Evening star., 1901-08-31
| N THE CHU RCHES

eEce Standish represented the Lucy Webb
Hayes Training School and Deaconess
Home Of this city at the Woman's Home
Society anniversary recently held at Ocean
Grove DR.. and Mrs. ID. b. Street returned
few days ago, after a stay of five weeks
in California and other points In the west.
Mrs. Street is chairman of the board of
managers of the hospital and also of the
Home for the Aged.
The report of SibIey Hospital which is
under the care of the Deaconess Home,
shows that from the date of the opening OF
the addition. May 10. 1900, to June 30, 1901,
COZ cases Were treated in the wards and
rooms, 3Si cases in the emergency depart
ment and SS cases, mostly among the
destitute poor, were attended in their homes
by the district nurse deaconeSSeS. OF the
602 cases treated IN the wards and rooms
of the hospital $50 We're free, and all the
emergency cases were free. The mission
at Bladensburg. which is in charge of Miss
AlVerta Jones, has been much improved in
appearance recently, and the interest in the
mission is said TO be increasing.
AS a result of the recent meeting of the
Winona Bible conference, to which Rev.
DR.. George 2. Wilson OF this city was a
delegate, eVangeliStic services will In the
near future be begun in various parts of
the United States A meeting OF the evan
gelistic committee appointed at the Pres
byterian general assembly at Philadelphia
In May will soon be held in that city for
the purpose of completing the necessary ar
rangements. Pastors are to be urged to
make especial preparation for eVangelistic
preaching and to use every effort to reach
the unchurched oy special outdoor meet
lngS wherever Sucn can be arranged. The
chairman of the committee having the
matter in charge is Mr.. John II. Converse
of Philadelphia, who has taken much in
terest in evangelistic work this summer in
the east. The other members of the COM
mittee are Rev. Or. George p Wilson of
Washington, Revs. Drs. Purves and j. Will
bur Chapman of New York, Messrs w. j.
Chichester of Chicago, S. A. Palmer of
Columbus, Ohio; j. Racom Shaw of New
York, James |. Buchanan of Pittsburg F.
a. X. Hackett of Fort Wayne Charles F.
Holt of Chicago and John Willis Baer of
Boston.
Rev. E. D. Bailey of the Peoples Mission,
who is now engaged in evangelistic work
in Greater New York, in a letter to
friend here states that the trustees of the
American Section of the Spurgeon Memorial
Sermon Society, which is strictly unde-
nominational, has opened a headquarters
TO: the United States and Canada in Brook
lyn. This society was founded in July,
1872, for the loan distribution of Charles
Haddon Surgeons sermons as a living
and literary tribute to his memory That
1t has fully accomplished its purpose may
be judged from the fact that it has pur-
chased since it's formation over 2,0N,0o9
sermons. At the time of starting, 1892
the founder, then little more than youth,
was employed as a Sorter in the Brighton
post office, England. He purchased 100 of
these sermons. which he put into covers of
rather primitive kind, and circulated them
at first entirely among his comrades in the
pest office, and then the neghbors in the
street in which he lived. There are now
many thousands of earnest distributors in
England and foreign lands, associated with
branches representing all denominations
OF the Christion church, who are making
about 100000 to 100000 visits yearly.
In 1897 the society was placed in trust with
international trustees, and this year a SUBJ
Sidiary American truSteeship was formed
by Mr.. T. c. Roberts HorSfield of Brooklyn,
who was appointed secretary for the United
States and Canada. The sermons are
loaned to any body of Christian workers,
churches or societies, who will undertake
to render a quarterly report of their work
anc comply with certain simple rules.
The annual retreat for the secular clergy
of the archdiocese of Baltimore, which in
cludes the District of Columbia, began Mon
day evening last at St. Mary's Seminary,
Baltimore. All the secular clergy were
present except those excused by Bishop
Alfred A. Curtis, vicar general of the dio-
cese who was administrator during the
absence of Cardinal Gibbons in Europe.
One of the interesting features of the re-
treat was the presence of Father Fidelis,
the well-known Passfonist preacher who
conducted the exercises. Father Fidelis'
name in the world is James Kent Stone.
He is the only monk who has ever preached
at Harvard University by invitation of the
authorities of that institution.
The board of bishops and trustees of the
NJ. E. Church has determined that some
thing must be done to provide a more
comfortable support for the superannuated
preachers and other conference claimants
of the church, and have started move
ment which, it is believed, will accomplish
the object. In address to the members
of the denomination a copy of which has
in aSh pcytn iS Sta tod
THE trustees of the Methodist Episcopal
Church Will hereafter accept, in trust, and
administer, subject to the provisions of the
discipline of the Methodist Church and the
regulations of the corporation, gifts of
money or other property for the benefit or
the conference claimants of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, with the condition that
the donor thereof shall be entitled to re-
ceive, during life the net income annually
derived from his gift by the trustees, with
the further condition that after the death
of said donor the net income derived there
from shall be paid to the annual confer
ence conferences named By the donor:
or, in the absence Of such direction, to all
the annual conferences of the Methodist
Episcopal Church for distribution to the
conference claimants according to the dis
cipline of said church"
Members of the American Bible Society
residing in this section have received copies
of the eighty-fifth annual report of the
organization, which has just been issued.
1t Is therein stated tnaI with the deatn,
recently, of Rev. DR.. Gilman, corresponding
Sc cretary, there comes about almost a COM
plete change In the personnel of those who
have had to do with the executive work
of the society during the last twenty-five
years Within three years the president,
the general agent and the three corre-
spending secretaries have died. The total
issues Of the year, at home and abroad,
amount to 1,554, 12S, an increase of 14I,32I
over the previous year. OF these SSO,5l3
were distributed in the United States, and
the rest in foreign lands. The total re-
ceipts were 1891 ,3S2. During the eighty
five years Of it's life, in the nineteenth CEN
tury, the society received from the Chris
ton public of America $50, 800, including
trust funds. During this period 1t at great
expense translated the Scriptures into
many languages and established systems OF
colportage in all lands where American mis-
sionaries have penetrated. Many thousands
of Bibles have been given at special rates
to workers among soldiers, especially to
the organized committees of the Interna-
ticnal Young Mems Christian Association.
The Bible and the New Testament and
Psalms have been bound in khaki to meet
these peculiar needs.
After reviewing the work of the society
in the various countries of the world, the
report has this to say of our new eastern
possessions I'm the Philippine Islands