Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1900 — CHURCH AND CLERGY. [ARTICLE]

CHURCH AND CLERGY.

A fund !s being raised in the diocese of Canterbury for a memorial to the late Archdeacon Maidstone. The late Archdeacon Furse was a personal friend of Mr. Gladstone and Lord Rosebery, and was a strong Liberal. The Bishop of Liverpool visited Walton jail recently, the occasion causing remark •from the fact that it was the first official visit a bishop hud ever made to the prison. Bishop John W. Hamilton, one of the new bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, has arrived in San Francisco, which was made his official residence, lie is said to be the youngest bishop of his church. lie is now 55 years old. The death of Prof. E. P. Gould, D. D., removes one who as professor at the Newton Theological Institute, and later at the Protestant Episcopal Divinity School, Philadelphia, had gained a high place among American New Testament scholars. Bishop William B. Derrick of New York, resident bishop of the African ' Methodist Episcopal Church, fnvors the establishment of schools throughout the South for the care and education of the young men and women of his race who are imprisoned for petty crimes. Many of these offenders are now sentenced to terms in the penitentiaries when their reformation might be accomplished if there were schools or reformatories to which they might ba assigned. Tha bishop is working on plans for the establishment of the* reformatories which ho •recommends. There is again talk that Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul will be made a cardinal at the next consistory. The Pop# has shown him marked attention of lata, and in certain Vatican circles it is finely talked that the purple Will be conferred on the American archbishop.' The Rev. Bnrchard Vllliger, president of Woodstock College, Philadelphia, for the last fire years, is critically ill, and his recovery ia doubted; ll# waa born in Switserland in 1819,'--bat4r'Mas to America In hia youth. He Vis rector of the Church of tha GeoUtlpr thirty yeara.