Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1905-05-04
NEWS AND NOTES.

Rev. Newell Dwight Hills. the famous
author and pastor of Plym'"th church.
BROOKLYN. has ~inalguratcd open air meet
ings. speaking from the tail-end Of a
wagon.
Epworth league officers are talking
about 25,oo0 delegates to the seventh in
tornational convention in Denver July %.
1t is reported from Rome that 423 Irish
martyrs to The faith in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries will be canoniZcd
his year. all in one day. The ceremonies
will be particularly brilliant.
There appears no abatement of popular
interest in the subject of r%evivais. The
Presbyterian general assembly, which
meets in May. will continue its commit
tee on c~vangclistic work which has been
at the head of so many of the city cam
paiens.
Christian Scientists nave offered to book
publishers a competent committee to pass
on all illusions to the Christian Science
doctrine in forthcoming books. They claim
that their cause has been badly repre-
scented by authors.
The publication of a Roman Catholic en-
cyclopedia has been undertaken.
The Methodist Episcopal commission.
charged with tH big question of finding a
way to consolidate the six Methodist Epis-
copal missionary and benevolent societies.
he'd its first meeting N New YORK April
-.
Although the next general conference
of The Methodist Episcopal church does
not meet until 1908. there is already afoot
some agitation m favor of the establish
mcnt of Il judicial conference. similar to
the judicial commission which the Pres
bytctian and Protestant Episcopal de-
nominations have authorized.
Members of the Protestant Episcopal
church are rejoicing over the appointment
of a joint commission of Sunday school by
the last general convention of the de-
nomination, a step which gives official
recognition TO Sunday school work. The
commission is composed of some of the
strongest men in the church.
The apostolic delegate to the Philippines.
Monsignor Agius. reports hat there is a
scarcity of priests for parish work. An at
tempt to send out friars on parish work
has aroused the opposition of the natives.
1t is desired that priests be sent from NAL
ia, as the American priests do not care to
go 10 the Philippines.
The southland conference of young peo-
pie Interested in missionary work will be
held june % to July 3 near Ashville. N.
G. In previous years the conference has
been held OH lookout mountain. National
leaders in missionary work gather to con-
fer with representatives of all sorts of
young peoples societies. This is part Il
the work of the Young Peoples Mission
airy movement.
The growth of ritualism in the Church
of England is so marked that it has de-
veloped various kinds of opposition. The
latest is a proposition made to the arch
bishop. of Canterbury by a deputation,
that the church accept nothing in the way
of ritual that cannot claim the general
assent and observance of the Christian
church before the end of the sixth CEN
tury. This would shut out the ritualism
which developed i'm the middle ages.
Many curious s~ide-lights upon the Welsh
revival are given. TIL following is from
Professor Morris Jones of North Wales
University college, who says thai in
Angc;esey he has heard farm servants
and common plowboys, practically unlet-
tered. burst out into spontaneous prayer
and a flow of the most chaste and classic
Welsh. Their diction.' he says, lis fire.
quently more chaste and beautiful than
anything 1 can hope to attain to. You can
not POSSIBLY explain 1t by any ordinary
human standards. 1t must be inspira.
ton