The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-08


list Wolff WissotZki of Moscow has
granted 10000 rubles toward the cost
The New York Methodsts. to enable
them to raise 100000 toward the twenti-
eth century fund, have devised a series
of thanksgiving stamps. Any one send
ing 81 will receive a set.
In Mexico the Methodist church is rep
resented by three conferences. which en-
brace II missionaries GA assistants, 10 day
schools with 1856 pupils, 266 league mem
bers and property valued at S15O,VoO
The Congregational Sunday School at
Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, the most
northerly point on the American CONT
nent where Christian work is done, has
just contributed $50 for mission work in
Porto Rico.
| At the age of y years Cardinal Moran
has resigned the archibshopric of sydney
and the primacy of Australia and has
been appointed resident prelate at the
Roman Curia. He will reside in the irish
College at Rome.
| The American Board for Foreign Mis-
sions has just received from the Depart
ment of State at Washington a check
for some $91 900 of its claims for dam
ages of over 100000 done to mission
property in Turkey.
I The First Congregational Church of
Oakland now stands fourth in member
shin among the Congregational churches
in the United States. its roll being 1883:
The other three largest churches are all
in Brooklyn, n. Y. They are: Tompkins
avenue, 22S5; Plymouth, 1865; and Central
1879.
The Churchman reckons the number Of
communicates in the Protestant Episco-
nal church at 743,S59 The average COM
municant gives annually S1972. OF this
all but 60 cents goes to parochial support
and local missions, while the 60 cents is
divided thus: Thirty cents for home mis-
sionary work and IS cents for foreign
work.
The census returns of Russia show
that of the 125, 66S, 900 popula ton, 1884 600
belong to the Greek church, 2,173.o00 to
the old Greek communion, n,42O,ooO are
Roman Catholics; 374S000 Protestants,
and 1,220, 900 belong to other Christian
creeds MohammedanS number 13,SS0,OOO,
Buddhists 5,1S9,OO0, idoiators $4,000, Jews
5,1s6,ooO.
ThSSrotherhood of Andrew and Philip
has a membership of 10000 divided
among twenty-three denominations. AT
the annual convention in PittsbUrg 1t
was stated that the various brotherhoods
for men throughout the country aggre-
gated 100 900 members, and proposition
to federate these societies was discussed
and passed.
The new constitution of the Methodist
Fcpiscopal Church which was adopted az
the last general conference, held IN May
1900. and was referred to the various con-
ferenoes throughout the country, mas n
naIly been approved by the three-quar-
, ters vote required. It's most striking pro
vision is that which gives women the
right to sit as delegates in the general
conference This innovation comes as
the result of a contest that began ABOUT
thirteen years ago.
The coming of DR.. S Shechter TO Ne%
York as the president of the reorgalizeG
Jewish Theological Seminary IS quite a
/ notable event in the Jewish worlo
, Shechter is reader in rabbincs IN ths
university of Cambridge, and proIesSo'
in the University of London He Is lam
= cd for important discoveries IN Heore"
literature and the Jewish papers express
the belief that his coming will infuse ne"
life into Jewish scholarship in TINS couh-
try a liberal endowment fund mas ldle
" been provided for the Jewish semi
nary by the generosity of Messrs. }. n,
Schiff. Leonard Lewisohn, ana Daiiiei
\ GuCpeDheiu.