The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-22
CHURCH NOTES.

CHURCH NOTES.
Hereafter confessions will be heard
in the Polish language in st. Boniface, 5
church, San Francisco. A number If
Catholics who speak the Polish Ian
guage attend this church.
An imposing Thanksgiving service
was held at the Nefusot Yeuda Syni-
gogue, in Gibraltar, to celebrate it's
centenary. The edifice was thronged
with worshipers. many Christian
friends being present.
Rev. Sam Jones, the reyiyalist, is
completely broken in health and has
gone to his daughters home in Allan
ia to reside. 1t will be long time be-
fore he will be able to preach again, if
indeed he ever regains sufficient
strength.
All Saints Episcopal church, Palo
Alto, recently formed, comprises d yes
try of three professors of the univer-
sity. two professional men and one rail
road official. Rev. d. Charles Gardner
was elected rector. Steps are being
taken to acquire two lots adjoining the
church for rectory and parish house.
In the city of Heidelberg, Germany.
there is church called the Church Of
the Holy Ghost. which is unique in It's
way. being the only church in the world
in which the Catholic and Protestant
services are held at he same time,
ne tfi oh hn
arating the Two congregations.
A petition is being largely signed ny
the Jews of Roumania for presentation
to the Senate and Chamber of Deputies.
The petitioners point out that in article
46 of the Paris convention of 1858 equal
ity of rights was assured to them and
that they have waited in vain for for
ty-two years for the fulfillment of this
pledge.
The .Anti-Saloon League !, forces in
California. have defeated the saloon in
three out of four counties by decisive
vote. Ventura county was carried by
between 500 and 500 majority Orange
county by over 300; Santa Cruz by over
200, and San Diego county, outside the
city, carried but the 600 majority in The
city turned the tide the other way
Tho African Methodist EplscoFai
zion church. representing a me1hpei
chin Of 200. 0OO and the colored Met'o-
aist church of America, with me
harship of 10000, have consohoalso'
They will build a church edifce In Ihi-
cago which will be the most costly anu
,mnosing of any church building oWh"u
NV, a colored congregation in the uniteo
States.
The receipts of the church extension
board of the Methodist Episcopa PC
church since it's organization in 1869
have been: General fund, $4,4o9. ooo.oo'
loan fund, permanent capital, sl'ioo'
e54. 50; loans returned, 1884. 96s.oi. Inc
total number of churches added wa:
II SIT. making an average, exciuoins
Sundays, of one church per day Tor
thirty-five years, plus $50 churches.
Pundita Ramabai reports: WITHIN
the past year the work at Mukti has
greatly. At present there
are. all told, nearly $50 girls receiving
training where last year there were n''t
375. The Sharada Sadan itself has
trained over seventy teachers in the
last eleven years and the Mukti school
has trained nearly eighty girls to earn
their living"
At the thirty-first annual session Of
the general executive committee of the
Methodist Woman's Foreign Mission
airy Society, held at Worcester. Mass.
October oath, the general secretary re-
ported receipts last year 1850. 1858. OF
this the Pacific branch gave s16,63S: Co
umbia river. s5,O34.43 The largest
amount is credited to the Northwest
ern, sos, 42S.13.
The Los Angeles Independent. an IN
erdenominational' paper, remarks ~
thoroughly reliable gentleman in this
,ity was startled while listening to the
'ount of votes at his precinct to hear
very Prohibition ticket score one
against the amendment releasing
churches from taxation. gentleman
rom Pomona, who was clerk of "lec-
Ion. reported the same fact there"
Query-Was it a preconcerted move
nent?
Rev. Jonathan Edwards of Spokane
II recent farewell reception given
him. said that fifteen years ago there
we're then in that city but four Protes-
ant churches; now there are about fif- |
y. Then there were about 200 mem
'ers' now about 10000 There were |
men twenty Congregational church |
members, with church property valued |
II $1,000. Now there are about 1.O0o |
ne mbers in the six churches and prop |
rty valued at $4,000
The first recorded THANKSGIVING was
ne Hebrew feast of the TabernacIes. |
ne New England THANKSGIVING dates
rom 1853. The first national Thanks
living proclamations were by Congress
Iuring the Revolutionary war. There
vas one more national THANKSGIVING
1859, and no other until 1863. w;1en /
resioeht Lincoln issued national /
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