The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-27
TO SPEAK OF CHINA
DR. VENABI.E, MEDICAL MISSION
AIRY, IN SAVANNAH.
EPISCOPAL MISSION WORK.
WILL BE DISCUSSED BY REV. DIR. A.
5. LLOYD IN THREE SERVICES.

Rev. DIR. J. A. Thompson's First on
cfnl visit This Year The First
of a Series % Night sermons at
Wesley Monumental - Rev. j. A
Smith to Discuss the Proposed
Sunday Concerts-The Last of the
Series of Night Sermons by Rev.
BascOm Anthony Bishop II. j.
Kelley i'm New York.
AT the Independent Presbyterian Church
so-day DR. w. II. Venable will speak at Il
o'clock a m. DR.. Venable is a medical
missionary to China He is not a minister
but was sent out by the Southern Pres
byterian Church TO found hospital work
and practice medicine among the Chi
nese. He was graduated with distinction
at the University of Virginia, and bright
prospect lay before him TO attain emil
rence in his profession in this country
but he sacrificed this, in order to devote
his skill 90 the treatment Of disease
among the unfortunates of heather lands
He is associated in work at Kasling with
Rev. w. H. Hudson. the missionary who
is supported by the Independent Presby-
terrain Church. At this place the Arson
Memorial School Is located. DR.. Venable
* at present in this country on vaca-
ton. He and Mrs Venable are entertain
ed at the residence Of Col, Kline. At
y. M. the pastor, Rev. DR.. J. Y. Fair,
will preach.
Rev Dr. a. s. Lloyd, general secretary
of the Missionary Society of the Episco-
pal Church is in the city and will to-day
deliver number OF addresses on his
work This morn ng at II o'clock he VIII
preach at Christ Church, and in the af-
ternoon also at Christ Church, will ad-
dress a mass meeting Of the children of
all the Episcopal Sunday-schools of the
city. He will be heard again at night,
when he win preach at st. Johns Church.
Rev Dr. ]. A. Thompson, presiding
elder of the Savannah District South
Georgia Conference. will make to-day his
first official visit to Savannah for the
present year. He will conduct two SER
vices, speaking this morning at IL O'Clock
at the Epworth Methodist Church, and at
night at Grace Church.
The American Missionary Association
has issued to the young people of the
congregational churches in the United
States an invitation to observe Sunday,
Feb. 10, as the first Abraham Lincoln
memorial anniversary of the new century.
The last eight airs of the nineteenth
century were years IN which similar
invitation from this association was
widely honored by Congregational Sun
day-schools. The day was selected origi-
nally not only to honor the memory of
Lincoln, but so as not to conflict with the
Childrens Day of ary other Congrega-
tional missionary society In one year
1000 children kept the day, observing 1t
especially in the interest Of Christian
patriotism. The collections gathered in
Iancoln's memorial envelopes are to be
the chidren's and yourg peoTle's Offering
20 the missionary and educational work
among the youth and children Of the
needier races in our land. especially the
colored people of the South.
A careful estimate places the number
of churches in America in the year 1870
at 2s40. and the total value of all of
them did not much, if any, exceed $780,
900. The number of churches in America
in 1900 is 1877, 4S1 and their value is @4,-
81 ,d2.