Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-08-01
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The. Congregationalists In this
country number 5s3,539.
"A st. Paul lumberman has given
$50. 900 to the University of Minnesota
to endow chair of Semitic languages.
Gen. Booth is at work on new
book drawn from the results of his OBJ
servations during his recent visit to
this country. -
Rev. Russell H. Conwell, d. D., pas
tor of Grace Baptist church (The Tenn
ple), Philadelphia has baptized 1904
persons during his eleven years pas
torate there.
ID. L. Moody has scheme on foot
to put Bible in the hands of each of
the 100000 criminals in the country,
and he generally carries out what he
undertakes.
The action OF Notre Dame uni.
versity Roman Catholic) in comforting
the degree of LII. D. on the well-known
Congregational clergyman, Rev. Wash
ington GLADDEN., is almost unprecedent-
ed. and will doubtless excite wide COM
ment.
The FirstJapanese Christian church
In America was dedicated in San Fran
cisco recently. 1t belongs to the Meth
odist denomination, and has about
three hundred members, who contrib
uted largely toward the building of
the edifice. The assistant minister and
the organist are Japanese, and the
church organization will be managed
by the Japanese members, with very
little help or interference by Cauca-
slams.
Bishop Miadenoff, head of the
South Slavic Catholics, has disappeared.
He offered some months ago to secede
from the Catholic church with a large
number of Macedonian Bulgarians and
to recognize the exarchate of the Greek
! church. Soon after he went to Con-
stantinople and dined with the exarch,
and has not been seen or heard of since.
He is believed to have accepted an in
| vitation to visit an American Catholic
convent on the Asiatic side of the Bos-
porus. ...- .......... .
| DR. D. K. Pearsons, of Chicago, has
offered to give Mount Holyoke college
$4,000 if it will raise an additional
$50, 900 in a year and half. The gifts
! of DR.. Pearsons to western institutions
aggregate about 100000, eight col
! leges being the benefciaries. Of these
Beloit has received 100000, Knox $780,
900, Chicago Theological school $50, 600,
while he has recently made Whitman
college, of Walla Walla, Wash, simi-
lar offer to that now made to Mount
Holyoke, and Drury college has also
been aided by him. An ~
| Prof. Simon Newcomb, of the ma
\ tional observatory at Washington, who
has just been elected an associate OF
the French Academy of Sciences, has
had degrees conferred upon hinrS by
4, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Leyden, and
Heiderber. He holds the gold medal
fof the Royal Astronomical society and
the great gold Huygens medal of Ley
: den, bestowed only once in : twenty
Z years. 1t is now thirty-four years
3 since he was appointed professor OF
\ mathematics in the United States
navy. and he has been senior professor
for nearly twenty years.
The financial statement of the
Presbyterian board of foreign mis-
sions for the year ending April 80, 1895
shows that the total receipts were
$685. against $s41,553 for the pre-
ceding year. The total expenses, in
Guiding appropriations for the fields
"Church at Home and Abroad" etc
were 81, O15,757 To this must be add
ed the deficit at the beginning of the
year, S1O2, 597, making total liability
;, of $1,11s,354 Deducting the income
there remains a deficit of $251, 976
which is lessened, however, by gain
of $3s, s72 in exchange on silver and b!
unused appropriations amounting t.
S3s, 221, so that the real deficit is STA,
ss3.