The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-16
planning to 60 to London. England. the
coming July 20 engage for three months
al evangeiistic meetings.

The Russian Jews of Haverhill Mass,
are buiiing a $4,000 synagogue. 1t Is
designed after the Baldwin street syn
-gogue of Boston.
rootoinding in China is being made
unpopular wherever the missionaries
exert an influence. Last year thirty
one patients in hospitals at Foochow
unbound their feet.
oishop WilliaD. 4ayior reached his
18th year of age during the first week
IN May. and the General Methodist
conference in session in Chicago voted
congratulations.
The annual report shows that the
Brooklyn Jewish Orphan Asylum has
o1S inmates. The charges for mainte-
nance during the year were $35, 7O8. It's
net assets are $751;. 670.01.
Prebendary H. W. ebb-Peploe of st
Paufs Cathedral. London, has accepted
the invitation to be a speaker at the
next years August conference at the
Northfeld Moody School.
The schools and missions of the Lon
don Missionary Society are about to be
moved over to Tutuila, Samoan group.
these workers prefer American to Ger
nan environment ana rule.
A Congregational church will be or
| sanizeu a. Nelson, B. Z. 1t will be aid
I'd by the Canadian missionary Society.
LEV. William Monroe, recently Ordain-
ID at Montreal. will be the pastor.
A library containing over Is, 600 docu-
mentS, arranged on shelves, has been
| recently brought to light in the Baby
| lonian ruins of ancient Nippur. Tney
| were written 5000 years before Christ.
| Rev. c. NJ. Sheldon has accepted an
| invitation from Scotland to make a
| preaching tour in that country this
summer His book, I'm His Steps, has
| been widely read by the Scotch people.
| DIR. Ruen Thomas, who has been pas
| or of the Harvard Congregational
church, Brookline, Mass, for twenty
| i've years, recently received a purse of
| 5000 as an evidence of his peoples es-
| eem.
The Congregational church at Sebas-
| opol, Sonoma County, California, Rev.
| :. c. Kirkland, pastor, has recently
come to self-suppo. :, and now proposes
| o build a church edifice to cost about
| $500
The Baroness Burdette-Coutts re-
emily celebrated her eighty fifth birth
lay by making large gifts to various
>hilanthropic Institutions. These gifts
| raise the total of her benefactions TO
| 100000
| Last year over ouo sunday schools of
the Disciples church gave on children
| .ay $40, 600. This year the foreign So
| iety is trying to enlist 1000 schools and
secure from them $4,000 as a silver
| jubilee Offering.
! Professor j. w. Magruder reports
| hat already some 100000 towards it's
| 100000 twentieth stake has
Jeen secured by Ohio Wesleyan Uni
| ersity in cash, properties, annuitieS
| nd provisions in wills.
| The effort to raise an endowment for
| Tuskegee College, Alabama, is meeting
| With success. One hundred and sixty
| We thousand dollars has already been
| contributed, and it is believed that the
and will yet reach $500,UUU.
-agr. Amer, vicar apostolic, has es-
| dbllshed In China a newspaper in the
nlnese language. and has received
rom the Pope a brief congratulating
i'm on such happy inspiration
! The Synod of tho OAIted Pr ST, terrain
hurch of Scotland voted una. .imous Y
| Gently in favor of union with the Free
hurch of ScoJiaL d. Later in month
e Free Church Synod will take SINH
ar action, and in October the incorpo-
ating joint assembly will meet in Ed
| .burgh
AT the recent session of the Maine
difference, Rev. E. S. Stackpoe with
| rev from the Methodist ministry Iii
M CO &c HI IL,
| amiliar with modern Biblical scholar
nip, and is FESTIVE under any restraint
| nat is imposed upon sincere and con-
| cientious investigation of any phase Of
| ruth"
| An English pap-r iiaS been making a
| study OF free churchmanSh a d crime
| >orlIwall is instanced as typical
county. Out of over $4,000 communi-
ants over 10000 are in the free
| hurches. Very few of the inhabitants
| ind their way into the workhouse
| While it is well known that no other
| county is so free from crime
| The annual report of the American
| sunday School Union shows that the
| mount received for missionary work
| Turing the year was $131 1876, an in
rease on the previous years figures of
! s10,778. The number of new Sunday
Va
| 1880. and SIS were reorganized Eighty
inc churches have grown out of these
| schools.
The New York Hebrew Standard in
'peaking of Cantor Stark of San Fran
isco, who is visiting New York City,
avs: I'VE feel called upon to make al
uslon to his eminent gifts as author
md interpreter of synagogue music. On
friday and Saturday mornings of this
week he is to conduct the services at
Temple Emanu-El by invitation of
Rev. William Spargee.
The various societies making up the
English Zionist Federation are develop
ing rigorous propaganda in behalf of
the Zionist movement. Meetings are
held almost nightly in the city of Lon
lon. The Zionist societies in Belfast,
Hull. Limerick Liverpool, Newcastle
md Pontypridd have been especially
active. A library has been started by
he latter organization.
The increase Oh population from 1880