Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-07
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The diamond anniversary of the American
Sunday School union will be held in Phila-
delphia May "a and rs. The work of the
society for seventy-fve years, in part, is
as follows: Sunday schools organized,
100, 92S, containing SIS, $50 teachers and
4,070,34S pupils; 224, S44 cases of aid to
schools. having 10, 333, 96S members. Nearly
four schools a day organized for every day
OF the last seventy-fiye years. Value of
publications distributed by sales and gifts,
over 5000, 900.
The government has officially recognized
the Mormon religion by appointing Elias
Kimbarl, a Mormon, chaplain of the Second
corps of engineers. He was commissioned
in 1898.
Rev. Charles A. Briggs of Union Theo-
logical seminary is to be ordained as a
Protestant Episcopal clergyman on May IA
in st. Peters Episcopal church in West
chester, Pa.
Rev. DR.. Joseph Parker. who from his
pulpit damned the sultan so vigorously the
other day, paid a visit to this country a
few years ago and preached in several
cities, but did not make much of an impress
sion.
A fashionable church in Louisville, KY,
the Walnut Street Baptist church, of which
Rev. DR.. 7. T. Eaton is pastor, has adopted
resolutions practically dismissing from the
congregation all members who have any
connection whatever with the manufacture
or sale or intoxicating liquors.
Rev. Tucker Wilson, pastor of a Baptist
church in Muncie, Ind, has established a
new record, having immersed eighty-seyen
newly converted members of his flock in
twenty-seven minutes, or at a rate greater
than three a minute. and that without any
assistance.
Rev. John l.. DUDE Of Incwadi. Umkomas
valley, Natal, who renowned his rights to
the chieftaincy of a Zulu tribe to become
| a EQnPrpPatiOna minister has sailed for
his native country, where he will take up
the work of missionary, for which he has
been fitting himself in the United States
for three years. He will found an industrial
school for Zulus.
Cardinal Ramporla has informed Arch
bishop Chapelle that the Very Rev. f, Bar
| NADIA, canon of Santiago cathedral, has been
appointed archbishop of Santiago. He is a
native of that city, was educated at Sala-
manca. and is considered the most distin-
guished native clergyman of Cuba. He
| speaks English well, and is a great admirer
of American institutions.
Rev. DR.. De Costa OF the Church of st.
| John the Evangelist, New York, has made
| an appeal for the closing of places of amuse-
ment on Sunday, on the ground that without
considering the religious side Of the ques-
| ton, the actors need rest Just like other
people. After enumerating the evils OF the
Sunday theater the preacher says they may
be summed up under the head Of oveTwork,
Rev, Wilson Garlic, rector of st. Mary-at-
Hill, London, is an up-to-date priest. He
takes a trombone with him into the pulpit
! and when the singing becomes spiritless he
livens it up with a few blasts on that instru-
ment. During the greater part of the serv-
ice the church is darkened and the hymns,
prayers, sacred and other pictures are
thrown by limelight on a huge screen sus-
pended across the altar. Besides an organ,
there Is an orchestra composed OF girls wear
ing SUPPLIES and college mortar boards.
In support of the statement in Governor
Rollins proclamation that religion is on the
decline in New Hampshire, il is stated that
the annual minutes Of the New Hampshire
Methodist conference-an official document
show by actual figures a decline in all de-
partments Of religious work, as compared
with the previous years, and this includes
membership Of churches. Sunday schools,
contributions for missions, etc. 1t is not
probable that this decline is confined TO
the Methodist denomination.