The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-15

new Methodist church in Reno, New.
although the structure is not entirely
completed When completed the build I
ing will cost $4,000 and accommodate
900 persons. 1t may be necessary for
while to carry small debt i
The Pope has addressed a letter to
the cardinal-yicar, Rome, in which he
Sets forth 1.-The danger of the free prop
uganda OF Professionalism in Italy, es-
pecially in Rome He exhorts Catho-
lies to unite in an effort to MINIMIZE as
far as possible the damage caused by
seetarian propaganda
| The Baptist Missionary Society's
latest report shows that it carries on
China, Japan, Africa and the Philip
pine Islands; employs 474 missionaries.
"a of whom are physicians; has 92o
churches, of. which $50 are self-support-
ing, and church membership OF 1885,
216
Rev. DR.. Talmage, who has been the
guest OF the Gar of Russia, is reported
to have said that he found as much re-
| ligious liberty in Russia as there is in
New York. The religious press is ask
| ing Talmage: If so. why was Tolstoi
/ recently communicated? Why have
the Stundists been bounded from pillar
to post?"
/ The Methodist Woman's- Home Mis-
sionary Society of California has pur-
l.chased lor on Trenton Place and
! Washington street, San Francisco. The
first payment has been made. The cost
was $4,000 1t Will be the home of the
Oriental bureau Of that society Plans
for its enlargement and under consid-
GRAFTON.
About $500 congregations of the Dis
ciples in the United States own their
buildings over 2,500 are without homes.
The national convention in Cincinnati
recommended that the extension fund
be raised to $250,000 by the close of 1900.
The Pacific Christian says: 1--WE are in
need of million dollars il our extern
sion fund"
Eighteen months ago the Trinity
Episcopal Mission in Ukiah put by 5;
| given by a friend in the East and IS
: raised by the guild for building fund
Recently the mission bought a lot, an6
I ION August 9Th the pastor signed con.
i, tract for a building which will cos
$1,000 without furnishing, and will b.
ready by November.
< This last year of the nineteenth cen
fury, says the Congregationalist viii
be memorable in Congregational histo
ry for the departure of three veteran
leaders. each having passed the allotted
age of man--Park, the theologian
Hamlin, the foreign missionary, an,
Holbrook of California, the home mis-
It sionary. Their united age is 213 years
Rev. H. Looms Of the American Bi
bic Society, writes from Japan: Their
IS is such a spirit OF inquiry as has no
S, been found before for many years TIL
J. prosperity and strength of Christia
nations are so evident to the Japanes
that they want to know how it is tina
Id Christianity has so much influence, an
b whether there is not something in it
IN teachings that is needed in Japan"
An eight-room house in San Fran
e. cisco has been secured by a numbe
as of Catholic ladies and gentlemen, to b
0. known as the Mercy Clinic, where poo
ry people can be treated free. Miss Laur
Mckinstry, formerly a trained nurse g
the Preside, will be in charge. In giy
ad ing his approval Archbishop Riorda
o. insisted that the clinic be made nor
he sectarian, so that members of all re
of ligions would be treated.
According to DR.. Carroll, the leadin
r. authority on church statistics in tt
of United States, the evangelical organ
o. cations of this country number 152 10
es the communicates 13,S69,4S The cite
. of 20, 900 inhabitants and upward aggrt
gate a population of 1855. 93S. OF TIL
population it appears that one for ever
-, 2.64 persons is Christian commun
cant. OF the denominations thirty-se,
~ en- are not represented in any of tt
W cities: three-the Roman Catholic, IL
~ Protestant Episcopal and the Meth,
10 dist organization-are represented in a
of them.
es The Baptists and Christians of Soutl
re- ern California held their yearly NEE
ut ings at Long Beach last month. tt
-al Baptists sent an overture to the Chri
Loo tian churches of Southern Californ
for absolute union. The overture, aft
emphasizing the fact that no essenti
e differences either in doctrine or polit
he can be found between the two brancl
p es, says: I'VE are ready now and a
he ways to cooperate with you or wit
I'm any committee you may choose in a
ranging preliminary steps leading to
actual union. not only in spirit and lif