The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-30

ETlsER: .HONOs.ULU. JUNE /;
q, l39 more persons were received into the
Me- hodist Episcopal Church South thar
died. withdrew or were otherwise dlspos-
ed of.
Archbishop Ireland left for paris on
June 10th, where he viii deliver the ora /
ton at the unve ling of the Lafayette
monument, which viii take place next
month
The Whitman Memorial building and
Billings Hall were dedio ated at the WHIT
man College commencement exercises las
week at Walla Wal.a. The address was
by DR.. O. w. Nixon of Chicago.
After Bishop Fowler had announced
that Dr. Buckley had received e22 of the
e5a votes cast for editor of the Christian
Advocate, he was asked, rs Buckley |
elected?'' The b shop replied, mot elect
ed, but foreordained.''
To the Christian church in this country |
been added to Its membership 23,055 from |
the werld and 5S4 from churches of fit
teen different denominations, making 81
total of 1888
Last mont, meeting of Jewish citt-
zens was held IN Vienna, at which. after
an address by Rabbiner DR.. Jung, it was
decided to establish a denominational
Realschule.
The Christian Eadeavor World states
that the Rev. Jonathan Edwards. pastor
! of Pilgrim Church, Spokane, Wash, was
the organizer OF the first Endeavor So
1 ri in pa1,n Va Onin
the eighth organized in this country.
J 1t is reported on good authority that
person can now travel from Nenuro,
which is on the Is and of Yezo and the
extreme northern pert of Japan, to Ku-
mnmoto, at the southern extremity of
Kiushiu. and spend every night in
lChrstan home.
Rev. DIR. Warren f. Day of the First
/ congregational Church. Los Angeles, was
greeted by his people with a Cnautauqua
salute, the congregation rising to their
feet as he entered the pulpit on the first
Sunday in June on his return from his
| vacation in the East.
i Bishop Vincent announces through the
| California Advocate that his offic.al as
signment for the next four years of epis-
copal service is 10 the nine aDnual con-
ferences in Europe. He sailed on June
18th. He HIS Withdrawn all engagements
n this country for the summer.
Educational statistics gathered from the
lEcumenical Missionary Conference show
SO foreign missionary universities aad
colleges, containing $4,000 students, 1858 the
illogical and training schools, having g.
40 students, 63 medical and 1T kindergar
ten schools, both with large attendance.
Rev. Henry Woods S. j., of st. Ignatius
! Church, accompanied by Brother Dl Ne
gro, a member of the Jesuit Mission,
Alaska, left last Sunday for Juneau, Alas
ka, where he will give a course of lee
lures and conduct several spiritual re-
treats for congregations and religious
houses.
, The following persons have been elected
Bishops by the General Conference OF
, the African Methodist Episcopal Church
, recently in session at Columbus, O.: Rev
! Drs. NJ. M. Moore, Wash ngton, D. c.;
|, Evans Tyre and c. S. Smith, Nashville
Tenn; c. T. Shaffer and L. ]. Copper
Philadelphia, Pa.
Bishop Andrews holds the conferences
r of the Pacific Northwest this fall B.sh-
OPP Hamilton hos conf rences in Nevada
Reno, August 30tn; California Pacific
e Grove, September 5 h; California German
Stockton. September 18th; Southern Ca,i-
; fornia, Los Angeles, September 18TH; Arr
: iona Mission. Phoenix. ptember 9th.
/ Rev. ]. B. Orr, p1lftor of the Congrega-
ticnal Church, SaY Ma Cruz, has rendered
his resignation for the purpose of engag
ing in evangelist;c wofA. His resignat. or
5 has not been accepted, and an effort wi
he made to effect reconsideration. Since
his stay with the church "a heavy deb,
has been cleared, and in the last year
: some sixty-tnree members have been add
ed to the church roll. He starts mex,
week for London.
! l., The prominent part taken by the Rev
DIR. A. j. F. Behrends In the recent Con
ference on Foreign Missions has drawn
especial attention to his death shortly
: after the adjournment of that gathering
1t is thought that the criticisms tc
which he was subjected on account Of
his famous speech on comfy belweer
, Christian denominations may have hast
ened this event DIR. Behrends. who was
born in Holland in 1889, had been pastor
q of the Central Congregational Church il
) Brooklyn since 1853. Among his works
: are THE World for Christi and $50
. calism and Christianity
A novel experiment in church ACTIVITY
is to be made by the first Chris lar
! Church of Columbus, Ind. Instead OF
, spending a considerable sum of money
/. on a steeple, the congregation has decid.
= ed, in planning for its new church, to
erect simple edifce with roof garden
on top. During the hot summer months
service will be held here amid the scent
of flowers and under the waving branches
of palms and other trees. Groves and
elevated places are believed to have been
the primeval places of worship, and this
new plan from Indiana appears to be a
, reversion t. the customs of the Babylo-
. mans. the early Hebrews, and the Druids
The statement recently made in these
columns concerning the relative numeri-
cal strength of the Anglican Church in
England and Wales as compared with the
Free Church bodies-based on an estimate
lately made in a non-conformist English
Journals believed to be inaccurate In
= some respects, although correct in its
: main argument, namely, that the Church
! of England is no longer the church of the
: majority of the English people. Exact
figures are not obtainable, however, as
no official religious census has ever been