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sired by those in charge. This fifth car
will be dedicated at the Baptist anniver-
saries at Rochester in May. A sixth car
is planned, and the money for it is being
raised by young men in Baptist churches
everywhere. Gospel wagons are also used,
two doing good work in Utah.
The Christian Endeavor society of the
First Baptist church of Buffalo, N. Y,
sends committee to call on the proprie-
tors of hotels and boarding houses in the
vicinity of the church and obtain from
them the names of all boarders in their
houses. Afterward a letter inviting them
to the Christian Endeavor meetings and a
card with the various church announce
ments are placed in an envelope and ad-
dressed and sent to each person.
OF the 622 Protestant Episcopal churches
in this country about IL per cent of the
whole, 3S5, are free and open churches,
with no rental of pews. The eucharist is
celebrated once month in 113 churches,
twice a month in SO, once week in 4S6,
twice a week in 40, three times a week in
10 and daily in 60. In 100 churches there is
a idaly mass 1874 churches have altar lights.
953 use wafer bread and 423 the mixed
chalice, while in 81 incense is offered.
He made thee climb the high tree, and
now thou thinkest he will take away the
ladder from underneath thy feet. There
is food enough for the ant in winter, if
it will go about in search There is abun-
dant supply for the bee, if it is busy Bird
beast. FISH, all have provisions. Only thou,
10 soul, whom the Lord hath exalted, art
anxious about the morrow. Cease to be-
long to thysef; the Lord will provide
"Heart-beats." Mozoomdar
Three hundred and thirty-six thousand
two hundred and fifty women from all
ranks of society in England, including the
Countess of Seafield, Dowager Countess
of Lichfield, Dowager Lady Abercromby
Lady Jane Ellice, Lady Elizabeth Knox,
Lady Jane Knox, Lady Ford and Mary
Ellen Arbuthnot, have signed petition in
favor of the state inspection of converts
Signature, to this petition was limited to
women only, and it has already been laid
before her majesty by the secretary of
state.
In New York city it is stated that there
are 1881 boys and girls attending Catholic
parochial schools, the cost of maintaining
which is 94,000 and the value of the
school property is s4,574000. These figures
do not include academies and colleges, nor
do they include the parochial schools OF
Brooklyn, where $1,000 children are edu-
Gated. The Catholics are urging the state
superintendent of instruction to make O
separate report for Catholic schools in New
York city, hitherto the census having given
returns for Catholic, Jewish and other de-
nomina tional schools under one head.
''There is a genuine hunger today on the
part of the laity, not merely for practical
expositions of certain texts and passages,
but for a clearer idea of the Bible itself;
how it came to be what it is, why it carries
authority, to what extent the human ele-
ment in it is to be recognized" says the
Congregationalist of Boston. 1.-THE people
are not ignorant of the fact that host of
scholars in both continents have given
long years to the study of such ques-
tions as these Every pastor has In his
congregation more souls that are seeking
light on these points than he perhaps real
ICES. Some are meeting the situation by
facing 1t fearlessly and Thoroughly. So
prominent pulpit as that of the First
church, Detroit, has recently been used ia
set forth the modern views Of the Bible,