Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1902 — Religious News and Notes [ARTICLE]

Religious News and Notes

Pope Leo XIII. is 92 years of age. There 1# talk of raising Bishop Potter’s salary. It is now $12,599. Bishop Warm* of India wants i missionary superintendent for an industrial and agricultural mission iu India. Dr. Wallis Budge, one of the first of living Egyptologists, lias nearly ready a history of Egypt from the earliest time*. The New York Baptists propose to raise $1,000,000 fur an advance movement. The erection of a large building like Tremont Temple, Boston, i* contemplated. The choirmaster of St. Clement’s Church, Brooklyn, undertook to Impose fines on the choir hoys for breaches of his rules. The boys forced him to resign. Mother Bt. Gabriel, an Ursullnc nun of Cleveland, is dead. She was a native of Philadelphia, nnd before entering the sisterhood was Miss Auuctte Mc.Vndrew*. Pope Leu probably figures as legatee in more wills than any other person in the world. He waa named in uiorv than 700 wills last year, the legacies aggregating about SOOO,OOO.