The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-01
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ETY. He will soon report himself for
, duty.
The Franciscan Monastery in Washing
| ton, D. c., has sent a number of young
priests and seminarians to complete their
education in Palestine They are the first
priests sent out from America assigned
Tor missionaries in the Holy Land.
For the three months of its fiscal year.
I beginning September 1. 1901, the receipts
OF the American Board of Foreign Mis-
sions have been sS0,74;.S0. This does not
include the s102.0 given in October and
November for the debt now a thing of
the past.
Fathers Magevney and Boarman. Jesuit
missionaries, left San Francisco for Chi
cago. During the last year they gave
fifteen missions in California and con-
Quoted many retreats. They also con-
Quoted missions in the Hawaiian Islands.
They will continue their mission work in
the East.
In agreement with her mother and sis
ter Baroness Edmond de Rothschild has
decided. in memory of her father, to con-
vert the family residence in the Zeil at
Frankfort, into home for twenty-four
widows and aged spinsters, who, for a
small payment, will be able to live a COM
Portable life free from care.
Ten years ago there was but one place
of Christian worship in the whole of
Uganda, Africa. Today there are 700
churches. Ten years ago there were but
about twenty native evangelists at work {;
a Pa ia
women definitely engaged in the work of
the church. All are maintained by the
native churches.
For the thirty years ending 1901 the
Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum, San
Francisco, has received s425.000. OF this
amount not $4,000 came from abroad,
but, as Emanuel states, it shows that our
pioneers were hearty givers. The receipts
for the last year were $S755.03; expendi-
lures, $S343.92. Including money In bank,
the resources of the association are S12,
c46.94.
In Association Men (January) is chron-
icled the work that has been done during
the past year by the Y. M. c. A. in cit
les, at railroad centers, in the United
States army and navy, in colleges. and
among the Indians and negroes. Fifteen
railroad and twenty-three city Associa-
ton buildings were dedicated in 1901. and
over 100000 was spent in Association
work
Mrs. Samuel D. Warren of Boston,
Mass, well known in Congregational
circles as the widow of S. D. Warren, the
paper manufacturer, has bequeathed over
$1,000 for philanthropic, educational and
religious work. The Massa> sets Cen
eral Hospital receives s20,Oou. pc. 900 is
given to eight educational institutions in
sums of from $500 to $4,000 each, and most
of the rest to home and foreign mission
work.
pope has appointed special pontifical
commission to consider all questions con-
nected with Biblical studies. Cardinal
Parocchi, dean of the Sacred College, Is
president of the commission and Cardi-
nal Segna and Cardinal Wives of Tuto
are assessors. There will also be eleven
consultors chosen from different coun-
tries, and Catholic scholars throughout
the world will be invited to contribute to
the DISCUSS on.
The Methodist Episcopal Church of the
United States, according to the Methodist
Year Book for 1902, reports membership
of 2,94s, 137; ministers. 1853 Under the d.
rection of the church there are 80. 126
Sunday Schools that aggregate 2,70S,46
pupils. Its 1874 church edlhceS are val
ued at s120, 61eS5S. and its liza parson-
ages rate $40, 592, OPS The increase in val
ue in one year on churches and parson-
ages exceeds sS,244,000.
The successive election of DR.. George
F. Moore, formerly of Andover Theoiogf-
cal Seminary, and his brother, Edward G.
Moore, a Congregational minister at
Providence, r. l., both of them we'll
known Congregationalists, to chairs in
the Divinity School of Harvard, which
has heretofore been regarded as a Uni
tartan theological seminary, is viewed by
The Outlook as lone of the very signifi-
cant events of our time and emphasizes
the broadening policy of President Eliot.
The chair that is to be occupied by DIR.
Z. c. Moore has been for some time va
cant in the university catalogue. and his
acceptance will mean the virtual creation
of new chair