Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1902 — Religious News and Notes [ARTICLE]

Religious News and Notes

Mormon missionaries are numerous throughout the Easteru States. The Church of England ha* thirty-sev-en bishops, but only thirty deans. The outcry against the desecration of the Sabbath in the United Statea Is growing. The Holy See has rnled that It is not proper to receive confessions over ths telephone. Thieves stole a 1.000-pound boll belonging to the Parkvilie, L. 1., Congregational Church.

Alden Speare, who died recently is California, was one of the most influential laymen in Methodism. President Roosevelt hns been invited ta address the great triennial Sunday school convention, to be held in Denver Is June next. The large but “unchurchly” chancel of Trinity Church. Boston, is to be remodeled. Choir stalls are to be put in for a vested choir. The Russian Government has appropriated $1,000,000 for the promotion of 'temperance among the people. The Rev. Dr. William Howe of Cambridge, Mass., the oldest living graduate of Colby College, wa* graduated Is 1833. He is 00 years of age. Sir James Parker Denne, Viear General of the Province of Canterbury and Chancellor of the diocese of Salisbury, is dead at the age of DO years. Dr. and Mrs. Kudisill, on their return to Madras, India, were tendered a reception by the employes of the Methodist Publishing Mouse of that city.