The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-18

a CHOIR SCHOOl lOr the DeneHI OF the
Protestant Episcopal Cathedral has just
been opened in New York city. The
school, declares the New York Outlook,
is not only an Institution for the train
ing of cathedral choristers. but also Of
fers TO its pupils a free general educa-
ton, in consideration of their singing.
Its principal is the Rev. Ernest Voorhis.
a. NJ, PHI. d.
The committee on the Revision OF the
Confession of Faith, appointed by the
last General Assembly of the Presbyte-
rian Church, has been in session in
j. Washington. d. c., this month. Its ses-
Sions have been secret and ii is not eX-
pected that the report of the committee
will be made public for the present The
/ immediate work before the committee is
| the drawing up of brief doctrinal state>
ment of Presbyterian faith that shall be
expressed in phraseology so mple
| and untechnical as to he readily under
stood by the popular mind. This state
ment, it is declared, is not to be sub
stitute for the Westminster Confession,
nor IS the revision expected to impair the
integrity of the Confession as to doc
I trine. All
The convention of Roman Catholic lay
men in Cincinnati recently called for the
purpose of decorating the Roman Catho-
! lie societies of the country, was gath
ering of more than ordinary Importance.
Five hundred delegates attended, repre-
| senting an aggregate of about six hum
bred thousand members of the cooperat-
ing societies, and the most prominent fig
| ureS in the deliberations of the conven-
| ton We're Bishops McFaul of Trenton,
n. j.. and MeSsmer. of Green Bay Wis.
| Fedora ton was accomplished, and a ma
tional body formed under the name THE
10, of 1,a
! ties Some of the Catholic papers are
! predicting that the Federation will have
over a million members in its aff1liating
! organization before the next national
convention in Chicago.
The Rev. Algernon Cropsey, rector of
a Protestant Episcopal Church in Roch-
ester. N. Y, does not according to the
Boston Herald October 800. believe in
propa gandism of the tenets of his church
in the Philippines. He says, to quote
1.-The Herald: 1.-THE people of the islands
are Christians, and have been Christians
for generations. In every village is a
Christian congregation. with its Chris
tian pastors. and Christian bishops have
! oversight of the churches. He thinks,
therefore, that our entrance into that
field will be of the nature of an intru-
sion. We will not be preaching the Cos
pei to the heather, but to Christians,
which, IN the present state OI diIdii ;,
is both useless and dangerous Mr..
| Cropsey has serious doubts if we can
better the work of the Roman Catholic
church there, and he doubts if the form
of Christianity we introduce will be well
coined
/ 1t is reported that the public prosecu-
tor of Leipsic, Germany has just order
ed the confiscation of Toistois The
Meaning of Life the book containing
his answer to the Holy Synod regarding
his accommodation. cable dispatch
to the New York Sun October 80 says:
1.-The reason given for the seizure is that
the work is calculated to bring the
church into contempt, and the prosecu-
tors action is based on a paragraph of
the German penal code which imposes
a maximum penalty of three years i'm
prisonment on anybody publicly insulting
one of the Christian churches or other
religious communities enjoying in Ger
many the privileges of a corporation.
Perhaps the most remarkable feature of
the incident is that Count Tolstofs in
dignant reply to his eXcommunicators is
allowed to circulate in Russia. the Holy
Synod refraining from prosecution, while
the officials of the country which indors-
ed Luthers protest against the Roman
Church seek to extinguish the words of
the Russian refOrmer-