The morning call., 1893-08-20
THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.
Items OF interest to Members of
Many Denominations.

Many Denominations.
! Rev. Burt Estes Howard, pssto- of the
| First Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles
has just received draft tor 500 from hi:
! former church in Cleveland, Ohio. for Oc
! cideDtal College. Surely local pride should
| prompt the Presbyterians of the coast to
respond with a zeal equal at least to that
OF strangers in the work of the deserving
college.
The principal paper at the Columbian
! Catholic Congress. to be held at Chicago
this fall. is TO be read by Bishop Waterson
of Columbus, whose subject will be "Thc
Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII on L Dor. &"
DIR. Watterson's deep learning and fine
literary accomplishments will make this
| paper one that il will be well worth hear
! ing.
A the late commencement at Yale Uni.
versity the deg ee of Doctor of Divinity
was conferred upon the Rev. Hiram Bing-
! ham, the pioneer missionary To the Gilbert
! Islands. DIR. Bingham has earned dislinc-
ton by the completion of very scholarly
version of the Holy Scriptures in the Gill
bert Island tongue.
Rev. j. DiOmedi, s. J., the wel-kpown
Indian missionary among the Spokane and
! tlathead Indians in Washington. Montana
! and Idaho, is at present residing in the
Sacred Heart College, Denver, Colo, to re-
! cuperate his eyesignt. which has become
weak from arduOus labors of the missions.
Adolph L0ucheim, who died recently in
! Philadelphia, was prominent in Jewish
| charitable work and gave largely to assist
| his poorer brethren. Re was member OF
the United Hebrew Charities. the Jewish
Hospital Association, and number OF
| other charitab BILE Institutions.
The outcome Of brief correspondence
! between Germany and this country has
been the purchase of the library of the late
Dr. David Castle of Berlin for the Morals
/ Library of the Jewish Theological Semi
/ nary.
Professor Weiner Of the Columbus (Mo.)
! University, who is writing a dictionary
and grammar of the Juden-German dia eel
! Garg0n) spoken by the Russo-Polish Jews,
Is at present in Chicago collecting material.
! MonsignOr Satolli was so charmed with
the California climate that he has promised,
| so at least 1t is said, TO return to San Fran
cisco arsome future date and be the guest
| Of Archbishop Riordan.
Rev. +. Merton Smith, assistant pastor
OF the First Presbyterian Church of Oak
land, and his wife, are spending their
vacation in the Sierras, somewhere i'm the
vicinity of Lake Tahoe.
The courts have approved the change in
! the name Of the American Home Mission
ary Society. After October / the official
name will be the Congregational Home
Missionary Society.
Representatives of twenty-nine Catholic
associations were present at the dedication
of the new church of San Sebastian in
| Berlin the other day. Bishop Knopp
| officiated.
! The Jewish Publication Society's lit
erary department is now in charge of Miss
Henrietta Sold, Jewish essayist of no
little repute in this country.
The Presbytery of South Dakota will
hold its stated meeting at Marion juno
ton. S OAK. beginning Tuesday. Septem-
Der II.
The Second Presbyterian Church of
Oakland has been recently enlarged and
beautitied. The opening will be held to-
day,
Several bands of sisters who are engaged
in educational work are among the students
at the Catholic Summer School this season.
The largest syDods on the roll of the
Presbyterian General Assembly are the
synods of New York and Pennsy vania
= The l. o. B. B.. the oldest Jewish order
in this country, will shortly celebrate its
golden jubilee.
Sister Lamartine of Naples, Italy, has
been elected superior-general of the Sisters
Of Charity.
Rev. Philip Bunnell, the oldest minister
in Maine, died July %, aged SO years.