The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-24

the principal parts of the service. Next
TO Sydney, the capital, Newcastle is the
most important town in New South
Wales.
The Congregational Church at Escon-
dido sowed rented land for a hay crop.
When harvest time came help was
scarce Pastor Edwards became a
farmer and harvested the crop. which
amounted TO about forty tons
Andrew Carnegie has invited Father
Hickey OF Braddock, Pa, to visit him
at Skibo Castle and will confer with
him regarding the new church which
Charles Schwab. president of the steel
trust. has agreed to build for the par
ish.
In 1886 ten persons organized the or
der of Kings Daughters, under the
leadership of Mrs. Margaret Bottome,
the first and only president. The mem
bership is now 100000. Their principal
work is done in hospitals, asylums and
homes
The venerable Bishop William Tay-
lor of Palo Alto has been honored with
visits from many leaders of the church
Among them We're Bishop Warren, Dr.
j. D. Buckley of New York and DR.. J.
W. Bashford, president of the Ohio
Wesleyan University
The Thank Offering Commission of
the Methodist Episcopal Church re-
ports s5,2S0.o11 for Christian education
OF this amount the University of the
Pacific has received outright SAT 900 and
the University of Southern California,
partly conditional, 100000
The Central Congregational Church of
Vancouver, B. c., organized only a few
weeks ago, has become self-supporting.
The pastor is Rev. w. A Vrooman,
who was ordained at Manitoba in 1891.
The new church is in cordial fellowship
with the one organized there several
years ago.
Rev. DR.. Justin E. Abbott of Bombay
writes that as a result of the Indian
famine half a million of people are still
being cared for on relief works, and
through the daily village dole of food to
the utterly helpless. 1t is still costing
the Government 100000 month to care
for this multitude
| Recently the Third Christian Science
Church of Chicago was dedicated with
| four services, each a repetition of the
other. in order to accommodate the peo-
| pie who desired to be present. The
building will seat 1,5O0 people, and with
| the organ and other furnishings has
cost s120,000, all of which is paid.
! The Messenger of the Sacred Heart is
authority for the statement that of the
| $4,000, 600 who profess Christianity in
this country, of one or other denomina-
ton, over 10000, 900 members of the va
rious Protestant sects meet in their
churches on the Sabbath and 100000
Catholics fill their churches from morn
| ing until night every Sunday.
The annual report of the Congrega-
tional Home Missionary Society shows
1, 1886 missionaries in the service for the
year ending March 81 1901. Owing to
| the immense influx of foreigners the
largest number of workers in any one
State is 141 in Massachusetts. Califor-
twenty-five home missionaries have
| preached to German, Scandinavian, Bo-
hemian, Polish, French, Spanish. Ital-
| ian, Finn, Armenian and Greek congre-
cations.
/ provincial system for the Episcopal
church in the United States is advo-
Gated by many of prominence in that
denomination. Twelve cities are men
toned for seats of provincial Arch
bishops-New York, Boston, Philadel-
phia, Washington, Charleston New
Orleans, Chicago, Cincinnati, ST. Paul
st. Louis, Denver and San Francisco. II
the provincial system is adopted by the
convention next fall, each province will
hold it's triennial convention, and q
general convention perhaps once in ten