Evening star., 1898-10-08
| N T HI CHU URCHE S

| ton of st. Aloysius Church occurs Sunday,
| October 10. At the dedication of this church
| the sermon was preached by the great
Archbishop Hughes of New York, after
ward the warm friend and special envoy of
| President Lincoln. President Buchanan and
many other distinguished men were pres
| ent, among whom were Secretaries FLOYD.
| Thompson, Toucey, Attorney General Black
! Lord Lyons, Senator Stephen A Douglas
and others.
! In the forty years of its existence St.
Aloysius Church has at some time or an
| other had within its walls many person.
ages Of national reputation ana foreigners
of distinction. Stephen A Douglas had the
| first pew. The family of General Sherman
attended the church during their residence
| IN Washington, and it was here Nat Miss
Mary Ewing Sherman became the wife of
Mr Thomas V. Fitch. During the resi-
| dence of General Sheridan in Washington
| he frequently attended St. Aloysius. al
| though he was not a Dewholder
Of the many eminent priests associated
with the church at the time Of it's dsd,ca-
tion but one, Rev. DIR. Viiliger, now rector
OF woodstock College, Maryland survives
Inc hrst pastor of this church was Rev
Dr. Stonestreet, who In July. 1860. was sue
ceeded by Rev. VIM. F. Clarke s / as
pastor. After remaining at the church one
year Kew Clarke gave way to Rev DIR
Bernardin Wiget. The latter remained six
years Those who in turn succeeded Father
Nlget were Rev. DIR. James Clark Rev
Charles Jenkins. Rev. Robert Fulton Rev
John ]. Murphy, Rev. Edward A Nc
Gurk and Rev. Cornelius Gillespie All the
pastoTs prior to Father Gillespie are dead.
with the exception of Rev. Father jenkins
VINO now resides at Leonardtown, Md.
me interior OF St Aloysius Church con-
talns many features OF great interest and
the massive mahogany altar rail separating
the body of the church from the sanr7
tuary never fails to attract the attention OF
visitors 1t has history which Is ~ in
terest TO every American citizen, from the
idct OF lls having once been part OF an
altar under which reposed for many wears
the remains of Christopher Columbus The
altar stood for ages in church AT San
GIoihlillgo- IT was a ponderous structure
eldooidtc'y carved, and withstood the de-
stFuctiNe influences of a century or two re-
markably well. In the course Of time II
was brought to this country and donated
TO Georgetown College Being too Iarga
tor use in the latter institution 81 -
eventually taken to pieces and out Of il
We're made two altar rails one being nra-
sehtec TO st. Aloysius Church and the 9th
Maryland. Ooiiese'
another move has been made toward re-
turning the money voted by Congress for
utaLiaseS TO the Southern Methodist Pub
HShihg House during the civil war in the
adoptlon by the Tennessee conference of
tne IoHo"ing preamble and resolution A
copy OF which has been received here:
W G. lue Undersigned delegates reDre-
SentIhs the Tennessee annual conference
hereby give our hearty approval 10 tbe
rtcornmendation contained in the nanar
signed and sent forth by the bishops of
ouI chufch, proposing the return of the
money recently paid to our book agents hy
the United States Congress on the condi,
tions mentioned by the bishops.
re- iurlhef recommend that Senator
pate pe requested to present said pronosi-
uon TO the Senate of the United States in
SUCH sucn way that 1t may find place on the
pages OF the Congressional Record and
tunity. f'''i'ie oPpof-
After waiting for full light. and after
cafefuly weighing all the facts. we are
of o2tiIu' th' IN aIi good conscience, in the name
OF the church. to protest against the arpu
ments made and conclusions reached as an
nounced by the book committee in their
olhclal defense of the conduct of the book
sent to senator's i'
The college of bishops has given tba fol
loving assurance: That if the Senate nv
afflrmatire action, declares that tho naS
sage OF the bill was due to misleading stat
ments, we Will take proper stems To bays
the entire amount returned to the govern
meht. Inc Senate committee has declared
that during the week before the hill nassad
ruinors became current in the Senata tba3 y
contract existed between the hook aeents
and MI Stahman whereby the Latter W.
TO receive a large amount and an exorbi
ldhl lee Tor service rendered by him i'm CON
nection with its passage and a numher ,lf
senators applied to the book agents Rar-
pee d smith, and Mr. Stahman TO ascer-
tam the facts in the case, Some of these
senators saw Mr.. Stahlrnan in person and
received from him assurances in positive
language that le1t them under the inpres-
sion that no contract whatever existed he
tween him and the book agents relating 70
lee Ihey were deceived and rnisled Tho
Dook agents authorized senator's 10 dom,
the report; and, having absolute copti6enco
IN the candor and integrity of these .rpr7tIa
tod h,gr IL
as frank and honest, and assurances hasad
on them were made that there was no
loundauon Tor the report of an agreement
TO pay a large proportion of the nronosad
appropriation to a claim agent or attorna,
NO candid man who examines this cor
respondence can reach any other conclu-
sion than that the subject OF the inonir>,
was the existence of such a contract and
not the percentage that an attorney was
to receive The replies of the hook ap,s,rs
to this letter and telegram make it mani
Test that the policy of silence with refer
ence to the contract was maintained tn tba
end, even to the extent of withholding the
truth and misleading and deceiying those
VINO MADE an earnest effort to obtain it,
Therefore, We request the college of
bishops to call an extra session of the gem
eral conference at the earliest date prac-
ucaoie' that action may be had on all is
sues involved
The committee on systematic benefcence
OF the Presbyterian Church (South) has
reported the following statement of the
teSoiu LOT giving Dy the churches of the
denomination during the previous wear:
There are about 2,SU0 congregations alto
gether, and 1,1O1 churches gave to foreign |
missions S1O5, ,9S5.32. ,455 churches gave TO
home missions S27,542.21; l77O churches
gave to local missions SIC 43O %: l075
churches gave to Col. Evan fund sll =
.l26.o2; 126I churches gave to invalid fund
Sl2.362ro LAY churches gave to education
S43 1867 10; lay churches gave to publica-
ton fund Sl,i05.15; 635 churches gave to |
Bible Society SS;}9.31. The churches have |
contributed to the benevolent objects in the |
following order: Five hundred and three |
churches gave to eight benevolent objects; |
435 churches gave to seven; 3US churches |
gave to six; 25I churches gave to five; 233 |
churches gave to four; 25T churches gave |
TO three: 226 churches gave to two: DAB |
churches gave to one; 5IS churches gave |
nothing to benevolent objects.
Thursday and Friday, October 13 and Ia /
delegations of young Lutherans from Min /
pesota- Iowa, Kansas Missouri and Hi
nois are TO meet in Chicago to Journey to- |
gether on an official train to New York 20 |
attend the third biennial convention of the
Luther League of America. On the way
the train. which goes by the way os Fort |
Wayne and Pittsburg, will pick up large
delegations in Indiana and Ohio. Delegates
from pennsylvania, who will comprise
fully one-four;h the membership of the
convention, will journey by another train |
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