The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16
Morris M. Wolff,
 30 Commerce Street.

May s. 1901 Robert Morrison was the first missionary. ~
 The fiftieth year jubilee of Methodist missions in India is being observed this week st Bareilly, where Dr. William Butler started the work just before the sepoyi rebeliion-
 Twenty years ago there were only 3O.OOO Jews in Palestine, now there are 100000, many of whom support themselves by agriculture.
 pr. J. Wilbur Chapman. in his book, "s. H. Eadley of Water Street." says The drunkards of this country have lost their best friend fin the death of s. H. Hadley. He has put mission res cue work where 1t is today.
 The lack of disciplining. alleged ''Romanisers" in the established Church, and the refusal of the House of Lords to endorse the new govern ment educational bill, have brought disestablishment much nearer than ever before in England.
 The religious press still discusses the apparent falling off In the Jministry. Some place the decrease in small sala- ries, other in the prevalence of doubt. others in comnercialism.
 President roosevelt says concerning strong drink, "The liquor business tends to produce criminality in the, population at large, and lawbreaking- among the saloon-keepers. It de- bauches not onf9urta1s body social but the body politiic." d1t*'
 Hon George Foster Peabody. an alumnus. has sent 450 copies of The Words of Christ" for free distribution to the students of Georgia University
 The Wall Street Journal thinks that decrease of religion makessA difference in bushes confidence, and that the standard honesty has been lowered.
 Samuel Gompers. who has been cleo ted for e twenty-fifth time president of the American Federation of Labor. Is a Jew. His reelection prove both to the cause of labor and signal abilitv.e
 The Georgia Baptist Convention. which met lately in Cartersville. the home of the late evangelist, Sam Jones. to put a handsome memo rial window, in the Sam Jones Memo rial Church. now building.
 The proportion of conversions to age in 1000 persons is thus given: Under twenty years 54s: between twenty and thirty, 337; between thirty and forty, S6: between forty and fifty! IS; be- tween fifty and sixty. 5; between sixty and seventy. 1.
 
 At the Texas Baptist Convention in one nights service $47,O0O were raised for the care of 500 children at Buck ner's Orphan Home.
 The WomanPs Christian Temperance Union in the United States alone has 10000 unions and the net gain of mem bers last year was 1S,0oO.
 Hon. John Wanamaker. has been in- vited hy the prime minister and ten ministers of the imperial cabinet to lay the cornerstone of the new Seoul, Korea. Y. Nj. c. A. building, which is his gift.
 M. Clenenceau, the, new prime min ister of France, has announced that he will stand firmly by the act separating church and state, and his vote of con fdence stood S95 to 96. ...
 Dr. J. NJ. Weaver, has been pastor of the Chestnut Street Baptist Church, Louisville, for forty years. In connec- ton with MT. Theodore Harris. the banker member of his church, Dr. Weaver has published Views of I'm portant Subjects" MT Harris wrote thirteen chapters of the book
 The Andover Theological Seminary of the Congregational Church has an endowment of Sli0OO,O00 and only