The morning call., 1893-09-03
THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.
Notes of Interest to Members of
MANY Denominations.

Cannon Farrar's article against ritual
ism is making decided stir in England.
The Southern Presbyterian church now
numbers: Synods, 10; presbyterles 70;
ministers, 1911 churches. 1852.
The conservation of BishOp-elect Law
renee of Massachusetts will take place in
Trinity Church, Boston, on October 5.
DR.. Briggs lectured on recent Sunday
at the Grace NJ. E. Church, Baltimore, mis-
subject being THE Truthfulness Of the
Bible"
Evangelists Mason and Chandler are
holding a successful meeting at San Lucas,
and go from there to Monterey for two
weeks engagement.
Catholic teachers for deaf and dumb
children are wanted at Jacksonville, Ill.
Rev. J. w. Grove of that place can hnd
employment for them.
The Herald and Presbyter of Cincinnati
announces that convention OF liberal
PresDyterianS has been called, the purpose
of which is secession.
The Jews are 10 have a Chautauqua of
their own. The object is 10 assmiate the
immigrants of that faith who come TO this
country. Philadelphia is TO be the center.
The receipts of the Methodist Episcopal
Missionary Society for the nine months
closing with July 81 were $685., 800 AZ. This
y
closes with the last of OcLOb Der.
The third Sabbath OF September. or, il
more convenient. some proximate Sab.
bath, is to be observed by all Presbyte-
rian churches as day of prayer for the
euccess of the cause of temperance.
Very Rev. Il. BouQulllon, DID, profess
sor OF moral theology and dean of the
divinity faculty at the Catholic University
of America at Washington, ID. c., had an
audience with the Pope on August 3.
The Pope has directed the Catholic in
habitants OF Naples n OF to fast on Fridays
as long as the cholera prevails. His Holt
ness fears that the physical weakness en-
gendered by fasting might cause The people
TO be III ore susceptible 10 the disease.
The Episcopal clergy aud laity of the
nine northern counties of western Wash
ington, in the jurisdiction of Olympia,
have adopted memorial TO the House OF
Bishops, asking consent TO division OF
Olympia by setting of the nine counties
for a new diocese.
1t now authoritatively announced that
the Archbishops of the church in
the United States have taken the mat
ter in hand, and a suitable dwelling for
the Papal legation will be erected in Wash
ington. The details will be settled at the
meeting Of the Archbishops in Chicago.
Archbishop Chapelle Of Santa Fe lately
returned from Rome, accompanied by four
priests and fifteen seminarians. The
priests will be assigned to missions In the
diocese OF Santa Fe. and the young leyites
are to continue their studies an0 will be
ordaine ed for work in that territory.
Japan has a population of over 40, GOO,
900. OF these less than 10000 are profes
sing Protestant Christians. Including the
mum Der of converts claimed by the Rus
sian Greek Churcn (20.325) and the French
! Roman Catholic Church (44,8l2). the entire
number of Japanese Christians hardly
exceeds a hundred thousand.
Sister Rose Lynch OF the Domin lean
| Convent, Galveston, Tex, died recently in
the eighIy-sixth year of her age and the
sIxty-second of her religious life. For
many years she was Superloress of the Do
minican Sisters in ONO, and was widely
! known throughout the United States fol
her zeal for the higher education of girls.
The Buddhist religion was first intro
duced in to Japan from China in the year
! 500 The King of one of the Korean prov
inces sent golden image of Buddha and
! some of the sacred books as present &c
the sovereign of Japan. The same King
afterward sent other books. aud also
teachers, a nun, monk and AN Image.
maker.
Missionaries are not merely "called'
! these days, but trained as well. The Union
/ Missionary Institute of Brooklyn trains
young men and women OF any evangelical
! denomination. There is a farm annex IL
! Hackettstown. The course is three years
and music and medicine are paris of it
Already thirty-two graduates are in tb,
! foreign field.