The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-13

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CHURCH NOTES.
Mass was celebrated in Mammoth
Cave, KY, last week for the first time.
The American board treasurer has re-
ceived $1,000 from many donors to be
used especially for the relief of Chinese
Christian refugees.
1t is reported in Rome that the Vati-
can will claim s12,O0O,00O for the de-
struction of Catholic missions in China,
presenting it's claims through France.
The English BaptistS have already
raised one-half of their centennial fund
of $1,25O,000 for strengthening various
lines of their denominational work.
At recent commemoration service
in Gloucester Cathedral one Of the
speakers said that the great building
had stood 500 years and there was not
CRACK HoI d SettiinSN III lHe Nholc
structure.
Many of the stronger churches OF the
Disciples i'm Southern California have
pooled their interests and united in
calling Rev. J. H. o. Smith of Chicago
to labor as an evangelist. During the
year he will labor with the churches at
Pomona, Riverside, San Diego, Los An
geles, Pasadena and Covina.
1t is noted by Methodist journals as
a singular coincidence that of the fifty
and more Protestant missionaries kill
| ed in the recent riots in China, not one
of the Methodist Episcopal missionaries
has suffered death. The American
| Board has a roll of nineteen martyrs
and the Presbyterian Board roll of
eight.
There are 9SS students enrolled in
Moody's Mortified schools for young
men and women this year. The stu
dents come from thirty-ive states and
twenty foreign countries. During The
twenty years of its existence the school
has sent out over 5000 young people for
| NOIh III A1neTlCd ana IOGeISJl
lands.
Rev. William Davies of Spokane has
been appointed home missionary super
intendent in Alaska to fill the place
made vacant by the resignation of Rev
l.. l.. Writ. He will start for Nome
this week, and will spend the winter
at that place in charge of the church
Early next year pastor will succeed
him there.
At the Southern California Confer
ence the Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society reported that the organization
in the State consisted of eighty-tw,
auxiliaries with a membership of 2l22
During the year they contributed tn,
sum of $500. OF this $4,000 was known
as the twentieth century fund and wa
at once expended in India, where tn
needs were greatest.
Compelled by poor health to choos
between the pastorate of Contra
Church and the presidency of Armou
Institute, instead of bearing the burden
. of both, DIR. Gunsaulus has decided il
. favor of the former. His ambition i
TO make it downtown church il
! which young people especially shall b
. at home. The church win be develops
, along institutional lines.
DIR. James NJ. King, secretary of tn
I Methodist Episcopal Church Extensio
, Society, reported to the California an
Southern California conferences at it
recent sessions that the society had as
sisted in building 6S per cent of all tn
! churches that have been erected durin
2 the last twenty-five years. 1t ha
; aided on this Coast over 500 churche.
r of these 263 being in California. South
. ern California has received in dona
{ tlons s40,S56 and in loans $66, 207 in a
in the building of 135 churches. The SC
i lciety has assisted in the erection of 1:
g lchurches in the California Conferenc,
n and for every dollar paid by the cor
: ference to the society it has receive
Y black s1.59
t The General Association of Congre
q lgational Churches of Washington heI
q its annual meeting with PIymout
= Church, Seattle, on September 18th
k 10th. over 125 members and delegate
were present. These came from eightee
out of the twenty-six counties whel
e churches are organized. One hundre
f land twenty-six churches are on the rol
n only eleven OF which are seIf-suppor
# ling. Ninetysix churches have nous.
n of worship and thirty-five have pa