The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-25

the whole population of Washington, Idaho. Montana and Wyoming Les lies Weekly.
 The Board of Missions of the Meth odlst Episcopal Church has made the following appropriations to the foreign work: Africa s45.s42: South America, $ss.567; Mexico, sss.9oO; Europe. si52.- 4A6; China. $144.e43; Japan. $62.500; Ko- req. s2s,le5: South Asia, $205,9So; total. $7ea. .ae3. This is an increase of $41,- 725.--Alabama Christian Advocate.
 The Chicago Association has taken the initiative in calling for a regularly organized Convention of Northern Bap- lists. The Southern Bartist Convention has been in organic form for many years, meeting annually, and has done much to make the Baptists so prepon- derant a denomination in the south. Religious papers are making an ar eunaent for prohibition in the present reign of terror In San Francisco. Since the closed saloon era of sixty days fol- lowing the earthquake, crime has in- creased T5o per cent, drunkenness 95o per cent, and suicide 100 per cent.
 
 Mir. George Hamilton Combs of Kan sas City, Mo. has b. m elected Presi- dent of the American Christian Mis- sfonary Sosiety, and Dr. T. B. Ray. Of Nashville, Tenn. educational secretary of the ForeigH Mission Board of the southern Baptist Church.
 The great benevolent societies of the Methodist Episcopal Church have been Consolidated by order of the General conference into the Board. of Foreign Missions, the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension, and the Board of Education, Freedman's Aid, the. Sum day Schools, seven distinct departments into three. The secretaries of the old departments will be executive officers in che new.
 MP. J. S. Straehy, editor of The Lon don Spectator, at the recent Barrow Church Congress, thinks that for the State to claim no oversight of the citi- zen's religious and spiritual interests is capital error. He threfore says that the Church of England Is an un- denominatlonal church, that should al- low liberty of opinion to the individual, and admit every man who can accept the naked gospel.
 Japanese Christians, Buddhists. shin toists and Confucians, have united into a "reliRious association" to raise sub scriptions to restore the Christian churches and schools wrecked by the Japanese mohs in September. 1905. The usual way was for the Government to pay an indemnity, but t was thought that voluntary subscriptions would show that there was no anti-Christian sentient in the riots.
 The ruined California churches are slow In rebuilding for lack of money. Nevertheless, the collections for mis- slons and other purposes have fallen or but little from 1905.
 The Methodist Episcopal Church gave during the last year for missions $1,- ss5,s5e. an increase of s113.644. The new apportionment Is $1,696, 1000, ot which 57 1-a per cent. Is for foreign. and the remainder for domestic mis- sions.
 { The Roman Catholic Church has just finished at a cost of S60, 900 a handsome residence for the papaI legation in Washington, D. c. It will be occupied as permanent headqaarters by the Pope's representative In the United States.
 The New York Methodists have bought two large buildings on the Bowery and
 
 into mission rooms, where preaching will be done in the many languages spoken in that section.
 Old Bethel Church, near Jackson. was the first Baptist house of worship erect ed in Missouri. Its centennial has just been celebrated
 Bibles sent to Uganda are bound in tin to guard against the voraclous Af- rican ants, which frequently deyour the ordinary covers of books.
 It is said that the Empress Dowager of China has undertaken to introduce Sunday observance among her people. She has been led to believe that Sab bath observance has had much to do with the success of Western nations, and for this reason urges its adoption in China.
 There arc in the world 2ss,oOs Sunday