Omaha daily bee., 1893-06-12
RELIGIOUS.

Rev Frank Dewitt Talmaqe, son Of tn,
| noted brooklyn preacher, has been ordained
| by the Presbyterians.
Rey DR. James II. Ecob, pastor of the Sec
| ohu presbyterian church of Albany N v
has withdrawn from the church, He is ;
| supporter of DIR. Briggs
Inc English Presbyterian church re
| Gently decided to raise during the next five
| years S25OO0O for building new churches in
! inherent parts of England
inc movement lnaugurated in Baltimore
| Tor the erection of an Episcopal cathedral
IN washington is enthusiastically seconded
at the national capital and is likely to be a
success
=, There is reported to be much complaint in
England at the poverty of the clergy The
J,o52 benches in England and Wales afford
yearly income of less than 81 900 to the in
cumOents.
Dr. John Halls church, Fifth avenue. New
ork city, has 2,43S communicant members
Its contributions last year amounted to Sl4T, .
~ " VI Whlch $40, io9 went to bcnCvoleuCes
Dr. Hail was entitled to an assistant
Numerically the Lutheran church ia th,
fourth religious denomination in this conn.
Try, having an enrolment of 235 900 com
mllnlcant members. It's total mem bership
throughout the world is about 5O,0OO,OOO.
IL is said that 800 persons have been con-
S geroeu ana ten Baptist churches and eight
sunday schools established through tho
agency of the mission car presented hy John
d. Rockefeller to the American Baptist pub
fishing society NN
- Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishops Satolli and
Ryan and many other Roman Catholic dig
nltlries Will attend the celebration of the
hftieth anniversary of the Pittsburg diocese
InlS summer. More than 800 ecclesiastics
Will take part in the ceremonies.
Mgr Satoh, papal delegate, is booked for
n tour of the northwest this summer He
VIII leave Washington June 10, accompanied
thn far n,
versity, for the Yellowstone park, At ST
Paul Archbishop Ireland will Join the
purity.
Rev. Howard MacQueary, who became so
wei known recently because of his trial and
deposition from the Episcopal ministry on
the ground of heresy, was burned ont the
other day IN the great fire in Saginaw, Mich.
where he is pastor of liberal Christian
church. His loss is about g, ,OOO
Rev Maxwell M. BenOliel, Protestant
Eplscopal clergyman, now in Jacksonville
Fla, VINO spent eighteen years in the in
tense!y Mohammedan country of Morocco
ahrms that in the matter of truth. honesty
lar dealing, personal purity and general
morality, Morocco is as corrupt and degraded
a country as there is in the world
Rev. Theodore G.. Pease of Maiden bas
been elected to the Bartlett professorship Of
sacred rhetoric IN Andover The llOgical semi
nary, made vacant by the acceptance bv |
Prof. Tucker of the presidency of DnrI
IA mourn coIlegc Mr. Pease was graduated at |
harvard IN 1873 and from Andover Theo- |
logical seminary in 1880
Dr. Marshall Lang of Glasgow, the new
moderator of the Church of Scotland, is well |
known in America, having visited this conn |
try twice. His brother, Rev Calvin Lang
was Tor years the minister of ST. Andrews |
church, Montreal, a congregation which
never joined the Canadian Presbyterian |
church, but still adheres to the established
church i'll the mother country
DurinSthe last year says London Truth.
40 less sum than e3G,4S7 was subscribed in |
me country by. infatuated enthusiasts to.
ward the Utopian object Of conyertinG the
Jews to Christianity. The annual report
states that twelve converted" Jews were
confirmed during the year, of whom, how
'Ver, only live were adults. 1t appears,
that 1t costs about e3,OiO TO con
'ert each jew, but this is fgi. too low an
'stimate, masmuch as seven out of the
welve were infants"