The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-29

The Lenten and Easter offerings from
| the Sunday schools of the diocese of
California for the general missionary
work of the Episcopal church for the
| year 1900 amount to $511 Is, which is
$427 ~ less than last year.
| BY the bequest of the late Moses
Pierce of Norwich, Copn., the American
Missionary Association receives a trust
fund of 100000, the income to be used
for the education of teachers OF the
commons schools of the South.
The Episcopal church at Las Vegas,
ST. Paurs Memorial in memory of
Bishop Dunlop. has received the salts
faction of the mortgage on its property.
This is the end of that debt and OF debt
on Episcopal church property in New
Mexico.
The Imperial Conservatory of St. Pc
Itersburg has just issued circular an
nouncing the conditions of entrance for
1900-1901. Jews, however. will not be
admitted unless they present from the
B chief of police a permit to live in st.
Petersburg.
The Congregationalists Of Petaluma
have decided to build "a $4,000 church on
lfle loI WHERE tiIe iItStlll cNiiiitt status
and has stood for over forty years. TWO
members head the list with $1,000 each
The pledges already amount to $1,000
sufficient to insure the success of the
movement.
The new site for the Pacific Theologi-
cal Seminary recently purchased in
Berkeley is part of the twenty acres
south of the college campus lately Sc
cured by the University of California
for the enlargement of it's grounds. The
seminary trustees will be Obliged to get
another location.
The board of missions of the Cum
berland Presbyterian Church will locate
. Rev. Gam Sing Quah in San Francisco
, as pastor of the Chinese church Rev.
Mr.. Gam is a bachelor of arts graduate
, of Cumberland University of Lebanon,
Tenn, and bachelor of divinity of the
i theological seminary.
, In four counties in Southern Califor-
: nia-Santa Barbara, Ventura, Orange
and San Diego-and in several counties
in other parts of the State, campaigns
are now in progress for countrywide
prohibition. Campaigns for sanitary
: districts are to be abandoned, and eff
:. forts directed exclusively to counties
: instead.
Columbus, Ind, has a novel church.
2 The basement is arranged for winter
: use, the ground floor for spring and fall
use, and the second story has a steam
$ boat deck" floor on the roof garden
plan. The whole upper room is sur
rounded by a conservatory of flowers
/ In this upper room the summer services
. are held.
n The recent Methodist camp meetings
. at Green Valley, Sonoma county; Long
: Beach of Los Angeles district, Arroyo
n Grande of Fresno district; Beulah Park
: Oakland district; Pacific Grove and
: Cazadero are said to have been al
o great meetings. 1t is estimated that
nearly 500 persons We're converted al
t the various meetings.
d The orphanages founded by George
n Muller in Bristol, England, received
last year nearly $4,000. A large
amount of it is money that would have
otherwise have been paid for life ana
fire insurance, but is contributed as ar
s expression of faith in God for protec-
V ton instead of trust in insurance. Null
:. Ter has been dead for some years.
: The Los Angeles Independent of Au-
< gust Both, reports twelve Methodist
e churches in Southern California thai
" have voted for the return of theil
u present pastor for the coming year. SO
IT many of our preachers have been unan
=. imously invited to return for another
l. year that the work of our presiding ell
ders and bishop will be a veritabl'
a picnic"
l. The Methodist Protestant Church
Id which stands for restriction of episcopa
m powers, full representation of the lait.
lie in church conferences, and the right o
y women to preach, reports 177,066 mem
Ia bers, 1,645 ministers, and 126,031 Sunda.
ld school scholars for the present year
pc Their chief mission work is in Japan
ne where they have twelve ordained mis-
~ sionaries.
- Four thousand dollars has been offer
ne ed to poor Catholic church at Wap
! ping, London, for Rubens which wa
n recently found in a heap of rubbish an
10 which narrowly escaped destruction
"a The picture represents the taking of tn
"a body of the Savior from the cross b
~ st. John. The dust. as well as thic
- coat of Varnish which concealed the pic
nj ture, have been successfully removed.
,ic The last minutes of the general as
sembly show that there are thirtytw
tn | churches which report more than Loo
10 members each. Twelve of these are /
es New York State ten in Pennsylvania
rd two in Ohio two in Kansas, two in Ca
N. Iifornia, and one each in Michigan, Ill
1t nois, Minnesota and the District of Co
m umbia. Five of these report over zoo
h members: two in Rochester, n. Y; on
nd in New York city: one in Brooklyn an
ed one in Philadelphia
he
In A freethought Journal contains a
tic advertisement by physician who call
We himself DIR. , the Liberal. Ate
specifying his various professional az
as complishments he adds: LAS the doc
CHI tor is liberal and progressive, the free
% thinkers of the land should give hil
Il their patronage. and not waste the
W, money on Christian doctors, who's
e. remedies are like their religion, but pi
re their faith to an infidel physician, an
a see how much better they will come OF
VI in the end
ms Two years and half ago Rev. Fran
Xt H L. Patton. son of the missionary, d
ed Patton landed at Lemekel New HEIR
des. among some 1000 cannibals. II
oi did not know a word of their Language
= but he has acquired 1t and reduced
f t<1<I l. s.~