Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1902 — Religious News and Notes [ARTICLE]

Religious News and Notes

Tope Leo XIII. is 92 years of age. There is talk of raising Bishop Potter's salary. It is now $12,500. Bishop Warne of India wants a missionary superintendent for an industrial and agricultural mission in India. Dr. Wallis Bndge, one of the first of living Egyptologists, has nearly ready a history of Egypt from the earliest times. The New York Baptists propose to raise $1,000,000 for an advance movemeat. The erection of a large building like Tremont Temple, Boston, is contemplated. The choirmaster of St. Clement’s Church, Brooklyn, undertook to impose fines on the ehoir boys for breaches of his rales. The boys forced him to resign. Mother St. Gabriel, an Ursuline nnn of Cleveland, is dead. She was a native of Philadelphia, r -id before entering the sisterhood was Miss Annette McAndrews. Pope Leo probably figures as legatee in more wills that a&y other person in the world. He was named in more than 700 wills last year, the legacies aggregating about $600,0U0.