Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-12
RELIGIOUS,

seventeen Baptist missionaries sailed
rom rom Boston recently, the largest company
s"nt at one time in many years.
The first Jewish congregation in tho
Honolulu. ioi iieu at
Last year the receipts of tie Missionary
society or the Methodist Episcopal church
amounted to Sl,2532lS. This year the re-
ceipts will probably be in the neighborbooa
of s1.35O.OOO '0i i'oou
me Irish +: esbyterian missionaries in
fr,n fmnia nave appealed for help from their
sufferers in Gujarat and KathiaWar. where
there are 3OOOO,O00 inhabitants
me Society of Foreign Missions of the
homan Catholic church has succeeded in
having beautified forty-nine of its memhers
who were put to death in China. Ten or
these were French missionaries and thirtv
line were native converts
Last year the British and Foreign Bible
society circulated 69,305 copies of the scrip
lures In Manchuria. OF this number 6S SO5
were sold and $500 were given away TO stu
dchts who assembled for the government
examinations at Chin-Chow.
William r. Moody a son of Rev u r.
Moody, has resigned the editorship of the
Record of Christian Work and will became
editor of Northtield Echoes which will bo
me monthly organ for the evanpolical
work at Mortified and Chicago
Ihe rev archbishop of Prague in success
SION to the late Cardinal Schonborn is
frelherr Leo Won Skrbensky Won Hkistie
WV 10 oo S''uI5 bli ana mas been priest
for ten years The Czechs feel sure that
no German will be able to pronounce his
name.
Rev Elijah Kellogg, the author of Spar
tacuS to the Gladators," known by all
school boys, Is now nearly 81 years old, hut
lie continues to minister to tha little churc n
In Harpswell, Me- where he went in 1874
after his graduation from Bowdoin and
Andover
The Moravian church has existed since
lI27 and at present numbers 129Gl7 Nom,
hers, S,725 Of whom live in Germany, 5927
in England and 223i5 in the United States
There are 02,142 baptized converts AMI 4,j
missionaries and 1914 native helpers are
employed.
The recent installation of young women
ushers at the Fewsmith Memorial church.
in Newark has caused "A marked Increase
of attendance. So far the young women
act as ushers only at the evening services,
when, If ever, the young men attend The
plan Is to change ushers frequently
Rumor persistently connects the name of
Chaplain McKinnon with the bishopric of
Manila. While in, Omaha, recently friends
saluted him as bishop Of Manila. Father
McKinnon will reach the capital of the
Philippines early in January to assume his
new duties as post chaplain of the army.
Rev. John F. Snyder Of the First Congre-
gational Methodist church, Gloucester N
j.. is not a man to finch from difficulties
His church was destroyed by an incendiary
fire last week, but Mr., Snyder held services
on Sunday as usual, the place of meeting
being a saloon owned by Charles Tiffany
Needless to say, he had large congrega-
tion.
In the ssyenty-fve years of It's history
the American Sunday School union has or
ganized over 100000 Sunday schools, with
100000 teachers and 100000 scholars. In
the last ten years LOO churches have de-
have been reported. The publications dis
tributed by the union have amounted In
value to over S9.OOO,00O
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