The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-30
RELIGIOUS NEWS
OF THE WORID.
Observation-Disclosures

Es. In CHARLES CCTHBERr
Id HALL president Of Union ,heosog,caa
jM seminary, New York city. has -
~ Gently been appointed 10 the ua.s.n
lecsureship in comparative religion -
the University of Chicago This po.s,ts.
requires him TO deliver within the eors,-
two years course Of lectures on rh,,s
uanity throughout the principal ci,te. -
India Dr.. John Henry Barrows was ~.
nrst person to so on such a mission u
was followed by Principal rairoa,rn -
Scotland. who returned recently from, -
tour.
DR.. William H 7. Faunce. the nev
president of Brown university. was -.
Gently spoken OF by a member % ~
Harvard faculty as the most popular ma.
among the students who had rreaches 1,
Appleton chapel since Phillips BROOKE
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The Doukhohors, $40 o! whom rec~n,,v
immigrated 10 Canada. and were asssstea
by the British Society of Friends. ara .
secret Christian sect In Russia who hav.
been prosecuted for 80 years They ar
nonresistant. have no priests or cer,.
monies. are communistic, tiiiinx thar
fields in common, and are scrupuloas,y
honest.
ing members of the established church.
There are 1890 Protestant church mem.
bers In Japan.
The assembly Of the Pres oyterian
church OF Canada will meet at Hallfnx
next year.
Gypsy Smith. the well-known EnRlisA
evangelist. who has been very III. 10 re-
covering and will soon resume his work
Fourteen workers. seven Of whom n
to Africa and seven TO South America.
have recently been sent out by the Re.
gions Beyond Missionary Union.
The Presbyterian church .: Canada
last year received for home missions
sloS. lse.si and for foreign missions N,S.
222.sl.
The London Missionary Society was the
first modern Protestant society to begin
mission work In Polynesia, In China. anA
Madagascar.
In the vicinity OF the Catholic univse.
sity at Washington ground was recently
broken for Trinity college, the first Cath
ollie institution for the higher education
of women on this continent.
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Exeter hall. London. has been engaged
as the official headquarters for the
worlds Christian Endeayor convention 70
be held in that city In July. 1900 Albert
hall and ST. James hail have also been -.
cured for overflow meetings. and already
1000 beds have been provided and ar
rangements are going rapidly forward
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The rector of st. Luke's Episcopal
church, Chelsea. England, recently IN.
vited the Salvation Army Of that place
to attend a special service In his Church
The collection OF the day was given to
the army. and the rector In his address
said he was glad to do honor to the army
for the noble work II had done. The
army's ...Blod and Fire flags were placed
at the steps Of the altar. More than -
persons were present.
Mgr. McEvay. rector Of st. Marys
cathedral Hamilton. has been appointed
bishop of London. Ont
The first Klondike convert Of the Sd.
walton Army Is to be made an ofhcef.
or the eleven new cardinals recently
named by Pope Leo KILL. no less than
seven are Italians.
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Prof. McGinert will leave the Presby.
terrain church without standing trial
for hercsy and will join the congregar
tional church.
DIR. F.. r. Mullens. pastor of the BAp-
list church. Newton Center. Mass, WIZ
succeed DIR. whitsitt as president OF the
Southern Baptist seminary at LouisyiIA
KY.
DR.. Lorimer. of fremont temple bos-
ton, will occupy the pulpit OF Resents
Park Baptist church, London. until IN
middle OF August.
In China there Is one missionary 70 ev.
cry $1,000 persons. in Japan one to every
1000 and In America one TO every NV
persons.
Three fourths of the students In Japan.
csc schools are agnostics or atheists
The income of the Zenana Bible ana
Medical Mission OF London for LAST year
was sico.0o. the largest ever reee'veo "
one year
The Duchess OF Sutherland loaned her
home. Stafford house for one day 'ass
week To Mrs Bramweli Booth. IN WINCH
she held "A Salvation Army meeting
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There Ia no Mohammedan universuys
and IL IL said that the Mohammedans
have appealed 10 the British nowefs "
assis, in endowing one for the preserve
ton of MohamrrcdanIsm.
In the Frankfort. NY. prison there ~
two Christian Endeavor societies. one Los
white men. with a membership o. az.
and the other for coiored men. wua
membership of niety-eight.
The Lawyers Prayer Union. OF lonaon
numbering 100 members meets ana jo'us
In definite prayer for the legal proiess"s
on the first Monday In each month.
A great musical festival, In which ohal
Christians could compete for the p'A
offered, was recently held o, tnapss
Bengal. under the auspices OF the enn1e1
Missionary Society This Organization =
carried on In the interest OF gospennan.
India through good music. II II SAID sns.
the Indian unlike the European. pa,
more attention 20 the words OF the H'as's
than 10 the tunes