The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-02-18
THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.
Notes of Interest to Members of
Many Denominations.


Evangelist Frank. l.. Smith is having
good meetings at the Market-street
Church. Oakland.
Rev. Herbert Tugwell, who is 10 be con-
secrated Bishop of Western, Equatorial
Africa, is not yet 50 years of age.
Rev. j. K. Smith. DID,. formerly pastor
of st. johns Church, San Francisco, is
now the pastor of the Pres byteran Church
at Port Hope, Ontario
Rev. DR.. John Chester, who has fer
thirty years been pastor of the Metropol-
itan Presbyterian Church in Washington,
has resigned because of his advanced age.
Bishop Hurst aays that the land bought
for the site of the American University in
Washington is now WORTH $4,000 600. -Four
hundred thousand dollars has been raised
for the institution.
1t is suggested in Boston thata chime
of bells be hung in Bishop Phillips Brooks
Trinity Church, which shall ring at cur
few the carol written by him, 70 Little
Town of Bethlehem"
The Pres bytery of Portland at its regular
meeting, February s. deposed from the
ministry and excOmmunieated from the
church w. a. Wilson for unehtistian con-
duct and gross immortality.
The thirteenth International Christian
EndeavCr Convention will be held in Cleve-
land. July IL to 10, 1894 Preparations are
being planned on an immense scale. and:a
very large attendance is expected,
Recent advieeS from gland are to the
effect that Thomas Sturgeon is excee d.
ingly popular al the Metropolitan Tabez-
nacle, where the. late Rev. Charles H.
Sturgeon preached for so many years with
remarkable power.
The Churchman, referring to recent
article in the Forum by Rev. G. Monroe
RnVPp the s'I)QQiipn 0f rho mi
Pulpit" says: "a man may get despond-
| ing view of the power of the pulpit simply
becaue he himself has been pulpit fail
ure."
The Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety of tie Methodist Episcopal church
will celebrate its silver anniversary" in
March, 1894. The total number of mis-
sionaries employed by the society is 145;
hospitals and ispensarles, l3; day
schools, 1858; neutrality-suspicious., So: pupils
in both, about Il, 900; orDhanages. r.
La its latest issue the Occident. the
organ of the Presbyterian church on the
Pacific Coast. says: It'll announced that
Rev. George Montgomery. chancellor of
the archdiocese of San Francisco, has
been appointed Coadjutor Bishop of the
diocese of Monterey aud Los Angeles.
Father Montgomery Will be greatly missed
in this city,"
| The name of Rev. Newman Hall, d. D.,
of London. England, is honored in Amer
| ica. He is now IS and has retired from
active pastoral work, but like Rev Il. l..
Cuyler. DID,, of Brooklyn has few unoc-
cupied Sabbaths. He was an ardent friend
and defender of the American Union, and
his advocacy of this cause when it was pot
universally popular in Britain is gratefully
recognized.
ln the heart of Rome. Italy, on Quirinal
Hill, within three minutes walk, and in
plain sight of the palace of King Humbert,
just opposite the War Department and
many other public buildings. the Methodist
Episcopal Missionary Society has pur-
chased a lot on which to build the head
quarters for the mission in Italy. The lot
is 50 feet wide and 155 feet deep. The
missionary secretaries of that denomina.
lion in America call for $4,000 as a
special donation for the proposed build
ing.
The New York Independent, always re-
liable authority in church statistics, SAYS
that the last official census of ireland
shows that there are 3.949,73S Catholics
and 1,1SS. 500 Professionals in that island.
Catholics are most numerous Ia the county
of Cork and Professionals most numerous in
the county of Antrim. The Catholics in
! Cork are to the ProteStants as ten to one.
] The Professionals predominant In the
counties of Armagh, Down, Tyrone. Lon
| donderry and Antrim. A little over rs per
cent of the population is Catholic, u per
cent belongs to the Church of Ireland and
/ 8 per cent? 10 the Presbyterians.