The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-14
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.


A new Methodist Church will be
erectea at Keno, TO cost $1,000.
The Sacred College has fourteen va
sistory.
The Union of German Rabbis has
decided to issue a declaration on the
Poina Ritual Murder"
Mrs. l.. d. Rutan of Pomona, widow.
has decided to Occidental College pres
byterian) her orange orchard at Po-
mona, valued at $500.
OF 5S57 public school classes in Al
sace-Lorraine, sixty-three are solely
frequented by Jews. Apart from
these, there are eighty-eight Jewish
elementary classes.
The dedication of the new eWestmin-
ster Cathedral, London, at which Car
dinal Gibbons Of New York will preach
the sermon, has been postponed from
next June until 1901.
DR.. Farber of Stockton, who for the
past five years officiated as a rabbi on
the Coast, is about to leave for Den
yer, where he has been elected rabbi
in one of the largest conservative con-
gregations.
On accouN Of a recent attack, which
has chiefly affected the brain, Bishop
Thoburn is obliged to give up for four
years the care OF the India field. He
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Ia to America
Colonel Edward NJ. Knox and his
sister, Mrs. Mary Knox Robinson OF
New York, have given $3.50 to the
Methodist Board of Church Extension
toward the erection of the first Metho-
dist Church in Manila.
Four Cardinals have died in Rome
in the last two months. Cardinals
Trombetta and Jacobini died in Febru-
airy, and Cardinal Di Canossa on March
18th. Cardinal Mazella succumbed to
the influenza last Monday.
The Baptist Standard. says a Boston
exchange, favors prayers for the
dead. 1t Is a human impulse which
cannot be suppressed by raising the
bogy of Roman sacerdotalism. Whit
tier believed in 1t, as did Gladstone.
The University of Notre Dame, Ind.
has received a gift of Chicago prop
erty valued at $4,000. The giver was
Mrs. Catherine Ford of Chicago. The
income will be devoted to the establish
ment of scholarships for deserving
young men.
The Methodist Church in Grass VAL
ley, CAL, has about 400 members and
a Sunday school whose average attend
ance Is AS. 1t has the largest editice
within the bounds of the Sacramento
district, belonging to the Methodist
episcopal church, and takes rank with
the leading churches OF the California
Conference
DR.. f. j. Banks. recently limited
States Consul at Bagdad, Is the director
of an expedition now being formed 10
excavate Ur, the birthplace OF Ahra-
ham. The work is undertaken for the
Smithsonian Institution. The estimat-.
ed amount required for the complete az
cavation Of Ur In two fears is $50, 900.
Eighteen OF the hard-worked rabbits
Will have a chance this season to 20 TO
Europe free OF charge, the benefit to be
gwen by y. Snellenburg & Co. OF Phila-
deiphia. More than 300 church societies
are now engaged In the voting contest
Wnlch is to decide upon the eighteen.
Ihree have already passed tho 100
mark.
A wave OF revival is passing through
large parts of the State of Missouri.
Besides the work of Major ]. III. Cole
at Springfield, in which the converts
already number over 500, reviva!s are
reported at Green Ridge. Lebanon and
Kansas City. a majority OF the con-
verts are men, some of whom are adj
vanced in years.
By large majority vote at a meet
ing IN New York city last week Bishop
Andrews presiding, plan was adopted
10 raise before December 81, 1901, ST.
loO,OOO by the Methodist churches of
that city. The amount is to be for the
dement, or the Deaconess Home. St.
Christopher Home and $500 600 to he
set aside to pay church MORTGAGES.
The Italian government officials are
with the Jubilee pilgrimage
a trainload of 361 Marsei,les nj gtims
was stopped at the frontier and INFORM |
cd that every one must be vaccinated
before entering Italy. The pilgrims re-
FUSED to submit and were sent back to !
Marseilles. The officials pretend that
the measure is due to the prevalence OF |
smallpox in Sout.ern France. but il is |
thought that this is a device to annoy
intending visitors to Rome.
The Sheriff Israel CONGREGATION |
corner OF Post and Taylor streets. San
francisco. will celebrate its fiftie;h |
anniversary on April 18th. 1t is the d. |
6. jewish congregation west OF Chi |
cago; The celebration will be inaugu- |
rated on April Sth by the pupils Of the |
school. At noon, on April |
lSth, the congregation will entertain |
me proteges of the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum at a banquet in Golden Gate |
HAL and with games and other amuse-
ments until p. m. Owing to the Pass