The Jersey City news., 1892-01-09
GENERAL CHURCH NOTES.
The Pope's Health-Plan of the Ne,
York Ca thedra1.

The Pope's HeaIth-Plan of the New
York Ca athedraI.
A clergymen Intimately familiar with
vatican affairs while sdiscussng the al
legged critical state of Pope Leo's health
said, recently, that all such reports should
be received with extreme caution. All
newspaper interviews purporting to have
been granted by the pontiff, said thi:
clergyman, are undoubtedly spurious
To obtain an interview with the Pope is a
very difficult thing for a clergyman, much
less layman. Reports that His Holi
ness is on the verge of the grave are ex-
aggerated. His extreme age, naturally
makes the slightest dieasse serious, but
no immediate danger to his health is an
ticipated.
Recent letters from Rome state that
Prince Hyppolite Allobrandini,o one of the
scions of the great medieval family OF
Borghese has just renounced rich
and glorious career and has entered the
Jesuit order. The young man is not vet
90 When he reaches his majority he will
fall heir to a fortune aggregating some
thing like a million. As embracing the
Jesuits involves Il VOW OF poverty this
fortune will pass into the hands of the
order Examples wherein rich young
men have given up the highest earthly
honors TO lead holy life are by no means
isolated in Italy.
All the new Protestant churches in
Maine have kitchens attached, and dur
ing the cold weather there are oyster
suppers, bean snppers, antique Shippers.
New England suppess. coffee parties and
lemon and other teas. A suitable pro-
vision is made for those who are too poor
to pay.
A Yorkshire vicar once received the fol-
lowing notice regarding marriage from
parish house;-"This is TO give you
| notis that | and Miss Jemima Arabella
Brearly is comm to your church ou Sat
urday afternoon mex, to undergo the
operation of matrimony at your hands.
Please be promD. as the cab is hired by
the hour"
The Anglican Bishop of Manchester is
quoted as having expressed himself be-
fore the Diocesan Conference of that
place as believing that there is no dis
gusng the fact that purely secular
education in the common schools means
a rising generation of unbelievers.'
A Young Brother" says the Christian
Intelligence. inquiries as to the meaning
OF the technical expression 'in good and
regular standing" as used in the form
for admission of church members. BY
common usage and with the force of
continuous precedents, it Is understood to
mean that the member is dismissed in
such standing in his church that he can
demand regular certificate In effect,
this means that there are no legal charges
against him.
The general ground plan of the New
Cathedral is in the form of the cross, the
arms of which. forming the nave,
transepts aud chancel. have each cen
trail and two side aisles. The general ex-
terror design is that of large central
lantern or tower. In the four angles OF
the cross are four fianking towers with
entrances At the west front ara two
larger towers, the central one being
crowned by spire, which looms up above
them all In the amended plans greater
seating capacity has been given to the
main body OF the cathedral, aud more
decoration has been added to the spire.
The cathedral will face west Instead Of
south, and the chapels will rise abruptly