The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 23, 1896, Page 8

1 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1896. FATHER COTTLE AND ST. BRIDGET'S, How the Parish Has Grown Under His Guiding Hand. NOTED AS A WORKER.| | The Late Father Arden Planned | and Built the Present Edifice. PROGRESS OF THE NEW CEURCH Fourteen Hundred Barrels of Cement Will Be Needed for the Foun- dation Alone. Father Cottle is a very progressive mun. Heisa worker and builder as well asa preacher. Six years ago the Archbishop made him pestor of St. Bridget’s Church, corner of Van Ness avenue and Broadway. Itwas then burdened with debt, and the manner in which he swept it away during his brief pastorate is a matter of history. That is why the parishioners look upon Father Cottie asa great worker, and he always works to a good end; he plans, he | builds, he accomplishes something at every step. St. Bridget's parish was established in 1862 by the late Archbishop Alemany. Father Arden, who died a few daysago at Benicia, was the first pastor. He wasa Dominican, and for many years guided the destiny of the parish. Like Father Cottle he, too, was a builder. The old church which has been moved to one side of the lot to make room for the new and hondsome edifice that will soon occupy the site was planned and built by him. It was constructed in sections. As the demands of the parish increased the little church was enlarged. Father | Arden built the altar and confessionals | with hisown hands. Healso designed the | sanctuary. Being a carpenter himself, he | bhad no difficulty in executing his plans. | And thus the church was enlarged from1 time to time as the parish grew. Strange | to relate, on the very day that Father Arden passed away at the monastry at | Benicia the old church which he had built | was moved away and began the his- tory of its end. | Father Callaghau, now at San Mateo, succeeded Father Arden as pastor at St. | Bridget's, and he in turn was succeeded by | Father Birmingham, deceased, who built | the school which adjoins the church and | which is known as St. Brideet’s Academy. | It is presided over by the Sisters of Charity | of the Blessed Virgin Mary, an excellent | teaching community from Dubuque, Iowa. | There are eleven Sisters on the teaching | staff. They also teach the boys until they | pass into the grammar grade. There are | 500 children attending the academy in all. Father Cottle took charge of the parish in 1890. He had been educated for this archdiocese. Father Cottle was born in New York, but came to California with his parents in 1862. He received his collegiate training at St.-Mary’s College, Oakland, and took his theological course in the Grand Seminary, conducted by the Sul- pician fathers at Montreal. He was or- dained in the old Canadian city by the late Archbishop Fabre in 1879, and came direct to the California mission. Father Cottle takes a great pride in his new church, which, when completed, will certainly be one of the handsomest churches in the City. It will be a perfect gem. Shea & Shea prepared the plans. Father Cottle said yesterday that he had no hes- itancy in undertaking the work of build- ing the church. Thus far he has superin- tended all the work himself. The excava- tion is now finishea and the concrete foun- dation will be laid at once. It will take 1400 barrels of concrete to lay the founda- tion. The concrete foundation for the tower will be 26 feet square and wiil be 6 feet deep and girded with iron. The tower will be 120 feet in height. It will havean ob- servatory so that the entire coyntry. for miles around can beseen. The first story, or basement, will be solid granite and will be eighteen feet in height. Father Cottle has already secured the altars which are of marble and onyx, and the five handsome Munich windows. The two side sanctua- ries will be minia tures of the main. The material to be used will be brick and granite throughout. One of the many beautiful features of the new church will be the entrance, which will be through | three grand arches having a span of fif- teen feet. The approach will be by stone steps rising gradually from the sidewalk and protected by balustrades. From the first story to the roof over the center aisle the height will be forty-five feet and the side aisles twenty-five feet from the main floor of the church. The finish of the in- terior will be after the Italian renaissance. The nave will be fifty feet wide, and the walls on either side will be supported by columns and arches handsomely carved and ornamented, The sanctuary will be circular in form and have a depth of thirty feet and a width of thirty-five feet. The wall over the sanct- uary will have: circular windows behind Romanesque arched