The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-14
CHURCH NOTES.

The Hebrew Union College at Cincin-
matt will receive one third of the mil
lion-dollar estate of Simon Rice of
Scranton, Pa.
Rev. DR.. John W. Butler, presiding
elder of the Mexico City district, has
gone to London to attend the Methodist
ecumenical conference.
Rev DR.. John F. Goucher recently
gave $1,000 to the Southern University
of the Methodist Church South. The
institution is in China
Rev. A. w. Rider. recently appointed
by the American Baptist Missionary
Union as secretary of Pacific Coast dis
trict, has opened headquarters at Oak
land, Cal.
The grand rabbi of France, NJ. Zadoc
Kahn, has recently been promoted to be
being a chevalier of the Legion of
Honor for twenty-five years.
ed the Hurrel temperance bill. which
makes places where liquor is sold COM
mon nuisances and allows the county
officers to coniscate the Illegal stock
new church has been organized in
Chicago and called the Church of Man.
The condition of membership is the dis
belief in a supernatural being. or any
thing which hitherto has passed for
Christianity.
Rev. S. H. Smith. who has held sue
cessful pastorates with the colored
CHURCHES at Oakland. Riverside and San
francisco, is looking over the field at
Portland Or, with a view of estab-
Fishing similar work there.
The Protestant Episcopal church in
San Francisco embraces sixteen par
ishes and missions and 1917 communi-
cants. In California there are three
Bishops, 149 clergymen POI parishes and
missions and 1876 communicates.
The Baptist churches in the United
States had a membership Of /, 121,9SS in
1869; their membership today is f. 233, 226.
During the last year the expenditures
of these churches were s13, 7sO, 299 So,
and their property is valued at sSS, 49,,
l3S6
The proposition that the name of the
Protestant Episcopal church be changed
to the American church is opposed by
a large element in the church on the
ground that there are a great many
American churches already in exist
ence
A prominent missionary writes that
Buddhism is still strong and far from
it's end in Japan. There is one temple
for every $40 persons, one priest for
every 400, and Buddhist worship in
Japan is computed to cost s100oO,0o0
year.
Bishop Vincent attended the Norway
conference at Hamar, July 18th. AS no
hall was large enough to hold the peo-
pie, the Park Commissioners gave the
conference the use of the park. Thou
sands came to hear the Bishop and DR..
A B. Leonard, the missionary secre-
tary
The orthodox Congregation Bikur
Cholem of Seattle rededicated its
synagogue Sunday, August 25th. The
building has been considerably enlarged
and renovated and is now one of the
best homes of worship in the State of
Washington. Rabbi Theo. Joseph de-
ljvered the address.
The Pacific says that an organization
similar 10 The Young Mems Christian
Association IS talked of among Roman
Catholics. One of its aims viii be the
elimination 0. snreign traits and Ian
guages and a more rapid Amerieaniza-
ton of the foreign element by the con-
tact with young Americans thus af-
forded
AT the opening of the Indian lands at
Lawton, o. T., Rev C. H. Bente of SEN
eca. kas, was on hand with a large
new tent bearing a banner inscribed
congregational Headquarters. a
number of his former Kansas parish
toner's were with him and formed a
nucleus for the First Congregational
Church in that place
Word has come that the German Gov
ernor Of Savii and Upolu, islands of
Samoa, owned by Germany. has ordered
the London Missionary Society to be
less rigorous in the observance of sun
day The bringing together of native
Christians in annual gatherings must
be omitted and no more churches for
the natives must be built. English had
hsan fnrhsdden 70 be taiieEt in the. nj.