Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1900 — CHURCH AND CLERGY. [ARTICLE]

CHURCH AND CLERGY.

Over 200 applications are on file for the vacant pulpit of the Presbyterian Church at Atchison, Kan. The Forsyth Street Methodist Church, New York, celebrated its 111th anniversary hist Sunday. . . , ■ > ‘ The Rev. Father Dticey of St. Leo’s Roman Catholic Church, New York, is conducting a series of special services for actors. A marble tablet in memory of Dr. John Hall has been placed in the vestibule of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York. Descendants of the missionaries in the Hawaiian Islands constitute about onetwentieth of the white population, exclusive of tile Portuguese. The Rev. Dr. Rainsford of St'. George’s Episcopal Church, New York, says lie believes that the best thing to Ih! done among the poor of that city is to teach them love of country first. Religious sentiment will then, he says, follow naturally. Through the efforts of Catholid men, women and children, who volunteered to work as solicitors, the sum of $31,399.49 has been raised among the various city and 'country parishes of the Philadelphia archdiocese to support the Theological Seminary of St. Charles Borromeo at Overbrook. The Rev. Arthur Crane, pastor of the First Baptist? Church of Charleston, S. • lias been visiting the gambling houses and resorts of that city and making disclosures relative to them in his sermons. Many of his congregation have expressed their disapproval. Tin* trustees of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. New York, in the call to the Rev. Dr. Purves agreed to furnish him a suitable home, but. owing to a scarcity of houses coMvenleut to the parish, they are experiencing considerable embarrassment in carrying out the. contract.