colonnades. The whole arrangement of the interior will be such as to give an unobstructed view of the altar from all parts of the church. SWEET, WHOLESOME WOMEN. Miss Etchison Says They Won’t Wear Long Skirts. The Socialist Labor party held an enthu- siastic meeting at 909 Market street last evening. Mr. Hecht read an extract from a social- ist organ, denying the claim that the So- cialist Labor party is opposed to trades- unionism. Miss Georgia Etchison read a paper on “Social Health.” *Industry and temper- ance are essentials alike of civic and in- dividual beaith,’’ said the young lady. “So insidious have been the advances of civil and moral disease that we have scarce be- come aware of them. Our newspapers are a daily epitome of vice and cri Commenting upon unhygienic living, she said: “*Our clothinz is a caricature of grace. If you doubt this watch the move- ments of the human animal, encased in his instrnment of torture. Contrast them witn the wild, free grace of the lower grade of ife. i “In social science we are as yet mere babes. But there isa hopeful sizn in the rebellion against present conditions. There has been too fatuous a belief in the great ! physicians, God and nacure, too little con tidence in self. “In my opinion there will be no im- proved condition until our activities are all in harmony with an awakened social conscience. “Cleanliness is no longer to be ranked as next to godliness, but is coming to be recognized as the savior of men. Butit is cleanliness not only of the food we eat and the water we driui, but the soil we live on.” Following the line of improvements in this regard she said: “The time will come whena woman will not be considered sweet and wholesome if her skirts reach the ground. Salutary would be the intro- duction of the cleanly Hollandese fashion of weekly spring housecleaning.” MARRY EARLY IN LIFE. Rev. W. H. Moreland Advises Young Men to Found Homes in Their Prhne, The Rev. William H. Moreland, rector of St. Luke’s*Church, strongly advises all young men to get married just as soon as they can and establish families of their own. He spoke to a large audience of young men yesterday afternoon in the Y. M. C. A. Hall, his subject being *‘The Young Man in Family Life.” Speaking of the sacredness of the home and the social vaiue of harmonioug family life he declared that divorces and the proneness of many to resort to them occa- sioned the breaking up of the home and the shivering asunder of the family, and he appealed to his auditors to avert wher- ever it might lie in their power the neces- ARMY AND NAVY NOTES, Plan to Place the Pesthouse on Angel Island Op- posed. THE PRESIDI0O BARRACKS. | Active Work on Gunboat Construc- tion—The Oregon May Attain Great Speed. The suggestion that the Government | should set apart & tract of land on Angel { Island for a pesthouse of San Francisco has excited opposition in army circles. It is assamed that Congress foliowing precedents long established would not permit such occupation of the island with- out the recommendation of the War De- | partment, hence Mayor Sutro has sought | to get a favorble expression from General | Forsyth, commanding the Department of California. Ia this he was not successful. The general contends that the island was 1 reserved by the Government for military | uses. Itis admitted that there is much patient being unable to walk, he will be sup- Pplied with an official telegram prepared to be sent from 8t. Louis, notifying the commanding officer of the hospital of the time the irain leaves that station, in order that transporta- tion may be sent to meet him at railroad depot at Hot Springs. The Quartermaster’s Department will furnish the necessary transportation, and the Subsist- ence Departmeni commutation of rations, in advance, at the prescribed rate, for the neces- sary number of days, it being impracticable ‘a’ll.‘:h? 10 cury‘nl lons of -ny‘iimz.h A pulilio ¢ journe; s neeessary for service. ¥ e The third double brick barrack buildlng at the Presidio has been oom)}}eted an will be occupied this week by Light Bat- teries D and F of the Fifth Artillery. The six batteries of the regiment stationed at the Presidio are now supplied with com- fortable and spacious quarters, containing many modern conveniences, In the next three weeks Colonel A. S. Kimball, Chief Quartermaster of the department, will in- vite proposals for contracts for construct- ing the new stables at the Presidio. An expenditure of $14,000 has been authorized for this purpose. During the past month a vast quantity of material from the East has been re- ceived by the Union Iron Works to be used in the construction of the two new gunboats. Work on the boats is actively progressing and will be pushed ahead un- til the