The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-04


dedication. December 18th. DR.. Wild
Fey is pastor of the Nazarene Church,
Los Angeles,
The annual report shows that the
Independent Order Bnith Abraham.
since October, 1900. has initiated $500
new members. The entire membership
in thirty-two States is $500. The next
convention meets in Chicago, this
month. An attempt Will be made to
increase the age limit
Rev. George Croswen Cressey. who
has been pastor of the Unitarian
Church, Northampton, Mass, since
1896 has been invited to supply the
pulpit of the First Unitarian Church.
Portland, Ore, until next summer. He
preached his first sermon in Portland
on November 18th, and has been cor
daily received by the congregation.
a choir school for the benefit of the
Protestant Episcopal Cathedral has
iust been opened in New York City.
The school, declares the New York
outlook, is not only an institution for
the training of cathedral choristers,
but also offers to its pupils free gen
eral education, in consideration of their
singing. Its principal is the Rev. Err
nest Voorhis, M, Pho.
The Peoples Church. Santa Rosa. or
gcnized three years ago by Rev. Jay
w. Hudson on separating from the
Christian Church. by unanimous vote
at meeting held November % 1901,
decided to unite with the Pacific Coast
Conference of Unitarian and other
Christian churches. The Peoples
Church now has 129 members and 10
others have signiied their desire to
join it.
OF new TRANSACTIONS of the Bible
there seem to be no end. The latest
version, the Twentieth Century New
Testament, is not yet completed, but is
being published in parts. NO such
wholesale and radical upsetting of out
ward form and arrangement has ever
been attempted" says the Minneapolis
Times, which, however. comedies to the
new translation considerable power
and impressiVeneSS.
The Pacific Unitarian says: In the
State of California there are but two
Universalist churches with regularly
settled ministers, but there are sew
eral congregations and organizations.
In Riverside there is a very attractive
church building belonging to the Uni
verSaliStS, but it is closed, and has
been for some time. In Redlands there
Is a Unitarian church, also closed. Here
is an opportunity for cooperation IN
missionary work
Rev. Anton Bontempo, Dalmatian
Jesuit, at the invitation of Archbishop
Riordan, will soon organize parish OF
Austrians and Slavonians in San Fran
cisco There are about 5000 of them in
that vicinity and more in other parts
of the diocese. Preparations were
made last Sunday by representatives
of the colony to give Father Bontempo
hearty welcome. At the suggestion
of Father Crowley those present organ
lied the Roman Catholic Society of SITS.
Cyril and Method-the object of the
society being to build and maintain
the new church. Anton Pilcovich was
elected president.
Thanksgiving day in Berlin Sas
made notable by the laying of the cor
by Ambassador White. Mr. Rockefel-
ler's recent gift of 10000 marks to the
church fund enabled the work of build
ing the new structure to be begun at
once and the site is already paid for.
For the past seven years the Amerl-
can Church in Berlin has been under
the care of the Rev. DR.. j. F. Dickie,
formerly of Detroit mo mention of the
| Commendable enterprise, however
brief says the Congregationalist and
! Christian World, New York, should
omit recording the service rendered to
the cause by the former pastor of the
church and his wife, Prof. j. II. w.
Stuckenberg, now resident IN cam
bridge, Mass"
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