Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1900 — CHURCH AND CLERGY. [ARTICLE]

CHURCH AND CLERGY.

Theodore Roosevelt belongs to the Dutch Reformed Church. The Catholic Truth Society in England has restored the tomb of Cardinal Pole. The directors of the Michigan Advocate (Methodist) have declared a dividend to the conferences of $4,500. Rabbi Max Heller of New Orleans has started a museum for the collection and preservation of articles used in ancient Jewish worship. Under the leadership of Rabbi IT. L, Mayor, the Jewish charity organizations of Kansas City are to be federated and a home for the aged erected. A chapel is to be erected in Leicester, England, as a memorial to the Rev.‘Robert HuU, who was pastor of the Harvey Laay (’hapel from 1807 to 1820. It will cost about $55,000. Sister Mary Joseph, one of the founders of the Order of the Incarnate Word, died recently nt Galveston, Toxas; She was Lucine Roussin, and entered the convent at Lyons, France, thirty-four years ago. The Rev. J. M. Rodwell, who has died in Engl ami at the age of 05, was a distinguished Orientalist. He translated the Koran forty years ago, arranging the Buras in chronological order. He also published translations of the Book of Job and of Isaiah. The total receipts of the Methodist Foreign Missionary Society for the last year were $1,370,300.07, which is the largest amount ever paid into the treasury in one year. A Benedictine priest at Maria Stein, Switzerland, was recently elected it deputy to the Grand Council of the Canton of Soletrtv. It is the first time a monk became n member of that assembly. The Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker of London is the author of over forty volumes of sermons, novels and essays, and now that he is past 70 years of age he is writing a book fitted especially for ministers.