launching. Activity is the order aboard the battle- ship Oregon. Workmen are busy with in- terior equipments, adjusting electric con- nections, extending tubes and doing a thousand littie things that must be done before the trial trip is made. The system provided for lighting the great ship 1s said 10 be excellent. The dynamos have been tested, but the battleship has not yet been illuminated. Irving M. Scott is confident that the sity for a permanent rupture in marital relations, There is an artificial standard of society, ! he remarked, up to which young men think they must live, and in aftempting to do so they let some of the best years of their life slip by. It is a pity, he con- tinued, that when a man does decide to wed after leading a gay life the bride comes in for the last leavings of the bridegroom'’s heart, and_becomes a mere convenience of housekeeping. Next Sunday afternoon’s address will be i by the Rev. Dr. John Hemphill of Calvary Church, and he will talk of “‘Strong Men.”” ANDHR 1O ALL TRHNP A Man Whose Charitable Impulses Ruined Him. The Old Cigar-Dealer Who Never Turned a Reggar Away Empty-Handed. Instances of charity ruining the donor are not common in these end-of-the-cen- tury days. Yet such an instance is the sequel of years of persistent and mistaken almsgiving by a man whose name is better known to the itinerant population of this country than is that of Collis P. Hunting- | ton or even Governor Budd. F. W. Buxtorff was the proprietor of a cigar-stand at 423 Sansome street for twenty-four years. Initspaimy days, it is said, the daily receipts of the little place were away up in the three figures, and even, street traditions say, came to the fourth figure once or twice. came for the old man. That was when the tramps put him in their blue book. He bad a kind heart and he was credu- lous. Therefore he was an easy prey. As the visits of the tramps became m ore fre- quent the simple old cigar-dealer thought the fact an indication of the growing stringency of the times. Heywaxed more liberal than before, and the visits multi- plied in the same ratio. He did not pre- tend to understand this, except that he began to believe that poverty had inaug- urated a reign of terror. Ashis custom began to fall off he ascribed 1t to this reign of terror, When his still faithful custom- ers remonstrated against his permitting tramps to lounge about the place he would | answer in his queer slow fashion: “Don’t say that. That isnot right.” When some one told him he had seen a tramp leave his place, go rround the corner, change his coat and hat and go back for a further levy, he expressed indignation toward the informant, but not toward the tramp. No tramp ever went away empty handed. The old man came to be known to the vagrant fraternity from California to Maine, and when those members of it who had strayed to the - Atlantic slope | wandered back they were sure to pay Buxtorff a visit—yes, many of them. The stout figure, the round, good- natured old face, the little wisp of white bair that stood up straight in the middle of a shininsrpabe, were all familiar to the fraternity. They owed many a drink to the liberality of the owner. 1t was a great blow when they found a new face at the stand—a face that did not greet them benignantly, as the rubicund old one had done. The news soon went the rounds that the old man had failed. He had given his last nickel, and the Sheriff had closed him out. The new man had an empty sleeve and wore a Grand Army button. When the members of the fraternity put in an ap- arance he acted with more worldly wis- om and it was surprising how soon the visits were discontinued. Now the tramps who pass look askance at the place. The lone old man went wearily back to his lodging at 348 Third street that night in January when he was surprised by the summary proceedings of the law. His courage was gone. He was poorer than his troop of beneficiaries. But friends came torward, Consul Borel, who had been his landlord, provided the money to send his countryman back tothe vales of Switzerland. He left a few days ago, his destination the home of a wealthy sister at Basle. ——————— GOT FACE or other ache? Use Mitchell's Magic Lotion. May ulcerate it you donm’t. o But a sad day | i ‘\\; ol Piles and Sills. ATy P I The Old and the New St. Bridget’s Catholic Church, Van Ness Avenue and Broad- way, Together With an Interior View of the Sacred Building, Now Resting on [Drawn by a “Call” staf artist) | land on the island not used now for mili- | tary purposes, but Gen eral Forsyth holds that military requirements within the next fifty or even twenty-tive years, may be materially changed, so that the en- tire island may be needed. Mayor Sutro suggested that the island was large