Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1900 — CHURCH AND CLERGY. [ARTICLE]

CHURCH AND CLERGY.

One hundred and twelve pupils of the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa., have been received into the Catholic Church. The school has 102 pupils. The British Foreign Bible Society intends to provide all Boer prisoners with Bibles printed iu Dutch, and the plan will be carried out within a few weeks. Cardinal Vaughan received from the Pope a dispensation remitting the lenten fast on thirty-eight out of forty days of Lent. This ac| of his Holiness was owing to the prevalent influenza in Knp land. The queerest ehujrrh in the world is in Bergen, in Norway. It is completely made of paper, and rendered waterproof by an application of quicklime with curdled milk and white of eggs. Oyer 1,000 people may be seated iu its interior. The Rev. Francis Edward Carter, honorary canon of Canterbury, has been appointed dean of Grahamstown, South Africa. The Chttrchmau's Liberal league in Great Britain has issued a monthly journal in the interests of disestablishment of the Church of England. The First Batist Church in Dover, Pa., has converted a buHdhig heretofore used for church social affairs into a shirt factory, where cjmreh members are given preference in employment. Five per cent put of the wages is to revert to church work-in the town.