Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-10-13
NEWS NJ NOTES.

The number of Quakers in the world
is estimated at ll3. 7oS.
October 2 was bible study rally day in
the Epworth league.
Charles Wagner. author of The Sim
pie Life" who is now visiting this
country. is pastor of an Evangelical
Lutheran church in Paris.
1t is said that the Roman Catholic
cathedral in Picking was built entirely
by Chinese Catholics and decorated by
native artists.
DR.. Dowie, Elijah the Restorer."
now lays claim to another title. John
Alexander, Divinely Commissioned
First Apostle of the Christian Catholic
and Apostolic Church i'm Zion, with Au-
thority to Select n Ordain Eleven
Other Apostles" He is reported to have
introduced h confessional.
A movement is afoot in France for
the federation of all the Protestant
churches of the country, to further
benevolent work and to protect the
freedom and rights of the churches, i'm
the present unsettled state of religion
in France
ConSregationaliStS in this country,
following the lead of their co-denomi-
~nationalists abroad. and of the Metho-
dists, Baptists and Presbyterians in
America. are agitating the question of
Il reading course for Congregational
young people.
Secretary A. w. Halsey IF the Pres
byterian board of missions. accom-
panied by his wife, sailed September
2S for West Africa. where he will visit
the Presbyterian missions. The jour
ney will be by Easy stages in order that
the travellers may become accustomed
to the deadly climate.
The originator of the two-cents-a-
week plan of giving for missions. Rev.
A El11fnn of Canton China hnc
within two years baptized more than
a thousand adults and received them
into the Presbyterian churches included
in the mission under his charge.
Ecclesiastical authorities say that
there Is no reason why the decision of
the British law lords in the case of
the Scotch free church should affect
the unions of denominations in this
country.
British Baptists have practical plans
under way for the Baptist world on
gress which is to meet in London next
SUMMERTIME first Pan-Baptist meet
ing ever held. The British local Bap-
fist associations will postpone the an
nual spring meetings. and hold them
in connection with the congress. The
subject of CLOSE communion" about
which Baptists disagree, is barred from
discussion.
Not long ago the question of the
physical deterioration of the people of
England created such a furore tina
an inter department committee was
appointed to investigate the subject.
While finding that the situation is not
as bad as at first reported. the COM
mittee advise the introduction into
English schools of a system of in~struc-
ton in temperance and hygiene such
as is commo in the United States. 1t
also urges parliament to prohibit the
sale of tobacco to children.
The disciples of Christ will hold their
national convention in st. Louis. No
vember 1920. This denomination is
the only n represented on the fair
grounds by d pavilion. 1t is called The
Christian Pavilion" and is modelled af-
ter the study of Alexander Campbell,
the founder of the church of Christ.
Within the asst ten years this denomi-
nation has increased it's membership
almost two fold. numbering now more
than a million and a quarter persons.
1t is distictively an American church.
and is strongest in the west and south.
President Garfield was one of it's
preachers.