The record-union., 1893-03-11
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
Matters of Interest to Clergy and Lay
men.

Matters of Interest to Clergy and Lay
men.
Protestant churches in Germany con-
tributed' S2,0J0,000 for the deaconesses
work, S6,000,000 for home and 81 600, 900
for foreign missions the past year.
Pere Charmatant, founder of the Order
of the White Fathers, who was born in
France in 1874, has been appointed to
succeed the late Cardinal Lavigerie as
Primate of Africa.
On the occasion Of the Pope's golden
jubilee, February 18th, the special service
in st. Peters was conduced by the ven
erable pontltf i'll person. Sixty thousand
person gained admittance, and tortv
thousand were crowded about the doors.
During the last twenty years a little
more than S53,000,000 has been spent in
restoring cathedrals and churches in Eng
land, and more than SIS, 100000 has been
spent in building new churches. In Lon
don alone S4,0OO,000 has been expended in
! building and restoring churches.-New
| York Tribune.
y vast Hindoo conference was recently
held at Benares, India, and a day was set
apart for special prayer to the Hindoo
gods for the preservation of their reig-
ion. This is probably the first time that
such thing has been done in any pagan
land, and it is great concession to the
growing power of 6 Christisnity.-Th
Living Church.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale PROPOSES
that $50 christian Supervisors'' be an
pointed to take care of Boston's 40 OoO
poor and incapable, and that each Chris
tian Supervisor have an apportionment
of 800 to watch over, for whom he shall
administer religious and sanitary gov
ernment," as it is stated, and for whom
ht ne M@I snail be held TsSponsible.-Christian
The English Congregational Year Book
shows the number of places of worshiD i'm
England and Wales to be 4,G34. In Scot
land there are about 100 churches, II in
the Channel Islands and As in Ireland.
including 10 mission stations: in the
British colonies and on the continent of
Europe, $40 places of worship, showing
a large increase in last wears returns.
The number of Congregational ministers
in England and Wales is ,, ,725, of whom
634 are without pastoral charge.
The Southern Presbyterian Church is
to have new theological seminary. to be
located probably at Louisville. XIV. and
to he open for the reception of students as
early as next September. The Synods of
Kentucky and Missouri unite in this
work; that of Kentucky. securing the To-
cation of the seminary, is to provide an
endowment of 100000, and at least S35,-
| 600 for ground and buildings. of this
amount $4,000 has already been raised
i'll Louisville, and it is expected that the
full amount Will soon be secured.-Chris-
tian Union.
Wonderful is the long procession of
Popes to which the Roman Catholics not
unfairly point as proof of the unbroken
continuity of the line of St. Peter. The en-
tire number of Popes from the apostle to
when the first vicarate and the KEYS were
given to Leo XIII. is 263. OF this nine
reigned less than month, thirty less
than one year, while but eleven have
reigned more than twenty years and but
one, Plus IX.. for twenty-five years.
except st. Peter. According to.tradition,
st. Peter ruled seven years in Antioch,
and twenty-five years, two months and
seven days in Rome, or thirty-one years
and seven months in ll.-Farrington-
! Maxwell, in Syndicate Letter