The morning call., 1893-09-17
THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.
Notes of Interest to Members of Many
Denominations,

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Denominations.
Rev. George Robertson reports progress
in his work at old San Bernardno.
Rev. Robert Fulton. Sd. formerly
president of Boston College, has been
transferred from New York City to Fred
erick, Md.
The processes for the Qualification of
Christopher Columbus and Joan Of Arc
are progressing favorabIy, and final af-
frmatiye decision will soon be made.
The w. c. T. u. of Connecticut has
secured the passage of a bill asking that
police matrons be appointed in all c ties of
the State having a population of 10000 in
habitants or more.
The North Pacific Board OF Missions will
hold its next meeting the third Tuesday in
September at the First Presbyterian
Church, corner of Twelfth and Alder
streets, Portland. Or.
Mrs. Thompson of San Luis Obispo in
a recent letter to the California State
Presbyterian Society says that the mission
airy society of that place, since its organ
ization in May, has grown TO fourteen in
numbers.
Monsignor John T.ESullivan, rector of the
Wheeling (W. Va.) cathedral and vicar
general of the Wheeling diocese. has been
appointed administrator of the diocese, to
hold Office until a successor TO Bishop Kain
is chosen.
At Richmond, Va, the Jewish South has
just been started as a weekly by Herbert
T. Ezekiel. 1t is little paper of four
pages. but it is suggested that it will grow,
as there Is need OF Jewish representative
organ in the Southland.
Brother Clementian. assistant superior
general Of the Order of Christian Brothers,
whose residence is in Paris. was in Balti-
more recently. lie has been in this coun-
try since last May, visiting tie various
nf rda T,fs
States.
The st. Louis organ of the Disciples"
notes of Rev. Eli Corwin, ID, who has
been giving series of forenoon lectures at
the Macatawa Assembly on various Bible
topics, that me Is ready man aud we'll
stocked in biblical lore. and his talks have
been very profitable"
1t is announced by the Chicago Occident
that after October Rev. DR.. z. Schneider,
rabbi of Toledo, OHIO, formerly of the
Pacific Coast, the well-known author of
the work entitled Reformed judaism and
Its Pioneers" as well as many other
works. will aid in editing its religious de-
paTtment.
Mrs. S. E. Foster and the Misses Myrtle
Harlow and Grace L. Washburn were
employed some time ago to visit the needy
churches in Maine and assist them in
various ways. IL Is now found that their
work has been very successful and helpful
In organizing Sunday-schools, Christian
Endeavor societies and general help to the
little churches.
A large fair will be held at Baltimore in
October for the benefit Of the Friendly Inn,
an Institution which is doing a large
amount OF good in a quiet way. Tne char
lily Is conducted by Russian Jews for Rus
sian-Jewlsh immigrants mainly. 1t is,
however, OF great assistance TO the Hebrew
benevolent Society, as well as TO the
Hirsch committee.
Ia VI, nof
american Home Missionary Society will
be known legally as the Congregational
Home Missionary Society. Arrangements
have been made. too, by which the Ameri-
can Education Society and the New West
Educational Commission are to be con-
solidated under the title of the Congrega-
tional Education Society.
The Sunday-school missionary OF the
presbytery OF Southern Oregon. Mr.. G. r.
! Calender of San Anselmo, Cal, has re-
turned to his studies. He has done good
! work, having organized nine schools and
reorganiZed two. He has also done great
deal of visiting, and has distributed many
pages of Christian literature and has
preached almost every Sabbath.
The prominence which the kingdom of
Siam has recently obtained through her
troubles with France has attracted atten-
ti0n to her social. political and religious
conditions The Catholic church has a
veariate. apostolic established there under
the charge of the Missions Etrangeres of
Paris. In 1900 the country claimed 23O0
Cath olics in 1850, 1900; in 1890, Is, 200, and
has now $1,000.
Mrs. Bethlehem of Baltimore. widow of
the late Kew. DR.. A. ). Bethlehem, for
merry OF this city, has presented the library
of her late husband to the Morals Library
| Of the Jewish Theological Seminary of
| New York, where it has place alongside
OF the 5000 volumes of Oriental research
which constituted the library of the late
| DR.. David Cassel of Berlin, recently pur-
! chased for the seminary.