Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-12
RELIGIOUS NEWS
AND COMMENT

At the sixth reunion of Lutheran min
listers born in Middletown valley. held today
at Myersville. Nd. the following officers
were elected: President, Rev. NJ. c. Hor-
rine, D. D.. of Reading Pa: vice president,
Rev ]. L. Smith. d. D., Pittsburg, Pa:
secretary. Rev. w. G.. Minnich, Barlow.
Pa: treasurer. Rev. s. A. Hedges. Middle
town. Md
The first excursion Thursday of this week
to the Mountain Chautauqua, at Mountain
Lake Park with special trains brought one
of the largest crowds in its history. The
features were the lectures "Americanism,"
by Rev. DR.. Frank NJ. Bristol. pastor OF
Metropolitan Methodist Church. Washing
ton. and THE Man With the Hoe by Rev.
Thomas McClary. Minneapolis, MINI.
The annual election of the community of
Mountain Lake Park resulted as follows:
President, Maj. J. NJ Burns, U. S A, re-
tired, Washington; secretary Rev. l.. A.
Rudiscill. Mountain Lake; treasurer, E. E.
Fried; street commissioner. Hanson B.
Lewis; members of the annual committee.
Upton Cuppot and George NJ Jacobs, the
latter of Fairmont, w. Va.
DIR. James NJ Buckley. chairman of the
episcopacy committee of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, declared at Chautauqau,
clergyman has no right to make his con-
gregation laugh, and that to do so is irrev-
erence.
Yet there are a good many clowns in the
pulpit, ne concluded.
In n report sent to the American Bible
Society the agent of the organization at
Seoul. Korea. declares that "a new era
has dawned' in that land, that the old gov
eminent, 'nominally and ostensibly still in
power, is controlled by hands stronger than
its own-the Japanese, and that the model
upon which the new Korea is to be built
Is England in Egypt" The report says:
Japan is fast taking the control of every
thing. She is modifying Korea's foreign
relations, she is policing the capital, regu-
lating the finances, controlling the army.
Bit by bit, little by little a great change is
coming over everything, and. strange to
say, the model, the type of the government
that Is to be, comes from far-away Egypt.
There is not a doubt about 1T The model
upon which the new Korea is to be built is
England in Egypt. In Lord Miners book
is to be found nearly hing that is
now coming about in this country. 1t Is
England in Egypt-but possibly with diff
ference. and that fundamental one. Eng
land is in Egypt for Egypt's good; the Jap
anese are in Korea for-whose good? We
shall see.
So far, and in the gross. the change has
been much for the better There never was
such good year for trade; employment
has been abundant. Where the war has
not bllghted everything, the crops have
been more than satisfactory. The whole
nation has been shaken up and is begin
ming to awaken to the realization of a new
world. In the capital, at any rate there
Is coming about a great intellectual awak-
enlng. with a consequent growing demand
for literature informing literature espe-
cially for geography, and history, and
economies Already the tract societies and
the educational societies are feeling the
strain upon their resources, and we are yet
hardly at the beginning of things
From the Bible Society point of view the
year mas beeR equally successful. The
past twelve months have been the most
fruitful we have yet had. The translators
nave finished their work on the New Tes-
tament-at least for the time being-and
have begun on the Old New editions have
been published which surpass in externals
at any rate, everything that the country
| has yet seen, and from the reports of SUI
perintendents 1t is clearly evident that the
colportent and the Bible woman are exer-
any previous time. During the year the
amount of publication work consisted of
1900 New Testaments and $1,000 GOSPELS
and Acts
new thing in this agency, is the wide
| spread diffusion of. the Korean Scriptures
| winch has taken place during the past
| twelve months. Korean Iaborers are now
| regularly and systematically drafted to the
| sugar plantations of Hawaii. Others have
| found their way ito San Francisco and
| Mexico.
The late John F. Liphard formerly of
| this city, was the founder of the so-called
| Soulist Church. He died few days ago
| IN Columbus, Ohio, from which city
| comes the following Dispatch
Alamo is dead, and kano rules the Soul-
| list church by right of succession. Alamo
was man, Kano is a woman
In vulgar life Alamo was John F lin
| hard, whose relatives live in Washington
D. g. Seventeen years ago he had a vision
and founded the Soulist Church upon that
| VISIONS beckonings. Its chief temple is
| IN Columbus. but 1t Is said that there are
thousands of converts scattered all over
the world. Alanno's body was given hack
| TO the earth, and thereupOn Kano. his chief
assistant Soulist, became head of the
church. She announced that her chief am
bltion is the ambition of her predecessor
revrberated. 1t is to build the most
splendid temple In the world as the head
quarters of the Soulist Church
The doctrine of soul vibrati and the
good and bad influences of these wayeIets
form the essence of the Soulist faith lis
mission Is to bring the good vibrations to
bear upon unholy souls Disease is looked
upon as being resultant from disorders ~
the soul and the Soulist's accented treat
ment is to first cure the soul and the nhvs
lcal Ills VIII disappear. The vibrations of
the souls OF the pure, in minglinp with
the waves of the impure soul, where the
good intentions are present effect the
cleansing. kano in worldly life is Miss
Maude Moore.