and that the tract for the use of the City could be spared without incon- venience. General Forsyth replied that : the State of California was large and that an available site might readily be founa on the mainland. Again the department commander contended that a nesthouse | should be imiediately accessible to and i placed where it would be under the con- ! stant inspection and supervision of the health officers of the municipality. If placed on an island it would be neglected and become a nuisance rather than a bene- | fit. Again, patients destined for the hos- ital should not be taken from hotels and | lodging-houses and_exposed to a sea voy- age in order to reach a hospital. General Forsyth is firmly against the proposition, as in his judgment it is neither a military nor municipal necessity and therefore will not recommend to the department at Washington that the res- ervation shall be used for the purpose in- ! dicated. - | _ The Quartermaster-General of the Army, R. N. Batchelder, recently issued an order prohibiting the keeping of domestic ani- mals or fowlsin or near national ceme- teries for the benefit of the superintendents or emploves. To offset the action of the Quarter- master-General a bill was introduced in | the House of Representatives authorizin each superintendent to keep a horse an | cow for his own use. The House Military Committee has favorably reported nd the committee’s elaborate report is quite animated and sarcastic. first Lieutenant William W. Galbraith, Regimentai Adjutant, Fifth Artillery, bas returned to duty at the Presidio after pro- longed leave of absence to recruit his health. Lieutenant C. G. Lyman, Second Cav- alry, who is well known in San Francitco, is reported to the board at the Presidio to be examined for promotion. ! Lieutenant Harry A. Smith, First In- fantry, Benicia Barracks, has been de- tailed by the War Department to instruct the National Guard of Kansas. Mr.8mith went to the Militarv Academy from *‘Bleed- ing Kansas,” and hence his’ tour of duty, j with headquarters at Topeka, will bring l him into fellowship with old friends. Upon the recommendation of the chief surgeon of the department First Lieuten- art Paul V. Straub, assistant surgeon, has been ordered to report to General Graham at the Presidio for duty at that fi t_until the arrival of Major Robert H. White, surgeon. The following paragraph from Special Order No. 29, heudqulrgz?rs Dennums]::lc of California, is interesting: +3. Under provisions of Circular No. 16, dated War Department, Adjutant General’s Of- fice, December 8, 1892, Private uel Smith, Company E, First Infantry, Angel Isiand, Cal- ifornia, will be sent to Hot Springs, Arkansas, to enable him to enter the Army and Navy General Hospital at that reporting, ufin his arrival, to the comman fnlg officer. e Commanding Officer, Angel Isiand, will for- ward the descriptive list and account of pay and clothing of the patient, by mail, prior to his departure from post. In event of the Oregon will display on the trial trip speed in excess of she contract requirement. THE FRENCH HOSPITAL, Annual Meeting to Discuss Pro- posed Amendments to the By-Laws. Out of the Sixteen Submitted All Were Voted Down With the Excep- tion of Two. The annual meeting of the French Be- nevolent Society was held in Union-square Hall, Post street, yesterday afternoon to discuss the amendments to the by-laws submitted at the preparatory meeting held two weeks ago. 2 The ball was crowded, and great interest war manifested in the proceedings. Syl- vain Weill, president, occupied the chair and called the meeting to order. There were sixteen proposed amend- ments to the by-laws and all were voted down, with the exception of two. Among the fourteen rejected was the amendment to amnlsanute the offices of resident physi- cian and superintendent at the French Hospital, which was not even discussed. The first amendment to the by-laws adopted was in regard to the board of direc- tors. The board at present consists of fif- teen, elected annually. The amendment adopted was to the effect that at the com- ing election in two weeks fifteen should be elected, but next year and every year thereafter ten of the number shall only re- tire, leaving five of the old board in otfice, and only ten new directors to be elected. This was considered an important change, as the five leftin office would be conversant with the business done the previous year. ‘The other amendment adopted related to doctors eligible for election. According to the by-laws doctors allowed to hold office_were only those who had already served the society and those who .had graduated from some medical college re- quiring not less than a four years’ course of study. Having found that this