The morning call., 1893-11-26
THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.
Notes of Interest to Members of Many
Denominations.

Denominations.
There are over 200 priests of the Re-
demptorst Order in the United States.
The State convention of Christian En-
deavor lately held at Hartford, Conn, had
2190 delegates
The Congregational church in Nordh0ff
reports that during the past year its aver
age congregations have doubled.
The House of the Good Shepherd in
Boston has founded its first branch house.
This is in Springfield, Mass, under the
patronage Of Bishop Beaven.
Rev. DR.. Cochran. the new pastor at
Santa Monica, writes: THE Congrega-
tional church in Santa Monica is small and
weak. bat united and hopeful"
Four of the professors at st. Bernard's 8
Ecclesiastical Seminary Of the diocese of
Rochester, n. Y, are former pupils of
MonsIgDor Satollii. the apostolic delegate.
AS the COngregationalists have achieved
a measure OF success In setting up Mans
field College at Oxford. the Unitarians
have followed suit, and opened Manches-
ter New College at the same literary CEN
ter.
The First Congregational Church. Mid
dletown. Conn.,, observed its two hundred
and twenty-ffth anniversary November 5.
This was the seventeenth church or ganiZed
in the colony. 1t has had ten ministers
anu i've houses OF WOTSDip.
Speaking of the proposed celebration of
the birth of Christ at the beginning of the
twentieth century, the Christian Inquirer
says: "The trouble with the celebration
of such an event is that it would run to
levtv, frivolity and dissipation"
The Maine Free Baptist Association, at
Saco, passed the following resolution: Re-
solved, That all measures looking towa ard
broadening the horizon of our denomina a.
tional fellowship be carried on through the
conference board Of general conference. or
under its direction.
The presiding Bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal church, Right Rev. j. Williams
of Connecticut. has issued protest against
the attempt Of Bishop Henry Chauncey
| Riley to create an ecclesiastical organiza-
lion within the limits of the diocese of the
| valley of Mexico.
The English Church Missionary Society
| has filled the gap In It's African mission
| forces caused by the death of Bishop
Crowther by the appoin tment of three
bishops, two of them native Africans. The
two African bishops are both from the
YOruba country and are sons of Christian
| parents.
The Baltimore Baptist says of Professor
Drummond's course of lectures on "Eyolu-
ton, under the auspices of Chicago Uni.
verslty at Emmanuel Ba ptist Church ''The
professor has run mad on evolution, and
1t pains us to see great institution pat
ronizing him and providing a platform fo,
the dlssemin alton of his hurtful theories .
+. Marion Crawford, In a recent article
on the Pope. rem arks that in the matter
between Leo XIII, President Lincoln and
Mr. Gladstone-leaD, sound mind. of 6
bony constitution, indomitabe vitality
large skull, high cheek bones and ener
getic jaws. each possessing profound
capacity foI study. and of melancholy dis
position and unusual eloQuencs.
Rev. Robert Red ath. the oldest minister
of the United Presby yterian church in Eng
land, died In West kensington the other
day in the ninety-irst year of his age. Mr.
Redpath was born at Yar Bridge. neal
Selkirk, in 1903, was baptized by DR.. Law
son OF Selkirk, who was known as tbt
Christian Socrates. and as theological
student had for his tutor Professor John
Dick of Glasgow. For many years he was
an examiner in the nonconformist col
ieges in and around London