The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-07

The OfierinS on CnlldrenS day in the
Eureka Christian Church was $25
Rev DR.. John Thompson of the Cali
fornia Bible Society, who was cons dered
dangerously i'll for some days, is rapidly
recovering.
The 5000 subscribed at Southern Cali
fornia Conference for the University Of
Southern Ca4Iornia viii all be paid on or
before September 18th.
/ The conservation Of Bishop-elect Gran
jon Of the diocese of Tucson. A T.. took
pace in the cathedral at Baltimore. Car
dinal Gibbons OBLIGATED.
Bishop Montgomery ordained as priests
twenty-five young men in the chapel OF
Kenrick Seminary, St. Louis. on June
9th. This is the largest class ever turned
out by the seminary.
The Government having failed to pro- /
vide for the salaries of chaplains appoint
ed for the new regiments 10 be sent TO |
the Philippines, Mss Helen Gould pays |
them out of her private purse. 1t costs
her 5000 per month.
The Sunday school in the Unitarian
Church of Oakland has been abandoned.
Rev. b. f Mills regards the Sunday
schools in general poor limitations of
poor original The college of ethics
and religion viii take the place of the
Sunday school
The English Baptists claim Lord Rob-
erts II not as a member. at least as an
adherent \, hen I'm London Lord Roberts
regularly attends Cover street Strict
BAPTIST Church. and when in Devices, his
country seat. he always worships at the
Strict Baptist Church.
The Russian Orthodox Church in ia
pan has 2Sl communities. with a member
ship of 25.S21 and thirty-four clergy, one
bishop, twenty-e.ght priests and five
: deacons. OF these only the bishop. one
. priest and one deacon are Russians, all
the rest being Japanese
Rev. ]. S. Bitter proposes to build a
j. large temple in the heart of Chicago for
g rel gious services. 1t is to be large
!, enough to seat 1900 and contain an
organ of immense size, to cost 100000.
{ The expenses are to be paid from the
,, profits of a gold mine at Cripple Creek.
}, Col.
y The Church Divinity School of the Pa
cifc has already fitted fourteen aspirants
"a / for the Episcopal ministry, thirteen OF
~ whom are living. Two are working il
IN New York city, two are in the dioceses o.
Los Angeles. one in the missionary juris
- diction of Sacramento, one in Arizons
~ and eight in the diocese Of California.
e Joseph Jacobs, the eminent English
Jewish man of letters, after studying Ju
80 daism in this country, predicts that III
future of American Judaism is with tn
- Russian Jew The Russian. he claims.
~ imaginative capable of giving to Ameri
-, can Judaism the old love of and reverence
IN, for symbols. an element lacking in Amer
ican Judaism.
he The Massachusetts, Home Missionar
let
' amounting to $95.905. OF this total, So, 4:
a. was used in missionary service within III
no State and $25.G13 was sent to the nation;
TO treasury I'm New York. The society ha
aided 40 missionaries, the average salar
lrf being 1913 and the average grant 1900. I'll
cost of administration was $685..
Rev. Father Wendelin Moellers write
81; from the Hawaiian Islands: At the pre-:
"r ent time we number 1000 Catholics. Pro
estants reckon themselves at 24.0oO an
at Mormons 5000. There remain $1,000 ne;
W. thens, infidels and free-thinkers. Beside
lei the chapel of the convent of the Sister
OF the Sacred Heart and that of the Co
lege Of st. Louis, we have one Cathedr;
f,r Church in Honolulu.
,he California Christian Endeavor stayisti,
';.h show 195 societies in Congregations
- churches. OF is number sixty-thr,
ln rs are Junior and eight intermediate soci
% ties. Total membership is 5.9g3 On II
~ roll OF honor at the recent State CONVEX
- ton We're the junior societies of Pilgri
II, Church OF Pomona, First Congregation
=. churches Of Los Angeles and San Dieg
81 oroville, Claremont and Highland.
The annual contributions of the Meth
tI;- dist Episcopal Church in Canada for q
Oily sos - az. S r.o,So. nv ,,rs,e,,l,
contributions last year amounted to $26i
o. 979.40. the largest in the history OF q
tie church. There are ten colleges, attend
a. by 205I students, with assets of $1,000
the besides training and Industrial institut
e IN for mission work for Chinese, Japanes
OF Indian and French.
-ici-
the On childrens day in the Presbyteri
1om Church. Woodbridge. San JOAQUIN cou
IlNe ". Dr. Steen baptized three children, o
less Of whom was OF the third generation sin
VIII his coming to Woodbridge. He haptiZ
stop the grandmother and received her in
into the church, afterward married her; tn
into baptized her daughter, a little girl a
and afterward received her into the churt
afterward married her and now baptis
and her little son, all in the same place.
ing
tiles Tho little church ST Peter,s-bx-t n
rem Sea, Sitka, Alaska, was consecrated
'oft- DR. Rowe missionary bishop of Alasl
on Easter morning. The building is
odds gift of New York lady, who visited :
npa- ka in 1897. The lot was bought with 81
the sCriptions collected by the women of
the ka. The plans were the gift of Geo
him c. Thomas of Philadelphia An altar
rely oak and a writing desk were presen
case, by California church women: while OF
and gifts of a communion service. an ca
atti- lectern and an altar cross of brass W
pre- received from friends in New York
ems.
5 Is Is Are Won .