restric- tion was an injustice to 8 number of prac- titioners,who, previous to 1892, had gradu- ated from colleges requiring only a three years’ course of study, but which since then had increased the course to four years, the amendment now permits tnem to run for office. The election of officers will be held on Sunday, April 5, and nominations will be received up to 5 . M. nexi Saturday. Yes- terdpx Charles Greefe was appointed resident of the Board of Education, H. lanchet secretary and E.C. Amede and J. Auraudou judges. EASTER cards, Bibles, prayer-books, Easter noveltfes in wave crest ware, in celluloid and l;‘ omer] appropriate styles, including many utiful tures, medalliol otographs, ete., llltlbfi“tor;h'mnmem?nznm Every- body welcome. " Sanborn, Vail & Co., 7: Market street. 7 - PURPOSE OF THE A, P. & Rev. Dr. Ray Palmer Replies to Some Criticisms on the Organization. ITS PLANS CLEARLY DEFINED. Incidentally the Speaker Declared His Hearty Belief in the Innocence of Dr. Brown. ‘At the Good Citizenship meeting yester- day afternoon at Metropolitan Hall Rev. Dr. Ray Palmer made the address of the day. There was a full auditorium pres- ent. Before Dr. Palmer took the rostrum Chairman Quitzow, after asserting that he wished to prove to the audience that the Roman Catholic Church was in poli- tics, stated that at the German Catholic Church on Golden Gate avenue, between Jones and Leavenworth streets, there were circulated notices referring to the ‘‘damna- ble American Protective Association’ as being subversive of liberty, and instruct- ing them to vote for the list of men sub- mitted in the notice, who were declared to be the best men selected from the tickets of the various parties—men who were in favor of liberty. Dr. Palmer spoke on the subject of “Criticism of the A. P. A.’s” He said: “I believe that the American Protective Association bas a right to live. I believe thatif our flag has a rieht to live, if the American Government has a right to live, if the public school has a right to live, if free speech and free thought have a right to live, then we claim that the American Prote,cli\'e Association has the right to live. He stated that wrong reports were again about concerning the American Protective Association to the effect that it was en- gaged in a religious war. This he denied, and added that every member of the American Protective Association ~was ready to-day to take up arms in defense of the rights of the weakest ana smallest sect to worship as it pleases. He declared that the Roman Catholic church was not being fought on account of its religion, but on account of its interference in politics, el Among other things he disclaimed that the movement was one of preachers. ‘‘Preachers,” he continued, ‘‘are no good these days, anyway. They are getting into all sorts of trouble. They have to protect themselves in every way nowadays, even to locking their doors so that the ladies cannot come to see them. “Now, I don’t want my words construed to be directed against Dr. Brown. So far as I am concerned I believe from tne bot- tom of my heart that Dr. Brown is an in- nocent man. He is the victim of a cun- spiracy organized for the destruction of his life and soul. I do not know Dr. Brown. I met him butonce, and am not a member of his church. The troop of liars who have appeared against nim is something I have never before seen, but he will live to see his ¢nemies dead. He will yet live to be a great man and a preacher, just the same as Beecher was.” Partisanship, he deciared, was no part of the plan of the American Protective Asso- ciation. All that it wanted, he said, was 10 see the men in office who were for pure and true Americanism. He also refuted the statements that the members of the | American Protective Association were | made up of foreigners—Orangemen, Irish, Dutch and others. *‘Half of those who criticize us in this particular,” he said, *‘can’t speak the Engll:sh language to save their necks.” He thanked the City press for their re- ports of the meetings in San Franciscoand added that the country press were bitterly opposed to the movement. Then he con- tinued: But we find a great deal of difficulty}in get- ting the business man into our ranks. They say they believe in cur principles, but they will not join our organization. And we find this particularly so among the Jews. They think only of their business and of the dollars and cents view of it. Their only thought is to make money. The Irish claim that they are peculiarly fit- ted for politics, and that thatis the reason they occupy so many of our public offices. But it is now time for them to look for some other occu‘)‘)utlou. for the Amcrican people are about to take steps to prove that they, too, are pecu- linrly