The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-10-12
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

At the recent session of the Wisconsin
Methodist Conference Bishop Foster said
it was gratifying to him to hear the
greetings extended by local pastors, and
it would have given him great pleasure
to have had representativ of the Cath
Ollie Church among the MEMBERS, for the
time was not far distant when Protes-
tants would grasp the hands Of Catho-
lies and be brothers together, fighting
the common enemy.
English nurates are thinking of form
ing themselves into professional union
on the plan of the trades unions
The Rev. DIR. Huntington of Grace
Church, New York, has purchased site
and will build $25, 900 summer resi-
denoe at North East Harbor this wiuter.
The Jesuits have purchased the ia
nous palace Mondragone, near Frascati.
Italy, from Prince Borghese, for $50, 600.
1t will be used as an institute
Lord Salisbury is said to have ap-
pointed nine high church Bishops, six
eyaugslicals. and two broad churchmen.
OF Lord Salisbrlry's Deans four are
reckoIssd as high church, six as eyangeli-
cal, ard one as broad church
The Congregation of Bishops and Cleri-
cal Orders in Rome has decided that
telephones may be placed in the closed
cloisters of the Catholic churches. AS a
safeguard, however, two of the older
nuns must always be present when an in
IN ate answers "hello"
Russia is turning the tables on the
American Foreign Mission Board, and
is sending several priests of the Greek
Church to minister in it's interests in
this country. Ever since it sold Alaska
to us tho Russian governm ent has ex-
pended $50, 900 annually on Greek Church
missions in this country.
The Rev. Charles Otis Gill and his wife
will shortly leave New York for the
Chinese mission field. Mr.. Gill was cap
tain of the Yale football team in 1889,
and rowud in the victorious Yale crews
of that aud the two previous years. He
has been engaged in home mission work
for several years.
Fifteen thousand pilgrims annually
visit ST. Baume, in Provence, not far
from MAJ settles, where Mary Magdalene
is said to nave spent the last thirty years
of her life The legend runs that Mary
Magdaleno came from Judea in a small
boat with Lazarus, Martha, the two
Marys and Salome.
The Young Mems Naval Catholic AS
ISOLATION has been started by the young
Catholics serving on the United States
cruiser Charlestown. Its object is to
unite the Catholics serving in the navy
for the promotion Of the interests Of the
Catholic Church, the diffusion of Catho-
lie literature, church history, etc.
The Rev. Dr. S. D. Mcconnell of
Philadelphia, spent his vacation in Eu-
rope on a wheel, riding 5000 miles in
England, Belgium and Germany.
At the Minneapolis convention of the
Episcopal church official notice was given
of the embezlement of s41, 900 of the funds
of the American Church Missionary
Society by Henry A. Oakley, the former
treasurer, and the Rev. William A New
bold, formerly secretary. 1t had been
hoped to avoid all public reference to
the affair, but this was found impossi-
BILE. The amount taken by Oakley has
been computed to be ssl, 1928 49, and by
Newbold &c. o54 49, from Sept. l, 1887.
A branch of the Unitarian church is to
be established in Auburn. The first
meeting is to be held in Auburn hall next
Sunday afternoon and will be addressed
by Rev. Mr.. Gile, formerly Baptist minis
ter at East Auburn.
At the meeting of the First Baptist
church Rockland, Tuesday evening. e.