Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-01
GENERAL
RELIGIOUS
NOTES.

According to Rev. DR.. Francis Browns
president of Union Theological Seminary.
there are more applications for admis-
sions than have been received usually up
to this time of the summer. There were
thirty-three graduates in the May class. :
new Roman Catholic catechism OF
Christian doctrine for children has been
prepared and issued by the Rev. NJ. j.
Boarman. s. j.. of st. Ignatius College.
Chicago. This is especially written for
American children in parochial schools.
Parts of other catechisms have been re-
tanned, but many new facts have been
added.
The laymen's missionary movement IS
arranging six summer conferences. the
purpose of which is the equipment of men
for the personal presentation of mission
airy duty to individuals. Three of the con-
ferences are to be held in the south and
three in the north. The dates and places
are: Hot Springs. Ark, August 10 to II:
Monteagle, Tenn, August ID TO u: Mon
treat. n. c., August IL to 10; Winona
Lake. Ind. September 1 to 3; Mount
Gretna, Pa, September to 6: Silver Bay,
New York, September to o.
Rev. DIR. John Wesley Hill, pastor OF
the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Tenn
pie of New York. has gone to England.
where he will preach and lecture. In
August and September he will occupy the
pulpit of the Marylebone Presbyterian
Church, one of the largest of the denomi-.
nation Of London He will lecture in
many of the largest cities of England.
Two tablets given by Christian organi-
cations In this country to memoriaize the
deeds of men from the old world who
worked in America in the cause of re.
ligion were unveiled in Europe this month
A tablet unveiled at the University Of
Utrecht. the Netherlands. is a memorial
to the Rev. DR.. John II. Livingston, who
was student in the university from
176s to 1870. and afterward became a
pioneer of the Reformed Church in Amer
lea. 1t was erected by Rutgers College.
New Brunswick n. j.. an institution OF
the Reformed Church DR.. Livingston
was born In this country, but was edu-
Gated and ordained to the ministry at
Utrecht.
The other tablet was erected in the
English Church in the Begin Hof: tile
fourteenth-century edifice of the Begin
nuns in the court of the kalvar. the
principal street of Amsterdam. Holland.
This is in memory of the earliest pioneers
who sought for freedom of worship, and
it is placed by the Congregational Club
Of Chicago. The names mentioned on the
tablet are Ainsworth. Johnson Robinson.
Brewster and Bradford of Plymouth
plantation, 1909.
1t was estimated by the Rev. Father
Muller that in six days one hundred
thousand worshipers knelt before the
altar of the Church of Our Lady OF
Mount Carmel i'm Little Italy" the.
East Side, New York Fully forty thou,
sand persons brought gifts in the form
of candles or of waxen eff1gies, for which,
they received a picture of the image OF
Our Lady and a scapular. while twenty
thousand medals bearing her likeness
were distributed. In the basement of the
parochial school candles were literally
piled up by the cord. Several OF them
were of monstrous size and will burn for
months. From Newark, n. j.. there was
received a waxen cylinder. five inches in
diameter and eight feet high. while sew
eral smaller cities nearly equaled this of
fering.
good many youngsters will differ
from the Rev. William T. McElveen,-
Congregational, of Chicago, who said last
Sunday THE Duty of Fault Finding
that flew mothers know how to scofd,
few fathers know how to administer re-
proof"