Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-08-31
THE RELIGIOUS WORLD
Late Occurrences And Events Yet
Project.

4 He clTIStdIu enueaFOr society Will
print Il paper in China.
Toronto will have the next interna-
tional Baptist convention.
The governor of New York has signed
Il bill eNempting the Young Mems
Christian association property from
taxation
The degree of doctor of laws has
been conferred upon Rev. DR.. John
Hall Of New York by the University OF
Dublin
An address by ex-President Harrison
viii be one of the features of the In
diana states convention Of the Epwortb
league.
Thirty thousand dollars has been
raised for the Cardinal Manning mem
orial fund in London, to be used for
the homeless poor in that city.
Rev. FL. S. Higgs has been whistling
for the Island park assembly
The Baptist union viii devote much
attention to unconditional studies
/ this year
DR.. Wayland Hoyt advises all Bap-
! list endeaVOr societies to unite with
the Baptist young peoples unions.
| Temperance societies are now allow
| ed to exist in Russia, but it was not IN
! til quite recently the government ceas-
! ed to regard them with hostility.
! The largest religious sect in this coun-
try is the Roman Catholics, with 6.24O.-
Of5 members. The Adonai Shomo, with
only twenty followers, is the smallest.
During the worlds fair the Christian
endeavor of Chicago wear small
American flag pinned on with a c.. E.
pin, so that visitors may know them.
| Mrs. Steele, co1ored. woman. has
founded an orphans home at Atlanta.
Ga. for colord children. The home
cost $4,000, and is without debt.
In Canada a law imposing heavy
! fines and imprisonment has been enac-
ted against lotteries These laws ap-
! ply to all games of chance except those
at church fairs.
Rev. David Spencer D. D.. of Racine.
Wis, has undertaken to raise $4,000
for the purpose of putting the Young
| Peoples Union on 4 solid financial
basis
Rev NJ. NJ Vancleave, a Baptist
minister of Crawfordsvill, Ind. has
been preaching for more than eighty
years. During that time he has mar
ried 100 couples.
1t is said that bands play dance mus
| ic on Sunday in the Garden of GetIl-
Semane, and that the way to the
Mount of Olives is disfigllred by adj
yertisments of Dublin stout.
It is proposed to mark the spot where
the congregation Of the first church of
Dorchester Mass colony held it's first
service in June, 1880, with Il bronze
tablet, or memorial stone.
The WOman's Christian Temperance
union of Boston has petitioned that
| the smoke nuisance on the street cars
of that city be done away with. They
present a list of 5000 names
At the close of the present year the
third seven years course of Inter
national Sunday school lessons will
come to an end. This movement is
one of the most remarkable ever in
augurated to popularize the Bible.
Rev G. H. G. Magregor, NJ A, of
Aberdeen, Scotland, has been invited
to succeed Rev. DR.. Kellogg as pastor
of st. James Presbyterian Church, Tor
onto. Mr.. Magregor has but recently
returned from a visit to Canada
Rev. DR.. Nuttall. Bishop of Jamaica.
and brother of the Rev Ezra Nuttall,
a Wesleyan missionary in South Africa,
has recently been elected primate of
the West Indies, in which island he
was a Wesleyan missionary for several
years.
The London Missionary society asks
for funds to help purchase a steamer
to aid them in their mission work in
the south seas. The cost of running
the steamer will be much more than
that of their sailboat which is too slow
but the directors think the steamer is
necessary.
Rev. DR.. w. II. Crawford, of Chica-
go, member of the Rock river confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
church, has been elected President OF
the Allegheny college. DIR. Crawford
has accepted the position and will en-
ter upon his new work at once.
Archbishop Ireland is the only one
of the Catholic hierarchy who urged
that the entire Chicago fair be closed
Globe, one of his greatest admirers
on Sunday. The Colorado Catholic
said that didn't agree with him on this
matter, but now it says that he is {
good general to follow.
The free church of Scotland is ad
verifying for a missionary for the seq
of Galilee Mission, to succeed Rev
William Irving, and the sign Of the
times that proba TONERS of the United
Presbyterian Church, as we'll as Of the
free church. are invited to send il
their applications.
The Apostolic Guide says that there
is nothing in the world that human be
ings undertake to do that can show 81
small percentage of total failure a:
marriage for the 32S.0O0 divorces
granted in the United States during the
last twenty years are only 1 per cent
of the number Of marriages during thu
same time.
Two Swedish missionaries. the Reys
t WickhoIm and Jonansen. who arrived
| in Sing Pu last April. and who wer;
the only missionaries there. have re
Gently been murdered by Chimes
. fanatics. Sing Pu is an importan
market place, northeast of Hankow
and contains about thirty thousand
: inhabitants.
Archdeacon Grower. son of the lat,
; Bishop Crowler recently took a promi
nent part in a discussion as to whethe
2 white or black man ought to fill tn