Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1903 — PULPIT AND PREACHER [ARTICLE]

PULPIT AND PREACHER

I.ucas Malet (Mrs. Harrisou), who wrote “Sir Richard Calmady," has become a convert to Catholicism. It was a colored preacher who said all 1 he had to complain of was the “contributory negligence" of his parishioners. A Catholic Filipino is a student at Yale this year. On Sundays he attends services nt St. Mary's Church, New Haven. An appeal is being sent forth to ail the clergy of the United States for contributions to a memorial to the philanthropists, Baron nnd Baroness Hirsch. The Aev. Louis Stickney of Baltimore, a member of tho American college at Rome, lias been appointed secretary to the apostolic delegation in Canada. Bishop Potter says: “No bishop who is wholly cut off from contact with rural life can fnil to become tlint prejudiced, unsympathetic and opinionated thing.” Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, li.ts been invited by tho Methodists of Savannah, (In., to he present at the bicentennial of John Wesley's birth, on June 28. At the next session of the Vermont conference tlie Rev. 11. F. Forrest, after forty-ovo conseeutivo yenrs of service in the itineracy, will take n supernumerary relation. The Rev. Dr. \V. S. Rninsford of New York, when asked how Tie regarded the action of Vermont In repudiating prohibition, said: "I would rather see a man freo than sober." The Rev. Edward M. Duff, rector of St. Thomas’ Church, -Buffalo, has been appointed instructor in New Tenement interpretation In tho De Laiicey DivluIty School of the diocese. The Rev. C. M. Sheldon le at the hend of a movement to establish at Topeka, Kan., a life Insurance compauy that will only Issue policies on the lives of Christians and total abstaiuera.