Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1899 — CHURCH AND CLERGY. [ARTICLE]

CHURCH AND CLERGY.

“Old Christ Church” (Philadelphia) is to have several costly memorial windows. Churches in White Plains, N. Y., are making a fight against opening the postoffioe on Sunday. Grace Episcopal Church, New York, has been forced to buy a neighboring saloon to close it up. The Archbishop of Canterbury has made an appeal for the dosing of London saloons on Sunday. The Rev. P. M. McCabe, who was instrumental in liberating John Boyle O’Reilly when a political prisoner, is dead. \ The Rev. Dr. L. D. Sevan, an Australian Congregationalist traveling in America, says “revivals” are a detriment to religion. The Rev. Dr. John Brown of Bedford, England, is delivering the Lyman Beecher loctntea at Yale on the subject, “Puritan Preaching.” The Rev. Dr. Joseph Silverman is acting rabbi of the Temple Emanu-El in place of Rabbi Gottheil, whose resignation has been accepted. The Rev. Dr. Way land Hoyt of Philadelphia has decided to accept the call given him recently from the First Baptist Church of Cambridge, Mass. The Bishop of London is an expansionist, and believes that the church, having created Christian civilization, mast be the chief agent in spreading it. J. Gordon Watt of Aberdeen, Scotland has succeeded the Rev. Dr. William Wright as editorial superintendent of the British and Foreign Bible Society. The Rev. B. F. Hancky of Brick (harch, Philadelphia and F. Hr Richards of Zanesville. Ohio, are to go as Lutheran missionaries to Porto Rico. In Bishop McDonnell’s charge on I<ong Island 400,000 members will spend the last four months of the year in prayerful observance of the dosing 'century. The Rev. Stopford Brooke’s friends are raising funds for a lectureship in English literature at University College, Oxford, to be called “Stopford Brooke Lectureship.” New York Protestants have united for an interdenominational “revival." with Practlcapy jfiofthe $87,000 .wgg ■a |q Homj GitMidk