Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1904 — PULPIT AND PREACHER [ARTICLE]

PULPIT AND PREACHER

Methodism has 1,224 deaconesses. The Rev. David R. Kerr, D. D., has accepted' the presidency of Westminster College, at Fulton, Mo. Miss Josephine I’once de Leon, a lineal descendant of the discoverer of Florida, has entered a convent at Albany. Cardinal Gibbons is strongly in favor of women voices in the choirs of the Catholic churches of the United Stntes. The Very Rev. Dean Lenihan of Marshalltown, lowa, is to be the first bishop of the new diocese of Great Falls, Mont. The Rev. I’eter MacQueon, pastor of the First Parish Church, iu Charlestown, Mass., predicts the union of all Protestant denominations. The Rev. Dr. I>. R. Lucas, pastor of the Christian Church of North Indianapolis, lnd., is department commander of Indiana of the G. A. R. K. G. 11. von Scheele, bishop of Gotland, Sweden, who i» tho seini official representative of King Oscar and will attend the various world's congresses nt the St. Louis exposition, is one of the noted prelutes of Europe. Archbishop Farley of New York hns directed that hereafter no Jews or infidels or professed non-believers shall be employed iu the choirs of churches in his diocese. The Rev. Walter Marvine, chaplain U. 8. A., stationed nt Ft. Douglas, in the vicinity of Bait Lake City, has been transferred on promotion to Fort Adams, near Newport. Miss Ruth Ward, daughter of the Rev. C. B. Ward of Bustnr, India, died Of cholera at die home of the Rev. D. H. Lee, Calcutta, where ahe had been working tor a year as a missionary.