The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-18


priests and thirty-one European mis-
sionaries in the diocese of Nagasaki
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
tons of California have a membership Of
e112, San Francisco being the largest, and
Los Angeles coming next with LEO MEM
berS.
In the General Assembly of the Pres
byterian churches, which wlll meet this
month in Philadelphia, .uere w...s.be an
Esquimau Presbyterian elder from Point
Barrow, Alaska
The Jewish colony in Palestine found
ed by Baron Rothschild now has about
500 people in it. engaged IN producing
wines, olives and vegetable oil soaps, all
of which are placed in the markets of
the world.
Total donations last year by Baptist
| churches on the Coast for foreign mis-
sion work amounted to s12, 1885. Oregon
gave s., 4S5.SS, Washington, s., 766. As, North
west Idaho $1S634 Arizona sos. 90, Me-
vada s41.7S, Alaska 1920. California
1854 40.
| DR.. NJ. c. Harris, superintendent of
Japanese missions on the Pacific Coast
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| Toxic. Japan. He was enthusiastically
greeted in his old field of labor and will
take an active part in evangelical work
while visiting Japan.
President Mckinley will lay the corner
stone of thesnew Young Mems Christian
Association building at Colorado Springs
Col, on Wednesday, June 9Th. H. J.
Mccoy, general secretary of California,
hoe hoe ipyit tn no al
part in the exercises.
The Baptist Handbook for Great Brit
ain reports at present 273S Baptist
churches in the British isles, 1918 chapels,
S65 ,67S members; Sunday-school teachers
and scholars, $685. On new edifices and
improvements e163,5S1 has been expend-
er, and debts have been reduced E86, 839.
The Pacific Churchman says: Through
the generosity of a member of the con
gregation Of Grace Church. San Fran
CISCO each choirman received an Easter
present of half a months salary, the Or
ganist and choirmaster also being the re-
cipient of a handsome sum of money"
Marcus A. Miller of Binghampton. N.
Y, an educator, author and inventor. re-
quested before his death, last week, that
| all of Ingersolps books In his possession
| be publicly burned in the cemetery at
! the time of his interment in testimony
| of his absolute remuneration of Inger-
soils teachings.
| Rev. DR.. A. s. Lloyd, general secretary
| of the Episcopal Foreign and Domestic
Missionary Society, has been advised by
Mr. and Mrs. George c. Thomas that
| they will contribute $4,000 for work in
| he rtain or
| recommendations of Bishop Graves of
Shanghai, who has been notified respect
| ing the offer.
| General Ballington Booth Of the Vol
| unteers reports that during the last nine
| months /, ,61 people have been present
at the $4,000 meetings. There have been
412o converts, from IS to As per cent of
whom have become members of evangel-
| ical churches. The army raised $4,000 in
the year, and is now reaching 1900 con-
victs in prison work. ~
Rev. Joe Jeh of Canton, who was Or
dained few years ago Congregation
al minister in San Francisco, writes to-
Rev. Jee Gam of this city that Mr.. Gam
Tong Fan, member of the Canton
| mission of the American Board. had re-
ceived $1,000 indemnity. OF this sum 81
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church and school building fund.
| The annual report of the Seventh-Day
Adventist Church shows the total MEM
| bership of the denomination to be n. 76s.
| The tithes for the last two years were
s1,0o5,000. Missionary donations were
| SI51. 900. Since the last General Confer
ence, which has a membership OF nearly
1900. nine sanitariums have been estab-
lished in different parts of TIE world.
Bishop Johnson of Los Angeles is max
ing an earnest effort to raise $4,000 for
| a hospital in his diocese Two of mis-
| friends have each promised 5000 toward
it on condition that $4,000 in all be
raised. The Bishop is actively at work
| to raise the $4,000, which will enable
him to lay solid foundation for an in
stitution that will be credit to the do
cese.
L. H. Creager of Washington, Ind,
opens the days work of his extensive
stave and heading factory with a fifteen
minute religious service. Rev. l. I. Cor
by has been employed for one month to
deliver short sermons every morning,
and If the services prove to do good che
minister wifi be kept on the factory pay
roll. A good choir has also been en-
gagged.
A new departure in the basis of church
membership has been made by the Ma
plewood Congregational Church of NAL
den. Mass. The change provides for the
enrolment of all baptized children upon
the membership book of the church with
the understanding that such relation
shall be continued until they indicate a
desire for formal acceptance or disso-
luton of the relation.
Rev. William Davis, Conversational
superintendent of missions in Alaska,
writes to the Pacific from Nome that the
library is doing good service. 1t is open
daily from 1880 to 10 p. m. Ind is well
patronized. The church services are
well attended, scores are being turned
away nearly every Sunday evening. It
was unanimously decided to build a new
church at once with seating capacity |
for 400
Rabbi Jerusalem Moses, who created q |
sensation a month ago white IN charge |
Of congregation In Kingston. N. Y, by |
changing his faith and becoming an Epis- |
c0palian has 6ocloro5 III infan,fo, en- /