The San Francisco call., 1898-03-20
Good Work of PauliStS to Spread to St. Pauls
 Parish.
Fathers Younan and Wynaan of St. Mary's Will Conduct
 the Services.
General Notes Concerning the Catho lie Churches Throughout
 the City.

A mission under the auspices of Fathers Wyman and Younan of the Paulist Community will be held at St. Paul's Church, commencing with the 10:30 o'clock mass this morning and continuing for two weeks. The serv ices during the first week will be de- voted to the instruction of women, while those of the last will be reserved exclusively for men.
 During the absence of Father You nan from St. Mary's Church on Cali fornia street, where he recently con- ducted one of the most successful mis- sions ever held in this city, the class of inquiry which was established in the lower chapel of the church immediately after the mission for the instruction of non-Catholics will be conducted by Father Francis Dougherty. The serv- ices, as usual, will be held every Mon day, Wednesday and Friday evening, and will be devoted to the further in struction of unbelievers in Catholicism. Father Dougherty has stated that he will be pleased to answer any question that non-Catholics may be in doubt about at these meetings or may choose to ask. Doctrinal and theological dog mas will be discussed and eXpounded, and 8 definition of the different parts and meaning of the mass will be ex- plained.
 For the short time the class has been in progress the attendance has been unusually large and much interest has been manifested in all the subjects that have as yet been introduced ana con sidered
 Father Younan, to whose efforts the mission at St. Mary's Church was mainly due, will deliver a series Of evening sermons during passion week.
 A lecture on the subject of India will also be delivered by the missionary be- fore he leaves for the East. It will be given at Native Sons Hall on April 19, immediately after Easter Sunday The lecture will be illustrated with stere- opticon views, which will depict all phases of Indian life, religion and an cient customs, and considering the 1act that Father Younan has been traveller in India, and while there was close student of the people and their various traits. the lecture will be both instruct i've and interesting.
 At St. Ignatius' Church to-day the feast of St. Joseph patron of the uni versal church will be celebrated with special solennity. There will be a solemn high mass at g o'clock, and in the evening rosary and solemn benedic- tion.
 Immediately after the o'clock mass at the French Church to-day meet 1 ing of the Sanctuary Society will be 1 held in the assembly hall, in the rear of the church proper. AS yet this SO ciety is governed by temporary board | of officers, but it is hoped that in few weeks a permanent organization may be effected.
 A convention of the Catholic Truth Society will be held tomorrow and Tuesday evenings at Metropolitan Hall. The services will be under the immedi- ate direction of Father Yorke. | At Washington Square Hall next Tuesday evening a rally by the St. Francis branch of the League of the | Cross will be held for the purpose or competing for the silver medal, which will entitle the winner to enter the con- | test for the gold medal which Arch bishop Riordan will award at the grand annual rally for the best essay on the subject of temperance.
 The Italian Church which Is In pro- cess of construction at Ocean View is nearing completion and will be ded1- cated on next Easter Sunday. Much interest has been manifested III the Lenten exercises of the CaIVarlan Society, which are held every sunday l afternoon at St. Mary's Cathedral. The | society has issued and distributed a | book containing the order of ceremony and the object of the weekly devotion.
 It Is anticipated that the sacred i Heart Church, another Catholic edlHce now in process of erection at Oak and Fillmore streets, will be completed by the 1st of next September.