News and Notes by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 4, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 43.

News and Notes.

By Editor

FOR THE WEEK ENDING AUGUST 28.

RELIGIOUS.

—Bishop Newman, says the California Christian Advocate, who has just returned from his South American tour, reports that the largest churches and halls could not hold the people who came to hear him preach the Protestant gospel.

—Among the delegates to the great Catholic Congress at Chicago are mentioned some notable politicians, for instance, Chairman Carter, of the Republican National Committee, and Chairman Harrity, of the Democratic National Committee. Carter is appointed from the Vicariate of Idaho and Harrity from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The list of New York delegates includes the names of Bourke Cockran, General di Cesnola, Herman Ridder, Joseph J. O'Donahue, Eugene Kelly, William R. Grace, Hugh J. Grant, and Mayor Gilroy. A prominent political paper says, "It would perhaps surprise you to see the list of leaders of American thought who are communicants in the mother church."

—Rev. Dr. Coyle, of this city, wants to know what proportion of mechanics and laboring men of all sorts habitually stay away from church, if those who stay away are hostile or only indifferent, and if hostile, why. The Federated Labor Union, through its secretary, replies that three-fourths of those constituting the classes mentioned stay away from church, and if there were no Catholics, the proportion would be greater. Of those who stay away, about one-third are indifferent; they believe the doctrine advocated in the churches, but "are dulled and tired, and prefer pleasures that stimulate the physical man rather than moral or intellectual stimulants." As to the other two-thirds of the non-attendants, they are declared to be hostile to the churches.