fitted for politics. ‘We do not propose to resort to force to con- wvert the Roman Catnolics to our way of think- ing, unless they force us to do so, but we pro- pose to keep this country Protestant now and forever. The speaker then spoke in eulogy of the public schools and of the great need of constantly inculeating into_the rising ?em eration the principles of liberty and Iove of country. & Spain was denounced for her action in opposing the efforts of Cuba to secure her independence and theliberty of her people. He referred to a Eronhecy of a Catholic ublication, which declared that fifty vears rom now_the children of the members of the American Protective Association would all be good Catholics. He added that he would also like to make a prophecy, and continued : I want to prophesy that fifty years from now there will be no Pope at Rome. Fifty years hence the hierarchy will be numbe: among the relics of the past. In fifty vears from to- day models of monasteries and nuneries will be on exhibition to show what awful things have been. There will not be asingle oid bachelor priest on this continent or on any other continent. The priests will all be mar- ried men. There will not be a nun living as nuns live to-dey. Ihave not one word to say against these women, for many of them lead the highest kind of life and do much in the way of good, but fifty years hence they will all be married to the best men me{ can find. Fifty years from now every child wiil be taught to properly honor the stars and stripes, and in our public buildings will be hung banners inscribed, “In honor of the immortal deeds of the A. P. A.” LA DR. YORK’S LECTURE. An Exposition of the Pedigrees of Freethought and of the Free- thinkers. Dr. J. L. York, the liberal orator, enter- tained a Jarge audience at Scottish Hall last evening on the subject of “The Evo- lution of Modern Freethought and Free- thinkers,” upon which he spoke substan- tially as follows: As liberals, “Whence did we come? And whiber are we tending as a force in the worid of mind?” While it is important to know our origin and relations in this world as physical beiugs it is quite as important to know where we came from, where we are tending. and our relations as mental and moral beings. * The evolution of free thought and mental liberty in the world is simply the growth and unioldment of the human intellect in the light of ex perience, reason and natural science. All nature is made of one stuff and governed by the same law of inherent conditions, and e humen mind, like all things else, grows by what it feeds upon. If it feed upon mystery, fiction and fable it will {mw up sickly an full of superstition; but if it be nourished by the sunshine of fact, history and natural science, it will unfold on a higher piane of truth, true spirituality and morat life. The modern era of liberalism was opened up in 1600 by the new astronomy of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler; the new philosophy of Descartes, Spinoza and Bacon, and the new literature of Luther, Montigne and kes- are, ‘These were the fathersof modern freethought ‘?‘l’h‘)““fl{"efig‘nke“ of zz—rhy are the children of this illustrious parentage. We trace of mosnm free ht to Lord Herbert,one of the mest accomplishea men of England, who wrote a book entitled ““The Truth,” in or about 1600. The book was soon condemned, and ouly & few m&- of 1 have survived the religious prejudice of the times. It was in England ne, and to her glory be it said, that the light of the new truth could be kept burning st all. And in that 1and of the common law, jury trial, changin, faiths, and rising printing press, ‘the 1ing of the martyrs and confessors of modern free- thought began, and from that central line of thinkers and reformers has , 85 from a central sun, u‘!’e nren.mlo! mental liberty, all and America. °'v’v'.§-'§§?|"§m recall to your minds the names of Hopbs, Shaftsbury, Toland, Collins, Tyndall and Woolston (poor man dying in prison for truth), on down, to Lord Boi ngbroke, the worthy successor of Lord Herbert, the author of the little work men]floned as the starting of English liberaiism. pol;;zgm mls‘ same liberal school of thought came the French Voltaire and the English Pope, whence followed that of D'Holbach, Volney, the Encyclopedia, Rousseau, Danton and the great French Re\;ulgtlo:“wim its im- social and political changes. mle’?;:l l.