The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-21
NEWS AND NOTES.

@udAeIS are exempted from military
service by the militia bill which con-
gress recently passed.
The recent conference on divorce, be-
tween committees representing the
Episcopal. Methodist and PRESBYTERIAN
denominations, decided to enlist the CO.
operation of other denominations be-
fore taking any formal action.
The Vatican Press has recently is
sued, under the direction of the So
clety of st. Jerome, a first edition of
100000 copies of the Four Gospels and
the Acts for circulation among the
Italian people. The translation is in
Italian, and the books are sold as low
as cents apiece. The introduction
contains most remarkable and con-
ciliatory allusion to Protestants as
Our separated Protestant brethren"
There is a native church among the
Zulus of Durham which sends out every
male member who is at all available to
do preaching. The church thus aver
ages more than fifty meetings a Sun
day.
During the Spanish war
the international Institute for Girls,
at Madrid, had to leave Spain, but now
1t has returned to carry on it's mission
airy labors, and at a recent meeting in
Boston $4,000 was raised toward a
fund of $4,000 for the erection of a
new building. President Eliot and
speakers.
A suggestion for distinguishing be-
tween the British and American re-
vision Of the Bible is made by the
Biblical World, which recommends the
authorizations, r. V. (Am.) and r. v.
(Br). M ~ avn
In a recent article a missionary to
emma tells how one native was mar
tyred during the Boxer troubles. He
was put into deep hole which was
then f1lled up to his knees, and he was
ordered to recant. He refused and the
dirt was shoveled in until it reached
his waist. Still he was firm. Then he
was covered up to his neck, and given
one more chance, but he refused 1t,
The hole was then filed up entirely,
and the young Christian buried alive
UP IN Valdz, Alaska, two Christian
Endeavorers maintained a little read
ing room for two years, and then, as
there-was sore need of a relief station
on the glacier adjoining the town, the
Endeavorers established this, where it
was instrumental in saving many lives,
on one occasion five men at once. Four
thousand persons used its reading
room and relief station in a single
summer. A church, called the Endeav-
or congregational church, has been or
ganized.
The recent destruction of the Friends
ing effect. AT the service on the fol-
lowing Sunday young man said that
he had been converted to Christianity
by the conduct Of the Christians dur
ing the progress of the fire.
Two hundred thousand dollars in
cash has been given to erect a Y. M c..
A. building in South Bend, Ind, as a
memorial to the five Studebaker broth
ers.
The two hundredth anniversary Of
John Wesley's birth will be celebrated
by meeting in Carnegie hall, New
York, on Feb. 26.
There is church of only a $50 MEM
bers in Philadelphia which last year
gave $4,000 to foreign missions, using
only $4,000 for it's own expenses
When Evangelists Torrey and Alex
ander reached London, en- route to
America from their great campaign in
Australia, they were given a splendid
reception in Exeter hall, with the lead
ing non-cOnfOrmist ministers and lay
men of the metropolis present. .
When President Charles Cuthbert
Hall, who is this year filing the Has
ken lectureship in India, was speak,
ing at Colombo on the incarnation, his
audience was so greatly interested that
he was asked to continue through a
second hour.
President Roosevelt has sent the fol-
lowing message to the societies Of
Christian Endeavor to be read in con-
nectiOn with their celebration of
Christian EndeavOr day, Feb. 1: II
greet you and wish you we'll. Your
body stands prominent among the Or
CARNATIONS which strive toward a
realization of interdenOminational and
international Christian fellowship as
well as among those which stand for
ideals of true citizenship; that Is, for
the cultivation, not alone Of a high
standard of civic and social righteous
ness, but of the strength, courage and
common sense necessary for living up
to such a standard"