Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-14

the Young Peoples Society Of Christian
Endeavor will be held in San Francisco,
in July. 1897.
Bishop Gaines, at the African Metho-
dist conference in Richmond, Va,
served notice that he would ordain no
man in the ministry who drank whis-
key. chewed tobacco or smoked cigars.
The Young Mems Christian associa-
ton has 500 associations, and 100000
members, of which 1400 associations
with 265.000 members are in America.
The next world conference will be held
in Basic, Switzerland, in Aug. 1898.
The second convention of the Luther
League of America was recently held in
Chicago. One of the special objects of
this league is to meet the spiritual
needs of the Lutherans who came to
this country, 55,961 having arrived last
year.
One of the most interesting and re-
markable circles of the order of Kings
Daughters is connected with Zion
Colored church in Brooklyn, the young
est member being SO years old. and the
president having reached the age of
103 years.
For the first time in four years the
American Board of Missions mas been
able to close it's business year without
a debt This has been accomplished
by economy, retrenchment, and gener-
GUS donations. the total receipts having
reached the sum of $743,104.
The trustees of Plymouth church,
Brooklyn, Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott.
pastor. have decided that the members
of the Sunday school may ride to the
church on Sunday on their wheels. and
racks for the wheels have been ar
ranged alongside the church.
The Duke of Norfolk has purchased a
site for G13.000 on which it is proposed
to erect a Roman Catholic college at
Oxford. It is about three acres in eX-
tent, and is within short distance of
Mansfield and Manchester colleges.
This college will be under the auspices
of the Jesuit Order.
''The Attitude of the Church to Sun
day Bicycling was the subject recent
ly discussed by the Aurora Baptist
association at Joliet. Ill, and the con-
clusion was reached that it is better to
ride a wheel to church by ones own
efforts than to cause others to work to
take the person there.
The Domestic and Foreign Missionary
society of the Protestant Episcopal
church announces that the debt which
hampered the organization has been
discharged, and that the end of the
fiscal year finds the books balanced
with small amount to the credit of
the society in the treasury.
A home for ex-convicts has been
established on the upper end of Man.
haitian Island, n. Y, where released
prisoners who desire to lead right lives
will receive kind care and encourage
ment, and much needed assistance in
securing employment. This worthy
work has been accomplished largely
through the efforts of Mrs. Ballington
Booth, wife of the leader of the Ameri-
can Volunteers.
An interesting and useful object les
son has recently been taught in New
York City. John Quinn, reformed
gambler, fitted up a room on Broadway
will all sorts of gambling devices which
he operated before the thousands. who
went daily to hear him, and showed
them not only the evils of gambling.
but the foolishness and hopelessness of
trying to win money from professional
gamblers who have made it a lifelong
study.
Two stained glass windows are to be
placed in the chapel of Trinity college,
Dublin, one in memory of Toplady,
who wrote Rock of Ages and who
graduated from the college in $780,
and the other in memory of Lyle the
author of abide with me-" who grad
uated in 1914. One window will repre-
sent Faith clinging to the cross amidst
the surging pillows, and the other the
two disciples on their way to Emmaus
with their risen, but unrecogniZed
Lord.
No young peoples religious organi-
zation has ever enjoyed more rapid
growth than the Epworth league, the
young peoples society of the Methodist
Episcopal church. Organized in Cleve-
land. Ohio, in the year 1889, by the con-
solidation of several young peoples So
cieties then in existence, it has gained
during the seven years a membership
of nearly a million and a half. with
chapters in all parts of this country
and in Mexico, Brazil Denmark, Nor
way. Sweden, Italy, India, China, Jap
an, and other lands.
The organization known as "The
Kings Daughters and Sons" is an in
ternational body numbering about AGO.
600 members. The platform of the So
ciety is broad and rests on the father
hood of God and the brotherhood of
man. Their motto is, Not to be min
istered unto. but to minister" The
one thousand groups or circles into
which the society is divided have
helped support 300 institutions. They
have founded schools. started hospi
tails, educated ministers. and publish
an excellent periodical called the Sill
yer Cross"
The Protestant Episcopal church of
the United States is about to organize
an Army for aggressive work
amongst the poor. The plans will in
clude the best features of the Salvation
Army and of the Church Army of Eng
land, from which the former organiza-
ton sprang. Uniformed corps of
trained evangelists, under military dis
cipline will be stationed in different
cities. These men will preach in the