Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-11-26
Church and Clergy.

Two young Christian Cinnamon in
Iloilo have started movement for the
Characterization of the Filipinos.
Efforts have been started in Brook
Ign to give the gospel in some direct
form to every adult during 1900.
Secretary of State Hay has present
ed to St. Pauls church at Warsaw. Ill,
a carved oak altar as memorial to his
mother
Publishing firms state that the rise
in the price of Bibles is caused by the
advance in paper, and not by desire
to form Bible trust.
The Congregational church building
society received for its work last year
nearly $25O,00O. The loan fund now
exceeds S650,00O.
About sixty clergymen of all de
nominations, including number of
Roman Catholics, formed part of
large excursion party which sailed re-
Gently from Boston for the holy land.
A Union Theological seminary
graduate, writing for the Outlook, says
that the Rev. DR.. McGiffert is one of
the most popular and influential pro-
lessons among the students there.
The Congregationalist, in discuss
ing apathy in church business, ex-
presses the belief that rs per cent of
church members are delinquent in at
tending business meetings of the
church.
Rev. DR.. Babcock of Brick Presby-
terrain church, New York, has an
nounced as his policy that he will put
his best strength on his evening SER
vice. as the morning service should
take care of itself.
Rev DR.. Rudolph Duenger, pastor of
lions Reformed Church, Ashland, Pa,
who has just celebrated his ninety
second birthday, is said to be the
oldest minister in point of service in
the Reformed Church of the United
States.
Rams Horn calls attention to the
significant fact that Robert Ingersoll,
the son of the Congregational minis
ter, died an agnostic, and Dwight L.
Moody, the son of a Unitarian stone
mason, died s'the Wellington of the
evangelistic army"
Presbyterians in France have started
a paper, LAvant Garde, to be devoted
to questions of evangelical
ton in that country. It is said that
the peasant and student classes are
looking more favorably on Protestant
ism than in former years.
Speaking of religious services of a
Protestant order in the puplic schools
the Jewish Messenger says: Civil and
religious liberty is supposed to be the
basis of American institutions, and yet
over-zealous Protestant teachers and
superintendent forget that their
Jewish and Catholic pupils have rights
which must be respected"
Hosanto Coronto, Zulu prince and
son of King Cetewayo, who is now
Presbyterian missionary, after hav-
ing spent several months in travel and
study in this country, left New York
last week for Zululand to labor among
his countrymen.
Mrs. Newman. widow of the hate
Bishop Newman, has offered to give
100000 of the $4,000 needed to free
the First Methodist Church of Omaha
from debt on condition that the people
of Omaha raise the remainder and call
the church the Newman Memorial.
Bishop O. w. Whitaker of the
Episcopal Church, who has just re-
turned from tour of Cuba, says that
the native Cubans take to Protestant
ism much more kindly than the Span
iards He also states that the sorest
lack of Protestants in Cuba at present
is that of church edifces.
Yale students have practically
ostracized those undergraduate who
with unseemly conduct
prayer by DR.. Stimson of New York.
delivered in Yale Chapel recently
The impotence of the disturbers was
due to the length of the prayer.
st. Patrick's Roman Catholic church
of Carlisle, Pa, celebrated its one
and twenty-first anniversary
last Sunday. 1t is the Oldest Catholic
church west of the Susquehanna river
and probably the only parish east of
the Mississippi where the majority of
are Indians, nearly 200 of
whom attend the Carlisle Indian
School.
1t is heralded as a wonderful thing
that Christian is to edit daily news
paper for a week as a Christian ought
to do it. When we think of the emf
nent Christian editors whom we know
who have done their best for many
years to edit their daily newspapers on
Christian principles we pause to ask
ourselves why it is that so many
people have the idea that journalism
is conducted on a lower plane than
other kinds of business.-The Con-
gregationalist.