before
the College of Cardinals last week of
again seeing the American pilgrims in
Rome. Late advices report his Holiness
as Cooking weary u feeble and APP
parently far from being in good health"
The Rev. DR.. Joseph Pullman. at a re-
cent meeting OF the Itinerant Club. an
association of Methodist ministers of this
city, deplored the lack Of learning in the
pulpits of that nation. The con-
ference examination OF persons desiring
license to preach he described as f~arcical.
Methodism, he declared, !abors under
many disadvantages on account of the
ignorance of the preachers, aud he made
/ an urgent plea for their better education.
There is a strong appeal to the senti-
| ment of human brotherhood in the pro-
posal to hold during the summer of 1898,
\ in connection with the Chicago Fair, 4
| congress of r~eligionists of every nation
ality and name. Catholics, Protestants
| and Jews and representatives of the
| Greek Church. Buddhists, Brahmins,
Confucians, Parsees and MohammedRns
are TO be invited 10 sit together in friend
ly intercourse, and to tell each other what
they believe and why. Such a congress.
il successfully carried out. would mark a
new era in the worlds history and give
to the young Hercules among Western
cities, and. Indeed, TO the Republic itself,
kind.
On the feast of Epiphany, the sixth