Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-23
CHURCH 9oRE.
Items Of InterestJfolm Many Sources
and About sny Things.

Bari, Italy, in 1887, in fear of Moham-
medan dissertation. For some reason
unkaown he became the patron Of
sailors and merchants and small boys,
especially orphans, who were taught
to place themselves under his care.
The Christmas legend of "St. Klaus"
and his. gifts are a remnant of this
dedication. The strange medieval fes-
tival of the boy bishop" began on
st. Nicholas day.
1t was customary in medieval times
to elect boy bishop on st. Nicholas
day, his authority extending to Holy
Innocents' day, Dec %. In England
the custom prevailed in almost every
parish. He was chosen from among
the children of the church or cathe-
dral choir or from the pupils of the
grammar school. He was arrayed IN
episcopal vestments and attended by
crowd of subordinates in priestly
dress, who went about with songs and
dances from house to house blessing
the people; they took possession of
the church and performed all of the
died during the term of his office the
funeral honors of a bishop with
monument were granted him. In Eng
land the custom of electing a boy
bishop was abolished by proclama-
tion of Henry VIII, 1912, restored by
| Queen Mary in 1914, and finally abol-
ished during the reign of Elizabeth.
n ~1s
officiate at the burial of members of
| secret societies in consecrated ground,
| provided they have not been openly
hostile to the church. This privilege
has recently been granted by decree
of Pope Leo, and applies especially to
the Uaited States.
| The Federation of Evangelical
churches in England is about to result
III new catechism on which a joint
| committee has been at work for more
than two years. The new work is one
in whose preparation the ablest men
of the Baptist, Wesleyan. Presbyteri-
an, Congregational, and other free
churches have participated. 1t will be
issued simultaneously in England and
America.
The meaning of the German emper-
or's recent pilgrimage to the holy
land and his gift of the piece of the
ground of Jerusalem, known as THE
Passage of the Blessed Virgin" to his
German Catholic subjects, is begin
ming to develop. A telegram from
Vienna to the London Times announ-
ces that a series of wholesale CONVEX
sions to the old Catholic church by
Austrian members of the German ma
tional communions in Vienna and at
Crate, the capital of Syria, will take
place early in December. In connec-
tiCn with this ceremony, one of the pas
tors will deliver an address advocating
the establishment of German ma
ticnal church Independent of Rome >
The movement would appear to have
the support of the pan-Germaaic
group in the Austrian reichsrath,
which will be represented on the occa-
sion, and is promoted by a section Of
the extreme opposition.
The Congregationalist, commenting
|
rem in South America, of Bishop Foss
in India, and of Bishop Hartzell in
Africa can not help realizing anew
the profound influence for good upon
the churches at home and the missions
abroad which the wise principle of adj
ministrative oversight in this country
exerts. 1t is doubtful, it says, whether
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States whose sum total of knowledge
concerning conditions of life-mater
i ial and spiritual-in this country and
throughout the world can compare
with the II superintendent of this
| church The moral for denomina-
tions, whose policy is more elastic, it
concludes, is to adopt their principles
so far as possible.
There has been no religious census
OF France since 1872. All religions are
equal before the law, and the Roman
Catholics, Protestants, and Jews, have
| allowances from the public treasury
in proportion to their numbers, as fol-
lows: Roman Catholics, 41,126,923
francs; Protestants, ,495, 100 francs;
Jews, 206,530 francs.
Mrs. Ballington Booth has started
on lecture tour of several weeks
through Maine and Massachusetts.
Neither Mrs. Booth nor her husband
are accepting any salary from the Vol
| unteer movement, nor have they done
SO for several months. Mrs. Booth Is
giving some of her own money to help
the work, and does not accept penny
for her lectures, but gives all the re-
eeipts 10 her prison homes and to In
div iduals.
Cardinal Gibbons advises religious
education and a property qualification
for the ballot as the only efficient rem
edy for the race trouble IN the south.
On the Sth of December, 1854, by the
bull which begins with the words, On
effabilis Deus" Pope Plus TX, in his
character of vicar OF Christ upon
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