Omaha daily bee., 1904-11-27

! During his foreign tour Bishop Coleman
| VIII hold several combinations in Amer
| ican churches abroad The first was held
| in Munich on November 13.
| The value of the Ascoli cope, which J.
Pierpont Morgan purchased and has now
| be about $50, coo. The cope was given by
| in 1888
= The family Of the lord bishop of Carlisle
England, is noted as clerical family. The
| bishops father was the Rev. James Bards-
ley. His two brothers and seven sons were
| ministers. He had also nine nephews who
were clergymen.
The eminent Sanskrt scholar, Prof. Ed
| mund Hardy, died at Bonn before he was
for a Pail dictionary. He will be remem-
| bered by his history OF Indian religions and
| his works on Buddha
| DR.. Peter Fahrney, a wealthy Chicago
manufacturer, has donated a large estate
! in Washington county, Maryland, where he
was born, to the German Baptist, or
| Dunkard, church 1t wiz be used as a
| home for aged and shelterless members of
| that denomination.
DR., Howe of Glasgow. the most distin-
| guished home missionary minister in Scot
| land, has, by his own efforts alone, raised
| 43U,000 for church erection. Almost the
| whole of this large sum was contributed
| by those who believed in the union of the
| church.
The first regularly ordained and inducted
woman pastor of an English church is Miss
Gertrude Won PetzOld NJ. A. Edinburgh,
who conducted her fl st services in the Free
Christian church Lecestsr, on september
29. She is the daughter OF "a German army
| officer and is 8 years old. She has had a
notable scholastic career.
The increase OF Baptists in the United
States from 1870 to 1903 has been 254.3S per
cent This increase exceeds that of the
Congreganonalist Presby yterians' Method
! lists and Disciples. The increase has been
greater, however, in the newer and less
cultivated fields rather than in the cities
The Baptist churches in New York City
have experienced a relative decline.
Dr. Alexander Mackenzie president of FL
mira college, Elmira, n. Y, Is one of fifty
men contributed to the Presbyterian min
istry from the village of West Zorra, ont,
In the last half century The village has
only 600 inhabitants but the curch there
Is the largest country congregation in the
Canadian Presbyterian communion. Zorra
was settled seventy-five years ago by eXiles
from the north of Scotland.
The quadrennial report of the Woman's
Home Missionary society OF the Methodist
Episcopal church makes splendid snow
ing. The income OF the society during its
quadrennium amounted to N,349, 4S6.73 The
bequests paid into the treasury amount
to $59.SSl 4s and the annultles and endow-
thank Offering which has reached COM
pletion, amounts to s25S 9.42, exclusive of
all gifts Of property. conservative esti-
place places u il 'a at :sSy The nde6tsdness
OF the society is about $lSS,iOO. The report
shows an immense work carried on over
large and varied fields.
Rev DIR. Alexander Mackay Smith, Epis-
copai bishop coadjutor of Pennsylvania,
went out early in Philadelphia on election
day and voted. He went over to the poll
ing place In company with three negroes
and left again in their company. None
had on his hat. not even the bishop. The
bishop Is a republican and a Roosevelt
man His three negro servants are also.
The bishop suggested that they all go over
together and the blacks seemed pleased.
The polling place was In little cigar
store and the advent of DR., Smith With
three blacks and no hat surprised the
judges for a moment. The blacks voted
iirst and the bishop brought up the end OF
the line.
Rev. Quincy Ewing Of Birmingham, Ala,
is regarded as the bodest talker for law
and order In the south Three years ago,
while pastor Of a little church in Mssis-
sippi, he won almost national reputation
by Nelivering a series Of sermons denounc-
ing lynching in any form and for any
cause. These addresses brought Mr. Ewing
numerous calls 10 more pretentious pas
torates, but he declined them all until he
received a summons 20 his present charge
In the center OF a turbulent mining popu-
lation. This fearless preacher is descended
| from slave-holding families on both sides
having been born and reared on 4 planta-
don In Lafourche parish, Louisiana one
OF mis- grandsiTes was Ephraim M. Ewing
the famous chief justice of Tennessee.