The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-10-06
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

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Cardinal Vanneutel,i. head Of q
ecclesiastical party. and who has beef
mentioned as Leo's successor, hal
resigned his post at the vatican becaus'
OF differences with the pope.
The "beneft Of clergy" was a lcgn
custom which allowed priests TO with
draw their cases from "A secular To al
ecclesiastical court. The evidence o
being clergyman was an ability 4
read. IL a man could read only u single
verse he was entitled to the benefit o.
clergy.
Since the death of Bishop Crowther
the negro bishop OF western equatorial
Africa. that see has been vacant, pend.
Ing the settlement of a somewhat
animated discussion. within the juris'
dict'on itself. as to the proper success
sion-whether a white man or q black
man..Churchman.
The Methodist Episcopal church
south Is making preparations TO cele-
brate its jubilee. June 8. 1924 will
make fifty years since the adoption OF
1.-THE plan OF separation" in pursuance
OF the provisions Of which the Meth
odist Episcopal church south became
a separate ecclesiastical Jurisdiction
Christian at Work.
notwithstanding that upward Of
$4,000 English sailors visit the port OF
Odessa in southern Russia annually,
and that there is a resident English
population there Of $50. there is no
Protestant place of worship. An effort
rs now being made to raise funds for
the erection Of a church. ana the mu.
nicipal authorities Of Odessa have do
mated a site for the purpose.
One feature Of the Worlds fair n
tendance which many visitors remark
is the presence of SO many Catholic Sis,
tiers among the sightseers. The monns
terry OF La Rabida, where the relics Of
Columbus and the valuable loan collec.
ton OF the pope are placed, seems in.
teresting To them. and a group Of Sis.
ters in their convent dress completes
the picture in the patio Of that build
ing.
-Congregationalists in New Hamp
shire have gained in membership less
than seven per cent. since 1872; Meth.
odists in the same state have gained
but seven per cent in twenty years. and
the Baptists have gained fourteen per
cent since 1872, though they have lost
twelve per cent in 1914. On the other
hand the Episcopalians have more than
doubled in number in New Hampshire
during the last two decades.
The cornerstone Of the First Pres
byterian church at Seattle was laid
recently In addition % the articles
usually placed in corner-stones for the
edification Of remote p~osterity this
stone contains a blank book in which
this statement is written: "A bank has
never failed in Seattle to date. We
just passed through a commercial
and financial panic which has beer
There has not been q fail
ure of any kind in Seattle"
In some mountainous and in.
regions of the west the
most important vacation of the pub
lie schools occurs in winter time and
continues from January to April, be.
cause at that season SHOWS are 81 deep
anu storms SO frequent That most chill.
dren are unable to make their way 70
school. The summer vacation is short
but the hardship Of attending and
teaching school in summer time is not
great. as the summers of those regions
are. for the most part. delightfully."-
.ool.
The pope has established a new
rule for the Benedictine order BY ap-
pointing an abbot primate. Among
the Benedictines the several congrega-
have each possessed an absolute
autonomy. and the individual abbevs
who are associated in a congregation
nave enjoyed almost the same power.
The order will thus be brought more
nto touch with the vatican. although
he new primate is appointed as the re-
'ult ofa conference held in Rome last t.
April by all the abbots and presidents
the various congregations through.
mt the world. The first primate is the
lbbot of Mardesous Of the Beuron ON.
yregation. He will also be abbot of
he new pontifical college Of st. An.
elm at Rome, a structure now being
IN the Avautiua