Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-02
THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.
Matters Of Interest T1anspiring In


Endeavor society.
The Baptist Young Peoples union has
secured a strong footing in Utah.
An E1ldeavOr society has recently
been organized in DR.. Talmage's taber-
nacle in Brooklyn.
The grave of John Eliot, the famous
missionary to the Indians, is i'll Il very
neglected condition.
hundreds We're converted during the
recent remarkable meetings held by
DR.. Munhall at Mount Carmel. Pa.
An EndeavOr society in San Francis
co has contributed 1,S00 papers and
magazines to be distributed ON board
ships.
} AS far as heard from Christian Eli
deavor societies contributed $4,000
last year to missions through the vari-
Gus church boards.
The Northwestern Christian Advocate
of Chicago published all the papers
read before the Methodist congress.
issuing a double number
A German subscriber to Il religions
paper in Minneapolis stopped his paper
recently because it printed a column
of humorous paragraphs.
The Brotherhood of st. Andrew, com
posed mainly of active young laymen
Of the Protestant Episcopal church. has
Increased to $50 chapters.
The late Calvin ?. Sampson of North
Adams, Mass, left 100000 to the Bap-
fist Home missionary society and $1O,-
900 t. the missionary union.
All the annual conferences of the
Methodist Episcopal church-there are
more than 100-are pouring in petitions
to congress to repeal the Geary act
Father A c.. A. Hall cables the Yer
mont Episcopal diocese that the Cowley
Brotherhood has consented to his ac-
ceptance of the bishopric of Vermont
The relations between the Catholics
and ProtGStantS in Germany are be
coming very strained. Strictly sectar-
ian organizations are growing in mem
bership.
! A Paris daily journal in the interest
of good morals and Professionalism has
been established. 1t is named LIE Sig
nal, and is edited by Eugene Reveil-
laud.
The American Unitarian association
and a number of other benevolent in
StturlOns in Boston received large
legacies by the will of the late Annie
N. SWeetser.
!. Professor Arthur Cushman Giffert
last week succeeded DR.. Philip Schaff
as occupant of the Washburn chair of
church history in Union Theological
seminary.
Mr.. Harrison +. Thornton, q Congre-
gational missionary at Cape Prince of
Wales, Alaska, was murdered by ma
tive boys in his school whom he had
disciplined for bad conduct
Carl Hudst, son of Bishop Hudst
Chancellor of the American university
at Washington, .. c.. has been prOmOt-
ed to the position of American consul
at Crefeld, Germany.
The Christian EndeavOr society, the
Woman's Christian Temperance union
eight days temperance campaign al
Clearfield. Pennsylvania,
Bishop Thornton of Ballarat is oppOS
ing baZars and church rlff1eS with III
his power. He says the disasters in
Victoria are all attribute BILE to the
gambling spirit which has demOralized
the people.
: The New York state executive com
mittee urges tSunday-School teachers
and other Christian teachers to take
an advanced normal course. It ad
viSeS that classes be formed in every
city and village.
1t is said that if the United States
were supplied with ministers in the
: same proportion that the heather world
: is with missionaries there would be al
together about 275 ministers in the
country, about half as many as there
are in Chicago.
, Father Igna thus, who created q scene
, in the British Anglican church con
gross by protesting against the reading
, of the Rev. Charles Gore, author OF
, Lux Mundi, is the monk who severa
years ago denounced the Rev. Hebel
, Newton of New York.
, AS was expected the Presbyterian
, synod of Ohio in session at Cincinnati
, by a vote OF rs to "a, refused yesterday
, to sustain the appeal of Professor Hen
ry Preserved Smith Of Lane seminary
: from the decision Of the presbytery O.
, Cincinnati, which suspended him from
: the ministry for heresy.
President John of De PAW univer
| sity, Greencastle, Ind, rays that people
= have II apprehension as to thu
amount Of the bequest of DIR. De PAW
This is supposed to have been $500,
= 900, when as matter Of fact it was no
? more than $4,000, including $300,OO'
| already received.
, Rev. Mr.. Noyes whose expressed
hope that there may be salvation TO
f heat who died without having heart
of Christ has caused the American
board of foreign missions so mucl
! trouble, will now, doubtless, becom'
one of the boards missionaries il
Japan.
The Protestant society for the stud.
of social problems in France, organized
i five years ago, now has on its roll o
: members the names Of nearly 600 pas
e tors. The object Of the society is t.
discuss economic and social questions
from the standpoint Of evangelical
: Christianity.
S The eighth annual convention o