The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-06

u1F1c ooMxERcIALs ADVERT
jubilee of their first mass Within six
months the six priests have died.
Rarons Albert and Nathaniel de Roths- /
CT lid, In Vienna, have given to the Is
raelite Allianz in that city $500 forms
for the relief of the Jewish emigrants
from Roumania-
Bishop Moore acknowledges the receipt +
Of s46s 20 for the Chemulpo Church, Co /
rea, of which Rev. George Heber Jones /
is pastor. San Francisco and Oakland /
arc credited with s117.75.
A Chinese rice merchant of Annoy. Chi /
to the Christian mission of that city, with /
which the late DIR. John Talmage was SO
long connected and In which his daugh-
tors still labor.
Bonaparte Park. Bordenstown. N. j..
comprising 200 acres and several large
mansions, and for many years the home
of Joseph Bonaparte, the exiled King of
Spain and Sicily. will become a monastery
of the Lazarus Order
A convention of representatives from
the various Catholic organizations of the
East will be held IN Philadelphia for the
purpose of celebrating the question
of society confederation. union of which
has been strongly advocated of late by a
large section of the Catholic press
An International congress of students
has been held in Paris. at which the
", atment of the Jews in Roumania vas
discussed. The congress passed the fol-
lowing resolution: 1.-THE congress invites
governments to remove from their legis-
llation the traces of old religious hatred"
] The Council of the Free Churches of
England, which represents all Christian
denominations except the Protestant Epis-
copal, proposes to celebrate the opening
of the twentieth century by a thoroughly
organized campaign covering the whole
country Eminent preachers have already
been assigned to the large cities.
Ira d. Sankey has received so many in
vitations to sing and speak during his
visit to England that he has been obliged
to limit his services at the dedication of
/ the new Sturgeon Tabernacle to one day
/ il stead of the ten days originally plan
ned. He expects to spend two months in
England.
The Rev. D. w. Cram has been APP
pointed missionary by the Congregational
board to Valdez. Alaska, at the head of
the all-American route to the upper Yu-
kon country, the winter quarters for all
the men in the interior. A Christian En-
deavor Society has been organized and a
church will soon be erected.
Reports made at the annual meeting of
the Congregational Church of Douglass,
Alaska, Rev IT. H Cole pastor, showed
progress in all departments. Twelve have
been added to its membership in the last
year. The Sunday school has ninety-two
on its roll and an average attendance of
I seventy-fvc. The pastor has OBLIGATED at
nfty-two marriages, thirteen baptisms and
fifteen funerals. The Ladies' League has
contributed $500 to the treasury, and the
church Indebtedness has been reduced
from $3.50 to S2oe A new parsonage is I'M
Ter way and alterations have begun on
the building.
Presiding Elder Rev. DR.. Gale reports
n his Na.pa district fifty-six churches and
thirty-fve parsonages, valued in all at
$l1S250. 4 new church has been built in
Feachland, Sonoma county, casting 81
gro. At Covelo a building has been pur-
chased and furnished for a church. cost
ing $l,250. Four new churches are being
lCazadero and Santa Rosa, the aggregate
cost Of which will be about $4,000. The
irorease of members in the district is $780,
of benevolence, s41S: Of Sunday schools, g.
Sunday school pupils, 575; amount paid On
debts, $2,21S; on improvements, S20,763; In
dia famine fund, 1894; conversions, $685.
Roman Catholic reaction, of appre.
cable extent and force. appears to be
taking place in the north of Europe, par
ticulsrly in the little kingdoms of Den
ne TX, Norway end Sweden. Thirty years
ago these were strongholds Of Protestant
ism, with barely a handful of Roman
Catholics. ruled from abroad by foreign
bishops Today a different state of things
prevails, according to Mr.. c. w. Dowd
who has made an intimate study of relig
: icus conditions in the Scandinavian PENN.
sula and who writes in The Catholic
World august Not only have Catho
lie congregations increased considerably
In NUMBERS" he says, ''but bishops reside
' in Copenhagen and Christiania, and mel
2 and women of national reputation, some
2 tines even more than that, have beer
admitted to the church and become it.
, dauntless champions"
E The following alleged facts relating t,
the Beccher-Tilton case are given by Thu
} Westminster Gazette. on the authority o
The British Weekly: Though Mr.
! Beecher's friends were most fully con
WINGED that he was guiltless, they admit
ted that two or three letters professin.
. to be written by him We're regrettable
, and that they had to take into accoun
! what they knew of him otherwise in esti
mating their Significance. They now hav
, been proved to be forgeries of the gross
est Kind. 1t would serve no purpose nov
to indicate the name of the forger, who ii
Gcad. Suffice X to say that the inciden
4 puts Beecher's character on a highe
plane than ever" The same authority al
; SO alleges that zone of Beecher's mos
prominent ministerial opponents, on see
: ing the new evidence. expressed his dee,
regret at the position he had taken.
None of these new witnesses is named
! The Christian in China ard the Jew i
5 Rumania.--A Contrast.