The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-01

Sixty colonists from the Baron de
Hirsch colonies have left Argentina for
the United States.
The Catholic church at Sterling, Col,
a large edifice, was leyeled to the
ground by cyclone.
Mrs j. A. Cruzan. wife of Pastor
Cruzan, Hilo. Hawaii, is visiting
friends in Santa Cruz.
The Baptist General Association of
Kentucky has resolved to raise $4,000
for foreign missions the present year.
The new State board Of the Christian
Church for Northern California, has
four evangelists for the com
ing year.
The receipts for foreign missions of
the Christian Church to July 25 amount
to $145, 30, a gain of s21, 309. 32 over
the corresponding time last year.
The new president of the British
Christian Endeavor Society, in success
sion to Rev. F. B. Meyer, is Rev. J. d.
Lamont. a Dublin Methodist preacher.
From ST. Petersburg, Russia, come
$500 contributed by the English and
American Congregational Church to the
Starvation Army famine relief in India.
In Pomona, town of nearly 1000
people, there are twenty-five church
organizations. The Baptists have
membership Of $50 and the Congrega-
tionalists 406.
The General Assembly of the Presby-
terrain Church of Canada reports that
every church fund had closed the year
with a credit balance, and that contri-
buttons had been larger than ever be-
fore.
Exactly one year ago Bishop Won Au
ger. Vicar Apostolic of South Shantung,
foretold the Boxer rising and warned
the German legation at Peking. Events
have since taken the very course he
foresha dowed.
a poor Jew at st. Sunperofol Russia,
who inherited $4,000, 600 from an Anne
can relative, died on the very day he
received his inheritance. With bis dy-
ing breath he bequeathed $780, 10 the
Jewish community.
The Pope received 200 American pill
grims in the Clementine Hall last week.
The pilgrims handed his holiness a
beautiful, basket covered with papal
colors and containing $4,000 in Ameri-
can notes of the issue of 1900.
Salvation Army's two corps, Los An
geles, report 100 conversions in less
than three months. At the meetings
held by Booth-Tucker In San Francisco,
San Quentin and Oakland in one week
| fiftythree professed conversion.
The Japan Mission of the Christian
Church will be re-enforced during Sep
TENDER by five new missionaries, F. f..
Hagan and wife. Stanford, H.; C. s.
Weaver and wife, Eureka, ILL.,; and
Miss Carme Hosteller from Ohio.
Oklahoma, which is eleven years old,
and has a population of $780, 600, has sew
enty-six Congregational churches, forty
OF them in communities, otherwise I'M
reached by other churches. One church
of the seventy-six is self-supporting.
The Russian Government has decided
that Jews may visit all the summer re-
sorts in Poland on the condition that
they transact no business there, and
that their stay does not extend for a
longer period than the summer season.
Rev. George II. Adams, for many
years superintendent of the Arizona
-"ethoulSt inlsSlOHS, out VINO, on ac-
count of the loss of his sight, was COM
PEELED to give up preaching, has so far
recovered as TO occasionally supply a
pulpit. He recently preached for the
Presbyterian Church in Las Vegas.
Bishop Matz and the priests of his
diocese of Denver. Col, are taking steps
toward the erection of a monument TO
the late Bishop Macebeuf. AS a pioneer
he was known along the whole from
tier from the Cache la Poudre to the
Rio Grande, and even in the northern
states of Mexico.
The missionaries in China represent
forty-four different societies. / 324 Eu-
lropeans and Americans, and about 414S
native helpers. The Catholics claim
about 100000 converts and the Prot
estants about 100000. 1t is estimated
that nearly $1,000 native Christians
have been slain by the Boxers.
Rev f. Nj. Price, just returned from
the east. reports that $4,000 have been
raised by special contribution for the
extension of missionary work in Mi
chronesia. Mindanao, one of the two
largest islands in the Philippine eroup.
rs mutual agreement with the Presby-
terrain and Methodist boards is to be
recognized as the field of the American
beard. Two of the best men in Hart
ford Theological Seminary have been
selected for the new mission Mr. and
Mrs. Price are expecting to sa.! sooa fer
'heir new station, Guam, on the Gov
trnment vessel Solace.
The United Hebrew charities of N,.w
York embrace under one general head
i've societies of New York ana sixteen
cooperating associations and sister
hoods. They provide regular monthly
stipends aggregating $4,000 to 500 900 n
year; occasional relief, $40 900 annually.
transportation, $4,000: clothing. Shoes
and furniture. $4,000; fuel. $4,000: nadi-
cal service. $1,000; and burials 81 COO
The total disbursements of the bureau
during 1899 We're s136,4S9 1t was dis
covered that of those who asked for
assistance in 1894. sixty per cent did not
Iask after that year. seventy-three per
cent were off the books after 1895,
eighty per cent after 1885, eighty-five
per cent after 1897, and ninety-three per
cent after 1899. Charity did not paupar-