The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-04

can pastors. Subscriptions to the
amount of $500 were taken toward the
debt, after which Presiding Elder Mel
son dedicated the beautiful church.
The family of the late Rev. Stephen
r.. Dennan, ID. D., has presented his
library to Occidental College
tPresbyterian), Los Angeles. 1t COM
prises LOCO Volumes, historical, theol-
ogical and miscellaneous.
The conference of American rabbis,
soon to meet at Buffalo, will consider
the memorial presented by Henry
Weinstock of Sacramento urging the
introduction of a life of Jesus in the |
curriculum of the Sabbath school
Mrs. l.. L. Writ is expected to leave |
Nome during the summer, and after
visiting friends IN Oakland, will make
the family home in Seattle while her
husband engages in his missionary du-
ties at the various stations in Alaska.
Rev. DIR. Thomas McClelland, presi- |
dent of Pacific University, Oregon, has
recently received a call to the presi
dency of Knox College, Galesburg, lii
nois. The friends of the university
earnestly hope he will decline the call
In StrOudsburg, Pa, there is a queer
case in court. Rev. +. f. Dixon
Methodist preacher, is reported to have
publicly petitioned God to destroy the
new brewery by lightning from heaven.
A storm came up and the lightning did
it's work on the brewery and now the
preacher is arrested for damages.
A new church is being built by the
Indians at Mesa Grande, San Diego
county When finished it will be one
of the prettiest Indian churches in the
State. The patron saint is ST. Dominic,
whose feast falls on August 5th. Prep
arations are being made for a grand
celebration.
The Foreign Mission Society of the
Christian denomination has recently
received $500 on the annuity plan. This
fund now amounts to $S7 100, or only
s12, $40 short of the 100000 the society
hopes to complete this year. The re-
ceipts for foreign missions to July LIST,
amount to 1882, 569.6 ga, a gain OF SIS, $685. 3.
At the recent State Sunday school
convention it was reported that a Meth
odist lady had organized ten Congrega-
tional Sunday schools. The California
Advocate kindly suggests and hopes
that she will organize twice as many
order to compensate the slipping a cog
in her Methodist machinery
The membership of the First Metho-
| dist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles
enrolls nearly LOO. There are sixty-one
officers and teachers and 700 in the Sun
| day school, The church property is
valued at 100000. The present pastor,
DR.. Cantine, has been in charge for
eight years, and has been asked to
serve the church another year.
! Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, Los
Angeles, through it's session, has serv-
ed notice TO the ladies of the congrega-
| ton, except those who conscientiouSIy
believe that there are Scriptural objec-
| tions, and those whose health might be
endangered, to remove their hats or
large bonnets during the church SER
vices and so contribute to the comfort
of those who sit behind them.
Jewish emigrants from Russia to
South America are now able to travel
to their destination without having tc
go to Antwerp. During the last month
batch of 363 emigrants arrived al
Havre on their way to Moiseville Colo
ny in the Argentine. Their impedimen-
ia weighed over seventy tons. A sach.
ct accompanied them, who would xii
on board the animals required by the
Jewish travellers.
Miss Ida Foss and Miss a. A Palmel
are on their way to reopen the mission
of the American board on. Ponape, Car
oline Islands. Rev. and Mrs. Thomas
Gray, new appontees, go with them
This is where the Spanards destroyet
all the mission property and drove on
the missionaries ten years ago. Mis-
Foss and Miss Palmer now return t
their old work
I y Kansas City paper states that Rev
George w. Stone, after q short vaca
ton in Boston, will proceed to Sa
Francisco to take charge of the mis-
sionary work and general supervisor
= of Unitarian interests on the Pacifi
!, Coast. He will not settle over an
- church, as his time Will be fully occu
u pied as field agent of the America
( Unitarian Association.
The old edict of Japan read as fo
> lows: so long as the sun shall warn
= the earth, let no Christian be so bold a
= to come to Japan, and let all know ths
N the King of Spain himself, or the Chris
:, tian's God, or the Great God of all, if h
Y violates this command, shall pay for
= with his head" The recent constitutio
. provides and affirmS as follows: "JaI
, anese subjects shall, within limits NJ
y prejudicial to peace and order, and M
I a N a OF icfi TO hai