Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-11-29
Church ard c;erav.

Two young Christian Cinnamon in
, llollo have started movement for the
Characterization of the Filipinos.
Efforts have been started in Brook
lyn to give the gospel in some direct
form to every adult during 1900.
Secretary of State Hay has present
1 ed to st. Paul's church at Warsaw. ILL.,.
a carved oak altar as q 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 a desire
to form a Bible trust.
| The Congregational church building
society received for its work last year
nearly $250000. The loan fund now
exceeds S65O,O00
About sixty clergymen of all de.
nominations, including a number of
Roman Catholics, formed part of a
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 ''the wellington of the
/ eyangelistic army"
Presbyterians in France have started
a paper, L'Avant Garde, to be devoted
/ exclusively to questions of evangelical
tion in that country. 1t 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 a
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 countrymcn.
Mrs. Newman. widow OF the late
Bishop Newman, has offered to give
$4,000 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 Professionals in Cuba at present
is that of church edilces.
Yale students have practically
ostracized those undergraduates who
interrupted with unseemly conduct
prayer by DIR. 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 it's one
hundred and twenty-nrst 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
parishioners are Indians, nearly 200 Of
whom attend the Carlisle Indian
School.
1t is heralded as wonderful thing
that Christian is to edit daily news
paper for week as Christian ought
to do it. When we think of the emil
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 plano than
other kinds Of business.-Ths Con-
gregctionalist.