Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-05
RELIGIOUS.

ST. Mary's Protestant Episcopal church all
Merchantvilie, " j., celebrated the liSthl
/ anniversary Of lts dedication last Sunday.
/ The Protestant Episcopal diocese Of Michl-
/ San has declared women eligible To vote for|
vcstrymen In parish elections. Twenty-1vel
other dioccses and four Jurisdictions Of thej
/ Episcopal church allow women to vote forI
vestrymcn.
| The ladies OF one Of the Manchester, N, IN
! churches have set an example. Cuttingl
away from custom they have resolved"
| against church suppers. ana agreed to tax
! themselves to raise money needed, and viii
no longer seek II through the laborous meth !.
ods Of church entertainments.
The word "its" Is very frequently used in
composition, yet 1t occurs only once ln the
| bible-in Ieyticus, NNvu o; That which
gr0Neth of its own accord OF thy harvest
thou shalt not reap" Both Webster and
Worcester enormously say this word does
not appear In the bible.
chou Han. who was the author Of many
violent attacks on foreigners which melted
the Chinese in the Yangste valley to attack
Europeans, and who escaped punishment
through the Chinese authorities reporting
that he was insane, Is now in Human study
ing Christian books and asking for mission
| airy instruction.
The Salvation army has now nye divisions
in Germany. with headquarters In Berlin
| Hamburg, Stuttgart Essen and konigsberg y
George Vanderbilt will open his memorial
church at Bitmore, n, c., on July 10. lie
will take a party of select friends south with
him and has been looking after choir singers.
who will be imported for the purpose from the
north.
II needs so 900 persons to make a crowd
in st. Peters, writes Marion Crawford in
the Century. II Is believed that at least
that number have been present IN the church
several times within modern memory; but II
is thought that the building would hold S0-
000--as many as could be seated on the tiers
in the Colosseum. Such concourse was
there at the opening of the Oecumenical
council in December 1862 and at the two
jubilees celebrated by Leo XIII; and on all
three occasions there was plenty OF room
in the aisles besides the broad spaces
which were required for the functions them
selves.
Carfax church, the old town church OF
Oxford. is being torn down, and only the
tower will be left to mark the site The
| parish Of st. Martin Carfax will then be
| absorbed in that Of All Saints The name
| come from quartuor furces, four forks, the
church standing at the crossing OF the two
| main roads in the town. There is a record
of church standing there as early as King
Canute's reign, but the present church Is
no older than 1920, while the tower goes
back to Edward III. 1t was St Martins bell
that summoned the townsmcn in the fights
between town and gown. the most famous
of these contests being that on St Scholas-
tica's day. 1855, when to the cry OF "Slea
slea, havock haVock; smyt last, give code
knocks" the town killed forty scholars
hayed the crowns OF some chaplains, and
shot at the chancellor. The tower served
as place of refuge for the town from the
gown, and Edward II ordered it to be low
cred.
Rev. B. T.. Chapman an aged retired Bap-
tist minister of Andover Conn, was one OF
thirteen children. He was born on the 18th
OF the month. His wife and three of his
children were born on the 18th of the month.
When 13 years Of age he, with his fathers
family, moved from Preston to North Ston-
ington, and became near neighbOrs to two
families each consisting Of thirteen chill
dren. During the war he invested 1900
in per cent gold bonds. all he had at the
time, and later going to Willimantic TO in
crease his Investment, he found broker
who had just $1,000 of the same kind Of
bonds, which he purchased. He sold the
gold interest first paid on his bonds for
13 per cent premium. When he came to
Andover he applied at the postofiice for
box and found them all rented but No 49,
which he secured. On his first visit to
the Baptist church he was seated in pew
thirteen by an usher, and has ever since
held the same pew, although the numbers
have all been removed He further re-
marks that he is now living in one of the
original thirteen states, and in the -only
county in the state CTolland) made up OF
exactly thirteen towns. Mr.. Chapman is
now S5 years of age and is in comparatively
good health.