(;iil laun%uhe.d all of the liberal streams of thought have descended into Scot- land through Hume,and into Germany by Emanuel Kant, and through Adam Smiménb'o the commereial world at large,aud thus En : lish liberalism has found its way into al lands. ‘America is full of promise for the future. When we began 1o lecture iwenty-eight years ago an audience couid not be obtained except i a few. places on this coast. Now at this gnu‘b almost every town, city and country school district will afford a good audience to listen to the gospel of reason and common sense. Man ni woman to the front.and the church and priest to the rear, is the American watch- wortf of free thought. But while it is true that Protestant Christianity in its dogmatic aspect is dying out, Romanism and her pa- rochial schools are & menace to our American free institutions and our great cities are rap- idly falling under the infiuence of ecclesiasti- cism. And the time has come when every lib- eral minded man should set his face against the domination of the State sud schools by any religious sectarian influence whatever. “Butas we have said, the religion of our country has advanced and is growing more humane, thanks to the noble ' workers on American soil, such as Henry C. Wright, Parker Pilsbury, Theodore Parker, Stephen Foster, Lucretia Mott, Eliezer Wright, Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Philiips, Gerris Smith, D. M. Bennette, R. G. Ingersoll and a host of others who have lived and died in the cause of mental xreedon{. And the trend of modern freethought shows most clearly the decay of superstition. The great majority of thinking men no longer even affect a religious faith in the old meaning of these terms, and the new woman will have very little religion of the old stamp. What influence has the clergy to-day, compared with the past? The average thinker in the pews to- day pushes the pulpit. What power has the church to-day com})ned with 100 years ago? The thinking world are siiding away from religious faith, dogmas and technical theology and have opened the ques- tion of creeds and priestly rule, showing the decadence of religion in she exact ratio as the spread of education and growth of natural sci- ence in the worid. Religious faith and dogma are no longer the mighty moral force they once were in both Europe and America. The spread of education and knowledge among the people has paral- zed religion as a controiling moral force. hus the shackles of creed are breaking and a few faith will inspire mankind with the simple and practical religion of Honesty, Be- nevolence and Morality. Address by Major T. C. Ryan. A benefit for the State Council, W. A. P. A., will be given at Metropo!itan Temple to-night. Major Ryan, the well-known Eastern orator, has kindly consented to give another of his stirring addresses on the subject of “Roman- ism dand Protestantism—Their Fruits Com- pared.” The entire State body, both A. P. A. and W. - P. A., will honor the occasion by their pres- ence. Patriotic addresses will be made by President Huderson 4nd other member of {.hu: bgdy. The admission is free, and all are nvited. LET ELETK GUNS PASS, The President of Salvador Calls It a Ridiculous Ex- pedition. A Conquest and a General Suspense at Panama—Salvador Im- proving. The President of the Republic of Salva- dor seems to think that General Ezeta’s cruise of conquest, that started originally from San Francisco, is nothing more than a joke with the laugh pretty much on the belligerent general who, he declares, bas been abandoned by the Barclay Golden and left fo strike out for parts unknown. In a letter received by Friday’s steamer, Pr;sidenl Gutierrez thus expresses him- self: Sr. Dr. Eustorgio Calderon, Consul del Salvador en_San Francisco, Cal.—ESTEEMED SIR: I re- ceived your last letier of the 27th of January. General Antonio Ezeta is still at Panama, whence it is probable he will take passage in another steamer for parts unknown, for I un- derstand that the captain of the Barclay Golden has resolved to have nothing more to do with him or with Casin, and will leave them on land. The authorities of Acapulco allowed three I boxes of rifles and fifteen boxes of cartridges that were on board the Barclay Golden to con- tinue in transit because Casin offered proof that thev were freighted direct to Panama, and so I did not insist that these things be con- fiscated by the suthorities on account of the little importance, or, more properly speaking, the ridiculous nature of the expedition. Iremain, as ever, your attentive servant, R. A. GUTIERREZ. By the same mail came a copy of the President’s recent message to tge Salva- dorean Congress. In it he congratulates the people upon the economic and commercial improve- ments throughout the republic during the ast year, upon the existing peace, the final union of long separated partizs, the increased efficiency of the press published by the Government and delivered free to the people, and upon the equipment and extension of asylums. ————— St. Patrick’s Church Mission. 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