The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-28


The valuation of Congregational
church property in Oregon, exclusive
of parsonages, as given by the Year
Book of 1900. is S197, $50. The estimate
for the First Church in Portland, is
S100, 000
Bishop David H. Moore. Methodist |
Episcopal church. desired to leave at
the earliest possible date for his new
home at Shanghai, China, but has been |
advised by his colleagues not to go
ortil September.
The last issue of the Boston Con-
gregationalist reports contributions for
the week to it's India famine relief fund
s2951. So. OF this $4,000 is credited to
California. The total amount it has for
warded to India is sos, 1858.
A new synagogue was consecrated
last month at Dortmund, Germany. 1t
cost 500.000 marks. A synagogue is be-
ing built at Haarburg, toward which
the municipality has voted 1000 marks
and the Government 200J marks.
Right Rev. Henry Granjon, recently
consecrated Bishop of Tucson, arrived
in Arizona on July 5th. He was met
at the depot by a large number of peo-
pie and escorted to the church, where
his arrival in Tucson was celebrated.
Among the missionaries of the Ameri-
can Board for whose safety grave fears
! have been felt is Miss Abbie Chaplin,
who went out from Los Angeles a few
years ago, and who has been stationed
about twenty-seven miles northwest of
Peking.
! Rev. j. X p Dickson, late pastor
of the South Methodist Church, Chico,
united with the Christian Church,
Chico, July LIST. He was educated at
Vanderbilt University and has occupied
some of the best pulpits in the st. Louis
conference.
Dr. Potts was speaking in the Cen
eral Conference, Chicago, on the
amendment electing two more bishops.
Having already fifteen bishops, he
urged the election of colored man and
then the Methodists would have a clear
case of 16 to /.
Yale during the last year has re-
ceived pledges of gifts of 81, 000, 600 to-
ward the bicentenary fund and 100000
in addition. Harvard has had be-
quests amounting to 5000 900. OF this
100000 was from Alexander Agassiz
and his sisters.
1
anti-saloon league work in California,
has received and accepted a unanimous
call to the pastorate of the Congrega-
tfonal Church at Santa Cruz. He will
begin work September 1st. The church
is receiving congratulations on the
event.
The ladies of ST. Johns Episcopa
Church at Los Angeles recently pre-
\ n p VII he
handsome silk cassock. The Bishop.
gold medal given annually to the mos
faithful adult members of st. Johns
choir has been awarded for 1900 to d
c. Narver.
An Observation-Disclosures society ha,
been organized in Southern Californi:
for gospel work among the Spanish
speaking people in that region. Rev
A b. Case of Pomona is the genera
superintendent. Last year more thar
fifty converts were received into churcl
fellowship.
DR.. Parker of London has complete,
twenty-six years of Thursday nool
preaching in the City Temple TIL
London Christian states that he ha
been emphatically evangelical an
evangelistic in his preaching of lat
years and that the audiences have new
er been larger.
The receipts of the American Boar
for the nine months ending May g
Y 1900, amounted to $472, 1908, a net in
i crease over last year for the cor
t responding months of $70,S61.26 In or
e der to close the year with a balance O
: the right side Of the ledger the boar
), calls for 100000.
d The late Robert McCory of Alexan
= dria, Mimi, made the following be
n quests: Asbury Hospital, Minneapolis
$500; Methodist Episcopal Church
d Alexandria, $1,000; conference claimant
d of Northern minnesota Conferenc,
II $4,000; Church Extension Society, $300t
u Missionary Society, $1,000.
# The number of priests at present i
It Rome is extraordinary. From A.;
IL o'clock in the morning until noon mas
r is offered up in thousands of chapel
o and the number of communions admir-
n istered is almost beyond counting
s. in all the holy year is not ony a su,
n cess, but a phenomenal success.
lie During the last school year, "Tf
m Tolman Band" consisting of teacher
lie and pupils of Mills College and Sem
8 nary, has contributed to mission
lie s437.93. OF this sum $220.52 went
ar foreign missionsN $164.S5 to home mi
IS sions and $500 to the Armenian O
" phans and famine sufferers in India.
of
lg One hundred and ninety-two Congr
n gational churches in California report.
is last year for benevolences $63, 562; ben
tn VIOLENT legacies, 10,105; for home e
IS. penditures. S240,30S. Two hundred al
ne eight churches give an estimate
as property as follows: Church building
ty 81 ,192, $50: parsonages, SCI 250: invests
Ill funds, $11, $50; Indebtedness, $50, 1925.
he
eel Rev. ]. B. Thomas, presiding cid
d. In the East Columbia Conferenc
a writes in the Central Method
hit tSouth): I'VE need 5000 for a chur
It's in Baker City and we need $4,000
sc build church in Boise City. will n
c. endorse an application to build
is church in the country until we have
ed good church in every important toy
he In this district"
ng
Among the victims of the terril
Fourth of July catastrophe at Tacor
was Rev. Herbert Gregory, pastor
the Congregational Church at Spa
-, vi way. He was also missionary for
an Eastern Pierce county going som
III times as far I'M into tho foothills