Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-08
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

o. c. Barber, the match king of Akron,
o., Will build In that city one of the most
beautiful churches in the United States. 1t
Will be an exact duplicate of the famous
church of the Madeleine in Paris.
-, Pope Plus X has sent the papal benedic-
tlon to the members of st. Liborius' church
choir, St Louis, In recognition of their con-
sistent and sustained observance of the
regulations regarding church music.
Rev. William A. Shanklin of Reading, Pa.
who has been called to the presidency Of
Upper Iowa university, is a graduate of
Hamilton college and of the Garrett Biblical
institute. He has occupied pulpits at Spo-
kane. Seattle and Dubuque.
Rubusana, a full-blooded Kaffir, a savage
until his 18th year, is today a poet, a pastor
and patriot, a scholar who has mastered
English, Greek, Latin and Hebrew, and is
engaged in London in completing the first
authentic translation of the Christian Bible
into his native tongue.
Leaders In the Catholic church in this
country are concerned over the increasing
activity of Protestant bodies among Italians
in the great cities. Their concern has just
been added to by the receipt from Rome Of
orders to do all in their power to prevent
Italian immigrants from abandoning the
church of their nationality.
AS a memorial to the late Jay Cooke, one
of the founders and rector's warden of St.
PauPs Protestant Episcopal cSurch of Ash
bourne, Pa, memorial hall will be built
there. The plans for the building. which
will cost $4,000, have been accepted The
funds will be provided by Mr.. Cookies chill
dren.
Rev. Francis A. Purcell, D. D., of Chi
cago has been chosen the first rector and
president of the Cathedral college just
founded by Archbishop Quigley as the pre-
paratory institution to the ecclesiastical
seminary and university, which has been
decided upon by the archbishop for Chi
cago.
Very Rev. Paul Matthews. who has been
chosen Protestant Episcopal bishop coad-
tutor Of the Milwaukee diocese, is at pres
ent dean of the cathedral in Cincinnati, and
for a long time was rector OF 81. Luke
church. He is a son OF the late Stanley
Matthews, associate justice of the supreme
court of the United States.
Rev. Thomas j. Gillen. rector of st.
Mary's church, Pawtucket. r. l., has es-
which the girls of his parish are fitted for
the practical duties of house. II has
proven one of the most successful expert
ments ever made in a parish and the re-
suits have been remarkably satisfactory.
Archbishop John j. Glennon, head of the
Catholic archdiocese of ST. Louis, who has
been abroad for two months, returned on
Tuesday, bringing with him plans for the
erection of a 100000 cathedral. He visited
architects I'm Paris and Berlin for the pur-
pose and states that the proposed ST. Louis
cathedral will be one of the most imposing
in the country.
Rev. G. C. F. Bratenahl rector OF st. AL
bans chapel, Washington, has returned
after spending the summer in Europe study
ing cathedrals and examining the choir
school system, with the object OF lntrodu-
support these schools, at which the cholr
bows are given good public school educa-
| tion in consideration of their services as
choir boys.
A tale is told of Kansas minister, a
great preCisiOnSt in the use or WORDS
| whose exactness sometimes DESTROYED the
| casion, in the course Of an eloquent prayer
| he pleaded: 20 Lord! waken Thy cause IN
| the hearts of this congregation. and give
them new eyes to see and new impulse "a
do. Send down Thy lever or leever, accord
| ing to Websters or Worcester's dictionary
which ever Thou usest' and pry them into
Or. O'Reilly, archbishop OF Adelaide
South Australia, possesses an unusual ac'
| complishment. Before he became a bishoI
| he was the editor of one OF the Australian
| Catholic journals. His compositOrs wen
| out on strike and in the emergency ht
\ helped in the mechanical department. BY
/ the time the dficulty had been adjusted he
/ had pretty well mastered the art or type
| setting and for the rest OF his editoria
career he did not write his leading articles
I set them up.
An innovation in Sunday school outing,
/ was recently introduced with good success
| by . New York Sunday school specia
| trolley cars were chartered to carry thu
party to the shore and each member wa
had a number OF coupons attached ont
| coupon was for ice cream, another for
bathing suit, others for rides on the switch
| back and merry go-rounds, while the tai
itself was the ticket for the trip. The Sun
says the scheme worked beautifully. n
cnllQIen WeIeflOst ana none ldu 10 ~ WIN
out his share OF the fun.
| Rev. w. A. r. Goodwin, rector OF Brutol
parish church, Williamsburg, Pa, the SEQ
ond Oldest church in the United States an'
the longest in continual use, is In receipt o
| letter from the archbishop OF CanteTbur!
in which the latter states that King Edwari
| has consented 70 donate a Bible for lecterl
use In BrulOn parish. The holy book vii
be especially and appropriately bound AM
prescribed. This royal mark OF esteem is 4
| be given by the king in commemoTa ton o
| the 3O0th anniversary of the establishment
OF Anglo-SaNon civilization and the EnglIs
church on Virginia shores.