The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-08


CHURCH. NOTES.
The Brooke edict, which prohibited
ecclesiastical marriage in Cuba, recog-
nizing only the civil ceremony, was re-
voked last Monday by Governor Gen
eral Wood.
According to the latest statistics, the
number of enrolled Christians in Japan
is as follows: Protestants, 41,S0S;
Greek Catholics, 25,231, Roman Catho-
lies, 1924; total 12o,96S.
The total contributions of the Presby-
terrain Church last year were ST., 054 ,30l,
of which the various boards of home
and foreign mission, church extension,
ETC., received 81, 551 ,170. All these boards
begin their fiscal year free of debt.
A recent census of the Jesuit Order
shows the number of members is over
| $4,000. 1t is just eighty-six years since
| the order was re-established. When
| the order was first founded it took just
eighty-six years to bring its member
ship to $4,000.
| Speaking of the Jewish people in Rus
STA and Roumania, Emanuel says
| their general condition is at present
more desperate than ever, and the time
has come again for concerted action in
behalf of exiles who crowd the streets
| of London and New York
The children's day offerings OF the
Congregational Sunday-schools in
Southern California to the Sunday
school and Public Society amounted tc
S52l.45. The gifts came from fifty-siS
Sunday schools, and ranged from 81
cents TO $6566. an average of $9.49 each
Tie minutes of the General Assembly
for 1850 show that tire Presbyterian
Church has passed the million mark il
its membership roll. 1t stands at 1907,
$50, a net gain over last year of %, 7S2
The Sabbath school membership is l.,
05S,051, an increase over last year o
| 2s,722.
While the Jewish people of Sar
Eve of which have settled pastors, the!
support in addition fifteen charitable
and benevolent societies, including hos
pitfalls, homes, orphan asylums, educa
tional societies and seventeen organic
ed fraternities.
There are now in Manila three Meth
odist churches, an English church o
fifty members, a Filipino church of 20
and Chinese church of five members
a school is being opened. and medica
and evangelistic work is going on.
thousand copies of the Bible a montl
: are being sold.
The Salvation Army in South Afric
during the past year furnished lodg
ings to 92,502 men, including 5,514 FIRE
. admissions The amount of cash re
ceived for food and lodging was G463
las; number of cheap meals supplied
209S65; soul-saving meetings held, 800
number of professional conversions, 81
The Independent of Los Angelo
: states that Judge Smith and Judg
/. Shaw are probably the only two Meth
odist Judges in the West. They be
= long to local Methodist churches, at
t tend them regularly and pay tn
e preacher. Judge Shaw and the poe
e men of San Francisco have recently be
: come acquainted.
Rev. w II. Latourette formerly gen
: eral mssionary,of the Baptist churche
| in California, who resides in Oakland
has been appointed financial and gen
q eral agent of McMinville College, O.
d He is already in the field. He will pres
d financial interests, interest young pee
d pie to attend the college, and circulat
; college literature
= Evangelist George Robert Cairns
!, who labored "a few years ago anon
v the Baptist churches in Southern Cal
s fornia, spent six months among til
: Baptist missionaries in England, whel
/ 5000 conversions were reported He n
turned to this country last April, hel
# | successful meetings in New Jersey an
= has now returned to England.
Rev. DR.. S. Sonoda, superinfe ndent
Buddhist missions, California, report
d very interesting coincidence whic
l. occurred in Sacramento. A week
: two ago the Sacramento mission brano
l. was Obliged to procure house for be
- ter accommodations. One was hired ;
10 4lo q street. Strange to say, Buddha
d picture was found hanging on the wa
10 copy of the Sunday Chronicle"
February 16, 1896, in which was pictu
lie ed the interior of a Buddhist temple
i'd Japan with large figure of Buddha
II the foreground, had been pinned {
- the wall of one of the rooms and he
- remained undisturbed for four year
-e During this long time" says DIR. S.
N noda, "Buddha has been occupying Il
,e house, so that 1t seems 1t must ha1
i been destined to be the home of OF
J. mission