The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-05
CHURCH NOTES.

The net gain in membership per Pres
byterian Church last year was two and
a half per cent. The last general assem-
bly, appointed an evangelistic committee
to arrange for the holding of prayer con-
ferences and evangelistic efforts during
the coming year.
Christ Church EpiscopaD, Alameda,
will celebrate the twenty-ninth anniver-
sary of it's organization September 18th,
and during the week the several organic
atoms of the parish will have anniver-
sary meetings. There will be special
preachers and speakers
Rev. George w. Taylor has closed his
pastorate of the Baptist Church at Pres
colt, A. T., and has removed permanent
ly to Los Angeles, from which headquar-
tiers he will resume his regular evangel-
istic work on the Pacific Coast and in the
mountain states and territories.
The vote of the California German con-
ference, held in Oakland last week, on
the new constitution, stood as follows:
Entire number of ballots cast, nineteen;
for it, five; against it, fourteen. The
twentieth century thank offering fund
raised by the conference amounted to
$1,000
The Baptist Missionary Union of New
York has been petitioned by 1000 Filipinos
in one district of Panay to send mission
airy workers among them. They live in
seven villages around the town of jana
way, which would be the center of oper-
atoms should the union respond to the
petition.
John R. Mott of the San Francisco
Young Mems Christian Association has
sailed from Vancouver for Yokohama, to
visit and encourage Y. M. C. A. secre-
taries in important cities in Japan, China,
CeyIon and India. This is his second
trip around the world in the interest of
missions.
Rev Fung Chak, pastor of the Baptist
Chinese mission work in Portland for the
past three years, left recently to &C
cept the pastorship of the First Church
of Canton, China, with a membership of
nearly 1000, 100 of them resident. Fung
Chak came to San Francisco in 1879 and
was ordained in 1880.
Rev. Charles w. Wendte, well known in
California, and now the secretary of the
Unitarian Benevolent Fraternity of
efforts to renovate the Parker Memorial
Church In order to make it a center for
the social life of the thousands of young
people of the South End.
During the last year the roll of the
Baptist Church in Helena, Mont, has
been revised and reduced by 100, leaving
present membership of us The new
pipe organ will cost about $1,000, and is
memorial to the late Miss Emily Leslie,
daughter of Governor Leslie, some $1,4OO
having been contributed toward the or
gan by her friends.
A movement for Sunday closing is
making progress throughout the provin-
cial towns in France. On a recent Sun
day at Mines, France, about 1000 en-
ployes from the shops and stores march
ed through the streets carrying banners
with the motto, Buy Nothing on Sun
days" Most of the shops are being re-
quested to put up their shutters.
About $4,000 has been pledged toward
the endowment fund for the new diocese
of Massachusetts,, and the remaining $2O,-
900 will be raised before the general con-
ference assemblies in San Francisco next
month. Bishop Lawrence has asked for
a general offering to be taken up in all
the churches of the state on this Sun
day. here is but little doubt of the re-
Spouse.
Menelek Of Abyssinia is said to be the
only Christian king in the world who Is
not white. Among the religious rites OF
the Abyssinian church is the dance Of
David before the ark, a gorgeous cere-
mony which has been observed for al
most 1000 years on the Saturday before
Easter. Sometimes the entire $50 Psalms
of David are chanted at a single funeral
service.
Whether it is just a CUSTOM or whether
King Edward made it so, it is not stated
but there are provided for him two rev.
erend deans of the Chapel Royal, four
reverend clerks of the Kings closet, two
domestic chaplains, five priests in ordi-
nary. thirty-three honorary chaplains,
five priests in ordinary, and five honorary
priests in ordinary. total of ffty-six
spiritual guides.
The return of the friars to their estates
in the Philippines has caused fresh out
breaks Two Dominican friars have been
mobbed at the doors of a convent in Pan
eastman. and the kissing down of an Au-
gustiniar friar in a church in Cebu Is
reported The Philippine press declares
that what has been done at Pangsinan
and Cebu will probably be repeated else
where. The friars are warned that they
are not wanted.
The Pacific Churchman says that the
late Mrs. Samr Wilson of San Francisco
at her death made no formal requests to
church objects but EXPRESSED to her sons