Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-07-08
Religious
News and Notes
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The Rev Thomas G. Campbell, rector
or st. Stephens Church, Lynn, Mass,
has accepted a call to become assistant
at Christ Church, Cincinnati.
The general synod of the Reformed
Church in America completed it's ses-
sons at Grand Rapids, Mich, and ad-
journed to meet next year at Asbury
Park.
The Most Rev. Horsed Saradjian,
archbishop and head of the Armenian
Church in this country, will preside ut
the convention of Armenians to be held
III Boston.
Mrs. Eleanor s. Woods has presented
new building to the International Y.
M. G. A. Training school OF Springfield,
Mass, to be used as a dining hall and
dormitory.
The Rev. John Gardner Murray OF
baltimore has been elected bishop Of the
Protestant Episcopal Church for the do
cese Of Kentucky, succeeding the late
Bishop Dudley Of Louisville.
The directors reported to the annual
meeting OF the Congregational Educa-
tional Association ut Boston that work
in Utah was retarded by the persistent
opposition Of the Mormon Church.
The Rev. DR.. Thomas 3. Mcleod,
who has just rounded out twenty-five
years as pastor of the Clinton Avenue
Congregational Church, Brooklyn, will
resign on account Of advanced age.
a cable message received from Naini
Tai, India. announces the death of Mrs.
Annie Montgomery Briggs, wife Of the
Rev. George w. Briggs, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal Church at Lucknow.
The Rev. Thomas Il. Davies, Jr, who
succeeded Bishop Ninton as rector of All
Saints Episcopal Church in Worcester,
has declined his attractive call to be-
come rector OF St. Peters Church in
Philadelphia.
The Rev. Robert Coyle, retiring mod
orator of the general assembly OF tho
Presbyterian Church Of the United
States, is the son of blacksmith, and
worked his way up through college with
his own hands.
There arc four men in Central Penn
sylvania Methodist Episcopal conference
who entered that conference together
fifty years ago They are u. s. Monroe,
Samuel Creighton, Richard Hinkle and
George Warren.
The Congregational Education Society
has received $1,000, part payment of a
legacy Of $4,000, to be used for student
aid. The society will thus be enabled
to aid young people who are studying
for the Christian ministry.
A great Christian temperance work is
carried on in England in the Royal Sail
ors Rests. No fewer than 9,65S pledges
were recorded during the year, and Of
these 2,01S were secured by seamen
themselves on their respective ships
bishop Kelley of the Catholic diocese
of Georgia has mailed to each of the
churches in his jurisdiction n letter di-
recting that under the recent order OF
the Pope the use of female voices in
Catholic church choirs should cease.
1t is said that the Rev. W. L. Wat
kinson, who retires from the position of
English Wesleyan correctional editor ut
conference, will go to South Africa and
take up his residence there for the bene-
fit Of his health. AT present he is in
the Holy Land.
Negotiations are in progress in Canada
looking to the union of the Presbyterian.
Methodist and Congregational bodies.
Committees appointed by these bodies
have consulted over the matter at yari-
GUS meetings, and now report that the
union is desirable and that they regard
it as practicable.